Each day brings diversity
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What University office spends its time meeting the needs
of visiting academics, models and photographers, investment
managers, teenage soccer players and high school students
from Japan?
Those are just a few of the recent
clients of the Center for Visitor and Conference Services.
Founded in 1976 as the Events Office, the center supports
faculty and administrators in organizing conferences and
special events. In addition, it coordinates use of campus
facilities by outside organizations, especially during
breaks and in the summertime. [>>more]
Pillars in perfect order
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In the world of Stephen Chou, J.C. Elgin Professor of
Engineering, a speck of dust can be enormous.
For a man who routinely creates objects
that are measured in billionths of meters, specks that are
just visible to the naked eye--or even to a common
microscope--are like boulders on the beach.
So it's fitting that one autumn day in
1997, a speck of dust changed Chou's world. [>>more]
Princeton Athletics moves
to FANSonly
On the Athletics Office homepage at www.princeton.edu/Athletics/
you'll find a cartoon Tiger hanging over an empty locker and
a sign that declares "We've moved."
Athletics has indeed moved, from a modest
site designed and maintained in-house to a site maintained
by an outside vendor at www.goprincetontigers.com/.
Under a dynamic orange and black banner
... [>>more]
University outlines Y2K contingency plans
Princeton has developed a Y2K Contingency Plan that involves closing the University from from 1:00 pm on December 31 to 1:00 pm on January 2, 2000--with certain exceptions, including the facilities involved in the town-gown New Year's celebration, Curtain Calls. [>>more]
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Beth Siwy of Development helped set up for the United Way kickoff luncheon, held in the Third World Center on November 10. The luncheon was attended by 110 volunteers and United Way officials, as well as President Shapiro, campaign chair Robert Durkee, vice president of public affairs, and faculty chair physics professor Joseph Taylor, dean of the faculty. The campaign runs through December 10. (Photo by Denise Applewhite)
People
• Professor of Computer Science Richard Lipton
has been inducted into the National Academy of
Engineering in recognition of his "application of computer
science theory to practice."
• Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Emeritus,
Thomas Stix has received the 1999 Distinguished
Career Award from Fusion Power Associates for his "important
contributions to fusion energy research and
development."
• C.K. Williams, lecturer with rank of
professor in the Council of the Humanities and Creative
Writing, has been named a National Book Award finalists in
poetry for Repair.
• Marius Jansen, professor of history and East
Asian studies, emeritus, was named bunka korosha, "a
person of cultural merit," by the government of Japan on
Culture Day, November 3. He is the first non-Japanese to be
so honored since the program began in 1951.
• George Miller, James S. McDonnell
Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Emeritus,
has been selected by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science as 2000 John P. McGovern Award
Lecturer in the Behavioral Sciences.
Athletics
Soccer. The men defeated Adelphi 5-2 November 10
and tied Yale 0-0 November 13, clinching the Ivy League
championship, their first outright Ivy title since 1960 and
a place in the NCAA tournament.
The women lost to Hartford 2-1 in the first
round of the NCAA championship November 10. Cocaptain Julie
Shaner '01 and Heather Deerin '03 were named first-team All
Ivy. (Men: 11-4-2, 5-1-1 Ivy; women: 12-5-1, 4-2-1 Ivy)
Volleyball (women). The Tigers beat
Cornell November 12, Yale November 12 and Harvard November
13 and 14 to win their 11th Ivy League championship and a
spot in the NCAA tournament. (23-6, 6-1 Ivy)
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