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CAMPUS
Senior
Ann Kelly has been awarded Cambridge Universitys Gates
Fellowship, founded in October when Microsofts Bill Gates
gave over $2 million to Cambridge to create the scholarship. An
anthropology major who is also writing a creative thesis in poetry,
Kelly plans to use the fellowship to earn a doctorate in anthropology
at Cambridge.
President
Bushs Office of Science and Technology Policy has awarded
assistant professor of computer science Mona Singh a 2001
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Singh,
who joined the Princeton faculty in 1999, is among 60 researchers
who received the honor the highest U.S. government award
to scientists and engineers in their early careers. As a computer
scientist working on problems in biology, she is at the forefront
of efforts to make sense of the great flow of data from the human
and other genome projects. Singh, who has a joint appointment with
the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, is developing
computing techniques for scanning whole genomes and quickly predicting
which proteins are likely to interact with each other.
Louis
Pyle, Jr. 41, who formerly served as director of the University
Health Services and director of athletic medicine died January 14
at his home in Princeton. He was 81. A pediatrician in private practice
in northern New Jersey from 1953 until 1971, Pyle engaged in an
extensive career in university health and sports medicine at Princeton
from 1971 until his retirement in 1999.
Princeton
scientists, led by biologist Fred Hughson, have identified a molecule
that bacteria use to communicate with each other, a discovery that
may eventually lead to drugs capable of disabling the germs without
triggering antibiotic resistance. The molecule is a key signal in
an activity called quorum sensing the ability of certain
bacteria to perform functions only when they are part of a sufficiently
dense population. The discovery, published in the January 31 issue
of Nature, culminated years of searching for the signaling
factor. Hughson led a team of researchers through a series of painstaking
and unorthodox approaches to identify the molecule one atom at a
time.
The
Daily Princetonian reported that Alexandra Shaw 02,
who fell nearly 40 feet while climbing a spiral staircase inside
the north tower of the University Chapel last December, has returned
to campus after five weeks in the hospital. She suffered injuries
to her heel, back, and knee. Shes continuing to recover in
McCosh Health Center.
François
Rigolot, a professor of French literature, was knighted in the
Order of National Merit by the President of France in November for
his contributions to promoting French culture around the world.
A former chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
and current chair of Renaissance Studies, Rigolot has written a
dozen books on early modern French literature and culture.
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UPCOMING
LECTURES/EVENTS:
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daily, Monday through Friday)
Alumni
Day, February 23
Strobe Talbott,
director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former
deputy secretary of state
February 19, 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Christopher Eisgruber 83, the Laurance Rockefeller
Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the
University Center for Human Values and director of the Program in
Law and Public Affairs: "What Rights Do Terrorists Have?"
February 20, 4:30 p.m., Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
Rachel Tzvia Back,
Israeli poet
February 20, 4:30 p.m. in 102 Jones Hall
The film Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear Shadow
will be shown February 21, 4:30 p.m, in Bowl 1, Robertson
Hall and be followed by a discussion with Zia Mian, research scientist
with the Program on Science and Global Security and lecturer of
public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, and
Smitu Kothari, visiting lecturer of public and international affairs
at the Woodrow Wilson School.
"Should the U.S. Revoke John Walker's Citizenship?" is
the topic of a debate between Jonathan Turley, a professor
at George Washington University Law School, and to debate Princeton's
J.M. Spectar, a former law professor and attorney and currently
director of studies at Princeton's Rockefeller College.
February
21, 7pm, Whig Hall Senate Chamber
Center for the Study
of Religion, a symposium: Purity, Power, and Praise: Revisioning
Women's Religious Roles in Africa and the African Disapora
February 22, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m in Whig Hall. For information:
609-258-5545
Paul Bucherer, a Swiss architect leading an effort to reconstruct
two 1,700-year-old giant Buddha statues that were destroyed by the
Taliban: "Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage: The Reconstruction
of the Buddhas of Bamiyan"
February 22, 7:30 p.m., McCormick 101.
Taha Muhammad Ali,
Israeli poet
February 27, 4:30 p.m. in 102 Jones Hall
Mary Jo Bane,
Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard
University.
Religion in the Public Square: The Example of Catholic Parishes
February 28, 4:30 pm in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
Plasma Physics Science
on Saturday, March 2, 9:30 a.m.: How the Brain Got Its
Folds: Learning About Function by Looking at Structure, Samuel Wang,
Department of Molecular Biology Heightened security measures are
presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events on September
11. For more information about the series or the forms of ID required
for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline
at 609-243-2121.
Plasma Physics Science
on Saturday, March 9, 9:30 a.m.: The Science of Radiowave
and Microwave Probing of Ionospheric and Fusion Plasmas, Raffi Nazikian,
PPPL (laboratory tour following lecture). Heightened security measures
are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events
on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms
of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday
Hotline at 609-243-2121.
Plasma Physics Science
on Saturday, March 16, 9:30 a.m.: Bioinformatics in the
Post-Genomic Era, Mona Singh, Department of Computer Science. Heightened
security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because
of the events on September 11. For more information about the series
or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call
the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121.
Tony Kushner,
playwright
April 4, 8 p.m. at TBA
Sydney Brenner,
Oxford University and Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley:Biology
after the Genome Project
April 9-11, 8 p.m. at TBA
Timothy J. Clark,
University of California, Berkeley: Poussins Mad Pursuit:
April 17, 4:30 p.m. at TBA
Timothy J. Clark,
University of California, Berkeley: Bruegel in the Land of Cockaigne
April 18, 4:30 p.m. at TBA
Princeton Plasma Physics
Laboratory presents Science-on-Saturday talks
The lectures are free
and open to the public, Heightened security measures are presently
in effect at the laboratory because of the events on Sept. 11. For
more information about the series or the forms of ID required for
entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline
at 609-243-2121
February 9
"What Do Studies of the Solid Earth Tell Us About Life on Planets?"
Charles Langmuir, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Columbia University.
February 16
"Who Wants To Be a Scientist? A Game About the Expansion of
the Universe," Jean-Marc Perelmuter, Challenger Center for
Space Science Education, Alexandria, Va.
March 2
"How the Brain Got Its Folds: Learning About Function by Looking
at Structure," Samuel Wang, Princeton Department of Molecular
Biology.
March 9 "The
Science of Radiowave and Microwave Probing of Ionospheric and Fusion
Plasmas," Raffi Nazikian, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
(laboratory tour following lecture).
March 16
"Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era," Mona Singh,
Princeton Department of Computer Science.
Heightened security measures
are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events
on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms
of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday
Hotline at 609-243-2121.
Art Museum
"Klinger to Kollwitz:
German Art in the Age of Expressionism," an overview of late-19th-and
early-20th-century German art, will be on view through June 9.
Reunions 2002,
May 30 - June 2, 2002
Reunions 2003,
May 29 - June 1, 2002
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ALUMNI
James
E. Crawford III 68 has been appointed national chair of
Princetons Annual Giving efforts. A managing partner at Frontenac
Company, a Chicago-based private equity investment firm, Crawford
will lead the 40-member committee of senior volunteers that provides
overall planning and direction for each years fundraising
campaign. He succeeds Brian J. McDonald 83, who was recently
named the universitys vice-president for development.
Ryan
Crocker *84, a veteran State Department official is now a senior
U.S. diplomat in Kabul. He has held meetings in Geneva with a deputy
Iranian foreign minister, according to U.S. officials cited in the
Washington Post.
Ralph
Esmerian 62 has given his legendary folk art collection,
which includes over 400 works of art, to the American Folk Art Museum
in New York City. His gift has propelled the museum into a premier
position in the field worldwide. Long recognized as the preeminent
folk art collection in private hands, the Esmerian Collection is
one of the inaugural exhibitions in the museums new building
designed by architects Tod Williams 65 *67 and Billie
Tsien. Hailed as the "best new museum since Frank Lloyd Wrights
Guggenheim," it is the first free-standing art museum constructed
in New York City since 1966. Esmerian chairs the museums
board. (www.folkartmuseum.org)
Frederick
G. Wohlschlaeger 73 was recently named the chief of staff
for the U.S. Olympic Committee and started in January. He will oversee
the organizations legal affairs, finance, information technology,
and human resources divisions.
John
Butler, Jr. 77 is the lead lawyer for Kmart in its bankruptcy
filing the biggest retail bankruptcy in U.S. history. Butler,
of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Chicago, heads the
firms corporate restructuring practice, according to Crains
Detroit Business.
President
Bush nominated Legrome D. Davis 73 for the federal
bench in Philadelphia. He faces Senate confirmation.
Former
Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan 52 is running
for governor of California. (www.riordanforgovernor.org)
The
Associated Press reported that Davin Quinn 98, a Harvard
Medical School student, has been awarded a George J. Mitchell scholarship
for graduate study in Northern Ireland by the U.S.-Ireland Alliance.
Quinn, who majored in psychology at Princeton, wants to be a writer
as well as a doctor and will study for a masters in creative
writing at Queens University in Belfast. He cofounded the
Harvard Medical School Writing Club.
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SPORTS
Princeton
succumbs to Penn 62-38
Mens
basketball loses first Ivy game to Yale; face Penn next
After winning its first
five Ivy League matchups, Princetons mens basketball
team dropped a 60-50 decision to Yale in New Haven on Saturday.
The loss snapped a seven-game winning streak and dropped the Tigers
from the top of the league standings. Princeton (10-8, 5-1) was
the last undefeated team in the league and now is second to Yale
(15-7,7-1) in the Ivies. Kyle Wente 03 led the Tigers with
16 points and seven rebounds against Yale.
On Friday, the Tigers
beat Brown 70-56 on the road. Ray Robins 03 sparked Princeton
with 16 points. Senior Mike Bechtold added 14 points, while Konrad
Wysocki 04 and Ahmed El-Nokali each scored 10 points.
The Tigers face Penn
at home on Tuesday, February 12 to start a five-game homestand during
the next two weeks. Dartmouth and Harvard come to Jadwin next weekend
before Princetons rematch with Yale on February 22.
Mens
squash takes Ivy title with win over Harvard
Princeton won its second
Ivy League mens squash championship in three years with a
5-4 victory over defending champs Harvard on Sunday in Cambridge.
The Tigers got wins from
freshmen Rob Siverd at Number 8 and Nathan Beck at Number 9 to secure
the hotly contested match. Will Evans 03, Dan Rutherford 03,
and Peter Kelly 02 also won their matches for Princeton, which
set up the showdown by defeating Dartmouth 8-1 on Saturday.
Womens
hockey sweeps Cornell and Colgate
Sophomore Gretchen Anderson
scored five goals in Princetons wins over Colgate and Cornell
at home this weekend. Anderson started off her scoring tirade with
a hat trick in a 4-3 win against Cornell on Friday. Lisa Rasmussen
04 scored the other Tiger goal in that game.
Anderson and Susan Hobson
04 scored two goals each to carry Princeton to a 6-1 rout
of Colgate at home on Saturday. The wins improved Princetons
record to 13-6-2 and 9-3 in the ECAC North Division.
Mens
swimming sinks Navy and Columbia
The Tigers beat Columbia
and Navy this weekend to improve their overall dual-meet record
to 7-2 this season as they head for the EISL Championships at the
end of the month.
Senior Kevin Volz won
the 1,650-yard freestyle and the 200-yard medley team of juniors
of Pat Donahue, Garth Fealey, Carl Hessler and Jesse Gage, swam
to a five-second win with a time of 1:32.89 to carry the squad to
a 174-111 win over Navy at home on Saturday. The Tigers defeated
Columbia 179-116 on Friday.
Two
Tigers picked in Major League Soccer draft
Princeton seniors Matt
Behncke and Mike Nugent were selected in the 2002 Major League Soccer
draft on Sunday. Nugent and Behncke, who played in the NCAA senior
All-Star Game in Florida on Sunday, were two of three Ivy League
players taken in the draft for the 10-team league.
Behncke was the 18th
pick overall and was drafted by the Dallas Burn. Nugent, the 2001
Ivy League Player of the Year, was selected 46th overall by the
Chicago Fire. Nugent ended his Princeton career tied for fourth
all-time in career goals and sixth for most career points.
The 2002 MLS season commences
on Saturday, March 23. Chicago opens at Columbus and Dallas hosts
San Jose.
Womens
basketball lose two at home
A record crowd at Jadwin
Gym on Friday could not turn around the fortunes of womens
basketball team as Princeton lost an 85-80 overtime game to Yale.
Coupled with a 65-56 loss to Brown at home on Saturday, the Tigers
have now lost six straight games.
The record-breaking crowd
of 3,067 fans that came to Fridays game saw Kelly Schaeffer
04 break a record of her own with a personal best 28 points
on 10-of-16 shooting. Schaeffer also led the Tigers (8-12, 2-5)
the next night, scoring a team-high 16 points and grabbing seven
rebounds.
Princeton faces Dartmouth
and Harvard on the road next weekend.
The
2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics started February 8, and
Princeton is represented by Andrea Kilbourne 02, who competes
with the U.S. womens hockey team the defending gold-medal
winners. But Kilbourne is not the first Princetonian to skate for
a U.S. hockey team in the winter games. In 1932, Gerald Hallock
III '26 and Robert C. Livingston '31 helped the mens hockey
team to a silver medal in Lake Placid, New York. And in 1936, Frederick
A. Kammer 34 and Malcolm E. McAlpin '32 won bronze medals
with the U.S. hockey squad in 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
The Ivy League
has 22 graduates or undergraduates involved as athletes at the Salt
Lake City Games:
Jen
Botterill (Harvard
'02, women's ice hockey, Canada)
Correne
Bredin (Dartmouth
'02 women's ice hockey alternate, Canada)
Julie
Chu (Harvard
'06, women's ice hockey, U.S.)
Lincoln
DeWitt (Penn '90, skeleton, U.S.)
Hannah
Hardaway (Cornell,
freestyle skiing, U.S.)
Barb
Jones (Dartmouth
'99, nordic skiing, U.S.)
Becky
Kellar (Brown
'97, women's ice hockey, Canada)
Nina
Kemppel (Dartmouth
'92, cross country skiing, U.S.)
Andrea
Kilbourne (Princeton
'03, women's ice hockey, U.S.)
Katie
King (Brown
'97, women's ice hockey, U.S.)
Scott
Macartney (Dartmouth
'01, men's alpine skiing, U.S.)
A.J.
Mleczko (Harvard
'99, women's ice hockey, U.S.)
Tara
Mounsey (Brown
'01, women's ice hockey, U.S.)
Joe
Nieuwendyk (Cornell
'89, men's ice hockey, Canada)
Cherie
Piper (Dartmouth
'05, women's ice hockey, Canada)
Angela
Ruggerio (Harvard
'02, women's ice hockey, U.S.)
Tammy
Schewchuk (Harvard
'01, women's ice hockey, Canada)
Carl
Swenson
(Dartmouth '92, cross country skiing, U.S.)
Sarah
Tueting (Dartmouth
'98, women's ice hockey, U.S.)
Bradley
Wall (Dartmouth
'02, alpine skiing, Australia)
Dan
Weinstein (Harvard
'03, short track skating, U.S.)
Stacy
Wooley (Dartmouth
'91, biathlon alternate, U.S.)
Source: The Ivy League
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