Princeton University’s Elliott Lieb is one of the three recipients of the 2023 Kyoto Prize. He won the mathematical sciences category, for “pioneering mathematical research in physics, chemistry and quantum information science based on many-body physics.”  The Kyoto...

Leonard Wantchekon, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, has been awarded the Kiel Institute for the World Economy’s 2023 Global Economy Prize in the science category. The Global Economy Prize is...

Class of 2023 member Kaelani Burja has received the Martin A. Dale ’53 Fellowship to spend a year pursuing an independent project of special interest. Burja will travel to Guam, California and New York to research, write and perform an original play about her mother’s life. The Dale Fellowship,...

Princeton undergraduates Victoria Graf, Amélie Lemay, Arya Maheshwari and Reha Mathur have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships, an annual award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. The four are among the 413 scholarship recipients...

Princeton University seniors David Amelemah, Zachariah Sippy and Jack Thompson have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation. Amelemah, a chemical and biological engineering major from Amityville, New...

Oscar Platt '24 recently contributed a guest blog post that was featured on the Undergraduate Student Blog. He reflects on his experiences in Indonesia as part of the 2018-2019 Novogratz Bridge Year Program and details his journey in navigating challenges and connecting with his homestay family...

Roxana (Roxy) Martinez ’27 recently produced a video to reflect on her experience participating in the 2022-2023 Novogratz Bridge Year Program in India. The online application for the 2023-2024 program is due on May 1, 2023. Learn more about the Novogratz Bridge Year Program.

  Princeton University senior Sydnae Taylor has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. The program was established in 2000 by a donation to...

Princeton junior Mirabella Smith has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship, which supports highly motivated students with exceptional promise to pursue Ph.D.s or other postgraduate degrees in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Smith, of Lake Elsinore, California, is a politics concentrator who...

Princeton University junior Jalen Travis has been awarded a Truman Scholarship, which provides recipients with up to $30,000 toward graduate school along with professional development opportunities to prepare for careers in public service. Travis, of Minneapolis, is an anthropology concentrator who...

Over spring break, students from Princeton University and the University of Tokyo participated in a mini cultural exchange program — with events in New York City, at Rutgers University and on the Princeton campus — and looked ahead to longer, more meaningful student travel and immersion in the...

On Thursday, May 4, undergraduate students participating in one of seven 2023 PIIRS Global Seminars gathered in the atrium of the Louis A. Simpson International Building for a pre-departure barbecue. Departing students met with faculty leaders, and enjoyed giveaways, prizes and food. Offered each...

The institutional and the moral foundations of the international order are under severe strain: peace is broken or threatened across the world and humanitarian catastrophes are mounting. On Thursday, Apr. 13, three distinguished thinkers asked how — and though which institutions and by...

In “Spanish for a Medical Mission in Ecuador,” or SPA 204, students dove into the nuances of Spanish medical terminology in the Princeton classroom and prepare for a hands-on, experiential medical mission to Ecuador over spring break. Once on the ground in Riobamba, Ecuador these students served as...

Can you translate race? Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) postdoctoral research associate May Kosba wants to find out. To do so, she investigated African American intellectual David DuBois’ 1975 novel “…And Bid Him Sing” about his self-imposed exile in 1960s Cairo....

On Thursday, Apr. 6, Timothy Snyder, the Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, provided an alternative historical trajectory of the European Union (EU) and revealed the stakes of the war...

 Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, in collaboration with the Office of International Programs, celebrated the winners of the 14th annual International Eye Photo Contest on Thursday, Mar. 21, 2024. This year, 27 photos were selected...

Beto Veríssimo, senior researcher at Imazon, a “think-and-do” think tank based in the Brazilian Amazon, joined Matias Spektor, professor at the School of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas, for “Brazil is Back,” a debate about the future of public policy and sustainability in Brazil...

"Inventing The Third World” is an open access book that explores the ways in which the Global South reimagined the future world order at the end of the Second World War, and the cultural and intellectual breakthroughs that these new narratives created. On Wednesday, Feb. 22, the book’s editors...

Princeton University Translator-in-Residence Neil Blackadder does not play video games, but chose to title his upcoming talk, “Translation as a Multiplayer Game.” “The standard model [of translation] that one thinks of is that there’s a lonely translator who sits in their studio with their computer...