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Princeton Weekly Bulletin   April 17, 2006, Vol. 95, No. 23   search   prev   next

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Page One
• Admission offers go to 10.2 percent of applicants
• The senior thesis

The senior thesis
• Challenging issues of identity in the art world
• Fueling a start-up company
• Surveying views on work-family balance

Inside
• Renzo Piano selected to design neighborhood at University Place and Alexander Street
• Six new faculty members appointed

People
• Staff appointments, promotions
• Spotlight

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 writers: Cass Cliatt, Karin Dienst, Teresa Riordan
Photographers: Denise Applewhite, John Jameson
Design: Maggie Westergaard
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett

 

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People

Photo of: John Ziegler

John Ziegler (photo by Denise Applewhite)

 

Spotlight

Name: John Ziegler

Position: Assistant to the vice president for facilities. Serving as project director for the construction of Whitman College, the University’s sixth residential college. Coordinating with project managers, field managers, architects, engineers, contractors and other parties on a wide range of issues related to the Whitman construction.

Quote: “After 13 years of working as an architect I went back to school to earn an MBA. Working at a premier institution like Princeton allows me to incorporate both my architecture and management backgrounds in an unprecedented way — you don’t get the opportunity to do this just anyplace.”

Other interests: Camping with his wife, Patricia, and their 12-year-old daughter, Olivia. Woodworking. Landscaping and gardening.