Princeton University has announced support for a series of scientific investigations to boost crop yields, expand pharmaceutical shelf-life, and increase the accuracy of AI medical diagnostics through the University’s Intellectual Property (IP) Accelerator Fund.Each grant, of up to $100,000, is...

Yuno Iwasaki ’23 and Ananya Agustin Malhotra ’20 were named recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants. Soros fellows receive funding to support their graduate studies at institutions across...

The BBVA Foundation honored Elke Weber, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and professor of psychology and public affairs, and director of the Fung Global Fellows Program with the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences. The award...

Dylan Epstein-Gross ’25 has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship, an annual award which recognizes outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics. The scholarship program was created as part of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in...

John Freeman '24, a classics major with certificates in German and Hellenic studies, contributed a reflection on his study abroad experience which was featured on the Office of Admission's Undergraduate Student Blog.Freeman spent the spring semester of his junior year studying abroad in Greece...

Princeton University junior Ella Weber has been awarded a Truman Scholarship, which provides funding for graduate studies in public service, as well as leadership training and internship opportunities within the federal government. Weber, a member of the Class of 2025, is one of 60 recipients...

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...

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...

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...

During a trip to Botswana last spring, a group of four juniors from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs studying social protection policies in Southern Africa came face to face with a frustrated local farmer named Mma Mogaetsho. Although she had cultivated her family’s fields...