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Contents
• Bacterial
communication
• Numbers: not whole
story
• Senior to study in
Capetown
• Princeton to share
book bank with Columbia, N.Y Library
• Dormitory renovation
program
• National Science Bowl
• Obituary
• In Print
• People
• Athletics
• Employment
• Calendar
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Bacterial communication
Discovery of quorum-sensing gene in
obscure species opens new avenues of
research
By Steven Schultz
A research project that started by
asking esoteric questions about a glowing
marine bacterium has begun to explain the
workings of many other bacteria and could
result in a new class of antibiotics.
Assistant
professor of molecular biology Bonnie
Bassler found a gene the marine bacteria
use to sense whether they are part of a
dense or sparse population of bacteria --
for example, whether they are living in
the human body, as opposed to a puddle of
water. And she discovered that more common
and more dangerous bacteria have the same
gene.
more...
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Numbers: not whole story
Graduate student assesses long-term
effects of poaching on elephant
society
By Caroline Moseley
Ivory poaching is usually discussed in
terms of numbers of elephants lost," says
Charles Foley. "But that's not the whole
story."
Foley, a graduate
student in Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology now doing field work in Tanzania's
Tarangire National Park, studies the
long-term effects of poaching on elephant
society.
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Princeton to share book bank with
Columbia, N.Y Library
The three institutions with the largest
book collections in the greater New York
Metropolitan and surrounding area --
Princeton and Columbia universities and
the New York Public Library -- have agreed
to build and share a high-tech, automated
book storage facility.
The high-density
facility, which will be for storage of
infrequently used volumes, is to be
located on the University's Forrestal
Campus. It will consist of 15
build-as-needed modules, each capable of
storing 2 million volumes (approximately
225,000 gross square feet of
construction).
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Obituary
Matthew Weiner '02, 19, died on March
22 after collapsing during a game of
pick-up basketball on campus. Emergency
physicians cited "sudden cardiac arrest"
as the cause of death.
Weiner, who came
to Princeton from the Peddie School, was a
resident of Wilson College. He studied
Latin and architecture and was interested
in becoming an architect. An avid swimmer,
he participated in eight intercollegiate
varsity meets, including the Eastern
Intercollegiate Swimming League
championships. In 1997 he was a finalist
in the 200-yard butterfly at the Summer
Junior Nationals.
Survivors include
his parents, Thomas and Beverly Anne; twin
sister, Cristina Marie; and brother,
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Bowl winners
Montgomery High School Team A won the
N.J. regional competition of the National
Science Bowl, which was held at the
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on February
27. Team members Brian Wong (l) and Kathy
Scott, the lab's Science Bowl coordinator
James Morgan, team members Chris Conlon
and Bing Luke, U.S. Representative Rush
Holt, coach Ray Oleschewski and team
member Brice Daniels all contributed to
the effort. (photo by Elle Starkman)
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People
Andrew Dobson,
associate professor of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, has been named one
of 20 environmental scientists in the
first cohort of the Aldo Leopold
Leadership Program, a five-year program
for training environmental scientists to
better understand the communities in which
scientific information is used.
Administered by Oregon State University,
the program is supported by the David and
Lucile Packard Foundation.
Gene Grossman,
Jacob Viner Professor of International
Affairs, has been elected to a three-year
term on the executive committee of the
American Economic Association.
Professor of Economics
and Public Affairs Michael
Rothschild was elected a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
Michael Sugrue,
lecturer in the Council of the
Humanities, is one of 27 scholars selected
by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History to receive its newly
established Fellowships in American
Civilization. He will be researching a
project called "South Carolina College:
The Education ofa Cultural Elite" at the
New York Historical Society.
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Athletics
Hockey. The
Tiger men defeated Colgate 3-2 in the ECAC
Final Five on March 18 and lost to
Clarkson 6-5 in the semifinal on March 19,
finishing the season with a school-record
20 wins. (20-12-2, 13-8-1 ECAC)
Lacrosse. The
women defeated Virginia 9-8 on March 19.
(women: 3-1, 0-0 Ivy) •
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