November 10, 1997 | Volume 87, number 9 | Prev | Next | Index
Princeton University Office of Communications, Stanhope Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544"Integration now!"
The old civil rights slogan describes a direction formally articulated in 1994, when a faculty-student Committee on Diversity and Liberal Education recommended that Princeton address burgeoning interest in ethnic studies by fundamentally redesigning its existing framework for the study of American culture and society.... Three years later, Wilentz and his faculty colleagues in the Program in American Studies have created a new "flagship" course meant to elicit the interest of freshmen and sophomores in the intellectual questions posed by this comparative perspective, revamped the core course and established a host of new advanced courses that cross disciplinary boundaries.
Bluegrass group, Mixed Blood (below), performs for students in course on American Classics. (Photograph by Susan Geller)
Board names, promotes two professors
At its quarterly meeting on November 1, the board of trustees appointed one new full professor to the tenured faculty: Stephen Chou, Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering. Chou, who specializes in nano-technology, is currently professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Michael Celia of Civil Engineering and Operations Research was promoted to professor as of July 1. A member of the faculty since 1989, Celia is a graduate of Lafayette College who earned his PhD at Princeton in 1983. His research interests include subsurface hydrology and ground-water contamination, with an emphasis on computational methods for complex contamination problems. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on ground-water hydrology and computer simulation methods.New award to recognize staff service
A new award, the President's Achievement Award, is designed to recognize members of the University's support and administrative staffs who, thorough outstanding dedication and excellent work, have made significant contributions to the success of their department and to the University.Building for the future
A checklist of major campus building projects currently under way.
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