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Contents
• Tilghman to head
interdisciplinary institute for fundamental
biological research
• Bahcall wins National
Medal of Science
• Dean Wilson to serve
second term
• Graduate student discovers
most distant quasars
• Seniors win Rhodes,
Marshall scholarships
• Why full professor
teaches beginning Chinese
• Employment
• Nassau Notes
• Calendar
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January issue. This issue of the
Princeton Weekly Bulletin covers three weeks,
January 11 through 31. The copy deadline for the
next issue, which covers February 1 through 7, is
January 22.
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Editor:
Sally
Freedman
Associate editor:
Caroline
Moseley
Calendar and production editor:
Carolyn
Geller
Contributing writers:
Mary Caffrey,
Justin Harmon,
Ken Howard,
Maria LoBiondo,
Peter Page
Photographer:
Denise Applewhite
Web edition:
Mahlon
Lovett
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The Bulletin is published weekly
during the academic year, except during University
breaks and exam weeks, by the Communications
Office. Princeton Weekly Bulletin, Stanhope Hall,
Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544.
Permission is given to adapt, reprint or excerpt
material from the Bulletin for use in other media.
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 Genomic
Analysis
Tilghman to head interdisciplinary
institute for fundamental biological
research
Shirley Tilghman, Howard A. Prior
Professor of the Life Sciences, will
oversee planning for and then serve as the
first director of a new multidisciplinary
Institute for Genomic Analysis at
Princeton that will do pioneering research
into fundamental questions in biology
requiring the integration of large amounts
of complex information.
More...
• release
to press also available
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Bahcall wins National Medal of
Science
John Bahcall, visiting
lecturer with rank of professor, was
awarded the National Medal of Science by
President Clinton on December 8.
One of nine
winners this year, Bahcall was cited for
pioneering efforts in neutrino
astrophysics and for his contributions to
the planning of the Hubble Space
Telescope.
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Dean Wilson to serve second term
John F. Wilson, Agate
Brown and George L. Collard Professor of
Religion and dean of the Graduate School
since 1994, has been reappointed to a
second five-year term as dean, starting
July 1, 1999.
The reappointment
was announced by President Shapiro after
approval by the executive committee of the
board of trustees at its December
meeting.
"This is an excellent
appointment for the Graduate School and
the University as a whole," Shapiro said.
"The school has been strengthened under
Dean Wilson's leadership, and I look
forward to his continued service as we
work to further strengthen the school over
the years ahead."
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Graduate student finds farthest
quasars
Sloan Digital Sky Survey's new mapping
technology produces unexpectedly prompt
results
Just a few months after
the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's new
sky-mapping technology began operation,
scientists discovered the two most distant
quasars ever observed.
Princeton
graduate student Xiaohui Fan broke the
news at a December 4 collaboration meeting
at the Department of Energy's Fermi
National Accelerator Lab.
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Why I teach Chinese
Senior professor explains Princeton
anomaly
By Perry Link
Recently I was asked why I
am such an anomaly. Peter Patrikis, who
directs a language-teaching consortium for
the Ivy League schools, noted that two of
my colleagues and I at Princeton are full
professors and yet regularly teach
beginning courses in Asian languages. He
asked me to write this essay explaining
why.
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Steel Orchestra to play MLK Day
The University's
observance of Martin Luther King Day on
January 18 will begin with a 1:00 p.m.
concert in Richardson Auditorium by the
New York Daily News Carribeat CASYM Steel
Orchestra, a group of 50 young people aged
six through 18 that plays reggae, calypso,
pop, jazz and classical music. CASYM is
the Caribbean American Sports and Cultural
Youth Movement.
The group will
also play during the program, which will
start officially at 1:30 p.m. with
recognition of the winners in the poster
contest for grades 4 through 6 and the
essay contest for grades 7 through 12. The
essay topic this year asked students to
look back over the 20th century and select
the most important achievement of the
civil rights or human rights movement, and
then look ahead to the 21st century and
identify the most important thing that
still needs to be done to achieve the
goals of the movement.
The featured
speaker will be Nell Irvin Painter,
Edwards Professor of History and director
of the Program in African American
Studies. The Princeton University Gospel
Emsemble will also perform. •
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People
• In the Plasma
Physics Lab, Long-Poe Ku of the
engineering and scientific staff has been
named Distinguished Engineering Fellow and
principal research physicists William
Wei-li Lee and Ernesto Mazzucato
have been named Distinguished Research
Fellows for 1998.
• The Royal Musical Association in
London awarded Assistant Professor of
Music Robert Wegman the Edward J. Dent
Medal for 1998 in recognition of "an
outstanding contribution and important
original research in musicology."
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Athletics
• Basketball. The
men's team defeated Florida State 50-46 on
December 28, the University of Texas 56-46
on December 29 and UNC Charlotte 47-43 on
December 30, winning the Rainbow Classic.
In the Texas game, Gabe Lewullis '99 went
over the 1,000-point mark for his career.
The women beat La Salle 55-54 on December
29 and Valparaiso 63-57 on December 30 to
win the 1998 First Union Classic. (Men:
8-4 overall, 0-0 Ivy; women: 5-7, 0-0)
• Hockey. The men defeated Boston
University 3-0 on December 28 and Union
3-1 on January 2 but lost to Rensselaer
1-4 on January 3. The women tied Dartmouth
2-2 on January 2 and defeated Boston
College 6-2 on January 3. (Men: 10-3-1,
6-1-1 ECAC; women: 9-4-1, 8-2-1 ECAC,
3-0-1 Ivy) •
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