Hannah Grunow wins the Naomi Schor Memorial award for best graduate student paper at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University (Nov. 2023), for her paper “Art in Passage Toward the Internal: Flaubert, the Artist, & Philosophical Aesthetics” Information about...

The Department of French and Italian (FIT) is kicking off a series spotlighting our amazing alumni and the many things one can do with a concentration in FIT. First up is Khameer Kidia, Class of 2011.Kidia is a writer, anthropologist, and global health physician at Harvard Medical School and the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One bad apple may not spoil the whole bunch, but when it comes to distributing food, a lot of good goes out with the bad.Now, researchers from Princeton University and Microsoft Research have developed a fast and accurate way to determine fruit quality, piece by piece, using high-frequency wireless...

Filiz Garip, a professor of sociology and public affairs, will receive the A.SK Bright Mind Award on November 14 in Berlin, Germany. The award, presented by the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, honors research on public policy with a focus on economic and governmental reforms and is...

Monitoring whether states are complying with nuclear disarmament treaties is not an easy task. An international team that includes a pair SPIA researchers has been exploring remote monitoring with the help of two antennas and a couple of mirrors.The team, comprising IT security experts, developed a...

Illegal hunting and trading of wildlife in China is becoming a significant threat to biodiversity and public health, according to a new paper by a team of researchers that includes two scholars from the School of Public and International Affairs. It is the first comprehensive assessment of this...

Two months after traveling to Geneva, Switzerland, to present before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (CCPR) regarding U.S. compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), a Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic team joined the American Civil Liberties Union in...

Janet Currie to receive prize, deliver lecture in Zurich next monthJanet M. Currie, an economist at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, has been awarded the prestigious Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize by the Zurich, Switzerland-based Jacobs Foundation. She will receive the...

After graduating from high school in 2015, Peter Schmidt ’20 spent nine months volunteering in Tiquipaya, Bolivia, with Princeton’s Novogratz Bridge Year Program. Students in the program were encouraged not to bring their smartphones with them, so Schmidt had only a basic cell phone and no Internet...

Please note: Princeton language programs have language prerequisites required for admission. For more information, contact the language department offering the program directly. Dates indicate recommended arrival and departure dates for the programs. Program details are subject to change and will be...

Princeton University senior Sam Harshbarger has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.  Harshbarger, of Cranbury, New Jersey, is concentrating in history and is also pursuing three minors: in history and the practice...

Princeton University senior Sam Harshbarger has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.  Harshbarger, of Cranbury, New Jersey, is concentrating in history and is also pursuing three minors: in history and the practice...

Representatives of Princeton University spent more than a week traveling in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan on a New Jersey economic development trade mission led by Gov. Phil Murphy, strengthening ties and seeking new research collaborations with companies there. Back home, Princeton officials...

Sam Bisno ’24 has been selected as a George J. Mitchell Scholar. This year, twelve students nationwide were awarded Mitchell Scholarships by the US-Ireland Alliance. Bisno, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will study history at Queen’s University Belfast and plans to research how transatlantic...