This year, Princeton University is celebrating its 25th anniversary of research, teaching and collaboration at the Mpala Research Centre in Laikipia County, Kenya, while looking toward deepening engagement for the future.Mpala, an independent Kenyan nonprofit, comprises 48,000 acres of privately...

Through Princeton’s Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (PTIC), students can take courses about (and minor in) translation, attend topical lectures and receive funding for translation projects. Every semester, the program, which is housed within the Princeton Institute for...

In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased, multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition. In a new study in Journal of Religious Ethics, Aysenur Cam, 2025-2026 PIIRS Graduate Fellow and doctoral candidate in the...

Zahid R. Chaudhary is an associate professor in the Department of English and the interim director of the Program in South Asian Studies. His latest book “Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth” was published in November 2025 by Fordham University Press.How did you get the idea for this...

Princeton Class of 2026 members Margaret Miao and Alex Tseng and recent alumni Gustavo Blanco-Quiroga, Kalena Blake and Alison Lee 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.This year’s...

Faculty Provide Analysis on Legality, Unintended Consequences, and Implications of ICE RaidsPRINCETON, NJ – Faculty from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs are raising questions that policymakers and the media should consider as the Trump Administration escalates the deployment...

As an undergraduate student studying ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, Bing Lin ’16, Ph.D. ’21 traveled to Honduras for field work that saw him work on two coral reef patches that, despite their proximity, featured completely different fish and coral...

 Faculty Provide Analysis on Legality, International Implications, and Venezuela’s Future PRINCETON, NJ – Following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by the United States, faculty from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs are sharing expert perspectives...

The Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) is pleased to report the award of a two-year $800,000 core support grant by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The grant will support SGS in scientific and technical research, critical policy analysis, education, and outreach to enable and advance...

Princeton seniors Sukaina Shivji and Laura Zhang, and University of Oxford student Darina Andriychenko Leonenko have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards.Shivji has been named as the Sachs Global Scholar and...

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 representing...

Class of 2026 members Maya Butani and Daniel Yu have been named 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 study at the U.K. institution of their...

 On November 13, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Afghanistan Policy Lab and the School’s SPIA Diversity & Inclusion Team co-hosted a panel discussion on the topic “Reform and Government Effectiveness in Afghanistan.” Princeton SPIA students Heather Mercer MPP ’26,...

Each summer the High Meadows Environmental Institute organizes and funds dozens of environmental internships for Princeton undergraduates, here on campus and around the world. This past summer, 104 students from 17 departments participated in our annual internship program, gaining hands-on fieldwork...

Thomas D. Conlan is a professor in the Departments of East Asian Studies and History. His latest book “Kinkakuji and Kitayama: Space, Place, Monuments and Memory in Japan, 1222–1994” was published in December 2025 by Brill.How did you get the idea for this project?I first visited Kinkakuji, one of...

The Academy of Athens, Greece's national academy of arts, science and letters, awarded Teresa Shawcross, Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies, its Lykourgeio Prize for her book Wisdom's House, Heaven's Gate: Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. The prize recognizes “an original,...

Dec. 8, 2025In 1725, five Native American diplomats from the Otoe, Osage, Missouria and Illinois (Peoria) Nations of the Mississippi Valley crossed the Atlantic to be received at the French court of King Louis XV at the Palace of Versailles.Their visit recognized the alliance between France and the...