Princeton Weekly Bulletin October 11, 1999 Vol. 89, No. 5 [<] [>] [archive]

• [Page one] • Welcome to Outdoor Action • Sophisticated ceramics • Getty funds medieval manuscript catalog • In Print • Nassau Notes • People • Obituaries • Calendar • Employment

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Editor:    Sally Freedman Associate editor:    Caroline Moseley Calendar and production editor:    Carolyn Geller Contributing writers:    Justin Harmon,    Ken Howard,    Steven Schultz Photographer:    Denise Applewhite Web edition:    Mahlon Lovett

	Welcome to Outdoor Action 25-year-old program offers adventures that boost confidence, foster community The summer before her freshman year, Katherine Byers was worried. She'd read about how many high school valedictorians and superachievers there were at Princeton, and she wondered how she would ever fit in.       Fortunately, there was a cure for her fears ... [>>more]
	Sophisticated ceramics For materials scientist,"success is passing the technology on" to industry A huge steel-making plant dominated the landscape of Anthony Evans's childhood in South Wales, England.       It loomed over his hometown and became part of stories he heard growing up, as many of his parents' friends worked there. [>>more]
	Getty funds medieval manuscript catalog The Getty Grant Program has awarded a $250,000 grant to the Index of Christian Art to support the initial phase of a project to create an online, digitized, searchable catalog of the medieval manuscripts in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City. [>>more]
	People The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has awarded Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships to graduate students Scott Bruce, Martin Ruehl and David Silverman in History; Elizabeth Guenther in Art and Archaeology; and Julie Park in English. Each will receive $15,000. • Professor of Psychology Charles Gross has been inducted as a fellow in the Biological Sciences division of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. • Associate Professor of German Thomas Levin has been invited by the Dutch Ministry of Culture to spend this fall as curator in residence in the Netherlands, working with the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. • Provost Jeremiah Ostriker, Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation, has been awarded the Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the Astronomische Gesellschaft. As Schwarzschild medalist, he delivered the keynote lecture at the society's annual meeting in September. • Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, Carl Schorske has received the Centennial Medal from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. This award honors a graduate alumnus for contributions to society that emerged from his or her graduate education.		Letters to the editor Dear Dr. Tsien, My name is D.H. I am eight years old, and I'm in third grade. I'm very interested in animals, and I'd like to have a mouse as a pet. I read the article in Time magazine about your research on mice. I'd really like a mouse like Doogie that you changed the DNA cells in. I'd like to know what the tests are that you put Doogie through, and I'd like to know what kind of mice Doogie's parents were. Can you help me get a smart mouse like Doogie? Thank you very much. Dear D.H., I'm sorry to say the mice Dr. Tsien created in his experiments are not available as pets. They are available only to other scientists who are trying to understand how the brain works. However, I hope you will continue to read and work hard in your math and science classes in school. Perhaps you may choose to study biology and find for yourself how animals like the Doogie mice can unlock the secrets of the human mind and body. Steven Schultz (responding for Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology Joe Tsien, whose research on genetically altered mice has received extensive media coverage in the past few weeks)
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