Contents • Creative Collaboration • PMI knows what's the matter • Ideal of the citizen soldier • New emeriti: Most intend to keep on reading, writing, teaching • John Simpson '66 • In the news • Nassau Notes • People • Athletics • Employment • Calendar

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May 24, 1999 Volume 88, number 28 | Prev | Next | Index  Creative collaboration "You call yourself a poet?" "You call yourself a scholar?" Midway in the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard it is to tell the nature of that wood, savage, dense and harsh -- the very thought of it renews my fear! Thus begins a new translation into English free verse of The Divine Comedy, the greatest work of Florentine poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). The translators are Robert Hollander, professor in European literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and one of the world's premier Dante scholars, and his wife, Jean Hollander, a poet, teacher and director of the Writers' Conference at the College of New Jersey.   more... PMI knows what's the matter In the 1967 movie The Graduate, a young man just out of college is given one word of advice toward a promising career: "plastics." Today, that word might be "composites" -- or "silicon" or "biomaterials."     "In order to make a building work, you have to understand the material -- concrete," says chemistry professor Robert Cava. "On a smaller scale, the material of computer chips -- silicon -- makes electronics work. From the very tiny to the very large, materials are the building blocks that make it all happen."   more... Ideal of the citizen soldier Career that began with NROTC brings administrator to rank of rear admiral in US Navy Reserve "Congratulations, Kirk. You've been selected for flag."     To most civilians this message would be meaningless. To Kirk Unruh, director of campaign relations and a dedicated officer in the US Navy Reserve for a good part of his adult life, it meant he had been selected for promotion to the lofty rank of rear admiral.   more... People • International Center director Paula Chow has been named recipient of the Humanitarian Award presented annually by the Greater Princeton Area chapter of the National Conference for Community and Justice to "an outstanding citizen committed to the concept and practice of promoting understanding and respect among all races, religions and cultures." • Assistant Professor of History Thomas Dandelet has received a Rome Prize fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. • Professor of Computer Science David Dobkin has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. • William McCleery has been inducted into the Nebraska Journalism Hall of Fame. • Dale Meade, head of Advanced Reactor Concepts at the Plasma Physics Lab, received the Fusion Power Associates 1999 leadership award for his "early leadership of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor program and continuing contributions." • Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Daniel Rodgers has been awarded the Ellis W. Hawley Prize for Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. This annual prize is given by the Organization of American Historians for the "best book-length historical study on the political economy, politics or institutions of the United States from the Civil War to the present." • Poet C. K.Williams, lecturer with rank of professor in the Council of the Humanities, has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an award for distinguished accomplishment. • New emeriti: most intend to keep on reading, writing, teaching Professors retire from departments of Art, Astrophysical Sciences, Classics, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, Math, MAE, Molecular Biology, Philosophy, Romance Languages, and Sociolology   more... I N   T H E   N E W S Women on the revolution For most of the last thousand years, people have assumed without question that this is a man's world. But with the steadily declining importance of physical strength and with reverberating changes in fertility control, that attitude is fading fast. The milestones of the millennium have, mostly, been defined by men in traditional terms like politics, war and revolution. To look back over the sweep of 10 centuries now, however, is to see a more profound revolution: in the status of women. This special Millennium issue examines that transformation through the eyes of historians, novelists, photographers, economists, artists, journalists--and the next generation.     [The articles include] "The Rest of the Story looking past the milestones of traditional history to see the shape of women's lives," by [Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emeritus] Natalie Zemon Davis and Jill Ker Conway, and "A Man's Place," [in which] a panel of experts [including Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Marta Tienda, Victoria de Grazia, Claudia Goldin, Jacqueline Jones, Juliet Schor and William Julius Wilson] looks at women's economic power. -- New York Times Magazine, May 16 • Athletics Lacrosse. Though the women's team lost to Penn State 9-7 in the NCAA quarterfinals on May 8, senior Cristi Samaras will graduate as the University's all-time leader in points (270), goals (189) and assists (81); she was named Ivy League Player of the Year for the second year in a row. The men lost to Syracuse 7-5 in first round of the NCAA tournament on May 15. (Men: 9-4, 6-0 Ivy; women: 12-5, 6-1 Ivy) Crew. At the Eastern Sprints on May 16, the women's lightweight crew came in first for the second time in as many years, and the women's open finished second. (Women's open: 9-1, 6-0 Ivy; women's lightweight: 9-0) • top