http://wws.princeton.edu/ Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs News RSS en-us http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4650 Two Woodrow Wilson School students – one a member of the undergraduate Class of 2013, and the other, a 2012 alumna, were among 25 Princetonians who have been awarded Fulbright grants this spring to study or teach abroad for the 2013-14 academic year. Thu, 23 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT JJ http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4650 http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4611 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. Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT JJ http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4611 http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4597 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.” Thu, 02 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT JJ http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4597 http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4565 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." Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT JJ http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4565 http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4553 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4553 http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4550 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). Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT JJ http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4550 http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4530 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. Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT JJ http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4530 http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4531 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." Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT JJ http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4531 http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4516 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. Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT JJ http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4516 http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4520 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. Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT JJ http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4520