Brazil’s most celebrated musician Caetano Veloso electrified a sold-out McCarter Theatre on Apr. 11, 2024. The concert was part of Veloso’s final tour in the United States.   Speaking to a multi-generational audience, Paula Abreu, director of public programming at McCarter, noted that Veloso’s...

Genrietta Churbanova, an anthropology major from Little Rock, Arkansas, has been named the Princeton Class of 2024 valedictorian. John Freeman, a classics major from Chicago, has been selected as the salutatorian. The Princeton faculty accepted the nominations of the Faculty Committee on...

In the late 2010s, as she was finishing up her PhD work in French and francophone studies at Duke University, Sandie Blaise had an idea for a new kind of course.Blaise, whose academic research interests include francophone migration and cultural identities, began conceiving of a French class that...

Three members of the Princeton University faculty — Emily Carter, Jo Dunkley and Kwame Anthony Appiah — and graduate alumna Erin Schuman are among the 94 scientists and scholars who have become fellows or foreign members of the Royal Society in 2024. To receive this honor, nominees must...

Since 2011, enormous seaweed blooms have spread across the Atlantic Ocean, spanning over 5,000 miles from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.Known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, the leviathan — visible from space — has wreaked havoc on environments and economies throughout the Caribbean Sea...

Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”The...

Princeton SPIA undergraduate students helped to successfully advocate for the United Nations Human Rights Council to extend the mandate of a program that seeks to advance racial justice in law enforcement around the world.Last month, the Human Rights Council voted to reauthorize the Expert Mechanism...

Because of the interconnected food systems of today’s globalized world, the use of food as a weapon of war is more dangerous than ever, and few tools exist for governments to deter the deadly practice, according to a recent commentary in Foreign Affairs, one of the country’s most celebrated and...

In the July 2024 issue (Volume 76, Issue 3) of World Politics, Kurt Weyland — Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin — argues that contemporary academia has seen a new bout of conceptual stretching. “The recent trend toward the loose...

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 graduation. ...

For the next in our series spotlighting our amazing alumni, we caught up with Avanthika Srinivasan(Link is external) (Link opens in new window), a performer, artist, and French and Italian major from the Class of 2016. Since graduating from Princeton, Avanthika has found success as a working actor,...

In the late 2010s, as she was finishing up her PhD work in French and francophone studies at Duke University, Sandie Blaise had an idea for a new kind of course.Blaise, whose academic research interests include francophone migration and cultural identities, began conceiving of a French class that...

Six exceptional scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the 12th cohort of Fung Global Fellows.For the 2024-25 academic year, the scholars will expand understandings of “colonial residues.” Colonialism is...

Hailey Lambert ’25 and Patrick Newcombe ’25 have been selected as 2024 Udall Scholars. This year’s cohort comprises 55 scholars from 406 candidates nominated by 192 colleges and universities nationwide.The Udall Foundation awards scholarships to college sophomores and juniors who are “committed to...

Trisha Craig has been named executive director of Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). She assumed her new duties at Princeton on April 15. Craig has been vice president for engagement and senior lecturer in global affairs at Yale-NUS College, an undergraduate...

Amanda Morrison ’19 has been named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar; she will pursue a J.D. at Stanford Law School. Morrison joins a cohort of 90 students— the largest to date— from around the world. Scholars receive full funding towards a graduate degree at any of Stanford’s seven schools.Morrison, from...

The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Innovations for Successful Societies has released summaries and analyses of hundreds of Ukrainian laws pertaining to reconstruction, the second component of a larger project aimed at helping the country rebuild infrastructure the Russian...

Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”The...

Hundreds of thousands of species are under the threat of extinction and will disappear if substantial conservation efforts are not made.  In the face of this biodiversity crisis, policymakers and government officials across the globe have expanded protected areas that harbor threatened species...