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News October 22, 2024
CSDP Helps Democracy Flourish Across the Aisle
As America has reflected in recent years on the strength of our democracy in an era of hyperpartisanship, a former deputy chief of staff to Donald Trump and a former chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi have both visited Princeton’s campus at the invitation of the University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) to share their insights and aspirations for government as it’s practiced in the nation’s halls of powers.Inviting such ideologically diverse perspectives is one of the hallmarks of the influential center, where scholars and practitioners from across the political spectrum find common ground in their shared commitment to strengthening…
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News October 21, 2024
EXCERPT: Ben Bradlow’s New Book Offers Insight into Urban Governance in Big Cities
Why are some cities more successful than others in reducing inequalities in areas such as housing, sanitation, and transportation? Ben Bradlow, assistant professor of sociology and international affairs, explores this topic in his debut book, “Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg” (Princeton University Press).“My family lives in Johannesburg, and I had spent about five years working in South Africa as a journalist and researcher on urban development issues,” Bradlow said. “When I started this book as a doctoral student, I knew I wanted to compare Johannesburg to somewhere. I discovered that São Paulo — another highly…
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News October 16, 2024
Funding Available for Innovative Education Projects and Programs
A fund offered through the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs will support creative, interdisciplinary research projects addressing important issues in education.Now in its seventh year, Overdeck Education Innovation Fund will award grants of up to $10,000 for multiple innovative faculty and student research projects. Priority will be given to proposals that are cross-disciplinary as well as those that align with the following focus areas:Early Impact:with the goal of increasing the likelihood that all children enter kindergarten “ready to learn” and experience early school success.Exceptional Educators: with the goal of increasing…
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News October 15, 2024
Princeton SPIA Scholars Honored with Prestigious APS Awards
The American Physical Society has recognized two scholars at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA) for their contributions to the field of physics. Alex Glaser, an associate professor at Princeton SPIA and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Co-Director of the Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), has won the 2025 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award. Sébastien Philippe, a research scholar with SGS, received the 2025 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award.
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News October 14, 2024
Research Record: Diversifying Heat Sources in China’s Urban District Heating Systems Will Reduce Risk of Carbon Lock-In
Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”
SPIAction Newsletter
News October 10, 2024
SPIAction Newsletter
Dear Princeton SPIA community,Our School prides itself on being a place that welcomes a variety of viewpoints on the world’s most challenging issues. We regularly convene gatherings to give our students the chance to hear from leaders and policymakers from across the political spectrum. Importantly, these discussions are civil. Even when speakers disagree, they do so in an atmosphere of mutual respect. Already this semester, we have brought to SPIA numerous guests whose diverse backgrounds have allowed students to gain new perspectives. These included H.E. Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency; H.E. Dr…
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News October 10, 2024
SPIAccolades — October 2024
Pascaline Dupas spoke at Science Summit 2024 in New York City on Sept. 23. She presented on how water research and innovation can enable universal access to clean drinking water and dignified sanitation for all.Dupas is a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton SPIA and co-chair of the School’s Research Program in Development Economics, an initiative that aims to improve the lives of people living in low- and middle-income countries. Layna Mosley…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…