How do well-intentioned board oversight mechanisms systematically undermine nonprofit effectiveness, and what can be done to address these failures?The US nonprofit sector forms the backbone of American civil society, yet its governance structures are fundamentally broken, creating a crisis that threatens the very missions…
The CHIPS and Science Act has catalyzed more than $500 billion in planned semiconductor investment, with its design and implementation spanning three presidential administrations. In this seminar, Mike Schmidt — founding Director of the CHIPS Program Office — shares lessons from inside the process: how industrial policy is…
The Justice John Marshall Harlan Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication presents Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson in conversation with Deborah Pearlstein, Director of Princeton Program on Law & Public Policy, Charles & Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Law & Public Affairs…
Best-selling author, prize-winning journalist and New York Times corresponding opinion writer Michael Grunwald will discuss how to feed the world without frying it and how to fill nearly 10 billion bellies by 2050 without tearing down an acre of rainforest every six seconds. Telling the stories and lessons from his rollicking…
During past decades, genomics and metagenomics have developed very fast, and are widely applied to non-model species especially wild animals to provide new insights to properly conserve the wildlife. The giant panda is not only the symbol of the world biodiversity conservation, but also a model to address questions of the…
On June 3, 2025, the Gulf Research Center (GRC) and the Afghanistan Policy Lab at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs co-hosted a closed-door webinar titled “Rethinking Afghanistan-Gulf Relations in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape.” The session brought together experts and policymakers to examine…
