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SPIAction Newsletter — May 2025

Dear Princeton SPIA community,As the spring semester draws to a close, I am grateful to everyone at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs for helping make the last few months such a success. There was much to be proud of, but I want to highlight two efforts that were particularly meaningful for the School…

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Wei Peng

News, Research Briefs

Research Record: Comprehensive Energy Actions Can Improve Health Outcomes in the U.S.

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.”

Wei Peng

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SPIAccolades — May 2025

SPIA in New Jersey Faculty Fellow Joe Krakora ’76 will receive the Charles J. Hollenbeck Award from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law at a ceremony on June 12. The award recognizes members of New Jersey’s legal community who have demonstrated the highest standards of professionalism in practice. At…

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Princeton SPIA Pioneer Reflects on 50 Years of Anti-Nuclear Efforts

At 87, Frank von Hippel — the first natural scientist to be hired by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs more than 40 years ago — has written down his life story.“Ending the Nuclear Arms Race: A Physicist’s Quest” explains how von Hippel, a third-generation physicist and the first in his family to be born…

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Seventy-Five Years in the Making: Princeton SPIA MPA Alumni Reflect on Their Professional Achievements

Princeton University’s 278th Commencement will mark a special anniversary for the graduates of Princeton SPIA’s Master in Public Affairs (MPA) program. The 2023-2024 cohort of the two-year program will cross the stage as members of the 75th anniversary graduating class, harkening back to the program’s origins in 1948.For three…

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Barbara Buckinx and Amelia Frank-Vitale

News, Research Briefs

Research Record: What Does It Mean to Be in Solidarity with Migrants?

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.”

Barbara Buckinx and Amelia Frank-Vitale

Elena Ayala-Hurtado

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Research Record: Navigating the Tension Between Social Capital and Meritocracy in the Job Search

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.”

Elena Ayala-Hurtado

Austin Edwards, MPP ’23

Community Profile, Policy Profile, News

#PolicyProfile: Austin Edwards, MPP ’23

“After Princeton SPIA, I joined SandSJ NJ as a senior policy counsel. SandSJ is a Black-faith-rooted organization that works to liberate the Black community throughout New Jersey and transform public policy to uplift people throughout the state. We’re currently working to build a birthing center in Trenton and a few other…

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SPIA in New Jersey Faculty Fellow Joe Krakora (right) speaks with a student volunteer with the Clemency Project. Photo credit: Anastasia Mann

SPIA in New Jersey Lends a Hand to New Jersey Clemency Initiative

Before New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order last June to increase petitions for clemency and expedite the clemency process, his staff reached out to Princeton School of Public and International Affairs faculty member Heather Howard, special advisor to the School’s SPIA in New Jersey initiative.“Essentially,…

SPIA in New Jersey Faculty Fellow Joe Krakora (right) speaks with a student volunteer with the Clemency Project. Photo credit: Anastasia Mann

SPIA students at Newark Immigration Court

Asylum Lessons Come Alive in Student Court Visit

At dawn on a windy March day, 17 bleary-eyed undergraduates gathered at the campus Wawa to board a bus to Newark. Fueled by cups of coffee and ample pre-reading, the students in Amelia Frank-Vitale’s course “Asylum: Policy, Politics, and Practice” were heading to federal immigration court for an up-close understanding of how…

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