Three Wilson School Undergrads Receive 2013 Spirit of Princeton Award  
May 08, 2013
The Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students has announced that nine Princeton undergraduate students have been named winners of the 2013 Spirit of Princeton Award. The award recognizes students who have demonstrated a strong commitment to the undergraduate experience through dedicated efforts with student organizations, athletics, community service, religious life, residential life and the arts. (Share)

Michael Froman '85 Nominated As U.S. Trade Representative  
May 02, 2013
Michael Froman, a 1985 WWS undergraduate alum, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) – America’s chief trade negotiator. At a White House Rose Garden announcement on May 2, 2013, President Obama called Froman “one of the world’s foremost experts on our global economy.” (Share)

Uwe Reinhardt Editorial in Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Discusses "Making Surgical Complications Pay"  
April 25, 2013
Uwe Reinhardt, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, recently penned an editorial in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in response to an April 17, 2013 JAMA article discussing the "Relationship Between Occurrence of Surgical Complications and Hospital Finances." (Share)

WWS' Christopher L. Eisgruber named 20th president of Princeton University  
April 21, 2013
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Eric P. Schwartz MPA/JD '85 Appointed by President Obama to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom  
April 17, 2013
On April 11, The White House announced that President Obama is appointing Eric P. Schwartz, who earned a joint MPA/JD degree in 1985 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and New York University School of Law, to be a member of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). (Share)

Woodrow Wilson MPA Students Named 2013 Rosenthal Fellows  
April 10, 2013
Three MPA students at the Woodrow Wilson School were among twenty-three students nationwide as members of the Harold W. Rosenthal Fellowship in International Relations class for the summer of 2013. The Rosenthal Fellowship Program was established in 1977 in memory of Harold Rosenthal, a Congressional staffer and victim of international terrorism while on official duty and has hosted 181 fellows to date, many from the Woodrow Wilson School. The fellowship program, run in association with the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), provides graduate students at APSIA member schools the opportunity to spend a summer working on international relations issues in the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government. Fellows are current graduate students in international affairs nominated by their schools. (Share)

Christina Davis Receives Two Book Honors  
April 09, 2013
Christina Davis, associate professor of politics and international affairs and Undergraduate Program Faculty chair, recently received two top book honors from the International Studies Association. Davis' book, "Why Adjudicate: Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO," (Princeton University Press, 2012) was the co-winner of the Chadwick Alger Prize of the ISA's International Organization Section. The prize "recognizes the best book published in the previous calendar year on the subject of international organization and multilateralism." (Share)

A Conversation with the Chief Prosecutor of U.S. Military Commissions  
April 05, 2013
On February 27, 2013, as part of its "Military Policy - At Home and Abroad" thematic lecture series, the Woodrow Wilson School hosted Brigadier General Mark Martins. Martins serves as chief prosecutor for the United States in cases alleging violations of the law of war and the lead trial counsel in the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four other accused perpetrators of the attacks of September 11, 2001 that are taking place at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The conversation was co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School, the Center for International Security Studies (CISS), and the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA). Martins was introduced by Bart Gellman '82, author in residence and visiting lecturer in public and international affairs at the Wilson School. (Share)

Anne-Marie Slaughter Named President of New America Foundation  
April 04, 2013
The New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States, has announced that Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs and former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, will serve as the foundation’s next president, effective September 3, 2013. (Share)

Charlotte Ellertson, MPA '92, Ph.D. '93, Named One of 50 Most Influential Women in Health  
April 03, 2013
In March of each year, we celebrate Women's History Month - highlighting the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. In 2013, the theme for Women's History Month has been "Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics." (Share)