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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 and Asian American community. Throughout the year, we have elevated the voices of faculty, staff, students and researchers in a series of thoughtful interviews exploring questions…

Janet Currie, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Co-director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing, has recently been elected president of the American Economic Association (AEA). She will serve as president-elect in 2023 and as president in 2024. Established in 1885, the AEA is…

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, engaged in career discussions, and enjoyed networking opportunities. The event opened the eyes of some students. “Prior to UN Day, the idea of working at the United Nations was…

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 – and victim to – coastal tourism at a regional scale, underscoring tradeoffs and opportunities between the environment and economy in Hawaii and beyond. Coral reefs are vibrant…

Late last December, the Taliban announced plans to ban women from attending universities and girls from attending schools in Afghanistan, one of the most dramatic rollbacks of civil liberties since the militant group seized power in Afghanistan following the U.S.’s withdrawal in 2021. Clearly, this decision will have an immense…

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 “living inside our history books,” as one of his colleagues put it. Media outlets and the public suddenly became very interested in finding out what pandemics of the past could…