For the second straight year, students and faculty from the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and the Department of Politics joined those from the University of Tokyo for an international workshop in the Japanese capital. This year’s event focused on international alliances, with a...

Much of the work of interstate relations is ultimately carried out by bureaucrats. Individual officers within diplomatic, military, and intelligence bureaucracies, trade and investment agencies, and international organizations play vital roles in global commerce, cooperation, and governance. Yet,...

Anew book co-edited by SPIA researchers and alumni examines the rise and fall of prior societies and their relation to our own seemingly precarious times. How Worlds Collapse: What History, Systems, and Complexity Can Teach Us about Our Modern World and Fragile Future (Routledge) presents more...

The hardest part, experts find, is communicating “unquantifiable” uncertainty Scientists have long struggled to find the best way to present crucial facts about future sea level rise, but are getting better at communicating more clearly, according to an international group of climate scientists,...

One night back in 2016, Shane Campbell-Staton couldn’t sleep. Doing what any person who feels inexplicably restless at 3 a.m. might do, biologist Campbell-Staton embarked down a YouTube rabbit hole. A few videos deep, he came across a clip about the tuskless elephants who live in Gorongosa National...

Melissa Lane, the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton and director of the University Center for Human Values, will give an extended series of distinguished public lectures at Gresham College in London over the next three academic years, with the overall title of “Reimagining Politics:...

The Office of International Programs, in collaboration with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, is pleased to announce the winners of the 13th annual International Eye Photo Contest. This year, 21 photos were selected from over 250 total submissions. Contest entries...

In 2022, Fung Global Fellow, Wesam Al Asali, now assistant professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, and Sigrid Adriaenssens, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Program in Mechanics, Materials and Structures at Princeton University, received a...

Five exceptional scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the eleventh cohort of Fung Global Fellows.   For the 2023-24 academic year, the scholars will once again work on “sustainable futures” and...

In 1787, with the nascent United States of America in danger of going broke and falling apart, a group of delegates met in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, the young country’s governing document. The Constitutional Convention instead resulted in an entirely new system of...

Maria Ressa '86 has been recently featured as part of the Fulbright Program's "Fulbright Alumni: Lasting Legacies" series which showcases stories of notable program alumni. Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2021, received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award in 1986 to study toward a...

As pro-democracy protests sweep across Israel, it is a 2018 scholarly article from a Princeton School of Public and International Affairs professor that foreshadows the country’s potential autocratic future while thousands demand change before it’s too late. “Autocratic Legalism,” written by Kim...

For the first time, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the United Nations Population Fund have produced a joint report analyzing global progress on maternal deaths, newborn deaths and stillbirths. Alyssa Sharkey, lecturer of public and international affairs, an affiliate in the Center for...

“For this next part, everyone is going to need an axe.” One at a time, 12 undergraduate students chose a blade from the toolbox in a studio at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, a city about 20 minutes west of Copenhagen by train. The task at hand was to make a snelle, a small but...

Princeton University’s Jesse Jenkins, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, has been a leader of both the national and the global charge to net-zero, along with his Net-Zero America...

Princeton University celebrated the academic accomplishments of its students with the awarding of four undergraduate prizes to seven students at Opening Exercises on Sunday, Sept. 3. “We’re very pleased to honor this year’s prize winners,” Dean of the College Jill Dolan said. “Many Princeton...

The EEB is delighted to announce that Paula Kahumbu, an alumna of Princeton University, EEB Lecturer, and CEO of WildlifeDirect, has been featured as a storyteller in National Geographic's latest release, Secrets of Elephants. This documentary is available on National Geographic, Disney+, and...

Chile's 9/11 is among the current Magic Grants for Innovation awarded by the Humanities Council to Professor Javier Guerrero.  Guerrero elaborates on the topic and on the many events we can expect to see during the course of year:  Sept. 11, 2023 will mark the 50th anniversary...

Winning an asylum claim in the United States is a complicated process of proving not just that your life is at risk in your country of citizenship, but that it is at risk in particular ways, both systematic and individual. It’s a tricky needle to thread, and that is part of why asylum grant rates...

Outstanding teachers are essential to any consistently successful language program. Princeton's Chinese, Japanese and Korean language teachers are the hidden gems behind the not-so-secret success of the Department of East Asian Studies (EAS). Department of East Asian Studies Chair,...