Europe’s “Fit for 55” climate plan, through its bioenergy rules, outsources deforestation and sacrifices Europe’s opportunity for a beneficial land future. In July 2021, the European Union proposed a policy package that aimed to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The series...

In agricultural communities, migration patterns are affected by the collective impacts of climate-related droughts and existing social vulnerabilities, often increasing migration within countries but also potentially limiting options for long-range, international migration.  Extreme drought...

Five Princeton seniors have been named Schwarzman Scholars for 2023. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Princeton winners are Class of 2023 members Benjamin Bograd, Kate Gross-Whitaker,...

Princeton’s innovative Novogratz Bridge Year Program will expand to six countries beginning in fall 2023, offering more incoming students the opportunity to participate in the tuition-free global service-learning program. Bridge Year will partner with new communities in Cambodia and Costa Rica, in...

Princeton senior Abdelhamid (Hamid) Arbab has been named a 2023 Marshall Scholar to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom. The Marshall Scholarship offers intellectually distinguished young Americans the opportunity to develop their abilities as future leaders by studying at a UK...

The most rigorous coursework can only take students so far in the confines of a classroom — especially when they’re learning about cultures on the other side of the globe. This summer, a group of Princeton students explored contemporary life in Kenya, complementing their studies with six weeks of...

Because of its dry, clear skies and remoteness, Chile’s vast Atacama Desert is home to many astronomical observatories, including the world-class Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA for short, meaning “soul” in Spanish). I’m an astrophysics major who grew up seeing photos produced by...

Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber selected the travelogue “Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena,” by Jordan Salama ’19 as the Pre-read for the Class of 2026. Every year, Eisgruber chooses a different book as a way of introducing first-year students to the...

Huddled with her mother beneath old blankets and broken furniture in a basement in Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, under siege by Russian troops and with bombs exploding on the residential streets outside, Yana Prymachenko felt the eerie resonance of her World War II scholarship. Prymachenko is a...

By Anna Chung ’24 Published in the December 2022 issue of Princeton Alumni Weekly Ben Fasciano was originally set to graduate with Princeton’s Class of 2021. Now, in the fall of 2022, he is finishing up his last semester of college in Milan, Italy. “It’s a little bit of a strange situation,” said...

Novogratz Bridge Year Program alums Leila Owens '23 (India) and Nicole Williams '23 (Senegal) were featured on the "Meet Princeton!" podcast to talk about their Bridge Year experiences teaching and working with an NGO, favorite foods, changing perspectives and how they transitioned back to campus...

The applications for studying abroad at the University of Cambridge, Pembroke College and at our four partner colleges at the University of Oxford for either the full Academic Year 23-24 or Spring Term 2024 only are now OPEN and the recordings from the virtual info sessions can be found under the...

Areas of low-oxygen water stretch for thousands of miles through the world’s oceans. The largest of these “oxygen minimum zones” (OMZs) is found along the Pacific coast of North and South America, centered off the coast of Mexico. Until recently, climate models have been unable to say...

A new study shows that the Bering Land Bridge, the strip of land that once connected Asia to Alaska, emerged far later during the last ice age than previously thought.  The unexpected findings shorten the window of time that humans could have first migrated from Asia to the Americas across the...

Refugees and displaced people rarely figure as historical actors, and almost never as historical narrators. We often assume a person residing in a refugee camp, lacking funding, training, social networks, and other material resources that enable the research and writing of academic history, cannot...

The 13th annual International Eye Photo Contest is now open! All Princeton undergraduates who have studied, worked, volunteered or conducted research abroad in the past year are eligible and may submit a total of four (4) photos. The deadline for submission is Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 5...

Princeton seniors Shaun Cason and Anna Allport and University of Oxford student Isabelle (Izzy) Stuart have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards. Cason has been named as the Sachs Scholar at Worcester College...

Cohen’s Stanford Documentary MFA thesis film titled “FLOAT!” was recently acquired by The New Yorker. The film is profiled and available for streaming on The New Yorker website. While at Princeton, Cohen participated in Bridge Year India and spent a fall semester studying abroad at SOAS in London....

  A 2022 Global Seminar takes students to Gesualdo, Italy, to learn musical theater writing and performance processes   As the dark and cold days of January settle in, 13 Princeton students can warm at the recollection of six engaging weeks they spent this past summer immersed in...

Princeton University’s Venture Forward campaign featured Lou Chen ’19 and highlighted his work in organizing a youth orchestra in Trenton. As an undergraduate, Chen spent a semester studying abroad at the University of Oxford, Hertford College and was nominated for a Truman Scholarship. Chen is...