Princeton University senior Shaffin Siddiqui has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. The program was established in 2000 by a donation from the...
Research by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has played a supporting role in the recent major advance in the production of fusion power at the Joint European Torus (JET) in the United Kingdom. In the recently disclosed breakthrough by the...
Most of us only think about the easily visible parts of plants — stems, flowers, leaves — but in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Princeton ecologists Lars Hedin and Mingzhen Lu show that the hidden root systems beneath a South African...
Dear SPIA Community, The scenes of destruction and of people fleeing across Ukraine following Russia’s military invasion are gut-wrenching — for the Ukrainian people, who live peacefully in a sovereign and independent country, and for all individuals, countries, and institutions around the world...
Elke Weber will be the next director of the Princeton Fung Global Fellows Program, an international effort based at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. She will serve a two-year term, effective July 1, 2022. The Fung Global Fellows Program brings together...
As the world grapples in real time with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Princeton scholars are speaking to the moment. Many Princeton faculty members, alumni, staff and students are sharing their expertise and perspectives in op-eds, on television and cable news programs, online and in print...
Arctic Indigenous worlds, experiences, and challenges past and present — along with their implications for our climate crisis — are the focus of a course at Princeton this spring titled “Pluriversal Arctic.” That is also the life’s work of the course’s instructor, Olga Ulturgasheva, an Eveny member,...
The Fund for Irish Studies returns to in-person event with the lecture “From Triumphalism to Desperation - the Fall of Ulster Unionism” by journalist Susan McKay in which she discusses her new book, Northern Protestants - On Shifting Ground. McKay shares that in 2021 unionists in Ireland...
In late 2021, Katherine Bussard, the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, spent six weeks as a visiting professor at the University College Dublin, at the invitation of Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, associate professor and head of the School of Art History and...
This conference will bring together an international group of scholars who have worked on Princeton’s FLAME project, as well as leading scholars on the late antique and early medieval economy worldwide (4th-8th centuries CE). Over three days, speakers will present new findings centered on the...
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. He has written five books on these subjects,...
This seminar on Rita Segato will explore the transdisciplinary and pioneering work of one of the most important figures of the Latin American critical scene. The four-course meetings will be led by students, professors, and other members of our university community who are interested in...
As the Russian attack on Ukraine persists, Princetonians are showing their support for Ukraine, its citizens and those impacted by the conflict here and abroad. Through statements, rallies, fundraisers, direct aid, pledging acts of kindness and sponsoring displaced scholars, the Princeton community...
“Streams to the river, river to the sea.” If only it were that simple. Most global carbon-budgeting efforts assume a linear flow of water from the land to the sea, which ignores the complex interplay between streams, rivers, lakes, groundwater, estuaries, mangroves and more. A study co-led by...
Top thinkers and stakeholders from Brazil will visit the Princeton campus May 5-6 to discuss with the University community the critical environmental and climate justice issues facing the Brazilian Amazon and its Indigenous peoples. Hosted by the Princeton Brazil LAB, the conference,...
When it comes to understanding and protecting the environment, New Jersey provides fertile ground for Princeton University researchers. The state’s four geological regions and its mix of urban, rural and suburban communities allow Princeton faculty, staff and students to develop environmental and...
Abdul Wahid Wafa, longtime journalist from Kabul, Afghanistan, has joined the Humanities Council and the Program in Journalism as a professional specialist. A seasoned researcher and administrator, he will participate in journalism courses and advise reporting and writing...
Thomas Conlan is Professor of East Asian Studies and History, and Director of the Program in East Asian Studies. His book, “Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471–1877: A Sourcebook” was published as an eBook in March 2022, and in print in April 2022 by Hackett Publishing...
This year’s Pre-read will show first-year students how their Princeton journeys can take them far beyond what they ever imagined. “Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena,” traces Class of 2019 graduate Jordan Salama’s voyage along Colombia’s most important river and...
As greenhouse gas emissions continue to warm the world’s oceans, marine biodiversity could be on track to plummet within the next few centuries to levels not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to a recent study in the journal Science by Princeton University researchers. The...