February 24, 1997 Volume 86, Number 18 | Prev | Next | Index
Princeton University Office of Communications, Stanhope Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544
Road map to the universe
By Kathryn WattersonLaughter, music and not a small amount of hooting and humming can be heard in the basement of Peyton Hall, where a group of gadget-loving astrophysicists and engineers are having the time of their lives. They're beginning to build a road map to the universe that will take them farther and deeper back into time than anyone has gone before.
What they are actually building is an extraordinary camera, the size of a coffee table, and software so complex that it boggles the mind. These instruments, together with a wide-angle telescope in New Mexico and a pair of spectrographs, are going to produce a three-dimensional map of the universe over a thousand times more detailed than ever before created.250th professors excel at teaching
By Justin HarmonThe first two incumbents of new visiting professorships for distinguished teaching at Princeton will be mathematician Frank Morgan of Williams College and historian Teofilo Ruiz of Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. They will be in residence at Princeton during the 1997-98 academic year.
The visiting professorships were established by President Shapiro as part of a set of teaching initiatives announced at the beginning of the 250th Anniversary. The program, known as the 250th Anniversary Visiting Professorships for Distinguished Teaching, aims eventually to support as many as five visiting faculty members each year, spread across all divisions of the University.Blairstown looks like $1.6 million
By Sally FreedmanCampaign finances new buildings, renovations, programs for year-round operation serving 4,000 annually
The Princeton-Blairstown Center is open to program participants again after a short month of downtime between mid-December and mid-January.
Once only a summer camp, Blairstown now operates year-round, hosting nearly 4,000 young people and adults during the fall, winter and spring, in addition to 450 campers each summer, on its 275 acres near the Delaware Water Gap. Among the many people who use the center are members of nonprofit social service agencies, public and independent school groups, churches and community organizations--as well as Princeton student groups affiliated with Outdoor Action, the Student Volunteers Council, the International Center, Freshman Summer Orientation, sports teams, religious groups and others.
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