In the last 50 years, oxygen-deficient zones in the open ocean have increased. Scientists have attributed this development to rising global temperatures: Less oxygen dissolves in warmer water, and the tropical ocean’s layers can become more stratified. But now, contrary to widespread expectations,...
Amulti-year study of the social cost of carbon, a critical input for climate policy analysis, finds that every additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere costs society $185 — far higher than the current federal estimate of $51 per ton. After years of robust modeling and analysis,...
Simon Gikandi, the Robert Schirmer Professor of English and chair of the Department of English, and Chika Okeke-Agulu, professor of art and archaeology and African American studies and director of the Program in African Studies, have been elected corresponding fellows of the British...
Intimate partner violence — or abuse and aggression in a romantic relationship — is a pervasive global issue. In Uganda, a primarily Christian country in East Africa, 56% of women who’ve been married report being sexually violated by a current partner, according to Uganda Bureau of Statistics....
Wheels up! For the first time in two years, Princeton University students traveled both domestically and abroad for internships in global health. The Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) sponsored 91 opportunities for research, senior thesis projects, and other health-focused endeavors during the...
On World Refugee Day, June 20, 2022, the Office of Religious Life’s Religion & Forced Migration Initiative (RFMI) launched a new website that houses multiple projects that have been under development by RFMI since its formation in 2018. Under the leadership of Katherine Clifton, ORL coordinator...
The combination of Jordan Salama's personal drive, choices and chance encounters paved the way for him to have a life-changing experience that, through his passion and talent, he would ultimately share in his book Every Day The River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena. Jordan discusses his...
The Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), based at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, was awarded a $1 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation Nuclear Challenges program. At a time of growing nuclear threats, the award will support SGS efforts to...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent two planes of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Sept. 14, causing confusion on the Massachusetts island. A day later, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent two buses of migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris' residence, sparking further political...
Princeton University senior Marie-Rose Sheinerman has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Sheinerman is among 32 American recipients of the prestigious fellowships, which fund two to three years of graduate study at Oxford. In a statement, Elliot...
A virtual course brings together learners from across the globe — and gives them the tools they need to tell their own stories. In the Global History Lab (GHL), Princeton University students can study the war in Ukraine, the Taliban’s recent takeover of Afghanistan and mass...
Students who want to travel abroad must balance several questions: Where? To what ends? And when is the right time? Now, using a new online tool called the Global Arc, students can take a measured approach to planning for time abroad. ...
September, the Princeton-University of Tokyo Strategic Partnership marked what its director James Raymo called “a full-scale resumption of face-to-face collaboration after a long interruption.” A delegation from the University of Tokyo arrived in New Jersey to...
Deborah J. Yashar, professor of politics and international affairs, was appointed director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) and the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs. She assumed her new duties on July 1, 2022. Yashar...
Effie Rentzou is Professor of French and Italian and Director of the Program in European Cultural Studies. Her book “Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International, 1910-1940” was published in September 2022 by Northwestern University Press. How did you get the idea...
In March, anthropology professor Agustín Fuentes was among a small group that visited the Mpala Research Centre, a 48,000-acre living laboratory nestled in the heart of Kenya. During a tour of a possible archeological site, Fuentes almost immediately spotted what looked like a roughly...
More than three weeks after the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police, deadly anti-government protests continue across the country. World leaders have condemned the Iranian government’s actions, and the U.S. and Canada have released new sanctions against Iranian...
“Forced migration has now topped 100 million people across the globe,” says NPR correspondent Deborah Amos, a Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton. “It is one thing to read that number, it is quite another to interview one victim and understand the enormity of...
During fall break, a group of senior Princeton academic leaders and administrators — with expertise in infrastructure, operations, information technology, safety and facilities — visited the Mpala Research Centre in Laikipia County, Kenya, and were joined by the newly sworn-in U.S. Ambassador to...