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The Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foundation has selected
graduate students Kai Ming Adam Chan of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology and Kathleen Purvis of Chemistry
and the Woodrow Wilson School as Teresa Heinz Scholars for
Environmental Research. Research grants of $10,000 each will
support Chan's work on "The Origin and Maintenance of
Biodiversity" and Purvis's "Assessment and Abatement of
Volatile Organic Compound Exposure to Workers in the Paint
Manufacturing Industry of Developing Countries."
Elizabeth Diller, associate professor of
architecture, was among this year's recipients of the John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. She
will share the five- year, $375,000 grant with collaborator
Ricardo Scofidio. Four Princeton PhDs also received
MacArthur fellowships this year: Leslie Kurke (classics,
1988), Juan Maldacena and Eva Silverstein (both physics,
1996), and Jeffrey Weeks (mathematics, 1985).
Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature
Robert Fagles was made a Commander of the Order of
the Phoenix, a cultural honor bestowed by the President of
the Hellenic Republic.
On behalf of the Plasma Physics Lab, director Robert
Goldston, procurement head Rod Templon and small
business liaison Arlene White accepted the Dwight D.
Eisenhower Award from the US Small Business Administration.
In fiscal year 1998 the Plasma Physics Lab subcontracted
nearly $8.6 million and provided smaller firms with almost
$5.6 million of that total.
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