Autonomous yet coordinated
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Researchers try to make "intelligent whole"' from
"relatively dumb individuals"
Associate professor Naomi
Leonard is part of a project to build a fleet of underwater
vehicles that emulate the autonomous yet coordinated motion
of a school of fish.
The project, funded by a $2.6
million grant from the National Science Foundation, aims to
integrate disparate areas of research, from biologists who
will analyze schools of fish to engineers who will develop
strategies for coordinating groups of man-made vehicles. The
research is expected to culminate three years from now in
testing a fleet of a dozen underwater vehicles in DeNunzio
Pool. [>>more]
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as music librarian
Paula Morgan came to Princeton as music librarian in September 1964. Most of her tenure was spent in the subterranean recesses of Firestone Library's C floor,but since 1997 the music collection has been housed in the Scheide Music Library in the Woolworth Center of Musical Studies. The spacious new quarters are still "a daily delight," she says. [>>more]
Fitness center users sweat in style
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It replaces -- in style -- the former fitness center, which closed for renovation last summer.
The reaction of the assembled cyclists, weight lifters and stair climbers ranged from enthusiastic to wildly enthusiastic. Said Carolyn Hoeschele, web specialist for CIT, as she pedaled vigorously on a new stationary cycle, "This place is really cool!" Sam Rosenberg '03, doing some impressive stretches, concurred: "This is great. So much better than the old fitness room -- all new equipment." [>>more]
Dream brings together actors, orchestra, singers
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There are the aristocratic couples Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius; the feuding king and queen of the fairies, Oberon and Titania; and the illstarred lovers of the play-within-a-play, Pyramus and Thisbe. Presiding are Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his Hippolyta. [>>more]
Y2Kupid works for graduate students
"Y2Kupid: A Valentine for the New Millennium" was a dance
sponsored bythe Graduate Student Government (GSG) at
Stevenson Clubhouse on February 12.
The locale featured not only a
dance floor and a downstairs bar but also "an upstairs
library where love match lists were distributed and tarot
cards read," said Ann Morning, graduate student in
Sociology. [>>more]
People
• John Conway, John Von Neumann Professor in
Applied and Computational Mathematics, has won the American
Mathematical Society's 2000 Leroy P. Steele Prize for
Mathematical Exposition "in recognition of his many
expository contributions in automata, the theory of games,
lattices, coding theory, group theory and quadratic
forms."
• W. Jason Morgan, Knox Taylor Professor of
Geography, was named winner of the 2000 G. Unger Vetlesen
Prize, along with Walter Pitman and Lynn Sykes of Columbia's
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The three men were honored
as key architects of plate tectonic theory. The prize, which
recognizes "achievement in the sciences resulting in a
clearer understanding of the earth, its history or its
relation to the universe," is awarded by the trustees of
Columbia University in association with the Georg Unger
Vetlesen Foundation.
Retirements
• Effective November 1: In the Utility Plant, senior
shift operating engineer Arthur Allen, after 17
years.
• Effective January 1: In Administrative Services,
production coordinator Ann Candelori, after 33
years.
• Effective February 1: In the Utility Plant, utility
plant engineer Joseph Wilson, after 37 years; and in
Career Services, associate director William Corwin,
after 17 years.
• Effective March 1: In the Utility Plant, assistant
chief utility plant engineer James Skillman, after 38
years.
Athletics
Basketball. Though the men lost to Pennsylvania
55-46 on February 15, both male and female Tigers outplayed
Columbia on February 18 (men 81-52, women 62-44) and Cornell
on February 19 (men 79-43, women 46-42). (Men: 15-9, 7-2
Ivy; women: 6-17, 3-6 Ivy). Both the men's and women's teams
defeated Pennsylvania on February 16. (Men: 10-3, 2-0 Ivy;
women: 13-2, 3-0 Ivy)
Hockey. The men outplayed Dartmouth 5-2 on February
20. (Men: 9-12-3, 7-7-3 ECAC, 4-1-2 Ivy; women: 10-10-5,
8-9-3 ECAC, 4-4-0 Ivy)
Squash. The men lost to Trinity on February 19 but
won against Franklin and Marshall on February 20; the women
defeated Trinity but fell to Pennsylvania to place second at
the Howe Cup on February 16. (Men: 9-1, 6-0 Ivy; women: 9-1,
5-1 Ivy)
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