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...

When Politics Professor Jan-Werner Müller and Sociology Professor Kim Lane Scheppele began the Constitutionalism Under Stress project (aka CONSTRESS) halfway through the 2010s, “it wasn't quite so obvious yet how topical, alas, this was going to become,” Müller says. Authoritarian leaders in...

Humboldt University President Julia von Blumenthal and a delegation of professors and staff traveled to Princeton for two days in October to formalize another five years of collaboration between the two universities and to reflect on the impact of the partnership, which began in 2012. The...

Israel formally declared war following Hamas’s surprise attack on the country over the weekend. SPIA faculty weigh in with their analyses of the situation.Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, the founding director of SPIA’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, has been teaching on issues of state,...

Since 2016, the Princeton Startup Immersion Program (PSIP), part of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, has offered undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to gain real-world experience at emergent startups in New York City, Tel Aviv and Shanghai.During the summer...

Generations have passed through the Gothic limestone archway set into Lockhart Hall since it was built in 1928. Last week, Princeton University named the historic passage connecting McCosh Walk to University Place in honor of one of the dormitory’s former residents, Kentaro Ikeda, to be remembered...

More than 150 students, alumni, and faculty of the School of Public and International Affairs gathered in New York last week for activities connected with the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly.The first event, on Sept. 21, was a panel discussion among four alumni about the U.N.’s...

Carlos Cortez ’24 straddles two worlds.His family is from Zináparo, a small rural village in Michoácan, Mexico, where few people have ever heard of Princeton University. He’s a senior at Princeton University, where few people have ever heard of Zináparo.But Carlos had an idea to bring these two...

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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...

Denilson Baniwa, an Indigenous artist hailing from the upper Rio Negro region of the Brazilian Amazon, recently concluded a ten-day residency, sponsored by the Brazil LAB, the Department of Anthropology, and the Princeton University Art Museum.    Working in a wide range of media including...

The 14th annual International Eye Photo Contest is now open! All Princeton undergraduates who have studied, worked, volunteered or conducted research abroad in the past year are eligible and may submit a total of four (4) photos. The deadline for submission is Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 5...

On Wednesday, September 6, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) celebrated the start of a new academic year with a welcome reception for returning and new visiting scholars. Attendees included faculty, staff, students and visitors, who represented a wide swath of...