
Fresh from the Fountain
Undergraduate Program Office
609-258-4861
spiaugrd@princeton.edu
Fresh From the Fountain is a continuously updated webpage where the most up-to-date events and opportunities for SPIA Undergraduate students are posted. We encourage all current and prospective SPIA students to keep this page saved and refer to it regularly to keep up with all that is going on within SPIA as well as related departments at Princeton and beyond. Please Note: Posts will be listed as they become available and will be sorted with the soonest deadline first.
Politico - Editorial Summer Intern
Politico is seeking exceptional college students and recent graduates for its Summer editorial internship program. Interns work on our magazine, our news desk or our policy reporting teams, including E&E News. News interns cover fast-paced developments in real time, quickly turning around stories on Washington’s most important power players and events. Policy interns work as full-time beat reporters covering the political tensions and policy debates over the federal government role in every aspect of American life. E&E News interns report on energy and environmental issues, covering the ins and outs of politics, science, policy and business to keep top decision makers informed and ahead of the curve. Magazine interns fact-check and produce POLITICO’s long-form stories and analysis, assist the editorial and visual teams with research, and pitch, report and write their own ambitious features on American politics and culture.
Location: Arlington, VA
Deadline: October 15th
Boeing Summer 2026 Internship - Government Operations
At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.
Deadline: October 18th
US Treasury International Affairs Junior Fellowship
The Junior Fellowship is a full-time, two-year opportunity for individuals entering the workforce to engage in U.S. foreign policymaking and diplomacy. Fellows are hired into one of the regional or functional offices within International Affairs and work alongside International Economists. Regional offices oversee Treasury’s engagement with counterpart finance ministries and treasuries across the world. Functional offices oversee Treasury’s engagement with international financial institutions and structure broader Treasury policy on issues ranging from climate change, to export credits, to foreign exchange. Link to job materials with more information.
Deadline: October 31, 2025
US Treasury Info Sessions:
Wednesday, Oct. 8
Tuesday, Oct 14
Princeton in Asia Fellowship
You can find resources for advisors and potential PiA applicants in this folder, including a brief overview, application guide, application form preview, 2026-27 fellowship descriptions, and a printable flyer for sharing the opportunity on campus. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to write to m.giblin@princetoninasia.org. Applicants can contact us through apply@princetoninasia.org, or sign up for virtual office hours on our website.
Deadline: November 1, 2025
AEI - 2026 Winter Honors Program
The Winter Honors Program at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is an intensive, fully-funded educational and professional opportunity for top undergraduate students. This program provides participants the opportunity to connect with the ideas, research, and network of AEI — one of America’s preeminent public policy think tanks — through a multiday seminar led by an AEI scholar or partner instructor.
Deadline: November 2, 2025
Zufall Americorps Members
Zufall Health AmeriCorps is a volunteer service program supporting our mission to provide access to care for vulnerable populations in New Jersey. The program is part of the AmeriCorps federal agency that engages over 80,000 members annually in intensive service projects at civic, nonprofit, and faith-based organizations across the U.S. Since 2013, Zufall Health AmeriCorps has graduated more than 80 volunteers who have made significant impacts in our community in preparation for careers in medicine, dentistry, social work, public health, and community health. More information is linked here.
Deadline: November 14th
AEI Collegiate Network
The AEI Collegiate Network is an intellectual home for current undergraduates to engage with AEI scholarship, connect with AEI scholars, and cultivate relationships with other public-spirited students from campuses around the nation and world. Membership in the network provides students with educational and professional opportunities with one of America’s preeminent think tanks. Through a series of educational and networking opportunities, the AEI Collegiate Network exposes the next generation of leaders in public policy, media, business, academia, law, and other fields to the research and people of AEI and prepares them to model a competition of ideas on their campuses and beyond.
Deadline: Rolling
International Trade Compliance Internship - Summer 2026
Ready to boost your skills and kick-start your career? Join Uline as a 2026 International Trade Compliance Intern! You'll get hands-on experience and work with professionals at a company that recognizes hard work and values people. With Uline’s stability and growth across North America, your career possibilities are endless!
Deadline: Open Until Filled
Ethics Olympiad
The Ethics Olympiad team is searching for students to represent Princeton at the Third AAPAE Ethics Olympiad, which will be held via Zoom on October 9, 2025 (October 8 in the U.S.). It's a one-day international event where students engage in thoughtful discussion of real-world ethical cases. We'll compete against Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Australia. If you are interested, please fill out the instructions linked here.
Deadline: Open Until Filled
Social Science Research Professional 1 (Research Assistant) at Stanford University
The Global Policy Lab is seeking a full-time Social Science Researcher 1 (SSRP1) for a period of 12 months to start from summer 2025 at the earliest, with the possibility to extend for another year. The SSRP1 will support and collaborate on a series of new and ongoing projects related to development and the environment, with a particular focus on a unique dataset mapping human development and environmental change across the developing world since the 1940s, derived from recently-digitized historical aerial photographs. The SSRP1 will work closely with an international team of researchers.
Deadline: Rolling
International Rescue Committee Internships (multiple opportunities)
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Deadline: Rolling
SPIA in NJ - Undergraduate Internship Opportunities
SPIA in New Jersey has several internship opportunities with local and state organizations. Please use the link above to explore all the different organizations and internships available. Deadline: Rolling
Unified Site for All State Department Fellowships and Internships
If your students are seeking a substantive internship or fellowship supporting US foreign policy, the State Department has an aggregated website for opportunities. Opportunities are for a wide range of majors (from STEM to social sciences to the arts). They are in person and online. Deadline: Varies
US Treasury Junior Fellowship Info Sessions:
Tuesday, Oct 14
The Junior Fellowship is a full-time, two-year opportunity for individuals entering the workforce to engage in U.S. foreign policymaking and diplomacy. Fellows are hired into one of the regional or functional offices within International Affairs and work alongside International Economists. Regional offices oversee Treasury’s engagement with counterpart finance ministries and treasuries across the world. Functional offices oversee Treasury’s engagement with international financial institutions and structure broader Treasury policy on issues ranging from climate change, to export credits, to foreign exchange. Link to job materials with more information.
Deadline: October 31, 2025
NJ Crossroads - The Future of House and Education with The Fund for New Jersey
Date: October 15th @ 7 - 8:30pm
Location: McCosh 50
A four-part discussion series that will provide a platform to discuss key issues impacting the future of New Jersey in the lead-up to the 2025 gubernatorial election. Presented by The Fund for New Jersey, the series will bring together community leaders, policy experts, and residents to foster informed and active participation that advocates for the New Jersey we all deserve.
Perspectives on Urban Challenges and Violence Today
Date: October 21st @ 5:15 - 6:30pm
Location: Robertson Hall - Arthur Lewis Auditorium
Speakers: Jeremy Biddle, Director of Violence Reduction Policy and Programs, Crime and Justice Policy Lab, University of Pennsylvania; Jocelyn Fontaine, Executive Director, Black and Brown Collective for Community Solutions to Gun Violence; Holly Joshi, Chief, Department of Violence Prevention, City of Oakland; Andrew Papachristos, The John G. Searle Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
Public Service Career Day
Date: October 24th, 11am-5pm
Learn about the wide range of public service career options Princetonians pursue. This event will feature a Alumni keynote speaker, panels, breakout sessions and networking.
NJ Bail Reform Symposium with CJ@SPIA and STONO Public Affairs
Date: October 24th @ 9am - 2pm
Location Maeder Hall Auditorium
In recent years, there has been a growing recognition that the traditional monetary bail system for pretrial release is a fundamentally flawed way of determining who should and who should not be held in jail while their cases are pending in court. On one hand, defendants should not be in jail before trial merely because they are poor and unable to post even minimal amounts of bail, especially if charged with minor non-violent offenses. On the other hand, defendants with access to means should not be able to buy their way out of jail, especially if they are charged with violent offenses and pose a risk to public safety.
Tech Ethics Action
Wednesday, October 27th @ 4:30 - 5:30pm
Location: Sherrerd Hall, Room 306
Princeton students are leaders in responsible technology development. Your tech skills can help address bias, privacy loss, tech addiction, and so much more. Join us for casual weekly discussions over a cup of tea to learn usable frameworks, debate real cases, hear about project opportunities, maybe even find a co-founder! Led by Steven Kelts as part of the Integrated Ethics in CS initiative, programming will also include career development seminars, outside speakers, and more. Bring your ideas and your favorite mug. Join when you can, leave when you must.
Senior Thesis Proposal Writing Workshop
Date: November 11 @ 12pm
Location: C039 (Yeh Private Dining Room)
OUR and PWP are teaming up to offer a hands-on workshop that will help students strengthen their proposals and navigate the application process with confidence. Note that, while the focus of the workshop is senior thesis proposal writing, students from all class years are welcome. Students who register in myPrincetonU will receive a free meal swipe if they are not on a dining plan. While the focus of the workshop is senior thesis proposal writing, students from all class years are welcome.
NJAI Hub - Research Survey
As we work to build a robust AI ecosystem, we’d love to hear from Princeton students about their interests, skills, and the types of opportunities they’d find most valuable. To help us shape future programming, we’ve put together a brief student interest survey.
Stokes Library - Viz Hub Fall 2025 Workshop Schedule
The Stokes Visualization Hub is a space and service, that responds to the evolving digital research, data visualization, and qualitative analysis needs of the Princeton Students and Faculty, with a focus on SPIA and the related social sciences. Workshops will cover a variety of topics including Zotero, R, Excel, Data Visualization and more. Please visit the website for workshop details and dates.
Drop In: Free Copies of Translated Princeton University Press Books!
Stop by Princeton University Press to pick up free translated copies of their most popular books! Translations include Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Vietnamese, among others. These books are across all subject areas: history, natural history, biology, sociology, literature, economics, and more! Please enter through Princeton University Press' main lobby doors located off of Williams Street. Upon arrival, please call ext 8168 (Louise Jennewine) or 8228 (Amanda Gillette).
The Rotary Club of Washington Global
The best way to get a job in this environment is Networking! Are you exploring careers in public service or international development? The Rotary Club of Washington Global’s Mentors for Young Professionals in International Development program connects students, recent graduates, and early-career professionals with experienced mentors from the public service and global development field — including leaders from USAID, Peace Corps, World Bank, Global Communities, and many more agencies and organizations.
- Free 30–60 minute mentoring sessions
- Learn about career pathways, grad school, and networking
- Open to all young professionals interested in public and global service
- Learn more and browse mentor bios
FedSupport Hub
The FedSupport Hub is a resource for former and current federal employees—a centralized and reliable place where they can find answers to their questions, share critical information and build community. This may be a helpful resource for the alumni you serve working in the federal government.
GoinGlobal
This resource supports international students who are interested in working in the U.S., their home country or elsewhere, as well as U.S. students who want to work abroad. It includes job and internship listings, global resume and cover letter guidance, global key employer directory, country and city guides, global job market trends, work permit regulations and cultural advice. Its Country/City Guides and cultural information might be helpful for those of you who are sending students abroad this summer or post-graduation. GoinGlobal requires students, faculty, and staff to be logged into CAS to access.
Partnership for Public Service
The Partnership for Public Service and Amazon Web Services have collaborated to create this Agency Dashboard, which provides an overview of the workforce, employee experience, budgetary resources and information-technology maturity of 33 major federal agencies, each with more than 1,000 employees. The dashboards offer a snapshot of critical data points that illustrate the organizational health of specific agencies and the executive branch as a whole, helping agency leaders, congressional offices, the media and other stakeholders identify areas for further focus.
Virtual Volunteer Opportunities with the United Nations
For students and alumni who still want to gain experience while they cannot leave home, the UN Online Volunteer Corps may be helpful. Online volunteering allows organizations and volunteers to team up to address sustainable development challenges – anywhere in the world, from any device.
More information and how to apply, linked here.
Virtual Student Federal Service
The Virtual Student Federal Service connects the talents of U.S. citizen college students with the needs of federal agencies. Since 2009, more than 10,000 remote interns have advanced the work of the federal government. The time commitment is about 10 hours per week during the school year. There are opportunities for all, from data visualization to political analysis. Internships are paid but may be eligible for course credit.
More information and how to apply are linked here.
Princeton Experimental Laboratory (PExL) for Social Sciences
PExL is open for registration at pexl.lab.run. Why register? Because your participation will earn you cash (about $25 an hour), because you’ll take part in frontier science, and because you might have fun—most experiments will allow you to strategize in computer-based interactions. If you have any questions, please contact us at pexl@princeton.edu.
USAJOBS Career Explorer
The USAJOBS Career Explorer helps job seekers find occupations in the federal government that align with their career interests. Job seekers answer a series of questions that result in a matched list of federal occupational series. The list offers explanations of jobs in plain language and links to relevant open job announcements. The Career Explorer covers over 300 occupations in the General Schedule and Wage Grade pay scale.
Early Career Page
The Early Career Page is a central hub of information and resources for students, recent graduates and non-college degree seeking individuals who are early in their career. Information on the page includes the benefits of working for the federal government, tips to navigate the federal application process and best practices for federal resumes. The page also links to the Federal Internship Portal and the Recent Graduate Portal to easily connect page visitors to these early career jobs.
Federal Internship Finder
This resource—part of GoGovernment.org—houses nearly 1,000 federal opportunities and had nearly 90,000 visits in its first year. We recently added two new search filters to the finder to make this tool even more effective for you and your students.
Practice Foreign Service Officer Test
The State Department offers a practice Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT). The purpose of the practice FSOT is to provide a realistic preview of the computer-based FSOT and an estimate of the likelihood of passing.
Google Interview WarmUp
DYK Google has a tool that lets students practice interview responses, get AI-generated insights into their answers, and get more comfortable interviewing for select fields.
Advice on Quality Letters of Recommendation
Letters of Recommendation provide valuable insights into a candidate. If students are struggling to figure out how to secure the "right" letters, here is a piece I wrote with 5 Tips for a Quality Letter of Recommendation. Printable copy linked here
Unified Site for All State Department Fellowships and Internships
If your students are seeking a substantive internship or fellowship supporting US foreign policy,the State Department has an aggregated website or opportunities. Opportunities are for a wide range of majors (from STEM to social sciences to the arts). They are in person and online.
Stanford Law School Empirical Research Fellowship
Assist Stanford Law School faculty, including economists Dr. John J. Donohue and Dr. Alison D. Morantz, in conducting policy-relevant empirical social science research. Designed for graduating seniors or recent college or master’s program graduates, the fellowship provides a unique opportunity for those considering graduate school, law school, and/or business school in the future. Please see the posting linked above for more information on the role and how to apply.
Deadline: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 @ 7:00AM PST
OIP Fall 2025 Fellowship Events
Please check the OIP Events page for additional events this semester and consult our website for detailed award information: https://oip.princeton.edu/fellowships.
Be sure to consult the OIP Events page one or two days prior to the session for location confirmation.
If it is necessary to migrate to a Zoom session, the link will be available there.
P*Law Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS)
The P*LAW Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS) program offers Princeton undergraduates opportunities to engage with P*LAW faculty and staff via special programming for law-interested undergraduates. You will also be eligible to receive funding to support participation in legal research. Students who join the PLUS cohort commit to the following :
- Attending two of P*LAW’s events each academic year
- Participating in a set of pre-law advising panels and lunches
- Enrolling in a PLUS Program Canvas page
To join PLUS, please fill out this form(Link is external). For further information, contact the faculty advisor, Prof. Lynda Dodd (lyndadodd@princeton.edu). To view our PLUS Scholars for 2024-2025, please click here. P*LAW Resources. PLUS October Updates.
This will be updated as scholarship opportunities are presented.
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