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Inaugural Public Service Career Day to Show Breadth of Career Options
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September 18, 2023
A Better Sense of Service
According to White House documentation, 15 percent of the federal government workforce is eligible to retire today, and 30 percent are eligible in the next five years. Just 7 percent of federal employees are under 30 years old, reports FEDweek. With these sobering data as a backdrop, the School of Public and International…
Inaugural Public Service Career Day to Show Breadth of Career Options
Nine Princeton students completed summer internships at the Telethon Kids Institute (TKI) in Perth, Australia.
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September 15, 2023
Princeton Students Impact Global Health
This summer, Princeton University students took on some of the world’s most critical public health challenges – from fighting AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, to curbing antimicrobial resistance and understanding the drivers of climate change. Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) sponsored 88 opportunities for…
Nine Princeton students completed summer internships at the Telethon Kids Institute (TKI) in Perth, Australia.
The Injustice of Place book cover
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September 15, 2023
‘We Need Help to Get Ahead’
In 2015, Kathryn Edin, the William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and co-director of SPIA’s Center for Research on Child and Family Wellbeing, and the University of Michigan’s H. Luke Shaefer published $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. Their documentation of the rise of extreme poverty…
The Injustice of Place book cover
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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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JSI 2023 cohort
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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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Keith Wailoo and Pushing Cool book cover
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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…
Keith Wailoo and Pushing Cool book cover
Seema Jayachandran
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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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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…
Jonathan Mummolo
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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…
Jonathan Mummolo