The prize(Link is external), created in 1997, rewards national and international authors whose historical works stand out for their scientific rigour and quality of writing. Among the latest winners are Maurice Sartre, Augustine Sedgewick, Martin Goodman, Peter Gatrell, Johann Chapoutot, Robert...

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...

Laura Zhang '26, a SPIA major, reflects on her IIP last summer with the Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Read the full blog post on the Office of Admission's Undergraduate Student Blog. To learn more about the International Internship Program (IIP),...

Sheldon Garon has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to direct a five-year collaborative project, “The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945.”The project investigates the transnational circulation of knowledge and practices that culminated by World War II in...

In a corner of Kelsey Hatzell’s lab sits a small jar filled with a material that has an ability far beyond what its nondescript appearance would suggest: a way to capture and release carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by simply changing the surrounding humidity.The material could slash the energy...

Email this page Print this page Co-curators Sal Hamerman and Javier Rivero Ramos at exhibition opening (Photo/Brandon Johnson, Princeton University Library)Co-curated by recent Ph.D. graduate Javier Rivero Ramos *23 with Princeton University Library’s Metadata Librarian for Special...

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...

A host of French theater-lovers, dignitaries and alumni united April 18-20 to celebrate L’Avant-Scène, a Princeton stronghold that for the last 20 years has bonded French-speaking students and faculty from all across campus through the dramatic arts. The weekend event—funded in part by a Humanities...

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...

Now featured on the Office of Admission's Undergraduate Student Blog, Jasmine Hao '25 reflects on her experience studying abroad at ETH Zürich in Switzerland during the fall of her junior year. Hao shares insight into what drew her to pursue this opportunity as a student interested in...

Eight seniors have been named winners of the 2024 Spirit of Princeton Award, honoring Princeton University undergraduates for positive contributions to campus life.This year's winners include Archika Dogra who completed an internship through the International Internship Program (IIP) with City Taps...

Princeton University's M.S. Chadha Center for Global India (CGI) hosted the inaugural “Global India Frontiers Conference,” a multidisciplinary, pan-USA academic conference, on April 12 and 13, 2024. The event, a unique collaboration among Princeton's CGI, Harvard University's Lakshmi Mittal and...

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...