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...

Adji Bousso Dieng, expert in artificial intelligence, has been recognized by The Africa Report magazine as one of 10 African Scholars to Watch in 2025.The list highlights 10 scholars from Africa whose work, both at home and abroad, has had significant impact.Dieng, an assistant professor of computer...

High concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in India have severe impacts on public health. While high PM2.5 levels are primarily due to intensive local emissions, they can be further worsened by meteorological patterns known as atmospheric stagnation, which trap pollutants close to the...

Navroz Dubash, a professor of public and international affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton, attended the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, last month, where he spoke on a panel hosted by the United Nations Environment...

A study led by Indiana University, Bloomington and Princeton presents an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the collaborative process that determines the IPCC’s sea level rise projections and the social dynamics shaping climate assessments.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a...

Today, in reaction to the news of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, faculty at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA) provided expert insights into the significance of this pivotal development. Drawing on their deep expertise in conflict...

The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) has awarded five Princeton University researchers and their collaborators nearly one million dollars in inaugural funds from the Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Biodiversity Research Challenge Fund, also known as the Biodiversity Challenge. These...

The recent block by President Joe Biden of the proposed takeover of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel on grounds of national security has put the issue of foreign investment in the news and highlighted how the power to screen incoming investments could be used by governments for protectionist...

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(external link) and select...

Colton Poore, Andlinger Center for Energy and the EnvironmentDec. 12, 2024While electric vehicles have become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, new research led by Princeton University has demonstrated that refining the critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries could...

As America has reflected in recent years on the strength of our democracy in an era of hyperpartisanship, a former deputy chief of staff to Donald Trump and a former chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi have both visited Princeton’s campus at the invitation of the University’s Center for the Study of...

William Chester Jordan, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, emeritus, and the director of the Program in Medieval Studies, has received the 2024 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. He is among 10 recipients of the prize,...

Princeton faculty member Lex Brown, lecturer in visual arts and the Lewis Center for the Arts, and historian Lucas Ramos have been awarded the 2024-25 Rome Prize(Link is external) for independent research in the arts and humanities. Both are Princeton alumni. Recipients are invited to pursue their...

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...

During the Fall Break, the International Policy Associates (IPAs)—LISDs selective group of undergraduate pre-professional foreign policy fellows—traveled to Warsaw, Gdańsk, and Kraków to investigate recent and contemporary Polish politics. In meetings with top politicians and key stakeholders across...

The American Physical Society has recognized two scholars at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA) for their contributions to the field of physics. Alex Glaser, an associate professor at Princeton SPIA and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and...

It was a stroke of luck that Aimee Bronfeld decided to be very early to her first day on the job five years ago.As project specialist for the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA), she produces one of the University’s most...

Nobel laureate in literature Abdulrazak Gurnah captivated Princeton audiences in an Oct. 30 visit with reflections on literature, compassion and the “oceanic cosmopolitanism” that connects artists and thinkers across continents.  Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and is...

Nobel laureate in literature Abdulrazak Gurnah captivated Princeton audiences in an Oct. 30 visit with reflections on literature, compassion and the “oceanic cosmopolitanism” that connects artists and thinkers across continents.  Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and is...

More than 400 Princeton faculty and staff, industry representatives, venture capitalists and guests attended this year’s Celebrate Princeton Innovation event, the University’s annual salute to its researchers who are patenting discoveries, creating start-up companies and exploring other ventures.“It...