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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...
Each semester, the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (PTIC) hosts a visiting translator in residence who shares their real-world experiences of life and work with the program’s students and the broader Princeton University community. This spring, Hanna Leliv and Daisy Rockwell...
Each semester, the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (PTIC) hosts a visiting translator in residence who shares their real-world experiences of life and work with the program’s students and the broader Princeton University community. This spring, Hanna Leliv and Daisy Rockwell...
On February 20, 2024, students enrolled in the first year seminar "Planet Amazonia" visited Firestone Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections Department. Alongside with instructor Miqueias Mugge and librarian Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, they viewed rare historical materials produced in and about...
Thirty policy experts and scholars from the United States, Western Europe, and the Middle East met at the SPIA in D.C. space in early November for a conference on the 50th anniversary of OPEC’s 1973-74 oil embargo. The two-day gathering, presented by SPIA’s Empirical Studies of Conflict project,...
When students from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs take what they have learned inside the classroom to the outside world, the knowledge becomes proof of concept. This year, nearly 70 SPIA students completed external internships — with federal, local, and state agencies,...
David S. Wilcove, who has been serving as acting vice dean of the School of Public and International Affairs since the start of the academic year, will assume the role on a permanent basis beginning in the 2024-25 year.Wilcove, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs and...
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced that Aleksandra Korolova, an expert in privacy, algorithmic fairness and technology policy, has been selected as a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow in computer science.The Fellowship recognizes creative early-career researchers in the sciences and social...
Feb. 20, 2024The Association of Asian Studies awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize to Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000–2000 (Brill) by Susan Naquin, Professor of History and East Asian Studies, emerita. The book tells the story of the Lady of Mount Tai,...
The Derian Summer Internship is a faculty-mentored and community-informed research internship program administered by ProCES.Derian supports collaborations between faculty, undergraduate interns, and community experts. Interns support faculty in discipline-specific or discipline-spanning research or...
As a FIT concentrator pursuing a combined track in French and Politics, studying at Sciences Po has always been a dream of mine—and one that came to fruition last year through the gracious support of my professors and advisors at Princeton!Sciences Po (or L’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris)...
Each year, the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland, for hundreds of discussions among thousands of participants from around the world, including investors, business leaders, political leaders, economists, and journalists, on a wide range of global issues.At the 2024 meeting, held...
To commemorate Women’s History Month, the Afghanistan Policy Lab at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs has conducted interviews with eight courageous Afghan school-age girls in Afghansitan. These courageous individuals have been prevented from attending secondary school since...
Many of the most devastating tropical cyclones (TCs) in history, including Hurricanes Andrew (1992) and Katrina (2005), underwent a process known as rapid intensification (RI). Defined by a wind speed increase of at least 30 knots (35 mph) within a 24-hour period, RI can be difficult to predict and...
Researchers at Princeton’s engineering school found that placing a specially designed lid over a box can dramatically increase the airflow from wind blowing across the upper surface. It is not just a parlor trick. The information could help clean and cool urban canyons in cities like New York and...
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s (PPPL) plans to construct a state-of-the-art building, the Princeton Plasma Innovation Center (PPIC), are moving forward. PPPL recently received permission to use $10 million in funding from Princeton University to prepare the site and received a...
Princeton University seniors Travis Kanoa Chai Andrade, Alison Parish, Meera Burghardt and Isabella Moscoe have been awarded fellowships from ReachOut 56-81-06, an alumni-funded effort that supports seniors to complete a public service project of their own design during the year after...