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...

Aneesha Manocha, a senior studying electrical and computer engineering who plans to pursue a Ph.D. to model macro-energy systems, has been selected as one of this year’s two Kanders Churchill Scholars. As a Kanders Churchill Scholar, Manocha will spend a year studying at the University of Cambridge...

The urgency of the crises unfolding in the Amazon cannot be overstated: Illegal gold miners have contaminated the forest’s waterways, causing so many deaths by malnutrition and other maladies of the indigenous Yanomami people that Brazil’s new president has opened a genocide probe. And there are...

Princeton University alumni Willow Dalehite of the Class of 2022 and Bennett Weissenbach of the Class of 2020 will head to the University of Cambridge in the fall as recipients of Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Dalehite and Weissenbach are among 23 U.S. winners of the scholarship. About 80...

In January, American and Indian scientists, policymakers and industry leaders convened in New Delhi, India, for a high-level workshop to address one of the most pressing issues of our time: getting to net-zero emissions. “We’re still figuring out pathways to a climate-resilient, zero-carbon future,...

In the hours, days and weeks since two major earthquakes devastated Turkey and Syria, with the death toll approaching 50,000, Princeton faculty, staff and students have been offering their assistance to the millions impacted in the aftermath. Through fundraisers, donation drives, awareness...

Ashoka Mody is an economic historian at Princeton, but writes, his “heart is in India.” It’s through this lens that Mody, formerly of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, channels his finance- and policy-driven analysis of the world’s second most-populous country. Weaving history,...

At the northern and southern tips of our planet are tiny bubbles of air trapped for millions of years within polar ice. These microscopic time capsules hold a record of Earth’s atmosphere — and thus its climate history. “Ice is time, crystalized,” said Princeton environmentalist Anne...

Municipal wastewater treatment plants emit nearly double the amount of methane into the atmosphere than scientists previously believed, according to new research from Princeton University. And since methane warms the planet over 80 times more powerfully than carbon dioxide over 20 years, that could...