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September 15, 2023
Innovations for Successful Societies Creates Anticorruption Courses for Ukraine Civil Servants
As Ukraine rebuilds and rebounds after responding to Russia’s war, SPIA’s Innovations for Successful Societies (ISS) program has extended a helping hand to the European country. ISS director Jennifer Widner has been working alongside Oksana Nesterenko of National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’s Anticorruption Research and…
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September 13, 2023
JSI Program Nears 40 Years of Public Policy Possibilities
June and July usually mark a time of rest and relaxation in higher education, but for students looking to polish their public policy prowess, Princeton’s Junior Summer Institute (JSI) is the place to be. For nearly 40 years, Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) has hosted a Junior Summer Institute to…
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September 08, 2023
Very Cool — Wailoo’s Examination of Menthol Cigarette Advertising Wins Award
From 2008 to 2010, the Truth Initiative, America's largest nonprofit public health organization dedicated to the eradication of tobacco and nicotine use, estimated that almost 94% of young African American adults who smoked did so with menthol cigarettes. The trend is not new — menthol tobacco products have been marketed toward…
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Seema Jayachandran
News, Q&A
September 06, 2023
Whose CO2 is it Anyway? Seema Jayachandran’s Research Explores Alternate Mitigation Efforts
As CO2 emissions continue to climb globally, Seema Jayachandran, a professor of economics and public affairs and co-director of the Research Program in Development Economics, published research in the Journal of Economic Perspectives about alternate strategies for low- and middle-income countries to reduce climate change. In…
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Tam Rovitto
Community Profile
August 29, 2023
#PolicyProfile: Tam Rovitto, Associate Director of Graduate Student Life
“Growing up, my parents instilled this message of giving back and helping others as much as possible. I think @PrincetonSPIA helped me look at that from the public servant side, and I realized that's what I’ve been doing as a clinician, a therapist, and a social worker, just supporting and helping other people.
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Gregory B. Jaczko
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August 18, 2023
A Change in Leadership for SINSI
It has been a summer of transition for SPIA’s prestigious Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative. After seven influential years as co-directors, Kathryn Lunney and Frederick Barton retired at the end of July. Last month, Dean Amaney Jamal named Gregory B. Jaczko the program’s new director. “Greg’s longtime engagement in…
Gregory B. Jaczko
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August 18, 2023
Jonathan Mayer, Technology Policy Expert, Wins NSF CAREER Award
Jonathan Mayer, an expert in technology policy, has received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, a top honor for early-career faculty. The NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead…
Kate Furda
Community Profile
August 18, 2023
#PolicyProfile: Kate Furda, Financial Reporting Analyst
“After I graduated with my master’s from @rider_university, I worked as a ghostwriter with an adjunct professor who was writing a book on leadership. That was on the tail end of the financial downturn, and because I was in the unique position of working at Merrill Lynch, I was able to add a lot of my own experience.
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Jonathan Mummolo
News
August 17, 2023
SPIA Researcher’s Analysis Plays Important Role in Lawsuit Victory
Research conducted by a School of Public and International Affairs faculty member was cited extensively in a federal judge’s ruling that the Kansas Highway Patrol acted unconstitutionally in stopping out-of-state drivers to search their cars for illegal drugs. Jonathan Mummolo, an associate professor of politics and public…
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News, Q&A
August 15, 2023
SPIA Reacts: Afghanistan Under Two Years of Taliban Rule
August 15, 2023, marks a grim two-year anniversary: that of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. Adela Raz, director of SPIA’s Afghanistan Policy Lab, marks the anniversary below. The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 marked one of the most agonizing moments of the 21st century for Afghan women and girls. Upon…
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