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May 25, 1998 | Volume 87, number 28 | Index

Right place, right time for Remaking Eden
By Caroline Moseley

I was in the right place at the right time," says Professor of Molecular Biology Lee Silver, author of the provocative and highly readable Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World (1997).
    The book updates readers on the current state of reproductive technology and genetic technology and peers into the future of what Silver terms "reprogenetics" -- the "very powerful" combination of reproductive and genetic technologies. ...

Fourteen faculty members transferred to emeritus status

Russell Banks came to Princeton in 1982 as lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Creative Writing. Tenured in 1990, he was named ...

Obituary

Bernard Dwork, 74, Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus

Lee Silver

Paula Chow (l) with Hanna Hand and Lisa Linn at the International Center

International Center: "A Place for Us All"
By Caroline Moseley

They used to be called "foreign students." Now they are "international students," and this year there are almost 900 of them, undergraduates and graduate students, studying at Princeton. Add to that approximately 200 visiting scholars -- many with spouses -- and you have a sizable international community. The focus of their social, and often intellectual, life on campus is the International Center, now headquartered in Stevenson Hall at 91 Prospect St. ... 

James McPherson (l)
with Adult School students

Adult School attracts University faculty
By Pam Hersh

I laughed; I cried; I had my brain cells nourished. What more could anyone ask?" said Princeton resident Jan Weinberg, as he digested a "feast" for the mind -- a lecture by author Joyce Carol Oates, Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities.
    Oates served her feast not in a University lecture hall to University students, but rather in the auditorium of Princeton High School to students of all ages enrolled in the Princeton Adult School. Oates was one of a dozen University faculty members who contributed their time and talents to what Adult School participants called a "fabulous," "priceless" program. ...

Mosaic crew cleaning a panel, Antioch excavations, 1936

100 Years of Princeton archaeology

With what enthusiasm men undergo hardships, inspired by the hope of adding to the sum of the world's knowledge and . . . by the love of adventure and discovery," enthused Richard Stillwell '21 in a 1905 issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
    He was reporting on an expedition to Syria, one of several represented in "The Archaeological Experience, 1898-1998," an exhibit of images from the Art and Archaeology Department's collection of research photographs, on display in the first floor lounge of McCormick Hall through August. ...