June 9, 1997 Volume 86, Number 29 | Prev | Next | Index
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Sis, sis, sis, boom, boom, boom!
Photo by RonCarterAn estimated 12,000 Princetonians -- alumni, students, faculty, staff -- and community members attended the pyrotechnical finale of the University's 250th Anniversary celebration on May 31. Launched on Alumni Day in February 1996, the 250th has been highlighted by "gala celebrations, artistic endeavors, communitity activites and . . . academic conferences," as President Shapiro noted in his Commencement address on June 3.
Awards honor outstanding teachers
Presidential Teaching Awards highlight excellence of Princeton faculty members
The 1997 President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching were presented at Commencement to Miguel Centeno, assistant professor of sociology; Emmet Gowin, professor in the Council of the Humanities and Visual Arts; Gideon Rosen, assistant professor of philosophy; and Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Rosen.
Princeton confers 1,088 bachelors and 606 graduate degrees on June 3
This is my 10th Commencement at Princeton," said President Shapiro from the platform in front of Nassau Hall, "and it's the first time there has been more color out there than there is up here." A ripple of laughter rose from the sea of orange ponchos worn by the students and guests seated on the Front Campus. It was grey, and it was cold, but it was graduation. The rain held off, and good humor prevailed.
Eight join tenured faculty
On June 2, the trustees appointed five full professors to the faculty: Dilip Abreu and Wolfgang Pesendorfer in Economics, Zhigang Suo in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Claudia Tate in English, as of July 1; and T. Kyle Vanderlick in Chemical Engineering as of February 1, 1998. The trustees also promoted three to the tenured rank of associate professor: Bernhard Keimer in Physics, and Michael Orchard and Mordechai Segev in Electrical Engineering.
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