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Contents
• Tracking
biodiversity
• Former Prince editor
wins Sachs
• What is risky
business?
• Students to host
bioethics conference featuring Wilmut
• United Way campaign
raises $148,000
• Envisioning
Paradise
• Enterprise of
lifetime
• MD governor adopts
student program
• Nassau Notes
• Employment
• Calendar
of Events
• Athletics
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  Tracking
biodiversity
New finding overturns established
wisdom about effect of light gaps on plant
species
By Steven Schultz
A painstaking effort to track every
square inch of plant life in large patches
of tropical forests has started to produce
significant discoveries in ecology.
Stephen Hubbell,
professor of ecology and evolutionary
biology, is using this research to answer
fundamental questions about what factors
come into play in maintaining the
diversity of life on Earth.
Hubbell's latest
finding overturns one of the bedrock
beliefs among ecologists about what allows
tropical forests to maintain such a
dazzling variety of tree species.
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Students to host bioethics conference
featuring Wilmut
When Daniel Powell '00 was reading
articles by some of the great thinkers in
the field of bioethics last year, he had a
chance to do something few other students
can do. He called them up and asked them
to come talk about their work. Amazingly,
they all said yes.
Powell is one of the
organizers of Bioethics in the New
Millennium, a conference to be held on
campus February 26 and 27. The Princeton
Bioethics Forum, the undergraduate student
group that put the conference together,
has had great success in attracting
leading players in the field.
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 Former
Prince editor wins Sachs
Christine Whelan '99, a politics major,
has been named this year's winner of the
Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960
Scholarship.
During the two
years of graduate study the scholarship
supports, Whelan plans to earn a master's
degree in history, concentrating on modern
social and economic history, at Worcester
College, Oxford University, and then go on
to a career in journalism.
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 What
is risky business?
Program in Financial Engineering
provides students with tools for
analysis
By Ken Howard
Life, from crossing the street to
climbing Mt. Everest, is a gamble.
While we tackle daily
risks using basic rules of thumb (look
both ways and cross with the light, check
weather patterns and stay on the
established route), insurance allows us to
minimize financial loss should things not
go according to plan.
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Enterprise
of lifetime
University employees continue their
education by taking undergraduate courses
for credit
By Caroline Moseley
Education," said Woodrow Wilson, "is
the enterprise of a lifetime." The Program
in Continuing Education, established in
1973, provides a unique opportunity for
University employees to pursue that
enterprise.
"There are almost as
many reasons for taking courses as there
are courses to take," notes Assistant Dean
of the College Harold McCulloch, who has
directed the program since 1993.
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 Envisioning
Paradise
More than 400 people attended the
program "Envisioning Paradise: A
Conference on Toni Morrison's Art and
Imagination," held on campus February 12
and 13.
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MD governor adopts student program
A group of juniors at the Woodrow
Wilson School had the rare satisfaction of
seeing the recommendations they made as
part of a class project quickly become
part of a program established by Maryland
Governor Parris Glendening.
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United Way campaign raises $148,000
"A gain this year, the Princeton
University United Way campaign resulted in
an extraordinary showing of good will and
generosity by the University community,"
said Dean of Religious Life Joseph
Williamson. Williamson chaired the campus
fund drive, which raised $146,720 for
local charities.
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Athletics
Basketball.
After a 58-60 loss to Yale on February
12, the men defeated Brown 67-45 on
February 13; the women beat Yale 62-40 on
February 12 and Brown 67-48 on February
13. (Men: 17-5, 8-1 Ivy; women: 13-8, 8-1
Ivy)
Hockey. The Tiger men defeated
Brown 5-4 on February 12 but lost to
Harvard February 13; the women outplayed
Cornell 3-2 on February 12 and St.
Lawrence 4-1 on February 13. (Men:
15-7-1,10-5-1 ECAC; women: 14-8-1, 13-6-1
ECAC, 5-3-1 Ivy)
Indoor track and field. The men
beat both Harvard and Yale at the HYP meet
on February 13, taking first place in 13
of 16 events. (Men: 4-1; women: 1-2)
Squash. Both men and women defeated
Dartmouth on February 13 but lost to
Harvard February 14. Men: 7-2, 4-2 Ivy;
women: 10-1, 5-1 Ivy)
Swimming and diving. The men
defeated Navy on February 13. (6-2, 6-2
Ivy)
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