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FFCWS Receives Two New Grants to Continue in Young Adulthood and Third Generation
News October 09, 2024
FFCWS Receives Two New Grants to Continue in Young Adulthood and Third Generation
The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) leadership are thrilled to announce FFCWS has received two grants through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) which will enable data collection with our focal children around the time of their 27th birthdays as well as data collection on child wellbeing and development in our study’s third generation!FFCWS is a birth cohort study following a stratified, multistage, probability sample of children born in large US cities between 1998 and 2000. As such, it is the longest-running birth cohort study in the US based on a national probability…
Jesse Jenkins
News October 07, 2024
Jesse Jenkins Named to the TIME100 Next List
Energy systems modeler Jesse Jenkins was named to the TIME100 Next list as a rising leader working to shape a better future for the planet.Jenkins, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, was recognized for his pivotal role in guiding, shaping, and evaluating the clean energy transition through his efforts to inform climate and energy policy in the United States. He is also an affiliated faculty with the Center for Policy Research in Energy and Environment at the School of Public and International Affairs and an associated faculty at the High Meadows Environmental Institute…
Heather Howard interviewing NJ's first lady, Tammy Murphy, for Princeton Pulse
News October 04, 2024
The Princeton Pulse Podcast Spreads SPIA Research to 65 Countries
It was a stroke of luck that Aimee Bronfeld decided to be very early to her first day on the job five years ago. As project specialist for the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA), she produces one of the University’s most successful podcasts, and it all began that morning when she bumped into Heather Howard.“She was the first person I ran into, and the very first thing she asked was, ‘You know anything about podcasting?’” Bronfeld recalls. Bronfeld had never produced one, but no matter. As she put it, “Heather’s enthusiasm was contagious.”Howard, a professor of the practice…
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News October 03, 2024
Study Links Hurricanes to Higher Death Rates Long after Storms Pass
Summary: U.S. tropical cyclones including hurricanes indirectly cause thousands of deaths for nearly 15 years after the storm. Understanding why could help minimize future deaths from hazards fueled by climate change.New research reveals hurricanes and tropical storms in the United States cause a surge of deaths for nearly 15 years after a storm hits.Official government statistics record only the number of individuals killed during these storms, which are together called “tropical cyclones.” Usually these direct deaths, which average 24 per storm in official estimates, occur through drowning or some other type of trauma. But the new study, led by…
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News October 03, 2024
Princeton SPIA Professor Leads Analysis of Federal Tool to Address Environmental Injustice
Eric Tate co-chaired a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that evaluated a tool used for environmental policy investments at a scale never previously attempted at the federal level.When President Biden signed Executive Order 14008 in 2021, dedicated to tackling the climate crisis and advancing environmental justice, he created the Justice40 Initiative. As part of the largest-ever federal effort to ensure public access to healthy environments, Biden pledged that 40% of the overall benefits from the initiative’s $62 billion investment in climate change mitigation, clean energy and transit, environmental hazard…
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News September 26, 2024
From Diplomacy to Humanitarian Aid: Princeton SPIA Engages at the 79th UNGA
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA) hosted multiple events adjacent to the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this month, creating opportunities for students, alumni, and faculty members to engage with U.N. representatives on a variety of pressing global policy challenges.More than 150 alumni, U.N. representatives, and community members attended a reception hosted by the School on Sep. 18. Faculty members addressed the crowd to share ways that Princeton SPIA is helping advance the global goals outlined in the 2030 Agenda as it relates to peace, prosperity, people, planet, and…
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News September 25, 2024
SPIAccolades — September 2024
Jonathan Mummolo, associate professor of politics and public affairs, was part of a team that won the Society for Political Methodology’s Best Statistical Software Award. The honor recognizes individuals for developing statistical software that makes a significant research contribution. Interflex, developed by Mummolo, Jens Hainmueller, Jiehan Liu, Licheng Liu, Ziyi Liu, Tianzhu Qin, and Yiqing Xu, helps researchers flexibly test conditional hypotheses.“Social science research is replete with conditional hypotheses: We often believe that one variable…
Robertson Hall
News September 24, 2024
Princeton SPIA Promotes Two, Strengthening D&I and Student Life Programs
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs has promoted two key administrators and restructured diversity and inclusion initiatives to enhance school-wide priorities including student affairs. Tam Le Rovitto was named Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and Student Affairs; she had been serving as Director of Graduate Student Life. Ariel Matos, who had been Associate Director for Diversity and Inclusion programs, is now Director of Diversity and Inclusion. Both moves are effective immediately.“These are integral positions within the School,” said SPIA Dean Amaney Jamal. “We are deeply committed to creating an…
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News September 24, 2024
EXCERPT: Princeton SPIA AI Experts Separate Hype from Substance in New Book
Artificial intelligence – the ubiquitous AI that seems to be everywhere, all the time – has both captivated and frightened the world. Making sense of one of the most hyped phenomena in recent memory is no small task. Who better to help than two members of Time magazine’s most 100 influential people in AI?In their new book “AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference” (Princeton University Press), Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor offer commonsense advice on how to tell good AI from junk AI.
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News September 23, 2024
Princeton SPIA and LISD Students Take “intellectual adventure” on Global Research Trip
Before returning to campus for the fall semester, 12 students had the unique opportunity to travel to Liechtenstein, Austria, and Germany to present original research on democracy and security. The trip was initiated, arranged for, and led by Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, founding director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, and organized by Lauren Schwartz, professional specialist, and Nikki Woolward, manager, global initiatives, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.The delegation included two graduate students in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and 10 undergraduate students who have…
Notes on a Native Son
News September 20, 2024
SPIA’s Razia Iqbal to Host New Podcast Celebrating James Baldwin
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs is partnering with WNYC Studios on a new podcast celebrating the author James Baldwin on the centennial of his birth. Notes on a Native Son launches September 21 and is hosted by Razia Iqbal, a longtime BBC journalist and the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor and Lecturer at Princeton SPIA. The six-episode series is produced in partnership with WNYC’s “Notes From America With Kai Wright” and will feature public figures reflecting on Baldwin’s work.“Encountering the work of James Baldwin when I was a teenager, growing up in London in the 1970s,…
Janet Currie
News September 19, 2024
Princeton SPIA’s Janet Currie Recognized as Citation Laureate
Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and the Co-Director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), has been honored as a 2024 Clarivate Citation Laureate by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). The award, based on the levels of citations of Currie’s work in trusted journals, recognizes researchers whose contributions are considered “Nobel class.”Currie is among 22 distinguished scholars from around the globe to receive this accolade. The selection process relies on extensive publication and citation data to pinpoint…
Close Encounters: Facing the Bomb in a New Nuclear Age exhibit, photo of missile in a spiral heading toward ocean water
News September 17, 2024
SGS Marks 50th Anniversary With Immersive Exhibit on Nuclear Weapons
The generations of Americans who remember fallout shelters and “duck and cover” air raid drills is rapidly aging, and the threat of nuclear warfare — while as urgent as ever, if not more so — is a distant concern for most young adults today.To make that threat real for younger generations, artist Smriti Keshari and filmmaker Eric Schlosser ’81 teamed up to produce an immersive multimedia installation titled the bomb. It will debut on its international university tour as part of the exhibit “Close Encounters: Facing the Bomb in a New Nuclear Age,” on display at the Bernstein Gallery at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA)…
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News September 17, 2024
Just How Influential Are Foreign Governments’ Social Influence Campaigns?
These days, it’s all too common to see a front-page story about a foreign government’s influence operation — secret attempts to sway the opinions of another country’s citizens through social media campaigns, paid advertising, hacking, direct emails, or SMS text messaging.In August, the FBI confirmed that the Iranian government was behind a hacking scheme to breach and subsequently leak confidential information about both the Trump and Harris presidential campaigns. Last week, the FBI reported that the operation is likely ongoing.These attempts to infiltrate and influence the American public are nothing new, though.In fact, Jacob Shapiro, a professor…
the bomb exhibit
News September 16, 2024
Princeton SPIA First Stop on International Tour of a Provocative Exhibit on Nuclear Weapons: the bomb
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) is proud to announce it will be the first university stop for the groundbreaking installation the bomb, which will be showcased at SPIA’s Bernstein Gallery from September 19 to October 25, 2024, as part of the exhibit “Close Encounters: Facing the Bomb in a New Nuclear Age.” The exhibit is a centerpiece of SPIA's celebration of the 50th anniversary of its renowned Science and Global Security (SGS) program, a leading voice in disarmament science and policy research."We are immensely proud of the Science and Global Security program’s 50 years of expertise and leadership in nuclear…