Princeton will house new $20M energy research center
by Chris Emery
Princeton will be home to a new $20 million energy research center for combustion science as part of a federal initiative to spur discoveries that lay the groundwork for an economy based on clean replacements for fossil fuels.
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Renowned artists to head dance and visual arts programs
Susan Marshall has been named the first director of the Program in Dance and Joe Scanlan has been selected as the new director of the Program in Visual Arts in the University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Both new faculty members are internationally renowned artists. Marshall has been the artistic director of the critically acclaimed Susan Marshall & Company of New York City for the past 23 years. Scanlan is a sculptor and installation artist who has been an associate professor in the Yale University School of Art.
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Graduate School applications rise 10 percent
by Cass Cliatt
Princeton’s Graduate School admitted 1,068 of the 10,135 applicants who applied for the 2009-10 academic year, with the strength of the school’s financial aid program contributing to a 10 percent increase in the number of students applying to master’s and doctoral programs. The 10.5 percent overall admission rate is down from the 13 percent of applicants who were admitted from last year’s pool of 9,238 applicants. The number of admitted students who accepted the school’s offer of admission by the April 15 postmark deadline was 575, or about 54 percent, an increase over last year’s 51 percent.
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Cadava named Wilson College master
Professor of English Eduardo Cadava has been named master of Wilson College, one of Princeton’s six residential colleges. He will begin a four-year term on July 1, 2009. Cadava, who joined the Princeton faculty in 1989, specializes in American literature and culture, literary and political theory, comparative literature, media technologies and theory of translation. He served as departmental representative in English from 1999 to 2002 and in 2007-08. He also is an associate member of the Department of Comparative Literature, the School of Architecture, the Center for African American Studies, the Program in Latin American Studies and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
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Dale winner will mount a season of drama at hometown theater
by Jennifer Greenstein Altmann
The summer after his freshman year at Princeton, Christopher Simpson returned home to South Kingstown, R.I., where he had lined up a part-time job at a hotel. But when he learned that a local art center was going to sit vacant all summer, he gathered some high school friends and, in a moment of impetuosity, said to them, “Let’s do a play!” The production of Neil Simon’s “Rumors,” which Simpson directed, was so successful that he established the nonprofit Courthouse Theater Company at the center and, serving as its artistic director and CEO, spent subsequent summers directing plays there.
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Commencement events begin with Baccalaureate
Commencement activities will get under way on Sunday, May 31, with three events honoring Princeton’s graduating students. The Baccalaureate service will take place at 2 p.m. in the University Chapel. The speaker will be U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, a Princeton graduate alumnus and commander of the U.S. Central Command. Admission is by ticket only. The Baccalaureate service will be simulcast on a screen outside of the chapel as well as in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall; McCosh 10 and 50; McCormick 101; and Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture; tickets are required at the simulcast sites.
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University expands travel database, services
by Jennifer Greenstein Altmann
The University has expanded its travel website to provide planning and emergency resources for faculty and staff members traveling in the United States and abroad. An integral part of the website is the travel database — available at <www.princeton.edu/travel/database> — which provides country-specific information about medical issues and travel warnings, and helps disseminate travel information to facilitate communication and assistance in emergencies.
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Four professors honored for graduate student mentoring
Four Princeton faculty members have been named the recipients of Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School’s hooding ceremony on Monday, June 1. They are: Susan Fiske, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology; Claire Gmachl, professor of electrical engineering and director of the Mid-Infrared Technologies for the Health and the Environment Center; Susan Naquin, professor of history and East Asian studies; and Jeffrey Stout, professor of religion.
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Plasma physics device has second life in homeland security
by Kitta MacPherson
In 1999, faced with the task of decommissioning the legendary Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR), officials at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) realized they needed something that didn’t yet exist — a way to detect exactly what “hot” elements were lacing the inner vessel of the doughnut-shaped reactor.
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