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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…
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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…
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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…
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June 24, 2015
News Clips: Week of June 22 – 28
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. Hawaii health officials, pols applaud high court's decision on ObamacareStar Advertiser (quotes…
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June 18, 2015
News Clips: Week of June 14 – 21
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. Why are so many running for president?CNN (by Julian Zelizer) Princeton and Other Elite Colleges…
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June 18, 2015
News Clips: Week of June 8 – 14
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. Study: Juvenile incarceration yields less schooling, more crimeMIT News (quotes Janet Currie) Mafia…
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June 18, 2015
After the Deal: Partnerships with Iran Could Reduce Long-Term Nuclear Risks
Within the next two weeks, or soon after, the United States and five world powers hope to finalize a nuclear deal with Iran to limit its nuclear activities in exchange for a relaxing of international economic and financial sanctions. But what happens in 10 years when some of the key restrictions being discussed begin to phase…
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June 17, 2015
WWS Reacts: Who is Most Affected by the Texas Abortion Law?
UPDATE: As of June 29, the Supreme Court is refusing to allow Texas to enforce these restrictions. The order will likely remain in effect until fall 2015, when the court will decide whether to hear an emergency appeal from the clincs of the lower court ruling. Last week, a federal court upheld provisions from a 2013 Texas…
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June 16, 2015
WWS Reacts: How to Fight MERS
Since mid-May, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has infected 150 and killed 16 people in South Korea. Now, after months of quarantine, hundreds in the region are being released. We discussed the threat of MERS with Laura Kahn, a research scholar at the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University's…