Contents • $55 million gift marks '55's 45th • Professor to teach senior driving course • Antigravity force, methane dwarfs • Harayda to begin as PAW editor • Appointments, promotions, resignations • ERISA information • PU picnic • In print • Grants available • ERISA information • Employment • Calendar

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June 21, 1999 Volume 88, number 30 | Prev | Next | Index    Professor to teach senior driving course Driving is a skill. Like other skills, if you don't use it, you lose it," says Seymour Bogdonoff, R.P. Patterson Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, Emeritus. "A combination of practice and training," he adds, "can make you not only better that you are now, but better than you've ever been." more... $55 million gift marks '55's 45th Peter Lewis, Class of '55, has made a $55 million gift to Princeton, of which $35 million will be used for the new Institute for Integrative Genomics.      Launched last year, the institute will build on the University's strengths in the sciences and engineering to develop a multidisciplinary approach to examining how the actions of different genes are integrated in living organisms. Lewis, chair and CEO of auto insurer Progressive Corp. and a Princeton trustee, made the donation to mark the 45th anniversary of his class's graduation. more... Antigravity force, methane dwarfs Princeton astrophysicists have been involved in recent advances in the study of the universe, including assessement of evidence of acclerating expansion and discovery of a new type of celestial body. more... Harayda to begin as PAW editor Janice Harayda will become editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, effective July 1. Currently vice president for awards at the National Book Critics Circle and author of The Accidental Bride (1999), she was formerly book editor and critic for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. more...      Holidays July 5 and September 6 are University holidays. Offices will be closed; for library, exhibits and athletic facilities, call information numbers listed. People • Professor of Physics Robert Austin, Professor of Mathematics Yakov Sinai and Henry L. Hillman Professor in the Life Sciences Martin Weigert have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. • Graduate students Scott Bruce and David Silverman in History, Elizabeth Guenther in Art and Archaeology, and Julie Park in English have each received a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Nation Fellowship Foundation. • The Harvard University Department of Afro-American Studies has established the Ephraim Isaac Prize in African Studies in honor of Isaac, visiting professor of religion and African American studies, who in 1969 was the first faculty member appointed to that department. • The International Federation of Automatic Control Journal has awarded Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Naomi Leonard its Automatica Prize Paper Award for her article "Stability of a Bottom-heavy Underwater Vehicle" in the March 1997 issue of Automatica. • Higgins Professor of Physics Samuel Treiman has been made a member of the American Philosophical Society. • Professor of Chemistry Warren Warren is the winner of one of the first four Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards created by the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. This award will provide $200,000 over two years to support Warren's work on functional magnetic resonance imaging. • Wayne Wolf, professor of electrical engineering, is the lead presenter in "Video Signal Processors," a new educational video produced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Obituaries of retired employees March: John Clarke, 70 (1975-89, Plasma Physics Lab); George Bentley, 82 (1963-79, Building Services); Ruby Owen, 88 (1956-67, Library); and Henry Pollitt, 75 (1965-83, Maintenance). April: Edward Nielson, 82 (1959-81, Public Safety), and Chris Felsheim, 78 (1959-83, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). May: Joseph Baker, 73 (1959-92, Plasma Physics Lab); J. Dale Herron, 70 (1975-94, Plasma Physics Lab); and Eleanor Olsen, 78 (1965-83, Geosciences).     Retirements Effective April 1: In Dining Services, assistant foreman Charles Hutton, after 29 years. Effective May 1: In Engineering and Applied Science, storeroom attendant Lloyd Banks, after 35 years; in Facilities, senior maintenance technician Harry Mathes, after 38 years, and garage mechanic Gerald Young, after 12 years; and in Building Services, foreman Oscar Watson, after 40 years. Effective July 1: In the Art Museum, technical staff member Barbara Ross, after 35 years. top