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Name: Evey Wysocki.

Position: Assistant manager in the rent and mortgage department. Disbursing funds to employees approved to borrow under the University Mortgage Loan Program. Maintaining the accounts receivable system for each mortgage. Overseeing payments for rental leases on housing for faculty, staff and graduate students. Managing security deposits.

Quote: “Growing up I always wished I could be a school teacher but with my handicap it wasn’t possible. So being part of an educational environment like Princeton for the past 35 years has been more like a gift than a job. It’s humbling to walk around campus or attend Reunions and other events and know that I am a tiny part of this University. I thank all the helpful and caring employees who have touched my life and made my job a gift to hold on to with pride.”

Other interests: Taking road trips with her mother, Beatrice, all over the United States. Caring for her two dogs, a peek-a-poo and a shih-tzu puppy.

Briefs

The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers has selected Stephen Chou to receive its 2004 Cledo Brunetti Award for his invention of groundbreaking techniques in nanotechnology.

The institute presented the award Dec. 14 at its International Electron Devices meeting in San Francisco. Chou was cited in particular for his invention and development of nanoimprint lithography, a high-speed, low-cost technique for creating structures measured in the billionths of meters. The approach could be used in a wide range of applications involving computer chips, memory and telecommunications devices.

Chou, the Joseph Elgin Professor of Engineering and professor of electrical engineering, came to Princeton in 1997 from the University of Minnesota. His NanoStructure Lab includes more than 15 researchers focused on new fabrication techniques for nanotechnology and new devices that make use of the techniques.

Peter Sarnak has been awarded one of the highest honors in mathematics, the American Mathematical Society’s Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory.

The award, which is given every three years, carries a $5,000 prize and was presented to Sarnak Jan. 6 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, Ga. The American Mathematical Society cited Sarnak for his “fundamental contributions to number theory,” including his book “Random Matrices: Frobenius Eigenvalues and Monodromy,” which he co-wrote with Nicholas Katz, Princeton professor of mathematics.

“The philosophy the book presents has had a major impact on the direction of work in analytic number theory,” according to the society.

Sarnak, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton, also is a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980 and came to Princeton in 1991. He chaired Princeton’s mathematics department from 1996 to 1999.

The American Academy for the Advancement of Science has selected eight Princeton scientists to be fellows of the academy in honor of their contributions toward advancing science or its applications.

The Princeton fellows are among 308 newly selected fellows nationwide. They are Bonnie Bassler, professor of molecular biology; Ravindra Bhatt, professor of electrical engineering; Dale Meade, principal research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Herschel Rabitz, professor of chemistry; Jorge Sarmiento, professor of geosciences; Ned Sauthoff, principal research physicist at PPPL; Thomas Silhavy, professor of molecular biology; and Warren Warren, professor of chemistry.

Matt Brzycki, coordinator of recreational fitness and wellness programs, has been appointed by the governor to serve on the New Jersey Obesity Prevention Task Force. The 27-member group is charged to “develop recommendations for specific actionable measures to support and enhance obesity prevention among New Jersey residents, particularly among children and adolescents.” The group will meet over the course of 18 months and make recommendations that will comprise the basis of the New Jersey Obesity Action Plan, which will be presented to the governor.

Staff obituaries

Current employees

November: Gustav Dreyhaupt, 67 (1969-2004, electrical shop).

Retired employees

August: Margaret Anable, 87 (1966-1982, Woodrow Wilson School); Ellen Andrews, 80 (1961-1978, printing services).

October: Crawford Taylor, 62 (1985-1998, information services); Hugh Smith, 73 (1963-1998, engineering and construction).

November: Lorraine Caywood, 80 (1973-1989, president’s office); Vincent Zernoski, 90 (1959-1983, plasma physics lab).