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Princeton Weekly Bulletin   March 6, 2006, Vol. 95, No. 18   search   prev   next

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Page One
• Scholars in the Nation’s Service
• Christensen named to State Dept. post
• Muldoon to lead new creative, performing arts center

Inside
• Bernanke: Stable prices key to economic growth
• Alumni Day: Top students honored with highest awards
• Student is finalist for hockey humanitarian award

People
• Lam elected to engineering academy
• Spotlight, briefs

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: Karin Dienst
Photographers: Denise Applewhite, John Jameson
Design: Maggie Westergaard
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett

 

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Scholars in the Nation’s Service

The University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs has created a highly selective “Scholars in the Nation’s Service” initiative to encourage more of the nation’s best and brightest students to pursue careers in the U.S. federal government, especially in the international relations arena.

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Christensen named to State Dept. post

The White House and the U.S. State Department have selected Thomas Christensen, Princeton professor of politics and international affairs, as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs with responsibility for China, Taiwan and Mongolia. Pending the appropriate clearances, he is scheduled to assume the office this summer.

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Muldoon to lead new creative, performing arts center

By Ruth Stevens

Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a Princeton faculty member since 1990, has been selected as the founding chair of the new University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.

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Lam elected to engineering academy

Sau-Hai (Harvey) Lam, the Edwin Wilsey ’04 Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which is among the highest honors of the engineering profession.

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Top students honored with highest awards

By Ruth Stevens

The University recognized the winners of the highest honors it awards to students at Alumni Day ceremonies Saturday, Feb. 25. Seniors Jeremy Golubcow-Teglasi and James Williams shared the University’s Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, and graduate students Liang Feng, Guy Geltner, Gerard Passannante and David Shih were honored as co-winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship.

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Bernanke: Stable prices key to economic growth

By Eric Quiñones

Returning to the University for his first public policy address as Federal Reserve chair, Ben Bernanke stressed that stable prices are the key to economic and job growth — endorsing the path charted by predecessors Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker.

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Student is finalist for hockey humanitarian award

Princeton senior and men’s ice hockey goaltender Eric Leroux has been named one of seven finalists for the 2006 Hockey Humanitarian Award. The award annually recognizes an outstanding college hockey player, male or female, who shows a strong commitment to community, team and academics.

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