"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...

Ryan Moores '28 recently contributed a guest blog post featured on the Undergraduate Student Blog. He reflects on his experiences and the lessons learned in Indonesia as part of the 2023-2024 Novogratz Bridge Year Program. Read the full blog post on the Admissions website. The deadline to apply...

The Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (PTIC) has named Dong Li, Takami Nieda, Julia Sanches and Yasmine Seale as Princeton University’s Translators in Residence. Each of the four translators will be joining the Princeton community for one semester over the course of...

 The Office of International Programs, in collaboration with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, is pleased to announce the winners of the 15th annual International Eye Photo Contest.This year, 29 photos were selected from over 375 total submissions. The contest was...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy — the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. The researchers released the images today and will present their results at the American Physical Society annual...

As part of the newly established partnership between the École du Louvre and the Department of Art & Archaeology, Professor Nathan Arrington taught an intensive seminar titled “Touch and Greek Art” in Paris during Princeton’s spring break.  The seminar examined works in the Musée du...

The ingenuity of the construction techniques used by Greek builders 2,000 years ago continues to dazzle the world. What did these ancient engineers get right? And how does looking to the past help current engineering students become bolder and more creative in their own work?To give civil and...

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...

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...

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...