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....

Conservationist Paula Kahumbu *02 has fond memories of a rustic one-month research trip on a Kenyan riverbank near a cattle ranch in 1994. She and 10 other graduate students slept in tents and spent their time researching, hauling water for camp, and cooking over an open flame. The scholars were...

To safeguard the Amazon and avoid planetary environmental catastrophe, Western science must engage Indigenous knowledge, combining science–based conservation approaches with the restoration and biocultural diversity practices of Indigenous peoples. So argue the authors of “Indigenizing Conservation...

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 rich cultural heritage. In the fall of 2023, Princeton’s innovative Novogratz Bridge Year Program — which provides...

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...

Bridge Year Peru alum Jennifer Shyue ’17 was recently highlighted by Princeton Alumni Weekly shining a spotlight on her journey into literary translation. Shyue’s experience in Peru sparked her interest in Latin American literature as well as a curiosity about translating Latin American writers...

Princeton University professor John Hopfield has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics(Link is external) “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”He shares the prize with Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto. ...

On Tuesday, November 5, the Program in African Studies (AFS) celebrated the fall semester with a meet and mingle reception. The biannual mixer is a popular event: attendees included faculty, staff, students and campus partners. AFS is a multidisciplinary forum that brings together students and...

Embarking on a new partnership between A&A and the École du Louvre in Paris, A&A undergraduate students took part in École du Louvre’s Winter School in January 2025. This 10-day intensive educational program explored the topic “Provenance Research & Duty to Care.” The École du...

At the international conference “Talking about the Torgau Castle Chapel” held January 16–17, 2025, Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann affirmed the significance of the chapel, currently on UNESCO’s “Tentative List” to be deemed a World Heritage Site. After addressing participants of the conference, he...

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...