Four Princeton Students Awarded Schwarzman Scholarships for Study in Beijing (Princeton University)
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Men’s water polo co-captain Paul Greenbaum (Sr., Carlisle, Pa./Boiling Springs) is among four Princeton University students named Schwarzman Scholars. He is the lone varsity student-athlete among Princeton’s four recipients of the scholarship.
The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
For its fourth class, 147 scholars were selected from around the world from more than 2,800 applicants. The scholars will study economics and business, international studies, and public policy. Courses will be taught in English by professors from Tsinghua, as well as visiting scholars, beginning in August. The program was founded by Blackstone investment firm co-founder Stephen Schwarzman.
Paul Greenbaum
Paul (PJ) Greenbaum of Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, is a concentrator in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is pursuing certificates in African studies and history and the practice of diplomacy. Through the program he will pursue his interest in post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction.
Greenbaum is a midshipman in Princeton’s joint Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (NROTC) program with Rutgers University. Following graduation, he will commission as a surface warfare officer, nuclear propulsion option.
“The Schwarzman program will build upon the intellectual tools and a scholarly network I have cultivated at Princeton, so that when it comes time for me to ‘stand my watch’ in the Pentagon, I will be ready to improve the world,” Greenbaum wrote in his personal statement.
Greenbaum has worked and studied abroad extensively while earning his degree. He is an undergraduate student fellow with Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies. Through the U.S. Department of Defense’s Project Global Officer, he was selected for a summer Hindi language immersion program at the Landour Language School in Landour, India, and a Swahili language immersion program at the East Africa Field School in Longido, Tanzania. Greenbaum also participated in Princeton’s PIIRS Global Seminar in Beijing.
In 2018, Greenbaum received the Professor R.W. van de Velde Award given to a Princeton junior in the Woodrow Wilson School for outstanding independent work. He received a Paul and Marcia Wythes Princeton Center for Contemporary China research grant, which he is using to conduct research in Kenya for his senior thesis on the impact of Chinese foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa.
“PJ is a force of nature, with great energy, enthusiasm and purpose,” said former U.S. Ambassador Frederick (Rick) Barton, a lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School and co-director of Princeton’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative. “PJ leans into life, from walking on to the water polo team to NROTC to serious class discussions, and brings laughter and fun. He will improve U.S.-China relations for all of us.”
Biography courtesy Princeton University Office of Communications
