December 8, 1997 Volume 87, Number 12 | Prev | Next | Index
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For the sake of learning
By Caroline MoseleyPilot program of noncredit sophomore workshops
offers eclectic mix of choices"An opportunity to learn just for the sake of learning" -- that's how Jocelyn Hittle '00 characterizes the Sophomore Workshops, a new program of short noncredit courses, held in the residential colleges and offered only to sophomores.
Gift establishes Heyer graduate art fellowship
The Brown Foundation Inc. of Houston, Texas, has given the University $750,000 to establish an endowed graduate fellowship in American/modern art history. The grant complements the foundation's previous gift of an endowed chair to the Art and Archaeology Department.
Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania (at microscope) views an integrated optical delay line, an essential component of high-speed optical switches being researched for use in the next-generation Internet, while graduate student Paul Tolliver (r) observes.
At the invitation of U.S. Rep. Mike Pappas of New Jersey's 12th District (l), Weldon visited the lab of Professor of Electrical Engineering Paul Prucnal (second from l) as part of a tour of the School of Engineering and Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on November 21.
Weldon chairs the House Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, of which Pappas is a member. The Department of Defense funds Prucnal's research. At the E-Quad, Pappas and Weldon also observed work by electrical engineering professors James Sturm, director of the Center for Photonics and Opto-Electronic Materials, and Professor Stephen Forrest, chair of Electrical Engineering.
On November 24 President Shapiro (r) received a well traveled banner from astronaut Gregory Linteris, who took the banner on the Space Shuttle in April 1997. MAE professors Chung King Law (l) and Frederick Dryer were on hand to mark the event. Linteris, a member of the Class of 1979 with a 1990 PhD in mechanical and aerospace engineering, was payload specialist for the Microgravity Science Lab-1 (MSL-1) package, which flew in April and again in July.
MSL-1 incorporated experiments involving several Princeton alumni, graduate alumni and faculty members, including Dryer, Physics Professor Paul Chaikin and Marks Professor of Chemical Engineering William Russel. The banner was handmade on silk by Laurel Cantor, director of creative services in the Communications Department.
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