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News May 11, 2020
Scheppele Named Winner of Service Award by Law and Society Association
Professor Kim Lane Scheppele was named the winner of the Ronald Pipkin Service Award from the Law and Society Association (LSA), where she served as president from 2017 to 2019. Under Scheppele’s leadership at the LSA, she brought transparency and accountability to the operation of the association, according to a statement issued by the organization.The LSA offers 12 prizes for scholarship awarded at their annual meeting, and the Ronald Pipkin Service Award was created to honor the 25 years of service of retiring Executive Officer Ron Pipkin. Scheppele previously won the Harry J. Kalven award in 2014 for “empirical scholarship that has contributed…
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News May 04, 2020
Armstrong Named Head of Butler College at Princeton
News April 29, 2020
Two Woodrow Wilson School Faculty Named to National Academy Sciences
Anne Case and Elke Weber, both based at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, have been named members of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.They are among 146 scientists, scholars and engineers elected this year in recognition of their contributions to their respective fields. They join Jennifer Rexford and Suzanne Staggs, who are also Princeton faculty members.Anne CaseCase, the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus, has written extensively on health over the life course. Case, who…
News April 20, 2020
Innovations for Successful Societies Helps U.N. With Covid-19 Response and Provides Insights from Ebola Outbreak
Innovations for Successful Societies (ISS), a research program at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is working with the United Nations Development Programme to help countries hone their Covid-19 response systems.The project brings together two strands of research: organizing cabinet offices for greater effectiveness and infectious disease response. Jennifer Widner, professor of politics and international affairs and director of ISS, notes that the program’s management cases on the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak include takeaways “all too relevant for our times.”These takeaways include the following,…
News April 17, 2020
Macrofinance Lab Receives National Science Foundation Funding
Funding from the National Science Foundation will support the work of a Macrofinance Lab at the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance (JRCPPF), which is based at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.The project will develop an open-source textbook and data-sharing platform to promote teaching and research about the linkages between finance, debt, and macro-level outcomes. The textbook will help disseminate new micro-empirical techniques and datasets, grounding each topic in a discussion of its theoretical foundations.The funding totals $388,000 and has been awarded to:Atif Mian, John H…
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News April 16, 2020
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News April 15, 2020
Zelizer Named Member of Biographers International Organization
Julian E. Zelizer was elected a member of the distinguished Biographers International Organization, a nonprofit organization that provides educational opportunities to biographers and promotes charitable activities in the field of biography.“It is a true honor to join this great organization and to become part of a community of writers who I admire so much. In a moment of crisis, it feels more urgent than ever to be writing about figures in the past who have shaped the world within which we live,” Zelizer said.Zelizer, the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of…
Kathryn Edin
News April 14, 2020
Universal Childhood Allowance Could Reduce Childhood Poverty, Edin Testifies
Today, about 15 million children in the United States live in families with incomes below the federal poverty threshold. This is why reducing childhood poverty is a top priority for some U.S. lawmakers, who are trying to identify the most effective ways to reverse course of this troubling trend. On March 3, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies convened a hearing to consider the best ways to reduce childhood poverty.Among those testifying was Kathryn Edin, William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and…
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News April 13, 2020
Amb. Crocker to Receive 2020 Sylvanus Thayer Award
Amb. Ryan C. Crocker will receive the 2020 Sylvanus Thayer Award presented by the West Point Association of Graduates. Crocker will receive his award on Oct. 1, 2020, at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York.Crocker is a visiting lecturer and diplomat in residence at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He served as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan (2011–2012), Iraq (2007–2009), Pakistan (2004–2007), Syria (1998–2001), Kuwait (1994– 1997), and Lebanon (1990–1993). He also is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.The West Point Association of Graduates presented the award to Crocker…
Alin Coman
News April 02, 2020
NSF RAPID Grant Awarded for Study of How Anxiety Affects the Spread of COVID-19 Information
News March 23, 2020
Lee Named 'Lightning Scholar' by Perry World House
Melissa M. Lee is being recognized as a “top-flight junior scholar” by the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House, which named her their Lightning Scholar for the 2020-2021 academic year.Lee, assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was selected for the impact her research is already having in both the academic and policy worlds. She will be in residence in Philadelphia for the academic year.“I’m honored to join an intellectual community dedicated to bringing rigorous scholarship to bear on today’s international challenges,” Lee said. “Perry…
Anne Case and Angus Deaton
News March 17, 2020
Video: “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism” by Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton
“Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism” is a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in U.S. capitalism have dire consequences for America’s working class. In this video, authors Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton discuss why capitalism is destroying blue-collar America, laying a large part of this at the door step of the U.S. health care system. They also chart a way forward, providing solutions that can rein in capitalism’s excesses.Their book was published March 17 by the Princeton University Press.This video was a collaborative effort of Princeton’s Office of Communications, the Princeton University Press, and the Woodrow Wilson School of…
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News March 10, 2020
COVID-19 FAQs
Princeton University is implementing a series of policies in response to COVID-19, commonly known as coronavirus. The University is enacting new policies and practices based on the concept of social distancing.The goal is to decrease the number of situations that require community members to gather in large groups and to minimize the time spent in close proximity with each other.When off campus, faculty, staff, and students are free to do as they wish, though they should keep health and safety in mind.Most answers to your questions can be found on Princeton’s COVID-19 website. Please use that site as your official source of information, as other…
News March 04, 2020
Writing Internship: Summer 2020
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is seeking an intern for its Office of Communications and Public Affairs. The intern will serve as an editorial assistant for the School’s annual report and will be responsible for writing news and feature articles, award briefs and social media posts for non-technical audiences, and assisting with outreach strategies. Some administrative duties and web-related tasks may be assigned on an as-needed basis.Responsibilities include but are not limited to:Assisting with the production of the School’s annual report, including gathering faculty awards, books and other data.Writing feature stories…
News March 03, 2020
LAPA Selects 2020 Liman Fellows