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News February 26, 2020
Princeton Researchers Awarded Funding for Innovative Education Research Projects
Several researchers based at Princeton University will receive funding to work on innovative, cross-disciplinary education research projects over the next two years.Nearly $300,000 was awarded by the Overdeck Education Innovation Fund to Mingyu Chen, Edward Felten, Jennifer Jennings, Adam Kapor, Christopher Neilson, and Olga Russakovsky.The Overdeck Innovation Fund was created by the Overdeck Family Foundation, which donated more than $1 million to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs to support creative research projects and programs addressing important issues in education.Funds will be distributed for the projects below. …
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News February 14, 2020
Woodrow Wilson School Stands “In Service to the Nation and Humanity”
Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (WWS) has unveiled a mission statement designed to convey the School’s purpose, values, and ethos. Written collaboratively by the WWS faculty, the statement is the culmination of a months-long discovery process. WWS faculty, administrative leadership, students, alumni, and some University Trustees were invited to share thoughts through focus groups and a formal survey, with the submissions formulating the statement’s themes. The mission statement serves as the guiding force behind a redesign of the Woodrow Wilson School’s website, to be unveiled later this year. “I want…
Owen Zidar. (Photo Credit: Dan Komoda)
News February 12, 2020
Zidar Named 2020 Sloan Research Fellow
Owen Zidar was among the 126 researchers from more than 60 research institutions in the United States and Canada named as 2020 Sloan Research Fellows. He joins Aleksandr Logunov, S. Matthew Weinberg, also of Princeton.Sloan Research Fellowships are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early career researchers, often seen as a marker of the quality of an institution’s science faculty and proof of an institution’s success in attracting the most promising junior researchers to its ranks. Since the first Sloan Research Fellowships were awarded in 1955, 229 faculty from Princeton University have received a Sloan Research…
News February 07, 2020
Eleven Princeton Students Named Scholars in the Nation's Service
Eleven students at Princeton University have been selected to join the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI), which funds graduate fellowships and undergraduate internships within the U.S. federal government.Established in 2006, SINSI encourages, supports, and prepares high-achieving students to pursue careers in both internationally and domestically focused federal agencies. The initiative aims to provide students with the professional skills needed to succeed in the public policy arena.Four students were selected for the SINSI graduate program, which comprises a two-year Master in Public Affairs with a full scholarship for tuition and…
News January 09, 2020
Modernizing Congress: Task Force Suggests Innovative Recommendations
Concerns about the state of Congress have sparked a number of reform efforts. Among these was the creation of a new Congressional committee: the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.To contribute to this effort, the American Political Science Association created the Task Force Project on Congressional Reform, which was co-chaired by Frances E. Lee, professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, and Eric Schickler, the Jeffrey and Ashley McDermott Endowed Chair at University of California, Berkeley.The goal of the task force was to draw on the collective knowledge of 30 Congressional experts from universities across the…
News January 07, 2020
Grant Awarded to Program on Science and Global Security to Advance Nuclear Arms Control
A $600,000 grant was awarded to Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for work on reducing nuclear risks through research, policy engagement, and training.The new grant will support SGS activities aiming to provide technical and policy analysis to reduce the risks from nuclear weapons and materials, respond to the rapid erosion of nuclear arms control, and address emerging technologies that could reshape the futures of both war and arms control.SGS is based at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is home to Science & Global Security, the…
News December 04, 2019
Nathan Levit ’20 Named Schwarzman Scholar
Ananya Agustin Malhotra. Photo credit: Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy.
News November 25, 2019
Ananya Agustin Malhotra '20 Awarded Rhodes Scholarship
News October 31, 2019
Journal led by Fiske Named PROSE Award Finalist
A social sciences journal founded and edited by Professor Susan Fiske was named a finalist for a PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers (PSP).Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS) was nominated for the Best New Journal in Social Sciences. Published by SAGE with the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Science, the journal presents research and scientific reviews relevant to public policy.Fiske, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at the Wilson School, founded the journal in 2014 and is the current editor. Her research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or…
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News September 16, 2019
Funding Available for Innovative Education Projects and Programs
A fund offered through Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs will support creative, interdisciplinary research projects, and programs addressing important issues in education.In the second year of this award, the Overdeck Education Innovation Fund will award up to $350,000 for multiple faculty and student research projects and/or programs on education. Priority will be given to proposals that are cross-disciplinary.For the 2019-20 academic year, two levels of grant support are available: Grants of $5,000 or less, and grants above $5,000.Preference also will be given to proposals that align with one or more of…
News August 07, 2019
Lee Receives 2019 Inaugural Emerging Scholars Global Policy Prize
The Perry World House’s Inaugural Emerging Scholars Global Policy Prize 2019 recipient is Melissa M. Lee, assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.Under the theme, “The Future of the Global Order: Power, Technology, and Governance,” Lee’s original essay, “Subversive Statecraft: The New Face of Great Power Conflict,” was chosen for its academic research in global policy studies and its aim to influence policy debates.The essay focuses on foreign subversion, when a country seeks to advance its own foreign policy interests by keeping neighboring countries…
Steven Petric
News August 02, 2019
Steven Petric MPP ’17 Named Woodrow Wilson School’s Director of Graduate Admissions
Steven Petric has been named director of graduate admissions at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, effective July 15. A proud Wisconsin native and an alumnus of the School’s mid-career program, Petric’s wide-ranging work in public and international affairs has prepared him to identify graduate students who will excel in public service. He joined the School’s administration in November 2017 and since October 2018 has served as associate director of graduate admissions and director of global partnerships and outreach. Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, Cecilia Elena Rouse, is excited for Petric to make…
News July 17, 2019
Case, Deaton Named 2019 World's Top 50 Thinkers by Prospect Magazine
Professors Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton are recognized as Prospect magazine’s 2019 “World’s Top 50 Thinkers.”As the only double-headed entry, Case and Deaton received this award for their work in U.S. mortality data. Case and Deaton’s landmark 2015 study was the first to detect the rise in mortality rates from “deaths of despair” — drugs, alcohol, and suicide — among middle-aged white Americans.Deaton is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, and professor of economics and international affairs, emeritus, at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Now a senior scholar at Princeton,…
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News July 09, 2019
Summer Program at Princeton for Native American High School Students Explores Issues, Policy, Community
Looking at a photograph of a single plant surrounded by towering weeds, 14 Native American high school students from New Mexico discussed the parallels between nurturing and maintaining crops and strengthening their own communities. Together, the students brainstormed ways to remove barriers affecting their communities such as substance abuse, obesity and lack of cultural education.“For our children to have successful lives, you have to remove the barriers, like removing weeds,” said Tonesha Coriz of the Santo Domingo Pueblo. “This starts with education — not only in the Western world, but also in the Native American world.”Coriz is one of several…
News June 26, 2019
Deaton, Hemon named 'Great Immigrants' for contributions to American society
Princeton faculty members Sir Angus Deaton and Aleksandar Hemon have been named “Great Immigrants” by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.They are among 38 naturalized U.S. citizens from 35 countries of origin celebrated for their contributions to American society. The honorees are recognized for strengthening the U.S. economy, enriching culture and communities, and invigorating democracy.Deaton, from Scotland, is winner of the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Carnegie Corporations cites that his work “offers insights into poverty and health issues, including rising mortality rates among middle-aged white Americans due to drugs,…