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Princeton Atelier brings choreographer
Martine van Hamel to campus
Like a fantasy
class
By Sally Freedman
This is like a fantasy class for me,"
says Deborah Way '98. "American Ballet Theatre was one of
the companies I dreamed of working with when I considered
dancing as a career."
Now an economics major, Way
has a job waiting for her on Wall Street when she graduates,
but this semester she is participating in the Princeton
Atelier offered in collaboration with American Ballet
Theatre (ABT). This innovative course involves not only
lectures and seminars but also a strong studio component: a
three-week ballet workshop with choreographer Martine van
Hamel and members of the ABT Studio Company.
The Princeton Atelier program
was created by Toni Morrison, Robert F. Goheen Professor in
the Humanities.
As she describes it, the
program "brings professional artists to the University for
intensive, in-residence collaborative projects with students
and faculty. Artists who lead an Atelier seminar select a
project that they want to watch unfold, examine or
experiment with -- in the company of students -- before
developing it for the professional art
world." ...
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Choreographer Martine van Hamel (c) auditions students
for Princeton Atelier. (Photo: Rosalie O'Connor/courtesy
American Ballet Theatre)
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Library begins to
create unified catalog
By Justin Harmon
The library has begun the process of
creating a unified database of its holdings. Using $4
million in special funding identified by the provost,
Princeton has contracted with OCLC, a nonprofit membership
organization that provides online services to libraries, to
create new records for 1.5 million titles not represented in
the current Online Catalog. (Most of these are currently
accessible as digital images in the Electronic Card
Catalog.)
OCLC will add to these records
"shelf-list" information on actual holdings (numbers of
volumes, locations) currently maintained on cards in drawers
in Firestone. These new records will then be merged with the
1.3 million existing records in the Online
Catalog. ...
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Grafton documents
"curious history"
By JoAnn Gutin
The Footnote: A Curious History,
by Dodge Professor of History Anthony Grafton, has been
getting press coverage that John Grisham might envy. In the
past few weeks alone, the book been reviewed in both the
daily and Sunday New York Times, the Wall Street
Journal, New Republic and Times Literary Supplement,
to name only a few.
Why all this popular attention
to a slim, scholarly book on an arcane subject?
The Footnote is a
serious work of historiography that traces the growth of
scholarly documentation from its origins in ancient church
history to the present. ...
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Students to work with local teachers and
their classes to create Web-based environmental science
lessons
Creating science lessons
Students in the chemistry class From
Ozone to Oil Spills met with 6th grade science teachers from
Princeton, Trenton and West Windsor on February 19 as part
of the Pathways project.
During the course of the
semester, groups of three or four Princeton students will be
working with the teachers and their classes to create
Web-based environmental science lessons, which will be
available for viewing at a May 11 symposium in Kresge
Auditorium. Ari Altman '97, a recent graduate of the Teacher
Preparation Program, is coordinating the project and working
with Pathways staff to integrate the lessons into the
education program of the Trenton-based Invention
Factory. ...
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Pictured are Sheree Rockford of West
Windsor-Plainsboro Upper Elementary School (l), Kim Dasher
'01, Clare Levy '01, Sharon Zubricky of West
Windsor-Plainsboro Upper Elementary, Laura Hahn '01 and Emma
Bloomberg '01.
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Wavelets help
retrieve images
By JoAnn Gutin
Dancing babies may be all the rage among computer
graphics buffs, but Adam Finkelstein goes for a different
kind of visual on his screen: Georgia O'Keefe's cattle
skulls, for instance, or the "Breaking Wave" of 19th-century
Japanese artist Hokusai or the ubiquitous Warhol portrait of
Marilyn Monroe.
These iconic images are among
those that Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Finkelstein uses in the video demo of the new computer
program he developed with colleagues at the University of
Washington before coming to Princeton last
spring. ...
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Nassau
Notes
Art Museum exhibits photographs ... Technology Fair to
help users [direct link to Fair home
page] ... Symposium discusses war, literatures,
Pan-Americanism [direct link to more
information about the symposium] ... University
League open house
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