Situated on the southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas between India and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Bhutan, the “Land of the Thunder Dragon” as the Bhutanese call their country, is a nation blessed with breathtaking natural beauty, ecological diversity, and rich cultural...

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 in the École du Louvre’s Winter School, a 10-day intensive educational program that...

How did you get the idea for this project? I’ve been worrying away at questions of tragedy more or less since high school, and in 2017 tried to get some of this off my chest by writing a book about Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In it, I argued that if we read that play as a distinctively early...

Each year, the Humanities Council’s Program in the Ancient World invites a distinguished scholar from one of its fields to spend a week in Princeton to deliver a lecture, host a seminar, and meet PAW graduate students in an informal setting. This year’s 2022-23 PAW Fellow, Manuel Fernández-Götz...

As we confront the growing climate crisis, society must weigh potential pathways to net-zero emissions. But in the race to decarbonize—including through planting forests and biofuels—a new study finds that well-intended efforts could have unintended impacts on biodiversity, and argues for...

As climate change fuels increasingly destructive hurricanes and typhoons worldwide, a new book provides essential knowledge and tools for understanding, forecasting, mitigating and responding to these devastating storms across the globe.Edited by world-leading scientists who study hydrology and...

Researchers from Princeton University and the University of Arizona have created a simulation that maps underground water on a continental scale. The result of three years’ work studying groundwater from coast to coast, the findings plot the unseen path that each raindrop or melted snowflake takes...

Last May, Neha Agarwal returned to her home city of Delhi, India, to initiate a Princeton study measuring human exposure to extreme heat. Stepping out of the airport “felt like walking into a furnace,” said Agarwal, a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering.When Delhi hit an all-time...

For much of history, the past guided builders’ designs. In a stable environment, this usually worked. Roman aqueducts carried water for centuries, and China’s Grand Canal still helps transport river traffic. But in a changing climate, the past may prove insufficient.Gabriele Villarini, a professor...

Playwrights Kate Douglas and Kate Tarker are participating in one-year residencies at Princeton to develop their commissioned pieces exploring how dynamic storytelling can engage vital environmental subjects.Princeton University’s High Meadows Environmental Institute and Lewis Center for the Arts...

Researchers at Princeton University have used hyperspectral imaging, a powerful technique that captures pictures containing detailed information about the wavelengths of light reflected, to reveal new details about the plumage colors of a rare hybrid bird-of-paradise. By developing a user-friendly...

New article in Science argues that ancient ecosystem and multispecies expertise could lead to a new, integrated conservation science in the Amazon and beyond.To safeguard the Amazon and avoid planetary environmental catastrophe, Western science must engage Indigenous knowledge, combining...

A new study reveals that Africa’s low rates of Zika virus outbreaks may be due to a surprising factor: the genetic makeup of local mosquito populations. Research by scientists at the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) at Princeton University, Institut Pasteur, and University of California,...

Sandie Bermann, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, professor of comparative literature and director of the Program in Values and Public Life, and Rick Register, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and director of the Princeton Materials Institute, received the...

Princeton seniors Noah James and Ethan Sample and University of Oxford student Farzana Salik have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards.James, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, plans to earn two master’s degrees...

Princeton seniors Noah James and Ethan Sample and University of Oxford student Farzana Salik have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards.James has been named as the Sachs Scholar at Worcester College at the...

Princeton University senior Joshua Yang has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards recognize U.S. students for ”outstanding academic achievement” and “social leadership,” and cover the full cost of a postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, according to the prize...

World Politics contributors Isabel Perera and Trevor Brown explore three countries’ attempts to privatize public rail services In the January 2025 (Volume 77, Number 1) issue of World Politics, Cornell University Department of Government scholars, Isabel M. Perera, an assistant professor,...

Michael L. Ross unpacks the enduring problems plaguing climate politics. In the January 2025 (Volume 77, Number 1) issue of World Politics, Michael L. Ross, professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability at the University of...

Princeton University senior Joshua Yang has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards recognize U.S. students for ”outstanding academic achievement” and “social leadership,” and cover the full cost of a postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, according to the prize...