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Princeton Weekly Bulletin   October 24, 2005, Vol. 95, No. 7   prev   next

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Page One
• Working group issues interim report on diversity
• Task force recommends ways to improve college dining
• Gates: Today’s students will drive the ‘golden age’ of technology

Inside
• New method for trapping light may improve communications technologies
• University to launch mortgage program for low- to moderate-income employees
• Nominations accepted for MLK Journey Award
• New reception area for Admission Office

People
• People, spotlight, appointments

Almanac
• Nassau Notes
• Calendar of events
• By the numbers

 

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Editor: Ruth Stevens
Calendar editor: Carolyn Geller
Staff writers: Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, Eric Quiñones
Contributing writer: Cass Cliatt
Photographers: Denise Applewhite, John Jameson
Design: Maggie Westergaard
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett

 

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People

Photo of: Jennifer Lang

Jennifer Lang

Spotlight

Name: Jennifer Lang.

Position: Electronic resources cataloger at Firestone Library. Cataloging electronic resources, such as Web sites and other resources available via the Internet, databases and other materials on CD-ROM, as well as datasets resulting from public polls and surveys, so that library users can find them by searching the library catalog.

Quote: “Firestone Library is incredible. I never cease to be amazed by the resources we have. Even after a year here I’m still discovering new things when I get lost in the library’s nooks and crannies.”

Other interests: Playing the cello in concerts in the tri-state area. Teaching cataloging as an adjunct professor in the library school at Rutgers University. Making beaded jewelry.

Appointments

Board approves four promotions

The Board of Trustees has approved the promotions of four faculty members.

The faculty members and their departments, by the academic rank to which they are being promoted, are:

Associate professor—Saeed Tavazoie, molecular biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, with continuing tenure, effective July 1, 2005.

Assistant professor—Desmond Hogan, philosophy; Jason Lyall, politics and international affairs; and Kristopher Ramsay, politics. All are for three-year terms beginning July 1, 2005.