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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…

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Opinion: Does Diversity Training Work? We Don’t Know — and Here is Why

In early June 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests flowered across the United States following the murder of George Floyd, businesses and other…

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'It’s About Surviving. It’s About Continuing Our Work.'

Huddled with her mother beneath old blankets and broken furniture in a basement in Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, under siege by Russian troops and…

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Europe’s Proposed Climate Plan Will Outsource Deforestation and Harm Biodiversity

Europe’s “Fit for 55” climate plan, through its bioenergy rules, outsources deforestation and sacrifices Europe’s opportunity for a beneficial land…

Sophie Meunier

The End of Naivety: Assertiveness and New Instruments in EU Trade and Investment Policy

For decades the European Union (EU) was a pillar of free trade liberalisation in the world. It pursued a liberal free trade agenda predicated on…

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SPIA Students Explore the World’s Climate Challenges at COP27

Recognizing the importance of introducing the next generation to some of the world’s most important policy conversations, the Princeton School of…

Susan Baek

‘It’s almost impossible to perceive me as what I fully constitute.’ Our Year of the Tiger Series Continues.

The Year of the Tiger that launched with this Lunar New Year is a moment of pride and reflection for Princeton’s vibrant Asian and Asian American…

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Princeton Researchers Tackle Infectious Disease, Climate, and the Link Between the Two

As experienced in the recent COVID pandemic, the outbreak and rapid spread of infectious disease has potential to dramatically impact human morality,…

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Michael Oppenheimer Writes Chapter in Greta Thunberg’s New Book

Princeton climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer first came to the attention of climate activist Greta Thunberg in 2019, the year of the children’s…

SPIA Reacts: Insights on the Implications of the U.S. Midterm Elections

There’s still much to unpack about what Election Day and the campaigns that preceded it mean for the U.S. election process, continued attempts to…

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SGS Brings Impactful Conversations on Physics, Nuclear Weapons to Princeton’s Campus

Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the threats posed by nuclear weapons are as relevant as ever. Since 2020, the Princeton School on…