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Scientists
reconcile opposing views of U.S. role in greenhouse gas
problem
6/21/01 -- An international consortium of scientists has
issued a revised estimate of the U.S. role in the worldwide
accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a major
cause of global warming.
Space
probe to glimpse infancy of the universe
6/18/01 -- Their pride and joy is about to leave home,
travel far and, if all goes well, send back reports of great
sights. It's not a graduation. It's a satellite launch. On
June 30, Princeton scientists will participate as NASA
launches a satellite carrying a powerful scientific
instrument that the University played a large role in
conceiving, designing, and building.
Princeton
University Art Museum reaches agreement with heirs of owner
of painting sold during World War II era
6/13/01 -- The Art Museum at Princeton University has
reached an agreement with the heirs of the Nazi-era owner of
St. Bartholomew, an Italian Renaissance painting by
Bernardino Pinturicchio. The agreement with the heirs of
Federico Gentili di Giuseppe ensures that the museum will
retain and display the painting, which has been in its
collection since 1994.
Princeton
University holds 254th Commencement
-- 1,732 students awarded degrees
6/5/01 -- Princeton University awarded degrees to 1,084
undergraduates and 648 graduate students at its 254th
Commencement today. Honorary degrees were awarded to seven
distinguished leaders in the sciences, arts, humanities and
public affairs.
Remarks by
President Harold T. Shapiro
Commencement Exercises, June 5, 2001
Seven
leaders in arts, humanities, sciences and public affairs
receive honorary degrees
6/5/01 -- Princeton University President Harold T.
Shapiro today awarded honorary degrees to seven individuals
who have made important contributions in the sciences, film,
the humanities and public affairs and touched the lives of
millions of people. Shapiro awarded degrees to Kevin
Gover, former director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs;
filmmaker and director Spike Lee; physicist and
emeritus Professor Aaron Lemonick; ecologist Jane
Lubchenco; aeronautical engineer and emeritus Professor
Courtland D. Perkins; basketball legend Bill
Russell; and U.S. District Judge Sonia
Sotomayor.
Princeton
honors secondary school teachers
6/5/01 -- Princeton University will honor four
outstanding New Jersey secondary school teachers at its 2001
Commencement June 5. This year's honorees are: Andrew
Dunn of Northern Highlands Regional High School,
Allendale; Frank Heffernan of Chatham High School,
Chatham; Staci Horne of Phillipsburg High School,
Phillipsburg; Hilary Peterlin of Kinnelon High
School, Kinnelon.
Four
faculty members recognized for outstanding
teaching
6/5/01 -- Four Princeton University faculty members
received President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching at
Commencement ceremonies today. They are: Lynn Enquist,
professor of molecular biology; Diana Fuss, associate
professor of English; Andrew Isenberg, assistant professor
of history; and Elias Stein, the Albert Baldwin Dod
Professor of Mathematics.
Graduate
students receive honors for excellence in
teaching
6/5/01 -- The Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni
has given its 2001 awards for excellence in teaching to four
graduate students who have shown a particular gift for
inspiring and instructing other students.
Old and
new members of Class of 2001 honored at Class
Day
6/4/01 -- Members of the Class of 2001 celebrated their
passage from undergraduates to alumni Monday in a ceremony
that honored their achievements and featured inspiring and
funny reflections of their Princeton experiences.
Princeton
University reopens Princeton Garden Theatre
5/31/01 -- The Princeton Garden Theatre will reopen to
the public Friday, June 1 after being closed for extensive
renovations since August 2000, according to Princeton
University, the owner of the property, and Theater
Management Corporation, which leases and operates the movie
theater.
Professor
James Broach named associate director of genomics
institute
-- Nobel laureate Eric Wieschaus to lead search for new
director
5/29/01 -- Professor James Broach has been named associate
director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative
Genomics and will oversee its daily operations as the
University conducts a national search for a director to
succeed Shirley M. Tilghman. Tilghman, who will become
Princeton's 19th president in June, will remain director
until the search is concluded.
Princeton
names 2001 valedictorians, salutatorian
5/25/01 -- For the first time since its founding in
1746, Princeton University has selected two valedictorians
for Commencement. Jared Kramer, an engineering student in
the Department of Computer Science, and Christine McLeavey,
a physics major and award-winning pianist, will address the
University's 2001 Commencement June 5.
Spanish
Drawings on View at Princeton University Art
Museum
-- Exhibition Dates: Through June 10, 2001
5/25/01 -- A small but remarkable group of drawings by
Spanish masters spanning five centuries will be on view at
the Princeton University Art Museum through June 10,
2001.
Ostriker
to leave provost's office, assume Cambridge
professorship
5/22/01 -- After six years as Princeton University's
second-ranking officer, Provost Jeremiah Ostriker will leave
that office at the end of this summer and assume one of the
most prestigious professorships at the University of
Cambridge, the Plumian Professorship of Astronomy and
Experimental Philosophy. He also will continue to hold his
faculty position at Princeton as the Charles A. Young
Professor of Astronomy and to work with his graduate
students and postdoctoral fellows.
Exhibit
showcases history and arts of the book
5/22/01 -- A new exhibition in the Milberg Gallery of
Princeton University's Firestone Library celebrates the 1940
founding of a unique Princeton collection -- one that
showcases the history and arts of the book through the
finest examples of printing, typography, binding,
papermaking, calligraphy and illustration.
Battelle
to establish professorship in physics
5/18/01 -- Princeton University officials today
announced a commitment by Battelle to establish a new
professorship in physics to honor John Archibald Wheeler,
the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at the
University. The professorship will be created with a $3
million gift to the University.
Special
funds boost biweekly salary pools
5/16/01 -- In response to a recommendation from the
Priorities Committee, President Harold T. Shapiro will use
up all of his remaining discretionary funds for this year to
provide approximately $400,000 so the University can begin
increasing salaries in 2001-02 above regular salary pools in
biweekly staff categories that are being paid at or below
market rates.
How did we
get so smart? Study sheds light on evolution of the
brain
5/9/01 -- Princeton and Bell Labs scientists have
devised a simple but powerful method for analyzing brain
anatomy, providing the first reliable measure of how brains
of humans and other mammals are related to one another
across evolution. In a paper in the May 10 issue of Nature,
the researchers show how comparing the relative sizes of 11
brain parts reveals a unique brain structure for each
species.
Shirley
Tilghman named Princeton University's 19th
President
5/5/01 -- Shirley M. Caldwell Tilghman, a member of the
Princeton University faculty since 1986, an exceptional
teacher, and a world-renowned scholar and leader in the
field of molecular biology, was elected Princeton's 19th
President at a special meeting this morning of the Board of
Trustees. She will take office on June 15, 2001, succeeding
Harold T. Shapiro, who last fall announced his intention to
retire from the presidency at the end of this academic year
following more than 13 years of service.
New chair
in finance endowed by Randall A. Hack of the class of
1969
5/4/01 -- Princeton University today announced the
establishment of an endowed chair in finance by Randall A.
Hack of the class of 1969, whose investment strategies have
helped guide the growth of Princeton's endowment over the
past decade. The chair, a gift from Hack and his wife, Mary,
will be named in honor of Hack's grandfather, Otto A. Hack
of the class of 1903.
Princeton
dedicates Bendheim Center for Finance
5/4/01 -- Princeton University today dedicated the
Bendheim Center for Finance, which was established in 1997
as an international resource for teaching and scholarship in
the increasingly important field of finance. University
President Harold T. Shapiro *64 spoke at the dedication,
along with Robert Bendheim '37 and the center's director,
Professor Yacine Ait-Sahalia.
Sophomore
named first A. Scott Berg '71 scholar
4/30/01 -- Princeton University sophomore Adena T.
Spingarn has been named the first recipient of the new A.
Scott Berg 71 Scholarship, an award created by the noted
biographer to support independent research by an
undergraduate English major.
Spring
conference on "Ties that Bind: Religion & Family in
Contemporary America"
4/27/01 -- Scholars at this conference to be held May
16-17, 2001, will address three central questions: How are
religious institutions responding to recent demographic,
economic, and cultural changes affecting American families?
What role does religion play in shaping intergenerational
ties -- especially the relationship between parents and
their children? What should religious leaders be doing to
meet the critical economic, moral, and spiritual challenges
facing American families?
Oxford
and Princeton universities announce plans for collaboration
on research and student exchanges
4/24/01 -- Oxford and Princeton universities today
announced a major collaboration that will create new
research partnerships, increase faculty and student
exchanges, and provide opportunities to share resources
required for cutting-edge, scientific ventures. The
initiative builds on longstanding relationships between two
universities renowned for leadership in research across the
academic disciplines and for excellence in undergraduate
education.
Princeton
hosts debate on reparations
-- Author of controversial advertisement debates leader
of pro-reparations group
4/24/01 -- David Horowitz, president of the Center for the
Study of Popular Culture and a noted conservative columnist;
and Dorothy B. Lewis, co-chair of the National Coalition of
Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA), will debate on
whether members of the African-American should receive
monetary reparations for slavery, Wednesday, April 25 at 7
p.m. Only those with Princeton University ID and accredited
media will be permitted into the lecture hall, 50 McCosh
Hall on the Princeton campus. All others should go to McCosh
46 for a simulcast of the event.
New
research suggests changes in welfare and child support
policies can promote stable families
-- Analysis precedes summer's Congressional review of
1996 welfare law
4/23/01 -- New findings by researchers at Columbia and
Princeton universities provide support for those who believe
government can promote marriage and stable family life among
the nation's most disadvantaged households. The findings are
being published just as Congress begins the reauthorization
process for landmark welfare legislation of 1996.
Merck
establishes professorship in organic chemistry at
Princeton
4/23/01 -- Princeton University today announced that a
new professorship in chemistry has established by The Merck
Company Foundation to honor Arthur A. Patchett of
Princeton's class of 1951. Patchett is a research chemist
and former vice president of medicinal chemistry at
Merck.
NASA
administrator Daniel Goldin to speak April 21
4/19/01 -- Daniel Goldin, administrator of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, will deliver the
keynote address at symposium on "New Directions in
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering," April 21 at 1:30
p.m., in room 302 of the Frist Campus Center. The conference
marks 50 years of graduate aerospace studies and 100 years
of graduate education at Princeton University.
Physicist
Thomas Howard Stix dies
4/17/01 -- Thomas Howard Stix, one of the most original
thinkers and leading developers in the field of plasma
physics, died April 16 in Princeton. He was 76 years old and
professor emeritus in astrophysical sciences at Princeton
University. The cause of death was leukemia.
Italian
Renaissance Drawings Exhibited at Princeton University Art
Museum
4/17/01 -- "Italian Renaissance Drawings," an exhibition
from the Princeton University Art Museum's collection, is on
view through June 17, 2001. The exhibition, which
accompanies "Italian Renaissance Painting and Sculpture," a
course taught by Visiting Associate Professor Elizabeth
Pilliod of Oregon State University, includes works by
Michelangelo, Frederico Barocci, Jacopo Bertoia, Girolamo
Macchietti, Battista Naldini, and Il Tintoretto. Exhibition
Dates: February 19 through June 17, 2001
U.S.
Reps. Frelinghuysen and Holt receive Science Coalition
awards
New Brunswick: Rutgers President Francis L. Lawrence and
Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro today
presented U.S. Reps. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (R-NJ-11th) and
Rush Holt (D-NJ-12th) with the Science Coalition's Champion
of Science awards during ceremonies at Rutgers' Institute of
Marine and Coastal Sciences (IMCS) in New Brunswick.
Princeton
achieves 100 percent pass rate on state teaching
exams
4/9/01 -- All Princeton University students who took New
Jersey's teaching-certification exams last year passed the
tests, the university's Program in Teacher Preparation
reported today.
Strikeout
or homerun: Princeton symposium focuses on New Jersey
sports
4/3/01 -- Princeton University's annual Symposium on New
Jersey Issues this year will target the social, economic and
environmental ramifications of professional athletics with a
program on "New Jersey and Sports: A Strikeout or Homerun?"
The symposium will take place Friday, April 20 from 9 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Political
analysts to discuss early weeks of Bush
presidency
4/2/01 -- How has President George W. Bush fared during
his first 12 weeks in office? Four noted political analysts
will evaluate his record in a roundtable discussion at 4:30
p.m. Thursday, April 12 in Robertson Hall (Dodds Auditorium)
on the Princeton University campus.
Dance by
Princeton choreographer opens Holocaust
conference
4/1/01 -- An internationally known children's dance
troupe will open a conference on the Holocaust April 1 with
a powerful dance created by Ze'eva Cohen, the acclaimed
choreographer and director of Princeton University's dance
program.
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