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National Endowment for Democracy Announces Appointment of New Board Members

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) announced today that Representative Joaquin Castro, Congressman for the 20th District of Texas; Amaney A…

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SPIA Reacts: What Policymakers Can Do Now to Drive Meaningful Change Following the Police Killing of Tyre Nichols

Following the killing of Tyre Nichols, many across the country are again asking themselves ‘why’? Why do these incidents continue to happen? Despite…

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CMS Updates Its Budget Neutrality Policy

States seeking to innovate in Medicaid may need programmatic flexibility and federal funding that goes beyond what would ordinarily be permitted…

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UK Substantially Underestimates Its Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Production — And Many Other Countries Probably Do Too

A newer, more accurate method for calculating methane emissions from offshore oil and gas production suggests that the United Kingdom severely…

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$2.6 Million NIH Grant Awarded to SPIA Professor to Research the Impact of Migration Trends on Life Expectancy

Arun Hendi, an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, was recently awarded…

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‘Chinese, American, Argentinian, Jewish: I’m Proud To Be All of Them at Once.’ Our Year of the Tiger Series Concludes With Ella Gantman.

The Year of the Tiger that launched with the Lunar New Year on Feb. 1, 2022, has been a moment of pride and reflection for Princeton’s vibrant Asian…

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Janet Currie Elected President of American Economic Association

Janet Currie, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Co-director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing,…

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Social Media and Aerial Mapping of Sea Floor Reveal That Tourists Love Hawaiian Coral Reefs Just a Little Too Much

A new analysis combining web-scraped social media data and high-resolution reef mapping in Hawaii shows that live coral cover is both a driver of –…

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SPIA Reacts: Implications of the Taliban's Decision to Ban Women and Girls From Attending School in Afghanistan

Late last December, the Taliban announced plans to ban women from attending universities and girls from attending schools in Afghanistan, one of the…

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Class Close-up: Looking to Pandemics Past to Plan the Future

When the COVID-19 pandemic began to rattle the globe, Professor Keith Wailoo, a historian of medicine, disease, and health care, felt as if we were …

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Two Rhode Island Coastal Flood Defense Projects Provide Lessons for Making Future Infrastructure Projects More Successful

More than ten years have passed since Hurricane Sandy exposed New York City to devastating coastal flooding. Several cost-effective flood…

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Bridging the Divide: Two Newly Hired Professors Bring Expertise in Development Economics to Solving Global Challenges

Pascaline Dupas’ first job in research was, in her words, “at the very bottom of the pecking order.” She’d traveled to Kenya to work for a year as a…

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Princeton Students Named Scholars in the Nation’s Service

Sixteen students at Princeton University have been selected to join the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI), which funds graduate…

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Germany Foiled a Far-Right Coup Attempt. It Still Has a Right-Wing Problem.

The German government hasn’t taken its increasing right-wing extremism as seriously as left-wing extremism. That’s been true for decades, our…

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Princeton Senior Abdelhamid Arbab Wins Marshall Scholarship for Graduate Study in UK

Princeton senior Abdelhamid (Hamid) Arbab has been named a 2023 Marshall Scholar to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom. The…