Leila Owens ’23 has been awarded a 2025-26 Luce Scholarship to spend a year in Southeast Asia working on issues related to climate technologies such as renewable energy and advanced wastewater treatment. Currently, Owens is a strategy analyst in Deloitte’s Government and Public Sector consulting...

Pia Sarah Haykel has been awarded the 2025 Michel David-Weill Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in history at Sciences Po in Paris. Haykel is a history major pursuing a certificate in European Cultural Studies and a minor in Persian.The Michel David-Weill Scholarship was endowed in 2011 to...

This spring semester, In hosting four multidisciplinary visitors, M.S. Chadha Center for Global India (CGI) turned Princeton into a crossroads where India’s most urgent ideas met the campus community, allowing distinct voices to frame how we think about artistic expression, ecology, policy, and...

Princeton University senior Mahya Fazel-Zarandi has been named an international Gates Cambridge scholar, joining senior Joshua Yang, whose award of a Gates Scholarship for U.S. students was announced earlier this year. The awards recognize students for “outstanding academic achievement” and “social...

Members of Princeton University’s Class of 2025 who earned PIIRS' global minors celebrated with a lunch honoring their achievements on Thursday, May 22.The programs in African Studies, Contemporary European Politics and Society, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, South Asian Studies, and...

Princeton juniors Ammon Love and Alex Norbrook, and sophomore Carolina Pardo have been named Udall Scholars. They join a cohort of 55 scholars selected from 381 candidates nominated by 175 colleges and universities nationwide.The Udall Foundation awards scholarships to college sophomores and juniors...

On Friday, May 23, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) hosted a timely discussion on shifting power dynamics and the future of U.S. foreign policy as part of Princeton University's Reunions. About 25,000 alumni, family, guests, faculty, staff and members of the...

The program supports scholars whose research deepens understanding of specific regions while tackling big-picture questions in the social sciences. Fellows will join a vibrant intellectual community of faculty and peers, engaging in regular workshops, interdisciplinary conversations, and...

Matt Lynn has been named the new director for the Novogratz Bridge Year Program, effective May 12, 2025. Matt will rejoin the Office of International Programs— having previously served as the assistant director for Bridge Year from 2019–2022— from his current role as associate director of engaged...

Matt Lynn has been named the new director for the Novogratz Bridge Year Program, effective May 12, 2025. Matt will rejoin the Office of International Programs — having previously served as the assistant director for Bridge Year from 2019–2022, from his current role as associate director of engaged...

Princeton alumni Max Gotts, Class of 2024, and Dora Zhao, Class of 2021, were awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants. Soros fellows receive funding to support their graduate studies at...

A longstanding and distinctive feature of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ undergraduate program is the Policy Task Force, an experiential junior-year requirement that lets students work directly on a timely public policy issue and propose their recommendations to government...

Since 2022, graduate students from Princeton University and the University of Tokyo have met annually at the latter institution to present and discuss their research. The fourth annual workshop, examining the role of alliances in the turbulent world of U.S.-China competition, took place in early...

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 “research...

Exit Interview is an audio series produced by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Co-hosts David Mayorga, associate dean of public affairs and communications, and Ambreen Ali, senior communications and media strategist, speak with graduating students who won prizes for their...