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 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,...

In high school, a history teacher encouraged Rory Truex ’07 to study China in college. That trajectory led him to study abroad through Princeton in Beijing, then through the Princeton in Asia program, where he helped create the Summer of Service program for students to teach English in rural...

A SPIA faculty member and a former SPIA dean are among 26 recipients of the 2023-2024 Berlin Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin. Slaughter ...

The Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (PTIC) has named Sawad Hussain, Hanna Leliv, Lily Meyer and Daisy Rockwell as Princeton University’s translators in residence. Each of the four translators will be joining the Princeton community for one semester over the course of academic...

The M.S. Chadha Center for Global India (CGI) held “Cinema with Power,” a series of events with Indian director, producer and screenwriter Prakash Jha from April 11 to 23, 2023. Jha is best known for his socially and politically relevant films like “Apaharan” (2005), “Aarakshan” (2011) and...

A team of researchers including Princeton anthropologist Agustín Fuentes has found, deep in a cave system in South Africa, that an extinct, small-brained species of ancient human relatives buried their dead and used symbols, a discovery that could alter our understanding of human...

In Princeton Engineering’s new robotics lab a segmented robot snakes slowly across a table, a small-scale version of a machine that could someday automate dangerous construction tasks. The complexity and precision of the task is a formidable challenge, but the custom frame that allows...

Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology, has been awarded the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. The Princess of Asturias Awards are the highest form of recognition bestowed by the Spanish Crown and among the most important prizes...

Before Professor Seema Jayachandran became Amichai Feit’s senior thesis advisor, Feit knew her as a famous development economist he followed on Twitter. “I remember seeing a news story that she was hired at Princeton, and thought it was a really big deal,” he said. “So, I shot her a follow on...

This spring, students in the course “Poetry and War: Translating the Untranslatable” explored Char’s poetry in its historical context and its ongoing “afterlife” in translations around the globe. They explored the Char Papers, held in Princeton University Library’s (PUL) Special...

The New Venture Competition (NVC) is an opportunity for early-stage tech entrepreneurs based in Africa to learn, network, and compete for capital needed to launch their businesses. Investors, academics, students, and corporate sponsors across the African continent are encouraged to partake...

In fall 2019, the interdisciplinary project “Policing, Public Space and Democracy” received a Princeton-University of Tokyo Strategic Partnership grant. The project is a collaboration among faculty members from the Center for Transnational Policing, Princeton Urban Imagination Center, and the Effron...

The 31st International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB 2023) took place in Kigali, Rwanda on July 23-27. ICCB is hosted biannually by the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) and is the premier global forum for presenting research in conservation science and practice, as well as one...

In March of 2022, a student in Ukraine sent an email to the Princeton University physics department. The 18-year-old, Oleksandr Shelestiuk, soon received a response from Chris Tully, Princeton professor of physics and researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where...

When the School of Public and International Affairs launched the Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic last fall, nobody knew what to expect. The program, which was designed to teach undergraduates how to find policy solutions for social problems and then engage them in advocacy campaigns to advance...

As CO2 emissions continue to climb globally, Seema Jayachandran, a professor of economics and public affairs and co-director of the Research Program in Development Economics, published research in the Journal of Economic Perspectives about alternate strategies for low- and...