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Noreen Goldman

News, Research Briefs

The Latino Health Experience: Past and Future

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.”

Noreen Goldman

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Outside the Classroom, Princeton SPIA Faculty Contribute to a Stronger New Jersey

When the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs launched its SPIA in New Jersey initiative in 2023, Dean Amaney Jamal said she was proud “to launch a research-based program that seeks to advance the wellbeing of my fellow Garden State residents.”Princeton SPIA faculty have taken that charge to heart, participating…

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Zia Mian

News, Research Briefs

Renewed Interest in People’s Responses to Nuclear Weapons

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.”

Zia Mian

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New Documentary Calls for ‘Creative Resolve’ to Solve Public Health Problems

Some of public health’s most daunting problems were solved only through sustained, collaborative global efforts. From collaborative efforts between the United States and the Soviet Union to eradicate smallpox at the height of the Cold War to international pressure to produce less expensive, generic antiretroviral medicines to…

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Career Building at the United Nations: An Interactive Session with Students on Exploring Career Opportunities

The event “Career Building at the United Nations,” co-organized by the Afghanistan Policy Lab at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Princeton University’s Center for Career Development, featured a practical and candid conversation with students interested in pursuing careers at the United Nations and…

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Wendy Kopp ’89

A Dorm Room Dream Turns into Reality for Wendy Kopp ’89

It’s the spring of 1989 at Princeton University, and inside her Patton Hall dorm room, Wendy Kopp ’89 is putting the finishing touches on a senior thesis that would guide her career for the next 40 years.Increasingly concerned about educational equity during her time as an undergrad student at the Princeton School of Public and…

Wendy Kopp ’89

University Presidents Alumni

For These Princeton SPIA Alumni, Higher Education Has Been a Higher Calling

In the days before barcodes and scanners, Princeton librarians kept track of who checked out a particular book by using readers’ university ID cards to imprint their names on a card accompanying the book. The card was then returned to the book when it was checked back in.As a junior at the Princeton School of Public and…

University Presidents Alumni

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February 26, 2026

Dean Jamal Represents Princeton SPIA at Europe Forums

Dean Amaney Jamal represented the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs on the global stage earlier this month, participating in public policy conversations at the Munich Security Conference in Germany and at a gathering of higher education leaders in Spain.The trip served as an opportunity to advance Princeton…

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Dan Kurtzer

February 25, 2026

Behind the Headline: The U.S.-Iran Crisis Explained

President Donald Trump has threatened to attack Iran multiple times in recent weeks, accusing Tehran of developing weapons capable of striking the United States. Iranian leaders have vowed to respond if the country is attacked militarily. With rising tensions threatening to further destabilize the Middle East, a lot is on the…

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Jake Shapiro

News, Research Briefs

February 03, 2026

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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.”

Jake Shapiro