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Contents
• PPPL dedicates
NSTX
• Dale Fellow to study
Tibetan medicine
• Review recommends
changes in facilities
• Students knit hats for
the homeless
• Nassau Notes
• People
• Athletics
• Employment
• Calendar
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Two-week issue
This
issue of the Princeton Weekly Bulletin covers two
weeks, March 8 through 21. The copy deadline for
the next issue, which covers March 22 through 28,
is Friday, March 12.
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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,
Steven Schultz
Photographer:
Denise Applewhite
Web edition:
Mahlon
Lovett
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 PPPL
dedicates NSTX
"Spherical torus
experiment" inaugurates new phase of
fusion research
By Ken Howard
With the February 26 dedication of a
new experimental facility at the Princeton
Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL), scientists are
closer to testing a design for ultimately
producing a sustainable energy source
modeled after the sun.
Secretary of
Energy Bill Richardson dedicated the new
experimental fusion reactor, the National
Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), and
announced the production of "first
plasma," a critical step in this fusion
energy experiment.
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 Dale
Fellow to study Tibetan medicine
By Steven Schultz
When Fei Fei Li '99 was growing up in
the city of Chengdu, China, Western
science and medicine seemed to meld easily
with traditional Chinese culture.
She never gave it
much thought, she says, when she received
vaccinations one day and drank bitter
herbal remedies the next.
Now, after
becoming trained in Western science as a
Princeton physics major, Li has begun to
see how different the two worlds are and
how each may offer insights into the
other. And she will have a chance to spend
a year researching the subject thanks to a
Martin A. Dale '53 Fellowship.
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Students knit hats for the homeless
By Caroline Moseley
Knitting is alive and well on the
campus. And, thanks to a cooperative
town-gown endeavor, pursuit of the
venerable craft is benefitting the wider
community.
Hats for the
Homeless, a social action project of the
Student Volunteers Council, has this
semester produced 75 woolly hats for the
Arts Council of Princeton to distribute
among area homeless children, according to
project leader Erica Just '99.
More . . .
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Review recommends changes in
facilities
The steering committee
conducting an administrative review of the
Facilities Department has recommended a
series of operating changes intended to
generate savings and improve service.
These recommendations, which are being
implemented under the direction of Vice
President for Finance and Administration
Richard Spies, are expected to save
roughly $2 million annually.
Last spring,
President Shapiro initiated a process for
the periodic review of all administrative
activities over the course of the next
five or six years. The first of those
reviews, involving Facilities, was
initiated last April.
"I think our
experience with this first review suggests
that the whole experience can be very
productive," said Spies. "The evidence
indicated that Facilities is well run and
that it serves its individual and
departmental clients and the University
well. Nevertheless, the review identified
ways to refocus services on the highest
priority needs of faculty and students, as
well as to achieve significant dollar
savings."
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People
The American
Mathematical Society have awarded the
Bocher Prize to Professors of Mathematics
Demetrios Christodoulou and
Sergiu Klainerman and Thomas Wolff
of California Institute of Technology.
Christodoulou was cited for contributions
to the mathematical theory of relativity
and Klainerman for contributions to the
theory of nonlinear hyperbolic
equations.
Assistant
professors Shivaji Sondhi of
physics and Zoltan Szabo of
mathematics have been awarded David and
Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships of
$125,000 per year for five years to
support their research. Sondhi's work is
on electronic correlations and glass
formation in solid state systems. Szabo's
research is on the geometry of smooth
manifolds.
The Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers gave
its 1998 Information Theory Society Paper
Award to Sergio Verdu, professor of
electrical engineering, and Venkat
Anantharam of the University of
California, Berkeley, for "Bits Through
Queues," which appeared in IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory in
1996.
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Athletics
Basketball. Both
the men and women defeated Cornell on
February 26 (men 65-45, women 57-52) and
Columbia on February 27 (men 88-52, women
45-36).(Men: 20-6, 11-2 Ivy; women: 16-9,
11-2 Ivy)
Fencing. The men won three trophies
and the women two at the IFA championships
on February 27 and 28. The men combined
with the women's team to take the
five-weapon trophy, and the men won the
three-weapon title; the men also took the
foil and epee, and the women won the epee
title for the first time in Princeton
history. (Men: 10-2, 3-1 Ivy; women: 12-2,
4-1 Ivy)
Swimming and diving. The women came
in second to Brown at the Ivy League
Championships. (7-0, 7-0 Ivy)
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