Bridging Horizons
innovation, Identity and Global Futures
Volume 1, Issue 3 — March 2026
Published July 2026
ISSN: 3069-8200
The Princeton Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (PJIR) proudly presents Volume 1, Issue 3 (2025), Bridging Horizons: Innovation, Identity, and Global Futures — the third installment of our inaugural publishing year.
Building upon the foundations of Voices in Convergence and Frontiers of Inquiry, this issue deepens PJIR’s commitment to rigorous, cross-disciplinary scholarship that confronts both emerging and enduring global questions. The research featured in this edition traverses scientific innovation and technological transformation; re-examinations of social, cultural, and political identities; ethical dimensions of public policy and governance; and evolving intersections between health, economics, and global development.
Two Best Paper selections exemplify this breadth: "Deepfakes On Trial: A Mixed-Methods Study of Student Perceptions and Regulatory Concerns about Non-Consensual Deepfakes at the London School of Economics and Political Science," which interrogates the ethical and regulatory implications of emerging synthetic media technologies. Meanwhile, "Interpretable Transfer Learning with EfficientNetB0 for Automated Detection of Rare Anemia Morphologies in Peripheral Blood Smears" demonstrates how advances in machine learning and biomedical imaging can be translated into clinically meaningful diagnostic tools, highlighting the growing convergence of computational innovation and medical practice.
Alongside the two Best Paper selections, this volume features contributions addressing religion and social meaning, structural inequality, developments in the life sciences, and more. We hope these studies encourage readers to draw connections across fields and to approach complex contemporary questions with intellectual openness.
All accepted articles are published online under ISSN 3069-8200.
Editor’s Note
Serious scholarship often begins with a single, well-defined question. Yet the moment we follow that question far enough, we find it rarely stays in one place. Questions about attention become questions about education and equity. Questions about algorithms become questions about trust and accountability. Questions about biological systems quickly intersect with questions about human experience. This issue brings together work that reflects precisely this movement across boundaries.
In this volume, we are proud to feature research on ADHD, the effects of racial bias in dermatology datasets on convolutional neural networks, the emerging legal terrain of deepfakes, sustainable building materials, structural inequality, developments in the life sciences, and more. The issue also includes work engaging questions of religion and belief, examining gender and social identity, and exploring problems in linguistics, and more.
We celebrate interdisciplinary scholarship not as a slogan, but as a practice. The work collected here demonstrates careful technical reasoning alongside ethical awareness and social sensitivity. It shows that strong research does not dilute disciplinary rigor; rather, it is often strengthened when scholars remain attentive to the wider implications of their methods and findings.
PJIR Editorial Team
Articles in This Issue
Recent Progress in Therapeutic Strategies for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
Author: Jiachen (Miranda) Sun, Dr. Cigdem Sahin
Affiliation: Cambridge Center for International Research
Abstract:
Type 2 diabetes is becoming a rising global concern, and there is an urgent need to address the underrepresented group, adolescents, who experience higher risks of adverse diabetes outcomes and more severe pathophysiology effects. Diabetes is linked to insulin resistance, which involves abnormally high levels of insulin to stimulate glucose uptake...
Keywords: T2DM, insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, cardiovascular diseases, weight loss
Interpretable Transfer Learning with EfficientNetB0 for Automated Detection of Rare Anemia Morphologies in Peripheral Blood Smears
Author: Aria Kana¹, Sanja Brolih² and Rik van der Veen³
Affiliation: ¹Hunter College High School, New York, NY, USA
²Center of Medicine Discoveries, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Abstract:
Accurate diagnosis of rare anemias is challenging primarily due to limited annotated public datasets needed for developing interpretable automated diagnostic tools. We propose a two-stage transfer learning convolutional neural network (CNN) model, EfficientNetB0, for identification of disease-associated patterns in blood smear images...
Keywords: Transfer Learning, EfficientNetB0, Peripheral Blood Smears, Rare Anemia Detection, Grad-CAM
The Power and Peril Of AI-Generated Imagery in Diplomacy
Author: Tanvi Chetan
Affiliation: Trio World Academy, Bengaluru, India
Abstract:
This paper explores the extent of the interaction of diplomacy with Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically with AI-generated imagery such as deepfakes, as it moves rapidly into the digital public sphere. With central focus on perception and narrative control, this paper uses a comparative analysis using three case studies from around the world...
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Diplomacy, AI-generated Imagery
Healing through Reading: A Discursive Exploration of Bibliotherapy in Online Spaces
Author: Khushi Mohunta
Affiliation: O.P. Jindal Global University, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities
Abstract:
With technological advancements, noteworthy changes have occurred in therapeutic landscapes. The rise of online therapy has significantly altered the therapeutic domains. Although not extensively researched, the domain of bibliotherapy has been through digital transformations. The online availability of literary sources has played a crucial role in reshaping bibliotherapy practices...
Keywords: bibliotherapy, virtual platforms, literature, discourse, healing
Citation for This Issue
Princeton Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. (2026). Volume 1, Issue 3 — Bridging Horizons. PJIR.
https://www.princeton-press.com/pjir/issues/vol-1-issue-3
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