Princeton Weekly Bulletin December 12, 2005, Vol. 95, No. 12 search prev next
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• Center embraces discovery across the natural sciences
• Students gain scientific savvy in popular biology course for humanities majors
Inside
• Programs range from beginnings of universe to future of computing
• Kang works to pinpoint cause of cancer spread
• Fuss explores influence of environment on writers
• Nine presidents issue statement reaffirming gender equity commitment
People
• Snowden to retire after serving four decades and four presidents
• Gruschow named assistant to the president
• Recommendations of Task Force on Health and Well-Being lead to appointments
• People, spotlight
Almanac
• Nassau Notes
• Calendar of events
• By the numbers
Center embraces discovery across the natural sciences
The University has established a new center to promote the exploration of frontiers in the theoretical natural sciences. Beginning in fall 2006, the Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics will bring together faculty, postdoctoral fellows and students from science departments across campus to study topics ranging from the Big Bang to quantum computing to evolution.
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Students gain scientific savvy in popular biology course for humanities majors
Princeton NJ — Freshman Emily Miller never thought fulfilling her science requirement would be so much fun: Imagine getting to clone some of your own DNA, replicating part of a Nobel Prize-winning experiment or actually staying awake — and understanding! — when your professor starts talking about things like “cell differentiation” and “genome codes.”
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Snowden to retire after serving four decades and four presidents
In 1961, 21-year-old Marcia Snowden was looking for a job after completing her associate’s degree at Keystone Junior College in La Plume, Pa. Snowden, who retires this month as assistant to the president, has what President Emeritus Robert Goheen terms “golden durability.” “Service to four Princeton presidents over a span of more than three decades …”
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Programs range from beginnings of universe to future of computing
The yearlong thematic programs planned by the Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics will be developed from proposals by faculty members interested in exploring significant problems in the natural sciences that require expertise from a number of disciplines. The center’s faculty fellows will team with other interested faculty members, who will be in residence in the center for the duration of the programs.
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Kang works to pinpoint cause of cancer spread
Molecular biologist Yibin Kang has received a $3.8 million Era of Hope Scholar Award to continue his research on the molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis. The five-year survival rate for women with early-stage breast cancer is 98 percent, according to the American Cancer Society. For those with a late-stage form of the disease, the rate falls dramatically to 26 percent. “One reason is that we really don’t know much about metastasis,” said Yibin Kang …
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Fuss explores influence of environment on writers
Scholars of great literature often are intrigued by questions that lie outside the pages of the text. For English professor Diana Fuss, one question that consumed her was: Where did my favorite writers write? To find the answers, Fuss wrote “The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms That Shaped Them,” a study of the living and writing spaces of four well-known authors.
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Nine presidents issue statement reaffirming gender equity commitment
President Tilghman has joined her counterparts at eight other premier research universities in reaffirming their commitment to gender equity in higher education. The presidents of Princeton, Harvard, Stanford and Yale universities, the universities of California-Berkeley, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and the California and Massachusetts institutes of technology, issued a statement on Dec. 6.
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