Princeton Weekly Bulletin June 7, 1999
President recognizes excellence in teaching
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John McPhee (l) and Daniel Rubenstein were two of the Princeton faculty members who won teaching awards presented by President Shapiro. (photo by Denise Applewhite) |
Bernstein, assistant professor of civil engineering and operations research, taught at MIT before joining the Princeton faculty in1994. A transportation modeler and expert in optimization, he received his BA from the State University of New York, Binghamton, his MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. At Princeton he has taught Science and Technology of Decision Making, Electronic Commerce and Nonlinear Optimization.
Brombert, a specialist in French literature of the19th and 20th centuries, teaches Modern European Writers, among other courses. He is Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature. At Princeton since 1975, he directed the Gauss Seminars in Criticism for 10 years and chaired the Council of the Humanities. Brombert earned his BA, MA and PhD at Yale University and chaired the Romance languages department there before coming to Princeton.
McPhee, a member of the Princeton faculty since 1975, is known for his very popular course, The Literature of Fact. Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Ferris Professor of Journalism, he won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for Annals of the Former World, a study of North American geology, which is the most recent of some 25 works of nonfiction. A member of the Class of 1953, McPhee spent a postgraduate year at Magdalene College, Cambridge University.
Rubenstein, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and chair of his department, is a specialist in animal behavior. He received his BS from the University of Michigan, his PhD from Duke University and an MA from Cambridge University. He was a research fellow at Cambridge before joining the Princeton faculty in 1980. He regularly teaches behavioral ecology and an introductory biology course to non-science majors (when not in the field studying horses, zebras and wild asses).
The President's Awards were established in 1991 by gifts from Lloyd Cotsen '50 and John Sherrerd '52.