In fall 2019, the interdisciplinary project “Policing, Public Space and Democracy” received a Princeton-University of Tokyo Strategic Partnership grant. The project is a collaboration among faculty members from the Center for Transnational Policing, Princeton Urban Imagination Center, and the Effron...

At SPIA’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD), a student-led simulation is helping diplomats, students, and faculty members envision scenarios to foster a more accountable United Nations Security Council. The U.N. aims to maintain international peace and security and achieve...

Last month, for the first time, SPIA’s Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) project convened a conference in Latin America, gathering in Bogotá, Colombia, for more than a dozen presentations of working papers on conflict, crime, state legitimacy, political participation, and migration...

Three members of the Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs have been appointed to the newly launched Scientific Advisory Group of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). SGS co-director Zia...

Winnie Kiiru, a widely admired wildlife biologist, conservationist and advocate for people-centered conservation became Mpala’s Executive Director Feb. 1. Most recently, Kiiru served as director of government relations for the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), a coalition of the 21 African...

This January SPO professors Nicola Cooney and Andrea Melloni visited the island of Santiago, Cape Verde (Cabo Verde - in Portuguese). The Repúblika di Kabu Verdi, a former Portuguese colony, is an archipelagic nation, located 350 miles off the western coast of...

Dora María Téllez joined the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) as a Visiting Research Scholar June through August 2023. Her visiting fellowship was made possible with the support from PLAS, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Princeton School of Public and...

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...

The Office of International Programs, in collaboration with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, is pleased to announce the winners of the 13th annual International Eye Photo Contest. This year, 21 photos were selected from over 250 total submissions. Contest entries...

In 2022, Fung Global Fellow, Wesam Al Asali, now assistant professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, and Sigrid Adriaenssens, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Program in Mechanics, Materials and Structures at Princeton University, received a...

Five exceptional scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the eleventh cohort of Fung Global Fellows.   For the 2023-24 academic year, the scholars will once again work on “sustainable futures” and...