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...

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Seven students from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs attended the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, last month. The students met with delegations from around the world and saw firsthand how international policy is...

From the classroom to the Prime Minister’s office, MPA2 students delve into Senegal’s climate policy landscape to develop policy recommendations tailored to local realities.Context is key. That’s one of Devanne Béda-Geuder’s guiding principles in “Strengthening Urban Climate Adaptation and Finance...

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....

The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), in conjunction with the Office of International Programs and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Operations launched the 2023 edition of Princeton University’s international...

"The Global Ghetto,” a summer 2024 PIIRS Global Seminar, transported 13 Princeton students to Rome and Warsaw for six weeks of immersive instruction, during which they traced the history of Jewish ghettos from their origins in 16th-century Italy through the Nazi era.“The students received an...

World Politics, a preeminent journal of international relations and comparative politics housed at Princeton University, celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2023. As the quarterly publication looks to its next era, its editorial team is committed to bringing its research to an audience outside...

Story was originally published in the 2024 edition of Princeton University’s international magazine, Princeton Int'l.Located in the bustling city of Battambang, Phare Ponleu Selpak is a Cambodian nonprofit that utilizes arts education as a means to heal the traumas of war and celebrate Cambodia’s...

The Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism will launch an innovative reporting seminar based in Athens, Greece, in Summer 2025. “Shockwaves: Climate, Migration, and Culture in Greece,” co-taught by longtime journalist Rachel Donadio (The Atlantic) and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eliza Griswold...

Novelist, poet, and essayist Patrick Chamoiseau, Belknap Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian, has been selected to receive the Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction Award from the Center for Fiction. The award honors “a writer who, through their exceptional...

 Travis Kanoa Chai Andrade, a 2024 graduate, and senior Nolan Musslewhite have been named 2025 Marshall Scholars to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom. The Marshall Scholarship allows "intellectually distinguished young Americans, their country’s future leaders" to...

Story was originally published in the 2024 edition of Princeton University’s international magazine, Princeton Int'l.In summer 2024, the Princeton in Beijing (PiB) summer language program made its highly anticipated return to in person instruction in China post COVID and celebrated its 30th...

Leonard Wantchekon, James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and International Affairs, traces much of his scholarship to his formative years as a student activist in Benin.In the ’80s, he helped found the Front Démocratique du Bénin, a national organization that...

 Princeton Class of 2025 members Diya Kraybill, Issa Mudashiru and James Zhang have been named Schwarzman Scholars and will attend a one-year, fully funded master’s degree program in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Princeton winners are among 150 Schwarzman Scholars...