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Name: Debbie Bazarsky.
Position: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender student services coordinator and assistant to the dean of undergraduate students. Advocating for the needs and concerns of LGBT students. Creating social, educational and supportive programming about issues of concern to LGBT students for all members of the University community.
Quote: "My role is to develop support services on campus and to provide programming, but I also get to meet with students one-on-one. The students are wonderful -- that's the best part of my job."
Other interests: Working on multicul-tural issues and LGBT issues with a variety of national and local groups. Hiking, reading and writing poetry.
Appointments
Beth McKeown has assumed the new role of community programs coordinator in the Graduate School.
She is responsible for the implementation of student life programs and services to enhance the experience of community among graduate students living at the University's Butler and Lawrence apartments. Lisa Sherov fulfills a similar role as residence life coordinator for the Graduate College.
McKeown earned her M.A. in education in June from Stanford University. She was an intern in the Office of Student Activities and a graduate student assistant in the School of Education at Stanford.
A graduate of the University of California-Davis, McKeown taught elementary school for four years in San Diego and Sacramento.
She lives in the Lawrence Apartments.
Briefs
Mark Cohen, professor of Near Eastern studies, has been elected to the American Academy for Jewish Research, the oldest organization of Judaic scholars in North America.
Members are nominated and elected by their peers and therefore constitute the most distinguished scholars teaching Judaic studies at American universities. He joins Princeton colleagues Abraham Udovitch and Bernard Lewis as members of the organization.
Cohen, who is in his 30th year of teaching at Princeton, studies the history of Jews and Muslims in the Middle Ages. He directs the Princeton Geniza Project, which was established in the mid-1980s to create an online, searchable database of documents that deal with the daily life of the Jewish community in Cairo and other places in the Mediterranean from the 11th to 13th centuries.
Cohen is a member of the executive committee of Princeton's Program in Judaic Studies, a group he led for 13 years and which currently is directed by Professor Froma Zeitlin. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he also earned his Ph.D. He has won two National Jewish Book Awards, the most recent honor for "Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages," (Princeton University Press, 1994), which has been translated into Hebrew and Turkish.
Technology Review magazine selected Ron Weiss, assistant professor of electrical engineering, for its 2003 list of 100 leading young innovators.
The magazine, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, cited Weiss for his efforts to program cells to perform sensing and tissue-building functions on command. Weiss is developing standardized sets of genes that function like circuits in an electronic device. When inserted into a cell, the genes would respond to signals and trigger other circuits according to a logical program. Such programmed cells could be used to detect and pinpoint toxins in the environment or repair tissues within the human body.
Weiss came to Princeton in 2001 after receiving his Ph.D. from MIT.
John Bahcall, a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting lecturer with rank of professor at Princeton, has been named one of three winners of the Enrico Fermi Award.
The honor, announced by U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, is a presidential award that recognizes scientists of international stature for their lifetimes of exceptional achievement in the develop- ment, use or production of energy.
Bahcall and Raymond Davis Jr., a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, were cited "for their innovative research in astrophysics leading to a revolution in understanding the properties of the elusive neutrino, the lightest known particle with mass." Seymour Sack of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory also will be honored "for his contributions to the national security of the United States in his work assuring the reliability of nuclear weapons."
The awards will be presented Wednesday, Oct. 22.
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