Princeton
Weekly Bulletin
March 27, 2000
Vol. 89, No. 21
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Editor:
Sally
Freedman
Associate editor:
Caroline Moseley
Calendar and
production editor:
Carolyn
Geller
Contributing writers:
Justin Harmon,
Ken Howard,
Steven Schultz
Photographer:
Denise Applewhite
Web edition:
Mahlon
Lovett
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"Ballet to literature to icons to onion domes"
The Russian Studies Program is a Sputnik-era invention,"
says director Stephen Kotkin, who is also associate
professor of history.
"After Sputnik went up in 1957, there was
a flurry of activity and investment of government funds to
study the Russians, in order to compete more effectively."
Expanding from language teaching into a broader study of the
Soviet Union, Princeton's program was established in the
early 1960s. [>>more]
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Thinking about architecture
"Everything we do is a kind of anomaly," says
MacArthur Fellow Elizabeth Diller
The New York Times calls
Associate Professor of Architecture Elizabeth Diller a
visionary, and the Financial Times of London sees her
as the darling of the American architectural avant garde --
but the hostess at the posh Brasserie in the Seagram
Building in midtown Manhattan calls her Liz.
When a fire destroyed Philip Johnson's
original design for the Brasserie, Diller and her husband,
Ricardo Scofidio, were chosen to create a new interior
worthy of an architectural legend. [>>more]
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Reality in wavelets
Making sense of the world is something
professors (and most people, for that matter) spend
lifetimes doing.
But for Ingrid Daubechies, math
professor and director of the Program in Applied
and Computational Mathematics, this is a somewhat
more literal calling. [>>more]
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Senior thesis leads to Nature paper
In a finding that could benefit the manufacture
of ultra-small electronic devices, Princeton
scientists have discovered a simple and inexpensive
way to make microscopic patterns with particles of
plastic and other materials. [>>more]
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Athletics
Basketball. In their final game
of the season, the men lost to Penn State 55-41 in first
round of the NIT on March 15. (19-11, 11-3 Ivy)
Lacrosse. The women beat
No.2-ranked Duke 11-10 on March 15 and Georgetown 8-6 on
March 18, and the men defeated Hofstra 11-8 on March 18.
(Men: 2-1; women: 3-1, 0-0 Ivy)
Tennis. The men's team defeated
the University of California, Santa Barbara on March 17 and
Claremont Mudd-Scripps on March 18 but lost to Pepperdine on
March 19. The women outplayed Washington State on March 15
and Loyola Marymount on March 18. (Men: 8-5, 0-0 Ivy; women:
8-2, 0-0 Ivy)
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