At the time, it seemed absurd.The decision to hold the already postponed Tokyo Summer Olympic Games during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 seemed like a recipe for disaster. Many people feared that staging such a large event － one that would congregate thousands of people together －...

Grace Cordsen ’19 woke up in her polar pyramid tent on the first day of 2024 after ringing in the new year at Wolf’s Fang Runway ice bar in the bright aura of the midnight sun at the Southern end of the world.Currently working with White Desert as one of the youngest women to serve as the manager of...

Alex Gazmararian Ph.D. ’25 views climate change as the defining challenge of the 21st century and beyond. And while governments, businesses, and citizens work to quell global emissions, Gazmararian did his part via the written word — co-authoring “Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate...

The SPIA students who served as delegates to the world’s primary multilateral decision-making forum on climate change earlier this month described busy days filled with observations of negotiations, meetings with officials from across the globe, and invaluable networking.The 28th Conference of the...

Henry Barrett ’22’s journey to Budapest and Prague, where he is spending the year on a Fulbright Schuman grant, began in a Robertson Hall bowl in November of 2018.A few days earlier, Russia’s coast guard had fired on three Ukrainian Navy ships in the Kerch Strait, just off the Crimean Peninsula....

SPIA political scientist’s sprawling, detailed history of the Nuremberg trials’ lesser-known Asian counterpart has earned glowing reviews and a spot on numerous year-end best-of lists.Gary J. Bass’s Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia(externa(Alfred A. Knopf) was...

Ekaterina Pravilova is Rosengarten Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, professor of history, and director of the Program in the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Her book, “The Ruble. A Political History” was published in June 2023 by Oxford University Press. How did you get the...

Current Bridge Year India participants Emily Chen and Andrei Florian were recently featured on a podcast hosted by Gap Year Radio for an episode that focused on mindful volunteering. Emily and Andrei reflected on their Novogratz Bridge Year program experience so far including their community partner...

Three Princeton seniors and one alumnus have been named Schwarzman Scholars for 2024 and will receive a scholarship for a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Princeton winners are Class of 2023 members Genrietta Churbanova, Thomas Hughes and Oluwatise Okeremi, and Class...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has recently made significant progress on two crucial sensors, or diagnostics, for ITER the multinational facility under assembly in France to study plasma that can heat itself and sustain its own fusion reactions.PPPL...

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...

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...