Princeton Scholars Analyze the Implications for Regional Stability, Nuclear Risk, and Global Security.PRINCETON, NJ - As the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies, faculty at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA) are offering timely, expert commentary to...

Thanks to the generosity of SPO emeritus Professor Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones and his wife Alma Concepción, the Princeton University Library has received a trove of graphic artworks by renowned  Puerto Rican artists Luis Alonso, Myrna Báez,...

As countries increasingly outsource their environmental impacts to other nations, Princeton researchers show that global trade is reshaping extinction patterns - potentially setting the stage for a second wave of biodiversity loss.Trade-induced farmland expansion is a major factor that drives...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat hosts two primary meetings each year: the Bonn Climate Change Conference typically held in June, and the Conference of Parties (COP) typically held in November. The Bonn Climate Conference centers around sessions of two...

For small-scale farmers up against floods, droughts and other dramatic climate events, diversifying income sources can mean financial safety — a lifeline as crop-growing conditions destabilize. But in Nepal, where natural hazards rank among the most severe in the world, how farmers perceive...

Ecologist Harman Jaggi first visited India’s cold desert Trans-Himalaya mountains to study snow leopards. But while climbing the steep, rocky slopes above the tree line, something else caught her attention: the black pea and barley powder that local hosts offered her to mix into tea. “It would...

Vincent Chanethom is a collaborator on a new research project, Developing a Canadian French Articulatory Corpus to Explore the Relationship Between Articulation and Acoustics, led by Suzy Ahn (Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Ottawa) and Beth MacLeod (Associate Professor of...

Amina Spring break seems so far away yet our ORL trip to Salvador da Bahia is still on my mind. It was my first time in Brazil, in Latin America, after spending so many years studying the language, literature and culture at IU-Bloomington and in...

David Bellos, renowned scholar of French fiction and celebrated translator, died at his holiday home in the village of Doussard in the French Alps, on Oct. 26. He was 80.Bellos, the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature, and professor of French and Italian and comparative...

Bridging insights from history, politics, culture and the arts, the new minor in European Studies (EUS) invites undergraduate students from across disciplines to explore ideas that have shaped Europe’s past and present.The minor, offered jointly by the Humanities Council’s Program in European...

Brian Kloeppel, hired in June as the inaugural director of the Mpala Secretariat, knows field research centers. As a professor of natural resource conservation and management at Western Carolina University, a role he held for 17 years, his time spent in research and managing field research centers...

The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) supports bold, collaborative projects that connect faculty research with the wider world. Through competitive grants of up to $75,000 over three years, PIIRS advances innovative work across disciplines and regions — opening...

Princeton’s engineering curriculum is renowned for its rigor, equipping students with the technical foundation to pursue cutting-edge research in areas such as artificial intelligence and infrastructure development. For engineering students who are looking to broaden their horizons and explore...

Each summer, PIIRS sponsors multidisciplinary Global Seminars that meaningfully unite pedagogy and place. In these six-week credit-bearing courses, students engage with the world beyond Princeton through experiential learning in places at the heart of the seminar’s lessons.“Global Seminars take...

I have always been drawn to the intersection of music and architecture. Until my summer fellowship through the Streicker International Fellows Program, I had never truly considered what it takes to keep sound alive. ...

Rory Truex ’07, an associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, focuses his research and teaching on Chinese politics, specifically Chinese policymaking, public opinion and human rights. His research and commentary has been featured in The Atlantic, The New York...

Princeton University senior Hadi Kamara has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Kamara, of Alexandria, Virginia, is a politics major. A first-generation college student, he transferred to Princeton from Northern Virginia Community College in fall...

From left: Ajpub’ Pablo García Ixmatá, Irma Yolanda Pomol Cahum, Saqijix Candelaria Dominga López Ixcoy, Héctor Rolando Xol Choc, and María Beatriz Par Sapon (Photo/ Kirstin Ohrt) Héctor Rolando Xol Choc, one of few scholars capable of reading the native Mayan language...

World Politics (Volume 77, Issue 4) is available online.  Founded in 1948, World Politics is an internationally renowned quarterly journal of political science published by Johns Hopkins University Press and produced under the editorial sponsorship of...