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...

This summer, Princeton University students took on some of the world’s most critical public health challenges – from fighting AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, to curbing antimicrobial resistance and understanding the drivers of climate change. Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW)...

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...

Elke Weber, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, professor of psychology and public affairs, and director of the Fung Global Fellows Program, has been awarded the Patrick Suppes Prize in Psychology from the American Philosophical Society for her work on...

Princeton University seniors David Amelemah, Zachariah Sippy and Jack Thompson have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation. Amelemah, a chemical and biological engineering major from Amityville, New...

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...

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...

An international team of astrophysicists including Princeton’s Andy Goulding has discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever found, using two NASA space telescopes: the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).The black hole, which is an estimated 10...

World Politics, a scholarly journal based at Princeton, celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2023. The Latin anniversarium contains a form of versus, which means “to turn” or “bend.” Appropriately, when we celebrate an anniversary, we do not turn away but toward the event in the past, to reminisce and...

Princeton University students enrolled in an immersive, six-week Global Seminar in Chile received more than an in-depth study of the country’s artistic and political movements over the last half-century. Many came away with a greater understanding of the United States’ role in global politics — and...

Three graduate students from South America and the United Kingdom are visiting Princeton University this fall to further their research on antimicrobial resistance, male psychology, and social determinants of health. Doctoral candidates Ana Cláudia Barbosa and Felipe Betoni Saraiva from the Oswaldo...

In May, the Fung Global Fellows community gathered on campus to mark the program's 10th anniversary, to recognize achievements and celebrate with academic, arts and social events. Marquee events included remarks by Deborah Yashar, Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs, and...

The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), in conjunction with the Office of International Programs and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Operations launched the 2023 edition of Princeton University’s international...

This piece originally appeared in the 2023 Princeton Int'l magazine. Read the magazine here.Democracy is under stress in long-established democracies and authoritarian politics is on the rise. This trend contrasts with recent history. The world experienced its longest and deepest democratic wave in...