Newsroom Breadcrumb Home News & Events Newsroom All News Research Newsmakers SPIA Reacts Community Profiles Search Feb 02, 2023 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;… Feb 02, 2023 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… Jan 26, 2023 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… Jan 26, 2023 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… Jan 20, 2023 #PolicyProfile: Samuel Lyman MPP ’23 “I grew up watching ‘The West Wing,’ where Rob Lowe plays a White House speechwriter named Sam Seaborn. His character is what first piqued my… Jan 13, 2023 #PolicyProfile: Nicholas Lim ’24 “I’m originally from Hong Kong, and that’s where I was during the COVID-19 pandemic. I became really interested in the social dynamics of the… Jan 13, 2023 $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… Jan 11, 2023 ‘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… Jan 11, 2023 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,… Jan 11, 2023 UN Day Opens New Doors, Career Paths for Many SPIA Students A record 63 SPIA graduate students met with United Nations staff and SPIA alumni during UN Day, held in December, when they attended moderated panels… Jan 09, 2023 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 –… Jan 09, 2023 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… Jan 06, 2023 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 … Dec 21, 2022 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… Dec 19, 2022 Dean's Dialogue: COP27 - Students and Faculty Discuss Climate Policy Recently, a group of our Princeton students and faculty traveled to Sharm El Sheik, Egypt for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate… Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 23 Page 24 Current page 25 Page 26 Page 27 … Next page Next › Last page Last » Share Your News! Do you have news to submit? Please fill out a brief form. The Communications team will be in touch shortly to share how we plan to elevate your news. Questions? Email spianews@princeton.edu. News Form