February 16, 1998 | Volume 87,
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Of experimental
mice and men Shortly after neuroscientist Joe Tsien came to Princeton last August to take up his new job as assistant professor of molecular biology, he got a DHL delivery from Boston. The package was an ordinary cardboard animal shipping crate -- air holes, containers of jelly-like liquid food -- but if the shippers had taken the value of the contents into consideration, they would have used a blue Tiffany box. ... |
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11-year alum endows computer science chair Phillip Goldman '86, cofounder of WebTV
Networks Inc., and his wife Susan have made a $2 million
gift to establish an endowed chair in the Department of
Computer Science. |
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Program provides wide range of academic and performance opportunities By Caroline Moseley Jazz -- America's best-known
indigenous art form -- is a vital presence on the
Princeton campus. |
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United Way campaign raises over $118,400 This year's United Way campaign chair
Joseph Williamson, dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel,
presented a check for $118,424 to Randy Ingbritsen (second
from l), senior division manager of the United Way of
Greater Mercer County, at a February 5 reception. "The
amount raised surpassed last year's total and represents one
of the highest in United Way campaign history," Williamson
noted. The total included $85,722 from faculty and staff on
the main campus and $18,709 from Plasma Physics Lab
employees, plus a University contribution of 10 percent for
regular donations and 15 percent for payroll deduction. |
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"We focus on the
individual" You can't go to school to learn the business of financial
aid," says Robin Moscato, associate director in the Office
of Undergraduate Financial Aid. "You just have to do
it -- and do it with both your head and your
heart." |
Princeton Editor: Sally
Freedman |
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