Princeton geoscientists Xinning Zhang and Ashley Maloney have discovered that a geology technique shows promise in detecting cancer-like cells. If their preliminary results bear out, they may have identified a new signature for cancer, which could mean earlier diagnosis and...

As a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program, Melissa O. Tier is considering what she wants to do after earning her doctorate.Through her studies and research, Tier has been closely...

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...

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...

 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...

Kaivalya Kulkarni and Pranav Mathur, both members of the Class of 2026, have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships. This annual award recognizes “outstanding undergraduates interested in pursuing research careers in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics.” The two Princeton juniors are among 441...

At 87, Frank von Hippel — the first natural scientist to be hired by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs more than 40 years ago — has written down his life story. “Ending the Nuclear Arms Race: A Physicist’s Quest” explains how von Hippel, a third-generation physicist...

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...

At dawn on a windy March day, 17 bleary-eyed undergraduates gathered at the campus Wawa to board a bus to Newark. Fueled by cups of coffee and ample pre-reading, the students in Amelia Frank-Vitale’s course “Asylum: Policy, Politics, and Practice” were heading to federal immigration court for an...

Tracing its roots to fundamental research conducted at Princeton, a new startup is upending decades-old approaches for the way the world extracts lithium and other materials, including nitrate and potash, that power today’s clean energy technologies and support modern agriculture.The company,...

Giving a second life to construction materials after demolition, engineers at the University of São Paulo and Princeton have developed an approach for recycling cement waste into a sustainable, low-carbon alternative that is comparable in performance to the industry standard.In addition to lowering...

Two Princeton seniors and three alumni have been named Knight-Hennessy Scholars. Scholars receive up to three years of funding towards a graduate degree at Stanford University.This year’s recipients are Class of 2025 members Gil Joseph and Sabrina Nicacio, Class of 2021 member Jimin Kang, and Class...