Susan Davies (photo: Denise Applewhite)
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Name: Susan Davies.
Position: Operations manager in Dining Services. Responsible for managing the Chancellor Green Café and the Shultz Dining Room in Robertson Hall. Ordering food and supplies. Keeping track of purchases, orders and costs. Evaluating employees. Organizing special events. Responding to customer requests.
Quote: “I get energy by interacting with people in a joyful way, and working at Princeton gives me the opportunity to do that. I’m fortunate to lead strong teams who recognize the importance of creating a positive experience for our clientele.”
Other interests: Cooking. Improvising lyrics to accompany her husband, Joel, while he plays guitar.
Briefs
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has selected three members of the Princeton University community as fellows in recognition of their “efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.”
Richard Hawryluk, deputy director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, was recognized “for pioneering contributions to the physics of deuterium-tritium plasmas, and for outstanding scientific leadership of the experiments on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor.” Hawryluk has worked at the laboratory since receiving his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974. He has been a fellow of the American Physical Society since 1986.
Leonid Kruglyak, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a resident faculty member in Princeton’s Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, was cited “for distinguished contributions to the study of variation in the human genome and for pioneering genetic studies of gene expression variation.” A member of Princeton’s class of 1987, Kruglyak received his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1990 and conducted research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Washington before returning to Princeton in 2005.
Gertrud Schüpbach, the Henry Fairfield Osborn Professor of Biology, was honored “for distinguished contributions to the field of developmental biology, particularly for elucidating maternal genes and molecules that determine embryo polarity and control meiosis in Drosophila.” Schüpbach received her Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 1978 and came to Princeton in 1981. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.
Staff retirements
Effective Sept. 1: in building services, janitor Willie Tye, after 12 years.
Effective Oct. 1: in the locksmith shop, locksmith William Deblois, after 26 years; in health services, mental health clinician Carol Tracy, after 22 years; in the Woodrow Wilson School, office support staff member Karen Williams, after 28 years.
Effective Nov. 1: in human resources, executive director Frederick Clarke, after 16 years; in building services, janitor Inota Dophin, after 18 years; in housing, building custodian Milton Jones, after 10 years; in physics, manager of instructional laboratories Stephen Smith, after 10 years.
Effective Dec. 1: in the library, librarian Mary Chaikin, after 24 years.
Staff obituaries
Current employees
October: Angelo Omega, 46 (1988-2007, dining services)
Retired employees
August: Alice Navin, 82 (1968-1982, Woodrow Wilson School)
September: John McCarthy, 71 (1974-2000, building services)
October: Bessie Tornquist, 94 (1963-1983, printing services)
