Pillars with light green background

News

Stay up-to-date on faculty research, policy engagement, student activities, and more.
Stay InformedMedia Contacts

Filter News

Displaying results 311 - 320 of 416
News
July 06, 2015
News Clips: Week of July 6 – 12
The following is a compilation of media clips in which WWS faculty members have been mentioned, cited or quoted. This list is updated weekly. If an item is missing, please email extaff@princeton.edu, and we will add it promptly. Julian Zelizer: Presidents & PrecedentsNew Jersey Monthly (interview with Julian Zelizer) Julian…
News
July 06, 2015
News Clips: Week of June 29 – July 5
The following is a compilation of media clips in which WWS faculty members have been mentioned, cited or quoted. This list is updated weekly. If an item is missing, please email extaff@princeton.edu, and we will add it promptly. How Christie's speech set him apart from 2016 rivalsNJ.com (quotes Julian Zelizer) On Obamacare…
Features
July 02, 2015
From Crisis to Progress
Half of the 220,000 people killed in the Syrian civil war have been civilians. Untargeted barrel bombings have crumbled cities and diminished basic resources like food and water. Many children have been out of school for four years. Those who have survived the attacks suffer with injuries and have no access to medical care…
News
June 29, 2015
Wilson School Mourns the Loss of Clementa Pinckney
Message from Dean Cecilia Rouse: We at the Woodrow Wilson School were deeply saddened to learn that Clementa Pinckney was murdered in a horrific hate crime at his church, the Mother Emanuel A.M.E. in Charleston, South Carolina. A senior pastor at Mother Emanuel and a member of the South Carolina Senate, he had been conducting…
Features
June 29, 2015
WWS Reacts: Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage Nationwide
On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is a legal right across the country, a historic moment in the court's 226-year history. The 5-4 vote means the 14 states banning same-sex marriage can no longer enforce these bans. Justice Anthony Kennedy was the central swing vote in the case and wrote the…
Features
June 25, 2015
WWS Reacts: Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act Subsidies
On June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, keeping health insurance coverage within reach for millions of Americans. The case, King v. Burwell, concerns language found in section 36B of the Internal Revenue Code, stating that ACA subsidies should be available to individuals on…
Features
June 25, 2015
Who's Who at the Woo: Graduate Admissions Office
Every fall, applicants to Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School graduate programs make final edits to their policy memos, double-check GRE score submissions and update their résumés. They click “submit,” and the months-long wait begins. Surrounded by stacks of reference letters, transcripts and personal essays, Associate Dean for…
Features
June 25, 2015
USG President Ella Cheng ’16 Finds Success Outside the Comfort Zone
Rising senior Ella Cheng ’16 made a splash last fall when she was elected Princeton University’s first woman president of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) since 2003. But since taking office this past February, Cheng, a major in the Woodrow Wilson School, has made a greater name for herself through her campus-wide…
News
June 24, 2015
Keohanes Receive Honorary Doctor of Letters Degrees from University of St. Andrews
Professors Robert O. Keohane and Nannerl O. Keohane were awarded honorary doctor of letters degrees by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on June 23, 2015. Robert is a professor of international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, former president of the American Political Science…
June 24, 2015
Q&A: Macedo Looks Ahead to the Future of Marriage
The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the right of same-sex couples to marry, even as people on both ends of the political spectrum have cast doubt on the future of marriage as an institution.Some on the right worry same-sex marriage is a slippery slope toward polygamy and the dissolution of marriage as we know it. On…