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Princeton Weekly Bulletin   November 21, 2005, Vol. 95, No. 10   search   prev   next

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Page One
• New neuroscience institute will bridge disciplines, take innovative approach
• Hall at Whitman College will honor class of 1981

Inside
• Colleges offer area’s first higher-ed jobs database
• Jamal takes personalized approach to study of Middle East, Arab-American community

People
• Cohen and Tank to lead new institute
• University Center for Human Values names visiting faculty, fellows
• People, spotlight, appointment

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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New neuroscience institute will bridge disciplines, take innovative approach

By Ruth Stevens

The University is expanding its teaching and research capabilities in neuroscience — considered by many the next field ripe for significant scientific breakthroughs — by launching an institute that will bridge many disciplines and take a new approach to studying the brain and nervous system.

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Hall at Whitman College will honor class of 1981

For the first time at the University, a class that graduated after World War II will have a dormitory named in its honor. The new 1981 Hall, a gift from members of the class of 1981, will be located within the Whitman College residential complex, now under construction, and also will become the first dormitory to honor a co-educational class.

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Colleges offer area’s first higher-ed jobs database

By Cass Cliatt

Twenty-eight New Jersey colleges and universities have teamed up to offer the region’s first online jobs database aimed at helping higher education institutions attract and retain a diverse work force.

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Rabaté appointed full professor

The appointment of Jean-Michel Rabaté as the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature has been approved by the Board of Trustees. Rabaté, whose appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2006, will come from the University of Pennsylvania. This past spring, he was named the inaugural holder of Penn’s Vartan Gregorian Professorship in the Humanities.

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University Center for Human Values names visiting faculty, fellows

The University Center for Human Values and the Program in Ethics and Public Affairs have named their roster of visiting faculty and fellows for 2005-06. The visitors are devoting a year’s residence at Princeton to research, writing and teaching about ethics and human values.

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Cohen and Tank to lead new institute

Jonathan Cohen and David Tank, who have been selected to lead the new Princeton Institute in Neuroscience, come from markedly different backgrounds but share a common vision — facts that make them ideally suited to direct this cross-disciplinary effort.

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Jamal takes personalized approach to study of Middle East, Arab-American community

By Eric Quiñones

In studying political development both in the Middle East and among Arab Americans, Princeton political scientist Amaney Jamal examines key issues through the eyes of ordinary citizens.

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