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On Chika Okeke-Agulu’s credenza, leaning against the wall of his office in Princeton’s Green Hall, are two powerful images: the cover of a vintage magazine and a photo that graces the cover of one of his recent books.

Welcome to the first Princeton Int'l crossword puzzle challenge! Please be sure to submit your completed grid to international.princeton.edu before April 15 to be registered in a contest to win a wifi-free translator device. Good luck!

Creative writing professor Aleksandar Hemon’s life was upended by war. In 1992, he was a 27-year-old journalist on an international visitors’ program in the United States when war broke out in his homeland of Bosnia.

Princeton Int’l spoke with Wantchekon about peaceful conflict resolution and the African School of Economics, a project helping to erase some of Africa’s colonial legacies.

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Hu and Thakar awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Two juniors concentrating in mathematics, Daniel Hu of Princeton, New Jersey, and Oliver Thakar from Owings Mills, Maryland, have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships, an annual award for outstanding undergraduates interested in STEM careers. One- and two-year Goldwater Scholarships...
Princeton SPIA Launches Afghanistan Policy Lab
Afghanistan is moving closer to a humanitarian crisis, marked by economic collapse. Half of the population needs aid, and the poverty rate is expected to reach 97% by mid-2022, according to reports from the United Nations.
Princeton faculty members Bhargava, Guenther, Schor and Weisenfeld and Hodder Fellow Gibson receive 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships
Four Princeton faculty members and a Hodder Fellow have received 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships.
A Princeton-Microsoft project is tracing the digital fingerprints of disinformation
As the 2018 U.S. mid-term elections approached, a group of Princeton alumni military veterans pitched an idea to the School of Public and International Affairs to host a conference on national security. With reports of foreign interference during the 2016 presidential election campaign still...
Princeton’s Mellon Fellows are bringing fresh perspectives to research and teaching in architecture, urbanism and the humanities
As the world’s cities grapple with compounding issues of climate change, sustainability, systemic racism, the refugee crisis and more, the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities is supporting research, scholarship and teaching focused on real-world...
Five seniors awarded Labouisse Prize for international civic engagement projects 2022
Princeton University seniors Beata Corcoran, Fernanda Romo Herrera Ibarrola, Elle Ruggiero, Naomi Shifrin and Frances Walker have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.
Odessa Philharmonic Conductor Hobart Earle ’83 Watches the War
On the evening of Feb. 12, Hobart Earle ’83, the longtime director of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, ended its concert with a surprise encore, the overture to Mykola Lysenko’s opera, Taras Bulba. It is considered Ukraine’s unofficial national anthem and with rumors of a Russian...
For Ukrainian Refugees Traveling From Poland to Germany, Henry Posner III ’77’s Train Awaits
On March 12, 2022, Henry Posner III ’77 reported for work at 9 a.m. in his trademark bowtie. But on this day, the self-described railway worker donned a reflective safety vest and work boots as he prepared to make history. Just days earlier, a holding company with several railways owned by...
Emily Sánchez '22 awarded ReachOut Fellowship for public service
Princeton senior Emily Sánchez has been awarded a fellowship from ReachOut 56-81-06, an alumni-funded effort that supports year-long public service projects after graduation. Sánchez will develop a podcast series on the history of Latino communities across New Jersey.
Three Books: Professor Mark Beissinger on Understanding the Conflict in Ukraine
Politics professor Mark R. Beissinger has long specialized in the topics now under international scrutiny as Russia invades Ukraine, with his scholarship covering revolutions and nationalism in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states.