From the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, December 15, 1997
Lander, Rosen win highest alumni awards
Two alumni will
receive special honors at Alumni Day, February 21, 1998: biologist
Eric Lander '78 and pianist Charles Rosen '48 *51.
Lander will receive the Woodrow Wilson Award, given to an undergraduate alumnus or alumna distinguished "in the nation's service." He is director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, which is supported by the National Center for Human Genome Research. His group has produced the first genetic maps of the human and mouse genomes.
A mathematics major at Princeton, Lander was a Pyne Prize winner, Rhodes Scholar and class valedictorian. After earning his PhD at Oxford University, he joined the faculty at Harvard Business School. Applying his interest in mathematics to the life sciences, he taught himself biology and molecular biology, and won a 1987 MacArthur Fellowship.
Music and social
thought
Rosen will be awarded the James Madison Medal, recognizing an alumnus or alumna of the graduate school "who has had a distinguished career, advanced the cause of graduate education or achieved a record of outstanding public service."
Professor of Music and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, Rosen is known particularly for his interpretations of Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and Liszt. At Princeton, he majored in Modern Languages and Literatures, the field in which he earned his PhD.
Both award winners will give public presentations on Alumni Day in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. At 10:30 a.m., Lander will speak on "Human Genetics and Human Society: What Does the 21st Century Hold?" At 4:15 p.m., Rosen will give a recital, the program to include Mozart's Minuet in D, Gigue in A Minor and Rondo in A Minor, and "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel" by Brahms.
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