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"I hope I never have to choose"
Scientific, musical pursuits
fill senior's days and nights
If I have two things
to do and only time for one, I'll do both anyway,"
says Keigo Hirakawa '00, an electrical engineering
major who is also a jazz pianist. In addition to
his BSE, he is earning certificates in computer
science and in music performance.
While his double life has taught
him "a lot about time management," he says, there
are days when time manages him. After spending 10
or 12 hours in the lab, "I practice piano from
midnight to 3:00 am." The secret to being a
full-time electrical engineer and full-time
musician? "I don't sleep much." [>>more]
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Temperature variations
move microdroplets
When Sandra Troian, associate professor of
chemical engineering, published a paper in December
describing a novel way of moving minute amounts of
liquid across very small surfaces, it guaranteed
that her e-mail and phone would be jumping.
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Quasar is again most
distant object
A team of scientists that includes astrophysics
graduate student Xiao-hui Fan has broken the record
for the most distant object observed in the
universe.
Working with data from the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey, they discovered a quasar that
registers higher on the redshift scale than any
other object ever observed. They estimate that the
light from the quasar originated 12 billion light
years from Earth. [>>more]
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Electrician enjoys ups and downs of
job
Ever since he came to the University in 1958,
electrician Renato ("Ronnie") Carazzai has enjoyed
the ups and downs of his job -- the climbing ups
and downs.
In June 1959, at age 22,
Carazzai took on his first Reunions-related job:
helping make and mount the numerical signs that
designate class headquarters. This was a task that
involved scrambling up and down and in and out of a
variety of campus structures. He got such a kick
out of the work that he formulated his long-range
career goal: to make, hang and "enjoy the sight of"
the Year 2000 sign. [>>more]
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Senior to take Labouisse to Durban, South
Africa
Senior Janelle Wright has been awarded
Princeton's 2000-01 Labouisse Fellowship.
She plans to use the $15,000
grant to go to Durban, South Africa, to assist in
the establishment of a community-based development
corporation.
Wright's project involves
studying community-based developers to create an
informed model for resident involvement in a
proposed corporation in the Southern Pinetown area.
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It's a match
Richard Vierbuchen (r), director of Esso House
in England, and Edward Ahnert, president of
ExxonMobil Education Foundation, presented a check
for $200,000 to Richard Spies, vice president for
finance and administration, and William Hardt,
director of Annual Giving, on April 28. The check
represented ExxonMobil's three-to-one contribution
in matching funds to donations made to Princeton by
ExxonMobil employees over the past year. Ahnert
holds a 1971 MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School,
and Vierbuchen a 1979 PhD in geological and
geophysical sciences. (Photo by Denise
Applewhite)
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People
Edmund Keeley, Charles Barnwell Straut
Class of 1923 Professor of English, Emeritus, and
professor of English and creative writing,
emeritus, has been honored by the PEN American
Center with a 2000 Career Achievement Award. He
will receive the Ralph Manheim Medal for
Translation, acknowledging "an exceptional body of
work by a literary translator."
Saul Kripke, Emeritus Professor of
Philosophy, has been inducted into the Norwegian
Academy of Sciences.
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Ishikawa in Princeton
Masanori Tanimoto (r), governor of Japan's
Ishikawa Prefecture, and Ann Marie Lew '01, examine
crafts from Ishikawa. The exhibit in Jones Hall was
part of events celebrating Princeton in Ishikawa, a
language program sponsored by the Ishikawa
Prefectural Government and the East Asian Studies
Program. Lew is among the students of Japanese
language who will travel this summer to Japan to
participate in the eight-week intensive program.
(Photo by Denise Applewhite)
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Athletics
Baseball. Princeton clinched its fifth
consecutive Gehrig Division championship with an
April 30 win 7-4 over Cornell. (21-17 overall, 13-7
Ivy)
Crew. On April 29, the men's heavyweight
beat Cornell to win its 10th consecutive Carnegie
Cup, the women's open outrowed Penn and Dartmouth,
and the women's lightweight defeated Radcliffe.
(Men's heavyweight: 8-1, 3-1 Ivy; women's open:
9-1, 6-1 Ivy; women's lightweight: 3-1, 2-0
Ivy)
Lacrosse. The men beat Dartmouth 10-7 on
April 29, clinching their sixth straight Ivy League
championship. The women lost to No. 1 Maryland 14-6
on April 26 but defeated Brown 10-9 on April 29.
(Men: 9-2, 6-0 Ivy; women: 13-3, 6-1 Ivy)Water polo
(women's). Princeton won its firstever Eastern
Championship with a 6-4 victory over UMass in the
title game on April 30. (24-3, 8-0 CWPA)
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