What drives currents?
Oceanographer develops simplified model of
ocean flows
Anand Gnanadesikan is never far from the flow of
water.
At home, he and his daughter
Gita like to canoe on Cranbury Brook, which glides
quietly past the backyard of their Plainsboro
house. At work, Gnanadesikan studies ocean
currents, the massive volumes of water that flow
around the globe and regulate the world
climate.
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250th professors focus on teaching
Physicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell and computer
scientist Brian Kernighan will hold the 250th
Anniversary Visiting Professorships for
Distinguished Teaching in 1999-00.
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Mind, Faith and Spirit
On April 8, the University Center for Human
Values sponsored a roundtable discussion in
Richardson Auditorium moderated by broadcast
journalist Bill Moyers.
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Women's Center: place and concept
The Women's Center is both a place and a
concept," says director Susan Overton.
"It's a place where we plan and
offer programming for women undergraduates and
graduate students, and it's a focus for the
collective voice of women on this campus."
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Town meeting
Workers laid carpet to prepare
McCosh 50 for "Crisis in Kosovo: An MSNBC Town
Meeting," to be hosted by NBC anchor Tom Brokaw on
April 20. The program was to feature a panel of
experts commenting on the subject and fielding
questions from an interactive audience of faculty,
students and local residents.
It was canceled less than five
hours before the planned live broadcast, when the
NBC crew was diverted to Colorado to cover breaking
news of a massacre of high school students.
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Bridge
Brother Righteous of the
Universal Zulu Nation (right) was one of the
presenters in a panel discussion at the conference
"Bridging Education and Entertainment: Empowering
the Hip-Hop Generation" in McCosh 50 on April 9.
Seniors Maame Yiadom (l), Bynia Reed and Kasi
Addison were among some 500 people who attended the
program, sponsored by the Program in African
American Studies and the Nubian Rhapsody Group. In
addition to the panel discussion, the conference
included an afternoon film screening and visual
presentation on graffiti and an evening performance
of freestyle dancing, rap and hip-hop. (photos by
Ron Carter)
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People
The Monk/Mingus Ensemble, under
the direction of Anthony D. J. Branker,
visiting associate professor of music, has been
named cowinner of the prize for Best Jazz
Instrumental Group, college division, in the Annual
Down Beat magazine Student Music Awards. The
members of the ensemble include Eli Asher '00;
Charles Baxter and Dan Weiss, Class of '01; Vivek
Mathew '99; graduate students Julian Rosse and Jeff
Viaclovsky; Marissa Steingold '98 and Jason
Widman.
Richard Curtis, director
of the Outdoor Action Program, has received the
program's 1999 Josh Miner '43 Experiential
Education Award.
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Endowed chair
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Michael Doyle
(photo by Denise
Applewhite)
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Michael Doyle, professor of
politics and international affairs (right), has
been named Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics
and International Affairs, as of July 1. Doyle
joined the Princeton faculty as assistant professor
in 1977, went to Johns Hopkins in 1984 and returned
to Princeton as associate professor in 1988.
Promoted to professor in 1990, he has been director
of the Center of International Studies since 1997.
His current research focuses on civil wars and
their resolutions, topics of the Sawyer Seminar he
is directing in the Wilson School and Politics
Department.
Nicholas Katz, professor
of mathematics, and Paul Seymour, professor of
mathematics and applied computational mathematics,
have each been named Henry Burchard Fine Professor
of Mathematics, Katz from September 1 to February
1, 2000 and Seymour from February 1 to July 1,
2000.
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Athletics
Crew. On April 17, the
men's heavyweight defeated Harvard and MIT to
capture its 12th Compton Cup, and the lightweight
outrowed Penn and Navy, and the women's open beat
Yale for the Eisenberg Cup, and the lightweight won
against Wisconsin. (Men: heavyweight: 6-0, 3-0 Ivy;
lightweight: 5-0, 2-0 Ivy; women: open: 5-1, 4-0
Ivy; lightweight: 5-0)
Golf. The women won their
first-ever Ivy League Championship on April 17.
Four of the five Princeton players were named to
the All-Ivy team: individual Ivy champion Julia
Allison '01, Meagan Smith '00, Adrienne Gill '01
and Whitney Lamberson '02. (0-0)
Lacrosse. Both the men
and the women beat Harvard on April 17 (men 12-8,
women 17-5). (Men: 5-3, 4-0 Ivy; women: 10-2, 4-0
Ivy)
Water polo. The Tigers
finished second in the CWPA Mid-Atlantic
championships on April 17-18. (26-6-1, 8-0
CWPA)
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