Founded in 1603 by Federico Cesi, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei is the world’s oldest scientific academy and counts Galileo Galilei among its first members.John Haldon is Shelby Cullom Davis 30’ Professor of European History, Emeritus.

How would things be different if you got a do-over? The “what-if” game is always an interesting thought exercise — and for the first time, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Center for International Security Studies (CISS) used this question as the jumping off point for its...

On a recent Tuesday evening, Varun Gauri stepped behind a lectern at the Princeton Public Library not to deliver a talk about political or behavioral economics—topics he teaches at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs—but about Meena and Avi, the two characters in his debut novel...

Several researchers from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs traveled to South Korea in October to brief the country’s policymakers, business leaders, and scholars on critical political and economic issues in the context of U.S.-South Korea relations and the 2024 U.S....

In February 2020, Noorin was  a second-year computer science student at Kabul University. At the top of her class, she aspired to run Afghanistan’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. But in the four years since the Taliban returned to power, her parents, who diligently...

In 1787, with the nascent United States of America in danger of financial ruin and possible dissolution, a group of delegates met in Philadelphia to revise the young country’s governing document, the Articles of Confederation. The resulting Constitutional Convention produced an entirely new system...

In summer 2024, the Princeton in Beijing (PiB) summer language program returned to in-person instruction in China after a hiatus due to COVID-19, marking its 30th anniversary. Since its inception in 1993, PiB has provided over 4,500 students from Princeton and around the world the opportunity to...

When it comes to experience, it’s difficult to imagine someone more suited to the role of overseeing the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) than Trisha Craig. With a career in international academia and policy work, Craig brings to PIIRS experience in fostering...

By Artha Abeysinghe,  This article recounts an activity that I did as part of the “Princeton in Pisa” program at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.My friend Sicile and I went around Pisa, to find and ask people what they thought of graffiti and street art. The sun was not our friend...

 Patrick Chamoiseau, Belknap Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian, will receive the Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction Award from the Center for Fiction in New York City on December 10, 2024. Author of Texaco (Prix Goncourt, 1992) and many other...

During a trade mission to the United Kingdom, Gov. Phil Murphy extolled the dynamism of the New Jersey economy, citing Princeton University as a significant contributor.Craig Arnold, Princeton’s vice dean of innovation and University innovation officer, was in the audience in London on Nov. 7 when...

Class of 2024 members Juliette Carbonnier and Collin Riggins are the latest recipients of the Martin A. Dale ’53 Fellowship, which funds yearlong independent projects for members of each senior class in the year following their graduation. The two students began their work this summer.The Dale...

The week following Reunions in 1970 was a significant one. While most alumni returned to their homes on Sunday morning after an undoubtedly festive few days, a small group gathered at the Princeton Inn College, now known as Forbes, for the inaugural Alumni College. This on-campus gathering featured...

École du Louvre facade (Courtesy of École du Louvre website) A new partnership between A&A and the École du Louvre opens up exciting opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students beginning in January 2025. Undergraduate students are invited to participate...

“This course had some of the best classroom conversations I’ve ever experienced at Princeton,” said Magnus von Ziegesar ’25 of ART 456 “Contemporary Art: The World Picture” on international mega-exhibitions of contemporary art as a form of worldmaking taught by Professor Irene Small. Over fall...

Nine graduate students working on topics in ancient Greek art and archaeology. Seven days at Princeton University sharing research, exploring collections of Hellenic material at Princeton University Library and the Department of Art & Archaeology, and enjoying fellowship at the Seeger...

The exhibition Kindred Spirits: A Gathering of the Aka Circle of Artists in Lagos, Nigeria curated by A&A graduate student Iheanyi Onwuegbucha and featuring Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu, among 15 artists, opened at kó gallery on October 31 and will be on view until December 21, 2024. ...

Princeton University welcomed graduate students from Australia and Vietnam this fall to advance research on antimicrobial stewardship, infectious diseases, and other global health issues. Doctoral candidates Stephanie Enkel and Nguyen Thi Cam Tu are participating in Princeton’s International Health...

On display for over 60 years at Princeton, the iconic dinosaur has journeyed to Canada for restoration and will return to a new home on campus next year.If you’ve recently walked through Guyot Hall, you may have noticed a startling absence in the home of Princeton’s Department of Geosciences. For...

To explore the rise of coffee as a commodity with significant global intersections, students in the “History of Coffee in Africa and the Middle East” course traveled to Ethiopia over fall break to examine the cultural history of coffee in the context of the development of the coffee...