From the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, April 14, 1997
Board names five professors
At their quarterly meeting on April 4, the University's board of trustees appointed to the faculty five professors: Michael Bender, John Hopfield, Robert Kaster, Marta Tienda and Scott Tremaine.
Michael Bender
Bender, professor of geosciences, is a specialist in biogeochemistry and atmospheric and oceanic sciences. Recent articles among his nearly 100 publications include "Carbon Biochemistry and Climate Change" in Photosynthesis Research and "Climate Interpretation of the Recently Extended Vostock Ice Records" in Climate Dynamics.
A 1965 graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology, Bender earned his PhD at Columbia University in 1970. He was a research associate at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory in 1971-72. Since 1972 he has been a member of the faculty at the University of Rhode Island, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1977 and full professor in 1982. In 1983-84 and 1992-93 he was a visiting researcher at CNRS-CEA in Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Associate editor of Global Biogeo-chemical Cycles, Bender has been a member of the National Science Foundation Ice Core Working Group since 1990 and a member of the Global Ocean Flux Program steering committee since 1985. His professional associations include membership in the American Geophysical Union and the Oceanography Society.
John Hopfield
Hopfield, professor of molecular biology, is a theoretical biophysicist who was previously a professor at Princeton from 1964 to 1980. Among his current interests is biological information processing.
For the past 17 years he was professor of chemistry and biology at California Institute of Technology. From 1993 to 1995 he was chair of the faculty there, and from 1986 to 1991 he chaired the computational and neural systems program.
A graduate of Swarthmore, Hopfield earned his PhD at Cornell University in 1958 and then spent two years as a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. After a year at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, he was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, before first coming to Princeton.
A former Guggenheim Fellow and Sloan Fellow, Hopfield was the winner of a MacArthur Award in 1983 and the APS Prize in Biophysics in 1985, among other awards. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. A trustee of Battelle Memorial Institute, he serves on the editorial boards of Science, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Network and Neural Computation.
Robert Kaster
Kaster has been named Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature. His publications include four books, Studies on the Text of Suetonius 'De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus' (1992) and an edition of the same work (1995, Clarendon Press), The Tradition of the Text of the 'Aeneid' in the Ninth Century (1990) and Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity (1988). Among his current projects are a series of articles on the history of Roman scholarship and education, and a study of children, fathers and teachers in the secular and religious cultures of late antiquity.
An undergraduate at Dartmouth, Kaster earned his MA and his 1975 PhD at Harvard and taught for a year at Colby College. In 1975 he joined the faculty at the University of Chicago, where he became associate professor in 1982 and full professor in 1989. He served as associate dean of the division of humanities in 1993-94 and chair of his department from 1994. In 1991-92 he was a Guggenheim fellow.
Since 1990 Kaster has been associate editor of Classical Philology, where he was a member of the editorial board from 1978. In 1994 he was elected president of the American Philological Association.
Marta Tienda
Tienda, professor of sociology and public affairs in the Sociology Department and the Woodrow Wilson School, is interested in issues of inequality, social demography, ethnicity and immigration, labor markets and education.
She is the author of The Hispanic Population of the United States (with F.D. Bean, 1987) and coeditor of The Drug Connection in U.S. Mexican Relations (1989), Divided Opportunities: Minorities, Poverty and Social Policy (1988) and Hispanics in the U.S. Economy (1985), as well as author or coauthor of some 130 articles, book chapters, reports and reviews. From 1991 to 1995 she was editor of the American Journal of Sociology.
Tienda graduated from Michigan State University and earned her MA and her 1977 PhD in sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. Appointed to the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1976, she was promoted to associate professor in 1980 and professor in 1983. Since 1987 she has been a professor at the University of Chicago, holding the Ralph Lewis Professorship and serving as department chair since 1994. In 1993-94 she was a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow of the Sackler Institute in Tel Aviv.
Tienda has served on many government and private research and review panels and currently serves on committees of the National Research Council, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, National Institutes of Health, National Academy on Aging, and National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Scott Tremaine
Tremaine, professor of astrophysical sciences, is a theoretical astrophysicist whose work focuses on the structure of galaxies and the formation and dynamics of the solar system, including comets and planetary rings.
A graduate of McMaster University in Canada, Tremaine earned his 1973 MA and 1975 PhD at Princeton. After two years as a research fellow at Caltech and one year as a research associate at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, England, he was a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1978 to 1981.
In 1981 he joined the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1985 he became a professor at the University of Toronto in the departments of physics and of astronomy and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics; in 1995 he was named a University Professor. Since 1985 he has been director at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; he will continue to serve as director of the Program in Cosmology and Gravity there.
Tremaine is coauthor with J. Binney of Galactic Dynamics (1987) and author or coauthor of nearly 100 papers in the Astrophysical Journal, Icarus and other journals.
A former Sloan Research Fellow, he is the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the Beals Award of the Canadian Astronomical Society and the Rutherford Medal in Physics of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of Canada, an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Hopfield's appointment began April 1; Bender's and Tienda's begin July 1; and Kaster's and Tremaine's begin September 1.