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Commencement 2000
Princeton conferred a total of 1,730 bachelor
and advanced degrees at its 253rd Commencement on
May 30. There were 576 men and 524 women from the
Class of 2000 awarded undergraduate degrees, 929
bachelors of arts and 171 bachelors of science in
engineering. In addition, five BAs were awarded to
candidates from earlier Princeton classes.
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Princeton honors teaching
President's Award recognizes outstanding
faculty. Four faculty members received the 2000
President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching at
Commencement: Oliver Arnold, Peter Brown, Amy
Gutmann and Howard Taylor. [>>more]
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APGA gives prizes to graduate asssitants in
instruction
The Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni
(APGA) gave its year 2000 awards for excellence in
graduate student teaching to Virgil
Moorefield of the Music Department, John
Naud of Physics, Roman Shimanovich of
Chemistry and Kimberlee Weaver of
Psychology. In addition, the Friends of the
International Center have made possible a new prize
to be awarded each year to an international
graduate student; this year's prize goes to
Andromache Karanika of Classics. [>>more]
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Secondary school teachers win awards for
excellence
At Commencement Princeton honored four
outstanding secondary school teachers from the
state of New Jersey: English teachers Agnes
Colaneri of Emerson High School and Julius
Gottilla of Cranford High and math teachers
Gerald Lamb of Livingston High School and
Linda Penney of Cranbury School. Each
teacher received an award of $5,000, and each of
their schools received $2,500 for library books.
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Trustees appoint four to tenured faculty
At its quarterly meeting on May 29, the trustees
appointed professors John Borneman and
Paul Krugman to the faculty and promoted
assistant professors William Gleason and
Molly Greene to tenure as associate
professor. [>>more]
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Ostriker, Koehler, Sather to provide interim CIT
leadership
On July 1, Ira Fuchs, vice president for
computing and information technology, will become a
vice president at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
He will continue parttime in the role of senior
technology adviser to President Shapiro. Provost
Jeremiah Ostriker will assume more direct
responsibility for leadership of Computing and
Information Technology, with two of CIT's
directors, David Koehler and Steven Sather, while a
national search for a new vice president for CIT is
conducted. [>>more]
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CD celebration
Graduate students Cynthia Rudin (l), Manjul
Bhargava, Elizabeth Brittle and Adrian Banner
celebrated the release of Joan Lippincott and
Friends, a CD issued to mark the Graduate
School Centennial. Featuring University organist
Joan Lippincott and graduate student musicians on
piano, computer, ocarina, trumpet and other
instruments, the CD includes music ranging from
Bach and Vivaldi to Indian raga; it was recorded
during a concert performance in Procter Hall on
February 4. Ordering information is available at
www.princeton.edu/~gradcol/cd.
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