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April 19, 2004
Vol. 93, No. 24
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Contents

Page one
• Senior thesis: A rite of passage
• Proposals presented to curb grade inflation

Senior thesis
• Research gets under the skin
• Performer takes on the role of a lifetime
• Engineer crunches literary data to seek truth about fiction
• Playwright puts new twist on minstrel comedy

Inside
• Increase in student body deferred until fall 2007
• Reality can be stranger than myth when it comes to espionage
• Board approves 14 promotions

Sections
• Calendar of events
• Nassau Notes
• People, spotlight
• By the numbers
 

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Editor: Ruth Stevens
Calendar editor: Carolyn Geller
Staff writers: Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, Steven Schultz
Contributing writers: Dimitra Kessenides, Eric Quinones, Cynthia Yoder
Photographer: Denise Applewhite
Design: Mahlon Lovett, Laurel Masten Cantor, Margaret Westergaard
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett

 

Board approves 14 promotions

 

Princeton NJ -- The Board of Trustees has approved the promotions of 14 faculty members. The faculty members and their departments, by the academic rank to which they are being promoted, are:

Professor -- Elie Tamer, economics, effective July 1, 2004.

Associate professor -- Esther da Costa Meyer, art and archaeology; Craig Dworkin, English; Andrew Feldherr, classics; Mark Hansen, English; Wendy Heller, music; Volker Schröder, French and Italian; Ronnie Sircar, operations research and financial engineering; Barbara White, music. All, with continuing tenure, are effective July 1, 2004.

Assistant professor -- Fengbo Hang, mathematics, effective July 1, 2004; Marcus Prior, Woodrow Wilson School and politics, effective Feb. 1, 2004; Ramin Takloo-Bighash, mathematics, effective July 1, 2004; Julie Taylor, Near Eastern studies, effective Feb. 1, 2004.

Senior lecturer -- Alison Gammie, molecular biology, effective July 1, 2004.

 

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