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Board names eight to tenured facultyAt their April 15 meeting, the trustees approved the appointment of one full professor, Athanassios Panagiotopoulos, and the promotion of one assistant professor, Elizabeth Gould, to professor. They also promoted six to associate professor: Bonnie Bassler, Luigi Martinelli, Kenneth Mills, Catherine Peters, Eileen Reeves and Rob Wegman. All appointments are effective July 1. ProfessorsIn the Chemical Engineering Department, Panagiotopoulos specializes in computational engineering. A member of the Cornell University faculty, he has also held the position of professor at the University of Maryland Institute for Physical Science and Technology for the past two years. Panagiotopoulos earned his 1982 diploma in chemical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and his 1986 PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spent a postdoctoral year at Oxford University before going to Cornell as assistant professor in 1987. Promoted to associate professor in 1992, he was named full professor in 1998. Winner of a 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award, he won the Cornell College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award in 1997 and the Prausnitz Award for Achievement in Applied Chemical Thermodynamics in 1998. Author of more than 70 papers in technical journals, he is currently working on "A Web-based Textbook on Molecular Simulation." In Psychology, Gould studies the way nerve cells survive and proliferate in the brain. Among her recent findings is evidence that the adult primate brain generates new neurons or nerve cells in several regions of the cerebral cortex. A 1984 graduate of St. John's University, Gould received her PhD in behavioral neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988 and spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow and five as assistant professor of neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University before joining the faculty at Princeton as assistant professor in 1997. She is the author of numerous articles in scientific journals. Her work has been supported by the National Alliance of Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, among other institutions. Associate professorsIn Molecular Biology, Bassler studies the molecular mechanisms that bacteria use for intercellular communication, especially with regard to quorum sensing, in which, she explains, "bacteria produce and detect hormone-like molecules termed autoinducers that allow them to regulate gene expression in response to changing cell density." She teaches courses on Microbial Diversity and Pathenogenesis for undergraduates and Advanced Microbial Genetics at the graduate level. Bassler earned her 1984 BS in biochemistry at the University of California, Davis and her 1990 PhD at Johns Hopkins University. She was a postdoctoral fellow and then a research scientist at the Agouron Institute in La Jolla, Calif., from 1990 to 1994, when she came to Princeton as assistant professor. Since 1996 she has been a faculty associate of the Princeton Environmental Institute. In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Martinelli's field is computational fluid dynamics, focusing on the development of numerical methods and computer codes for the simulation of viscous flow past complex configurations, with application to aircraft and ship design. Together with A. Jameson of Stanford University, he says, he recently developed a novel adjoint based method for designing optimal wings in viscous transonic flow. Among the courses he teaches are Fluid Dynamics and Mathematical Methods in Engineering. Martinelli received his Laurea at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1981 and his PhD at Princeton in 1987. From 1987 to 1994 he was a member of the research staff and then joined the faculty as assistant professor. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, IBM Corp. and the Department of Defense. Martinelli has published more than 60 papers in professional journals, conference proceedings and reports. In History, Mills studies colonial Latin America and the early modern Spanish world, with a special interest in evangelization and religious and cultural change. Mills earned his 1985 BA and 1988 MA from the University of Alberta in Canada. He received his DPhil from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar from 1988 to 1991. He was a junior research fellow and tutor in Latin American history at Wadham College, Oxford, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Liverpool before coming to Princeton in 1993 as assistant professor. Mills has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center, and he was awarded an honorific preceptorship in 1997. His publications include Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750 (1997), An Evil Lost to View? An Investigation of Post-Evangelisation Andean Religion in Mid-Colonial Peru (1994) and Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History (1998), coedited with W. B. Taylor. He is currently working on parts of a comparative study of Christianization and religious change in the Spanish world between 1450-1700. In Civil and Environmental Engineering, Peters is a member of the Program in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources. Her research interests include processes governing the behavior of multicomponent organic contaminants in the environment, mathematical modeling of the chemistry of pollutants, and remediation techniques for hazardous waste sites. Among the courses she teaches are Introduction to Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry and Enivronmental Risk Assessment and Management. A 1985 graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Peters earned her 1992 PhD in civil engineering and engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan, she came to Princeton as assistant professor of civil engineering and operations research and a faculty associate of the Geosciences Department and Princeton Environmental Institute. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Environmental Protection Agency, among others. In Comparative Literature, Reeves's special areas of interest are early modern scientific literature and journalism. She teaches various courses in early modern literature and cultural interpretation, as well as freshman seminars on Plague Narratives, and Extraterrestrial Life and Literature. She earned her 1979 BA at Whitman College and her 1987 PhD at Stanford University. She joined the faculty at Princeton in 1993 as assistant professor of comparative literature after four years at the University of Pennsylvania in the Romance languages and literature department. Her publications include Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo (1997, paperback 1999). She is currently working on a booklength study of journalistic and astronomical developments between 1600 and 1630, to be called "Evening News: Early Modern Journalism and Astronomy." Reeves has received fellowships from New York University, Harvard and the Huntington Library, among other institutions. In 1996 she was named to an honorific preceptorship. In Music, Wegman's research focuses on medieval and Renaissance music. His recent courses include Music in the United States; A History of Western Musical Aesthetics; and Music, Gender and Sexuality from the Middle Ages to the Present. Born in the Netherlands, Wegman earned BA, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Amsterdam, awarded in 1983, 1986 and 1993. He also holds a 1990 MPhil from the University of Manchester. He came to Princeton as assistant professor in 1995 after four years at Oxford University, first as a junior research fellow and then as a postdoctoral fellow. In 1998 he was named to an honorific preceptorship. Wegman is the author of Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht (1994, paperback 1996) and editor of Music As Heard: Listeners and Listening in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1998) and Choirbook of the Burgundian Court Chapel: Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Manuscript 5557 (1989). Eileen Reeves Bonnie Bassler Luigi Martinelli Kenneth Mills Catherine Peters
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