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Maria Klawe,
computer scientist, to become engineering dean
6/26/02 -- Maria Klawe, a computer scientist and dean of
science at the University of British Columbia, has been
named dean of Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied
Science, effective Jan. 1. She also will be appointed a
professor in Princeton's Department of Computer Science.
Exemplars of Virtue
and Wisdom in Chinese Painting Explored at Art
Museum
-- Exhibition Dates: May 10 through September 1,
2002
6/24/02 -- Images of Buddhist immortals, Daoist deities, and
Confucian sages are explored in a research exhibition that
focuses on fourteen hanging scrolls, handscrolls, and albums
in the Princeton University Art Museum's permanent
collection. "Immortals, Deities, and Sages in Chinese
Painting: A Research Exhibition" is on view at the museum
from May 10 through September 1, 2002. The exhibition
provides a rare opportunity to examine examples of Chinese
figure painting not often seen in museum or private
collections.
Russel named dean of
the Graduate School
6/20/02 -- Longtime Princeton faculty member William B.
Russel has been named to succeed John Wilson as dean of the
Graduate School, effective Aug. 1. Wilson, who has served as
dean since 1994, announced his retirement last October.
Sugar on the brain: Study
shows sugar dependence in rats
-- Denied sugar, bingeing rats suffered withdrawal
6/20/02 -- It's a common refrain: "I'm addicted to sugar."
Now a study by Princeton University psychologists suggests
that such urges really may be a form of addiction, sharing
some of the physiological characteristics of drug
dependence.
Discovery
could lead to faster, smaller, cheaper computer
chips
6/19/02 -- In a discovery that could greatly reduce the
size and cost of computer chips, Princeton researchers have
found a fast method for printing ultrasmall patterns in
silicon wafers. The method, described in the June 20 issue
of Nature, could allow electronics manufacturers to increase
the density of transistors on silicon chips by 100-fold
while dramatically streamlining the production process.
Packing more transistors onto chips is the key to making
more powerful computer processors and memory chips.
Princeton University
names nine new trustees
6/18/02 -- Princeton University has named nine new
members of its Board of Trustees, including a long-time
community activist from Trenton, two federal legislators,
and the former president of Harvard University. Stephen A.
Oxman was elected by the board as a charter trustee for a
10-year term. Five new trustees, Kathryn Hall, Preston
Haskell, Mellody Hobson, Neil Rudenstine and U.S. Sen. Paul
Sarbanes, were elected by the board to four-year terms as
term trustees. Alumni elected three board members, Charles
H. Brown, Martin P. Johnson and U.S. Rep. James A. Leach, to
four-year terms.
Preserving options:
short-term action required to avoid long-term climate
damage
6/14/02 -- The world still has a realistic chance of
avoiding some, although not all, of the more disruptive
effects of global warming, according to a new analysis.Doing
so, however, will require substantial reductions in
greenhouse gas emissions by 2010, consistent with those
required by the Kyoto Protocol, scientists from Princeton
and Brown universities reported in the June 14 issue of
Science.
Princeton
University Art Museum Exhibition Features New
Acquisitions
-- Exhibition Dates: June 22 through September 1,
2002
6/14/02 -- The exhibition "Recent Acquisitions," on view
from
June 22 through September 1, 2002, at the Princeton
University Art Museum, brings together recent gifts and
purchases that augment the strengths of the museum's diverse
holdings. East Asian, pre-Columbian, and Latin American
objects are on view alongside Western drawings, prints,
paintings, and sculptures dating from antiquity to the
twentieth century.
Low-level oil spills
can cause serious damage
-- Study tracks deaths of iguanas in the Galapagos
6/5/02 -- The ecological effects of low-level oil spills may
be more serious than previously thought, according to a
Princeton-led study that documented the widespread death of
marine iguanas on a Galapagos island. In a report published
in the June 6 issue of Nature, biologist Martin Wikelski and
colleagues reported that 62 percent of the marine iguanas on
the Galapagos island of Santa Fe died within a year after a
grounded tanker dumped nearly 800,000 gallons of oil into
nearby waters.
Princeton
University holds 255th Commencement
-- 1,702 students awarded degrees
6/4/02 -- Princeton University awarded degrees to 1,091
undergraduates and 611 graduate students at its 255th
Commencement today. Honorary degrees were awarded to eight
individuals who have made significant contributions in the
sciences, arts and humanities.
President Shirley
M. Tilghman: 2002 Commencement Address
Princeton University, June 4, 2002
Lillian Beatrix
Pierce: Valedictory Address
6/4/02 -- Commencement, June 4, 2002, Princeton
University Class of 2002
Princeton awards
eight honorary degrees
-- Recipients honored for contributions to science,
education, arts, humanities
6/4/02 -- Eight distinguished individuals whose
accomplishments span the worlds of science, education, and
the arts and humanities received honorary doctorates today
at Princeton University's 255th Commencement. Princeton
President Shirley M. Tilghman awarded degrees to scientist
and physician Anthony S. Fauci, acclaimed minister James A.
Forbes Jr., radio host Terry Gross, professor and historian
Bernard Lewis, Oxford University Vice-Chancellor Colin
Lucas, playwright and director Emily Mann, baseball legend
Cal Ripken Jr. and actress and television host Oprah
Winfrey.
Four faculty
members recognized for outstanding teaching
6/4/02 -- Four Princeton University faculty members
received President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching at
Commencement ceremonies today. They are: Leora Batnitzky,
assistant professor of religion; Peter Bunnell, the David
Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and
Modern Art and professor of art and archaeology; William
Jordan, professor of history and director of the Program in
Medieval Studies; and Kyle Vanderlick, professor of chemical
engineering.
Princeton honors
secondary school teachers
6/4/02 -- Princeton University will honor four
outstanding New Jersey secondary school teachers at its 2002
Commencement June 4. This year's honorees are: Helen
Aslanides of Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood; Helen Bryce
of Lakewood High School, Lakewood; Anne McCormick of Jackson
Memorial High School, Jackson; and James Quinlan of Vernon
Township High School, Vernon.
Graduate students
honored for excellence in teaching
6/4/02 -- The Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni
has given its annual awards for excellence in the
instruction of undergraduates to four graduate students who
have been particularly successful and devoted in leading
precepts.
Class Day awards honor
service and achievement
6/3/02 -- The Class of 2002 gathered on Princeton's
Cannon Green Monday to celebrate their coming graduation,
reflect on their last four years and receive honors for
their achievements and service.
Lillian Pierce,
mathematician and musician, to be Princeton
valedictorian
-- Latin salutatorian address to be given by Josephine
Dru
6/3/02 -- Lillian Pierce, an accomplished violinist who has
won many of Princeton University's top honors and will study
mathematics as a Rhodes Scholar next fall, has been named
valedictorian for Princeton's 2002 Commencement June 4. The
salutatorian will be Josephine Dru, a classics scholar who
loves the study of languages and will give her address in
Latin, following Princeton tradition.
Japanese woodblock
prints on view at Princeton University Art
Museum
-- Exhibition Dates: May 10 through September 1,
2002
5/29/02 -- A small but remarkable group of Japanese
woodblock prints, selected from gifts of Anne van Biema, are
on view through September 1, 2002, at the Princeton
University Art Museum.
James Baker, 61st
secretary of state, donates papers to
Princeton
5/24/02 -- Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III
is donating the papers of his long career in politics and
public service to Princeton University, where the rich
collection of material documenting the end of the Cold War
and other events in his distinguished career will join one
of the nation's premier public policy collections.
Media advisory: Workshop
to highlight "organic and plastic" electronics
research
5/24/02 -- Princeton's Center for Photonics and
Optoelectronic Materials will host a workshop Tuesday, May
28, featuring research into plastic and organic materials
that could replace the conventional silicon components of
many electronic devices and usher in a new generation of
miniature, high-efficiency electronics.
Media advisory:
Princeton University to display first four printed
Bibles
5/24/02 -- In a one-day display May 31, Princeton
University will exhibit the world's first four printed
Bibles: the Gutenberg Bible, the Mentelin Bible, the 36-Line
Bible and the 1462 Bible. The rare Bibles are owned by
William H. Scheide, who houses the collection in the Scheide
Library at Princeton.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
named Woodrow Wilson School dean
5/14/02 -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, a law professor and
scholar of international affairs, will join the Princeton
University faculty as dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs, effective Sept. 1. She
also will hold faculty positions in the school and in the
Department of Politics.
Elias Stein chosen to
receive National Medal of Science
5/9/02 -- Princeton University mathematician Elias Stein
has been selected to receive the National Medal of Science
in recognition of his contributions to harmonic analysis, an
area of mathematics that has applications throughout the
sciences. Stein, the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of
Mathematics, is one of 15 scientists selected to receive the
award, which is the nation's highest scientific honor.
President George Bush will bestow the medals at a White
House ceremony June 13.
American drawings on
view at Princeton University Art Museum
-- Exhibition Dates: April 13 through July 21, 2002
5/7/02 -- A collection of 23 works on paper are featured in
the exhibition "American Drawings and Watercolors: Gifts of
Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953" on view at the Princeton
University Art Museum through July 21, 2002. Beginning in
the early 1980s, Leonard L. Milberg initiated a series of
gifts of American works on paper to the Graphic Arts
Division of Rare Books and Special Collections, Firestone
Library, and during the last two decades has been a generous
donor to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Managing
globalization the French way
5/1/02 -- Q&A: Sophie Meunier, Princeton research
associate and co-author of the recent book "The French
Challenge: Adapting to Globalization" (Brookings Institution
Press, 2001), spoke with writer and Woodrow Wilson School
graduate student Amanda Ableidinger about the French outlook
on globalization and the recent French presidential primary
elections.
Contemporary
photographers featured at Art Museum, April 20-May
26
-- Exhibition Dates: April 20 through Mary 26, 2002
4/30/02 -- "Contemporary Views: Photographs by Paul Berger,
Sarah Charlesworth, Barbara Ess, and Ray K. Metzker," on
view at the Princeton University Art Museum from April 20
through May 26, 2002, brings together recently acquired
works by four contemporary photographers.
Mathematical analysis could
aid flu vaccine selection
4/22/02 -- Millions of people may one day have better
odds of fending off the flu as a result of new research that
could improve the choice of viral strains included in each
year's vaccine.
Biologists track down
central cause of lupus
4/22/02 -- In a finding that could lead to better
treatments for lupus, a Princeton biologist has pinpointed
what appears to be a central cause of the disease. Martin
Weigert has discovered a point at which the immune system's
procedure for making disease-fighting antibodies breaks down
and allows antibodies to attack the body's own DNA, which is
the hallmark of lupus.
Demetri Porphyrios
selected as architect for Whitman College at
Princeton
-- Design to be in collegiate Gothic style
4/15/02 -- Demetri Porphyrios, one of the world's leading
traditional-style architects, has been selected to design
Princeton's sixth residential college. Princeton's trustees
selected Porphyrios, a graduate alumnus and principal of
London-based Porphyrios Associates, to design the college --
to be called Whitman College -- at their April 13 meeting.
The college will be named for Princeton alumna and trustee
Meg Whitman, eBay president and chief executive officer, who
contributed $30 million for the project.
Third World Center gets
new name to better reflect its mission
4/15/02 -- The name of Princeton's Third World Center is
being changed to more accurately reflect its mission. At
their April 13 meeting, the University's trustees approved a
recommendation to change the name to the Carl A. Fields
Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, effective
July 1. The name honors Fields, a former Princeton dean who
was the first African-American to hold such a high-ranking
post at an Ivy League school.
Charles Kalmbach '68
*72 named senior vice president for
administration
4/15/02 -- Charles F. Kalmbach Jr., an undergraduate and
graduate alumnus of Princeton University's School of
Engineering and Applied Science whose career as a management
consultant has focused on developing sustainable strategies
for institutional change, has been named the University's
senior vice president for administration, effective June
1.
Princeton appoints
Cornel West, novelist Chang-rae Lee to senior faculty
posts
-- New appointments build on programs across the
disciplines
4/13/02 -- At its meeting today, Princeton's Board of
Trustees also appointed two new professors in the Department
of Mathematics: Andrei Okounkov, an assistant professor at
the University of California at Berkeley; and Rahul
Pandharipande, a professor at the California Institute of
Technology. All the appointments take effect July 1.
Samuel Atkins,
professor emeritus at Princeton, dies at 91
4/13/02 -- Samuel Atkins, professor emeritus of classics
at Princeton University, died March 20 at the age of 91 in
California. Atkins, who served on Princeton's faculty since
1937, died of kidney failure.
Cornel West to return to
Princeton as senior faculty member
-- Eddie Glaude, scholar of African-American religious
studies, to be associate professor
4/12/02 -- Enhancing its strong Program in African-American
Studies, Princeton University is planning to appoint to the
faculty Cornel West, the acclaimed teacher and scholar of
religion, and Eddie S. Glaude Jr., a Bowdoin College
professor known for his work in African-American religious
studies. The appointments require the approval of
Princeton's Board of Trustees, which meets Saturday, and
would take effect July 1.
Governor of Puerto Rico
to speak April 11
4/9/02 -- Sila Maria Calderón, governor of Puerto
Rico, will lecture on "Puerto Rico: Looking Ahead" 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 11, Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall on
the Princeton campus
Labouisse prize winner
hopes to 'cross-pollinate' with her research
4/8/02 -- As an ecology and evolutionary biology major,
senior Elizabeth Bernier has had a long-standing interest in
insects and pollination. As the winner of this year's Henry
Richardson Labouisse '26 Prize, she will have a chance to
carry out some cross-pollination of her own.
Princeton University Art
Museum launches new Web site
4/5/02 -- The Princeton University Art Museum launched its
new Website, princetonartmuseum.org,
on April 1. In addition to general information about the
museum and its educational resources, the elegantly designed
site includes easily accessible information about the
museumís collections, exhibitions, programs, and
publications.
Two Princeton juniors
win Truman Scholarships
4/2/02 -- Two Princeton juniors have been named 2002
Truman Scholars by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship
Foundation. Rebecca Gifford and Daniel Pastor are among 64
students from 54 U.S. colleges and universities selected
this year. The award recognizes their leadership potential,
intellectual ability and likelihood of "making a
difference."
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