Ryo Morimoto is Assistant Professor of Anthropology. His book, “Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone” was published in April 2023 by University of California Press.How did you get the idea for this project?I worked as a translator for a foreign documentary film on Fukushima...
Current Bridge Year India participants Emily Chen and Andrei Florian were recently featured on a podcast hosted by Gap Year Radio for an episode that focused on mindful volunteering. Emily and Andrei reflected on their Novogratz Bridge Year program experience so far including their community partner...
Three Princeton seniors and one alumnus have been named Schwarzman Scholars for 2024 and will receive a scholarship for a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Princeton winners are Class of 2023 members Genrietta Churbanova, Thomas Hughes and Oluwatise Okeremi, and Class...
Story was originally published in the 2023 edition of Princeton University’s international magazine, Princeton International. When Aneekah Uddin, a senior majoring in computer science, was exploring semester-long study abroad opportunities, she initially browsed program offerings that were related...
Story was originally published in the 2023 edition of Princeton University’s international magazine, Princeton International. As China’s economy and global presence continues to grow and evolve amid escalating geopolitical tensions, there is an increasing need for future world leaders to better...
Story was originally published in the 2023 edition of Princeton University’s international magazine, Princeton International. As the last academic year came to a close at Princeton University, I was enveloped by a sense of homesickness. Although I was raised in Georgia, this homesickness stemmed...
There are certain things considered standard for first-year Princeton students: extra-long bed sheets, all-seasons attire for cross-campus treks, a laptop. But for some lucky students enrolled in freshman seminars with an international travel component, add to that list a passport and a healthy dose...
This special summer study abroad program is custom-tailored for Princeton University students and offers eight weeks of full linguistic and cultural immersion, equivalent of RUS 101-102 or RUS 105-107 (transfer credit), at the Tallinn University in Estonia. Program details: Russian Summer Program...
The Mpala Research Centre in northern Kenya has been an important international Princeton partner since 1994 when George Small ’43 set up a research center on what was a cattle ranch. The center comprises 48,000 acres of semi-arid savannah and has allowed students and researchers, from Princeton and...
This fall break, 16 Princeton students from different backgrounds, faith traditions and political orientations convened at a castle in England to learn how people with opposing viewpoints can come together across differences.The goal of their weeklong instruction at the innovative Rose Castle...
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has recently made significant progress on two crucial sensors, or diagnostics, for ITER the multinational facility under assembly in France to study plasma that can heat itself and sustain its own fusion reactions.PPPL...
Generations have passed through the Gothic limestone archway set into Lockhart Hall since it was built in 1928. Last week, Princeton University named the historic passage connecting McCosh Walk to University Place in honor of one of the dormitory’s former residents, Kentaro Ikeda, to be remembered...
The 14th annual International Eye Photo Contest is now open! All Princeton undergraduates who have studied, worked, volunteered or conducted research abroad in the past year are eligible and may submit a total of four (4) photos. The deadline for submission is Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 5...
Carlos Cortez ’24 straddles two worlds.His family is from Zináparo, a small rural village in Michoácan, Mexico, where few people have ever heard of Princeton University. He’s a senior at Princeton University, where few people have ever heard of Zináparo.But Carlos had an idea to bring these two...
At the time, it seemed absurd.The decision to hold the already postponed Tokyo Summer Olympic Games during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 seemed like a recipe for disaster. Many people feared that staging such a large event - one that would congregate thousands of people together -...
Grace Cordsen ’19 woke up in her polar pyramid tent on the first day of 2024 after ringing in the new year at Wolf’s Fang Runway ice bar in the bright aura of the midnight sun at the Southern end of the world.Currently working with White Desert as one of the youngest women to serve as the manager of...
Alex Gazmararian Ph.D. ’25 views climate change as the defining challenge of the 21st century and beyond. And while governments, businesses, and citizens work to quell global emissions, Gazmararian did his part via the written word — co-authoring “Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate...
The SPIA students who served as delegates to the world’s primary multilateral decision-making forum on climate change earlier this month described busy days filled with observations of negotiations, meetings with officials from across the globe, and invaluable networking.The 28th Conference of the...