People
• Four professors join
tenured faculty
• Trustees appoint 14 assistant
professors
• Honored: William Lockwood,
McCarter Theatre's special programming director
• Color of Success: Third
World Center welcomed Afeni Shakur
• Athletics
• Resignations
• Obituaries of retired
employees
People
In the Plasma Physics Lab, physicists Zhihong Lin and Masayuki Ono and engineer Michael Williams are the recipients of the Kaul Foundation Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics and Technology Development. Williams has also won the 1999 Distinguished Career Award from Fusion Power Associates.
Assistant Professor of Music Simon Morrison has received the Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society for his article "Skryabin and the Impossible" published in the society's journal.
Honored
McCarter Theatre's special programming director William Lockwood (l) celebrated with his mother Virginia and brother Stephen at a dinner in his honor at the theater on October 29. More than 70 people attended the event, which recognized Lockwood's association with McCarter over nearly for four decades.
First as associate producer and now as special programming director for McCarter's classical music, dance, jazz, world music, world dance and special events programs, Lockwood has brought to McCarter performers as diverse as Tony Bennett and Luciano Pavarotti, Marcel Marceau and Alvin Ailey, Pink Floyd and Yo-Yo Ma.
Born and educated in Princeton and at Princeton, Lockwood is a member of the Class of 1959. His father William was a professor of politics and international affairs at the University, and his mother was an elementary school teacher at Miss Fine's School and later Princeton Day School.
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Color of success |
The board of the Third World Center welcomed Afeni Shakur (c), mother of the late rapper 2Pac, as the keynote speaker in "The Color of Success" Youth Conference on November 12.
A former Black Panther, Shakur now works with the Shakur Family Foundation to intcrease literacy and spark community development in the inner city.
With Shakur are Third World Center director Heddye Ducree (l) and TWC officers Hyeseung Song '01, Misha Charles '01, Audrey Davis '01, Nwakaego Okparaeke '01, Andria Boateng '02, Anayi Reynolds '02 and Jane Liu '01 (r). (Photo by Ron Carter)
Athletics
Basketball. The men lost to Ohio 68-60 on November 26. The women lost to Delaware 74-43 on November 23, defeated Ohio 69-63 on November 26 and lost to Arkansas 87-45 on Novem-ber 27. (Men: 1-3, women: 1-4)
Hockey. The men's team tied Yale 5-5 on November 23 and lost to Northeastern 3-0 on November 27. The women beat Yale 5-1, tied Wis-consin 4-4 and beat Ohio State 2-0 November 26, 27 and 28. (Men: 1-4-3, 1-2-3 ECAC; women: 4-3-2, 3-3-1 ECAC)
Resignations
The following faculty members
have submitted their resignations.
Effective July 1, 1999. Assistant
professors David Bernstein of Civil Engineering and
Operations Research, Pinelopi Goldberg of Economics (to
accept a position at Columbia Univer-sity) and Georgios
Pappas of Mathe- matics (to go to Michigan State); and
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Julio
Ramos.
Effective September 1, 1999.
Professor of Psychology John Jemmott, to accept a position
at the University of Pennsylvania; and assistant professors
Krishna Kumar of Physics (to go to the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst), Arun Ram of Mathematics (University
of Wisconsin, Madison), Gigliola Staffilani of Mathematics
(Stanford University), Larus Thorlacius of Physics
(Unviersity of Iceland), and Stephen Thorsett of Physics
(University of California, Santa Cruz).
Effective July 1, 2000. Assistant
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Thomas
Coombs-Hahn (to accept a position at the University of
Alaska, Fairbanks) and Associate Professor of East Asian
Studies Wai-yee Li (to go to Harvard University).
Obituaries of retired employees
May. Helene Duffy, 80 (1965-1977, Building Services)
July. Helen Hansen, 73 (1971-1997, Library), and Harry Titus, 82 (1958-1979, Library)
September. Hubert Quackenbush, 77 (1967-1985, Athletics), and Grace Teague, 70 (1979-1997, Building Services)
October. Nelson Cox, 85 (1948-1976, Athletics); Matthew Duffy, 74 (1986-1997, Building Services); and Joseph Sabin, 77 (1962-1987, Machine Shop)
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