Princeton
Weekly Bulletin
September 13, 1999
Vol. 89, No. 1


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"They're just smarter"--Genectically altered mice
Kathryn Taylor to direct Alumni Council
Montero to become Brown vp
Princeton launches Society of Fellows
Endowed chairs named; trustees promote seven
Program promotes graduate school
Guide to Public Safety
Community Day
Campus shuttle schedule
People
Obituaries
Calendar
Employment

 


Professors named to endowed chairs

These professors have been named to endowed chairs: Arcadio Diaz-Quiñones, Emory L. Ford Professor of Spanish; Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; F. Duncan Haldane, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics; Gilbert Harman, Stuart Professor of Philosophy; George Kateb, William Nelson Cromwell Professor in the Politics Department; Burton Singer, Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs; and Marta Tienda, Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies. Alexander Polyakov was named Joseph Henry Professor of Physics.

Trustees promote seven

Seven associate professors were promoted to professor by the trustees, effective July 1.

In the Woodrow Wilson School, Aaron Friedberg joined the faculty in 1987 and was promoted to tenure in 1993. He is interested in international security studies, and US foreign and defense policies. His most recent book, "In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and its Cold War Grand Strategy," is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. He directs the Research Program in International Security.

Also in the Woodrow Wilson School, Jeffrey Herbst came to Princeton as lecturer in 1987, and became assistant professor in 1988 and associate professor in 1994. He is director of the Council on Regional Studies as well as of the Program in African Studies. He studies African politics, economic policy-making in the Third World and international political economy.

In the Politics Department, Robert George studies theories of law, natural law theories, constitutional law and theory, and problems of religion and politics. He came to Princeton in 1986 and was promoted to associate professor in 1993. General editor of New Forum Books, a series of works on law, culture and politics, he is also author of In Defense of Natural Law (1999).

M. Sukru Hanioglu of Near Eastern Studies joined the faculty as associate professor in 1992 and received tenure in 1995. He is a specialist in Ottoman history. His book, "Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks 1902-1908," is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

In Electrical Engineering, Sharad Malik studies design automation for digital systems. He teaches courses in logic design, computer-aided design of digital systems and embedded computer systems. At Princeton since 1991, he became associate professor in 1996.

In Electrical Engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute, Mordechai Segev came to Princeton since 1994 and was promoted to tenure in 1997. He studies nonlinear optics and quantum electronics. Current projects involve solitons, nonlinear frequency conversion, nonlinear guided waves, nonlinear dynamics and photorefractive materials. He teaches optical electronics.

A member of the Psychology Department since 1980, Susan Sugarman became associate professor in 1987. Combining her interest in the psychology of ordinary mental life and developmental psychology, she studies human experiences whose nature may become illuminated through the comparison of children and adults. Author of Freud on the Acropolis: Reflections on a Paradoxical Response to the Real (1998), she is currently at work on a book on choice and freedom.