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September 12, 2022

‘Viz Hub’ Equips Policy Students with Data Science Training

Statistical programs like Stata, R, and Python are second nature to fifth-year Ph.D. student Derek Wenning. With a focus in finance, macroeconomics, and spatial economics, data sciences are everyday tools in Wenning’s line of research. For many others, however, data can be a foreign language, which can be daunting and…

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September 12, 2022

Funding Available for Innovative Education Projects and Programs

A fund offered through Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs will support creative, interdisciplinary research projects and programs addressing important issues in education. Now in its fifth year, the Overdeck Education Innovation Fund will award small grants of up to $10,000 for multiple…

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August 29, 2022

Dean's Dialogue: Hope for Afghanistan (Amb. Adela Raz)

It’s been a year since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Taliban’s takeover of the country. Since then, the lives of many Afghans, especially women and girls, have been destroyed. Under Taliban rule, human rights violations continue to mount, while the country reaches economic collapse. In this episode, Dean…

CITP Interim Director Prateek Mittal shares career advice with PIT-SF Fellows. Photo courtesy of the Center for Information Technology Policy.

August 24, 2022

Center for Information Technology Policy Gives Students Up-Close Government Experiences

For a third consecutive summer, Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy gave students the opportunity to learn the workings of local, state and federal government in the Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship (PIT-SF) program. The students, five from Princeton and 14 from other universities, spent roughly…

CITP Interim Director Prateek Mittal shares career advice with PIT-SF Fellows. Photo courtesy of the Center for Information Technology Policy.

Globalization — Good Politics, Bad Policy? (Layna Mosley, B. Peter Rosendorff)

Governments around the world are limiting their countries' engagement with the global economy. These anti-globalization attitudes are troubling, especially as the world faces multiple global crises requiring international collaboration from climate change to supply chain production. Layna Mosley and B. Peter Rosendorff join…

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Carnegie Endowment and Princeton Launch Groundbreaking Initiative to Counter Threats to the Information Environment

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Princeton University announced today a year-long effort to design the Institute for Research on the Information Environment (IRIE), an international resource to study information ecosystems that can spur evidence-based policy solutions.  “The recent pandemic has only…

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Wailoo Named Co-Chair of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Ad Hoc Committee on Equity and Innovation

While new health and medicine technologies from gene editing to artificial intelligence promise to be immeasurably beneficial, they also come with profound ethical and societal implications. How can societies create dynamic governance structures to ensure that innovations are developed both ethically and equitably? A new ad…

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Tech Privacy Expert Arvind Narayanan to Lead Center for Information Technology Policy

Arvind Narayanan – a computer scientist whose pioneering approach to teaching and research has shaped the study of fairness in algorithms, cryptocurrencies and blockchains, and advanced privacy technologies – has been appointed director of Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, effective July 2023. …

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A Princeton-Microsoft Project is Tracing the Digital Fingerprints of Disinformation

As the 2018 U.S. mid-term elections approached, a group of Princeton alumni military veterans pitched an idea to the School of Public and International Affairs to host a conference on national security. With reports of foreign interference during the 2016 presidential election campaign still circulating in the media and in…

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Researchers win at SXSW

Virtual Reality Project on Nuclear Threats Wins SXSW Award

A virtual reality (VR) project executive produced by researchers at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) and Games for Change won the Jury Award for Extended Reality (XR) Experiences at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. The jury, comprised of three leading filmmakers and XR experts,…

Researchers win at SXSW