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• White shares skill with words in new book and in the classroom
• Robertson Q&A available online
• Fun side of science draws local students
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• Five seniors win Gates Cambridge Scholarships
• Designers chosen to give dining halls distinctive look
• Exhibition celebrates 100th anniversary of Lake Carnegie
People
• Griffin selected as University’s new registrar
• Denis Twitchett, historian of China, dies at age 80
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• Nassau Notes
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Fun side of science draws local students
More than 900 junior high school students converged on the campus March 21 for the 2006 Science and Engineering Exposition. Some 70 faculty members, staff scientists and students from a dozen academic departments and programs staged demonstrations and offered hands-on experiences showing the fun and dramatic sides of modern science.
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White shares skill with words in new book and in the classroom
In his latest work, professor of creative writing Edmund White transports us to his childhood in Illinois in the 1950s — and to a world in which being gay was commonly viewed as something reproachful.
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Robertson Q&A available online
A new document intended to provide members of the University community with information on a pending lawsuit is now available on the Web. Written in a question-and-answer format, the document offers background information on the lawsuit filed against the University by William Robertson and other members of the Robertson family in July 2002.
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Denis Twitchett, historian of China, dies at age 80
Denis Twitchett, a distinguished scholar of Chinese history, died Feb. 24 in Cambridge, England. He was 80. Twitchett was the first Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton when he was named to the professorship in 1980. He is perhaps best known for “The Cambridge History of China,” the largest and most comprehensive history of China in the English language.
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Griffin selected as University’s new registrar
Polly Winfrey Griffin, registrar at Dartmouth College since 1999, has been named registrar at Princeton, effective Aug. 1, 2006. She will succeed Joseph Greenberg, a 1977 Princeton graduate alumnus who died in November 2005 after 27 years of service in the registrar’s office at the University, the last six as its leader.
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Designers chosen to give dining halls distinctive look
A distinguished group of three design firms have been selected to help transform the University’s dining halls into non-institutional, welcoming and distinctive eating spaces.
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Five seniors win Gates Cambridge Scholarships
Five Princeton seniors have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships, which give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom an opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge.
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Exhibition celebrates 100th anniversary of Lake Carnegie
“O, what a place for a lake!” Those were Andrew Carnegie’s words, according to contemporary reports, when he saw Princeton’s Millstone River Valley. That phrase also is the title of an exhibition marking the centennial of Lake Carnegie that opens Sunday, April 9, in Firestone Library’s Milberg Gallery.
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