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...

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...

These days, it’s all too common to see a front-page story about a foreign government’s influence operation — secret attempts to sway the opinions of another country’s citizens through social media campaigns, paid advertising, hacking, direct emails, or SMS text messaging.In August, the FBI confirmed...

Before returning to campus for the fall semester, 12 students had the unique opportunity to travel to Liechtenstein, Austria, and Germany to present original research on democracy and security. The trip was initiated, arranged for, and led by Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, founding director of...

The generations of Americans who remember fallout shelters and “duck and cover” air raid drills is rapidly aging, and the threat of nuclear warfare — while as urgent as ever, if not more so — is a distant concern for most young adults today.To make that threat real for younger generations, artist...

The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) is proud to announce it will be the first university stop for the groundbreaking installation the bomb, which will be showcased at SPIA’s Bernstein Gallery from September 19 to October 25, 2024, as part of the exhibit “Close Encounters:...

The Program on Science and Global Security(external link) (SGS) has been awarded a two-year, $750,000 core support grant by Carnegie Corporation of New York. This new investment will support SGS in using scientific, technical, and policy research, education, and outreach to advance effective...

Low-orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications, but the satellites’ potential has been stymied by a technological limitation — their antenna arrays can only manage one user at a time.The one-to-one ratio means that companies must launch either...