In
the classroom...
Matt
Winn 03 took this photo in COS 495, Special Topics in
Computer Science: Medical Informatics, taught by visiting
professor C. William Hanson, M.D. In the class, students designed
futuristic home health networks and presented them on the
display wall in the computer science building.
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CAMPUS
Meg
Whitman 77, president and CEO of eBay, Inc. and a Princeton
trustee, will be the speaker at the universitys end-of-the-year
Baccalaureate ceremony on Sunday, June 2, in the Chapel at
2 p.m. She and her family are making a gift of $30 million toward
the construction of a new residential college.
Princeton
geochemist Satish Myneni has shown that ordinary leaf mulch
contains chlorinated compounds that were previously thought to come
only from pesticides and other man-made pollutants. His research
was published in the February 8 edition of Science. Future
studies will reveal whether these natural compounds are toxic, as
are many of the man-made forms.
Three
faculty members, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
C.K. Law, Professor of Electrical Engineering Bede Liu, and Professor
of Computer Science Brian Kernighan *69, were elected to the National
Academy of Engineering, one of the highest distinctions in the
field of engineering. The election brings the total number of academy
members at Princeton to 14. Membership in the Academy honors those
who have made "important contributions to engineering theory
and practice" and those who have demonstrated "unusual
accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of
technology."
Sasha
Linney '02s flat, rectangular beaded necklaces adorn many
a Princeton student. She sells her necklaces to people on campus
for $20 but they go for as much as $75 in upscale boutiques in New
York City, reported the Daily Princetonian. The beaded design
is about the size of a cracker and hangs from a silver chain.
Graffiti
containing a hateful message directed at African-Americans and
Jews was discovered on February 13 in a storeroom in the Office
of the General Counsel at 120 Alexander Street. University public
safety officials and township police are investigating.
Fewer
students are majoring in chemical engineering which is spurring
faculty to look at the departments curriculum and requirements,
the Daily Princetonian reported.
Two seniors, Lindsay
Campbell and Aili McConnon were awarded ReachOut 56 Fellowships.
They will receive a $25,000 grant to support a year-long public
service project after graduation.
UPCOMING
LECTURES/EVENTS:
(Updated daily, Monday through Friday)
Juan Gabriel Valdès, ambassador of Chile to the
U.N.: "Prospects for a U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement"
February 26, 4:30 p.m., in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
The Honorable Sonia
Sotomayor 76, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit, will speak about her Latina identity and the
influence she perceives that it has on her presence on the bench.
February 26, 7:30 p.m. at the Princeton Club (15 West 43rd
St., between 5th Ave. and Avenue of the Americas). RSVP to Maureen
Crough 83 (maureenandgreg@msn.com
212-360-5035).
Taha Muhammad Ali, Israeli poet
February 27, 4:30 p.m. in 102 Jones Hall
Robert Hunter, senior adviser at the RAND Corp. in Washington,
D.C., and former U.S. ambassador to NATO: A lecture titled "NATO
After Sept. 11"
February 27, 4:30 p.m., in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Billy Collins, poet laureate of the United States, and Fanny
Howe will read from their work
February 27, 4:30 p.m., the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
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.
Camille Mansour, professor of international relations at
the University of Paris:"The Future of the Palestinian Question"
February 28, 4:30 p.m. in McCosh 28.
Pamela S. Karlan,
of the Stanford Law School: "Exit Strategies in Copnstitutional
Law: Lessons for Getting 'The Least Dangerous Branch' out of the
'Political Thicket' "
February 28, 4:30, Room 104 Computer Science Buildling
Stanley N. Katz,
lecturer with the rank of professor at the Woodrow Wilson School:
"Constitutionalism and Human Rights: The Dilemma of the United
States"
February 28, 8 p.m.. Room 104, Computer Science Building
The films Nobody
Knows My Name and The Darker Side of Black, presented
as part of the African Diaspora in Film Series
February 28, 8 p.m., Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
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
U.S.
District Judge of United States District Court for the Eastern District
of Virginia T.S. Ellis III 61 asked John Walker Lindh,
the American who fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, "How
do you plead to all the charges?" at his arraignment on February
13. Lindh answered, "Not guilty, sir," according to cbsnews.com.
Ellis set jury selection for August 26 and the trial to begin two
days later, the New York Times reported on February 16.
In
his Chatterbox column, Slate magazines Timothy Noah described
Fred A. Bernstein 77s "ingenious and moving"
design for a memorial to September 11. Bernstein has designed two
long docks the same size as the World Trade Center towers
that extend out into New York Harbor. For more, go to www.fredbernstein.com.
Scientists
in Texas have cloned a cat, "opening the door to what some
experts say will be the first large-scale commercial use of cloning
to reproduce beloved pets," according to the New
York Times. Louis Hawthorne 83 is chief executive
of the company that supported the effort, Genetic Savings and Clone,
of College Station, Texas, and Sausalito, California. For PAW's
story on Hawthorne, go to www.princeton.edu/~paw/features/features_101001b.html.
Andrea
Jung 79, CEO of Avon, has been selected the winner of
the 2002 Friends of the Princeton University Womens Center
Alumnae Leadership Award. It will be presented (in absentia) on
Alumni Day, February 23.
SPORTS
Mens
basketball set for Friday showdown with Yale at home
Princetons wins
over Dartmouth and Harvard over the weekend have set up a possibly
deciding game in the race for the Ivy League championship on Friday
as the Tigers host Yale.
Yale (17-7, 9-1 Ivy) holds a one-game lead over Princeton (12-9,
7-2) in the loss column as the Ancient Eight season rolls into its
second half. The two teams will head into Jadwin on winning notes
after sweeping their weekend series, but Yale has not lost in its
last seven games. The Bulldogs' only Ivy loss was at home against
Brown on January 19.
After dropping two straight Ivy games to Penn and Yale, the Tigers
used some hot shooting, including 27 of 50 from three-point range,
to beat Dartmouth 79-68 and Harvard 70-59 and keep the heat on Yale.
Ed Persia 04 and Konrad Wysocki 04 led the Tigers against
Dartmouth with 18 and 17 points, respectively. Against Harvard it
was Mike Bechtold 02 and Dominick Martin 05 who sparked
Princeton. Bechtold lit up the Crimson for 21 points and Martin
put up the first double-double of his career, scoring 10 points
while grabbing 10 rebounds.
If Princeton sweeps Yale and Brown this weekend, the Tigers could
do no worse than tie for the conference title.
Womens hockey wins one, ties one
at Maine
The Tigers got goals from three different players on Saturday to
hand Maine a 3-1 loss. The two teams played to a 4-4 tie the night
before.
Gretchen Anderson 04,
Lisa Rasmussen 04, and Jessica Fedderly 02 each scored
goals in Saturdays win. April Brown 05 and Anderson
each scored one goal and Susan Hobson 04 added two in Fridays
tie.
Princeton (14-6-3, 9-3
ECAC-North) is fourth in the ECAC-North and sits atop the Ivy League
with a 6-1 mark, one game ahead of Dartmouth.
Mens
squash seeded #2 for this weekends national championships at Harvard
In a preview of what
could be the match-up for the national title, the Tigers fell 8-1
to top-ranked Trinity College at Jadwin on Saturday. The mens
squash powerhouses could meet again this weekend in the national
championships at Harvard, where Trinity is seeded #1 and Princeton,
the Ivy League champions, #2.
Peter Kelly 02
gave Princeton its only point against Trinity. The Tigers took some
of their frustrations out in their season finale against Navy, handing
the military academy a 9-0 loss in Jadwin. The Princeton finished
the season at 9-1.
Kilbourne
02 notches first Olympic goal
Princeton Universitys
Andrea Kilbourne 02 scored the final goal in U.S. womens
hockey teams 5-0 win over Finland on Saturday in Salt Lake
City. The win the teams 34th in a row puts the
U.S. in the medal round with the #1 seed. The U.S. team won the
first womens hockey gold medal in 1998 in Nagano.
Kilbourne led the Tigers
in scoring the last three years before taking the 2001-2002 school
year off to skate with the national team.
The U.S. plays Sweden
on Tuesday in the semifinals.
Frederick
Wohlschlaeger 73 named USOC chief of staff
Kilbourne is not the
only Princeton alum heavily involved at the Salt Lake Games. Frederick
Wohlschlaeger 73 was named as the new chief of staff of he
U.S. Olympic Committee just before the winter Olympics commenced.
Wohlschlaeger takes over
a recently established position at the USOC and will oversee the
organizations legal affairs, finance, information technology,
and human resources departments. Prior to joining he USOC, Wohlschlaeger
served as a senior executive and general counsel for several major
corporations, including the British Petroleum Co, Hartmarx Corp.,
Morton International, and the Maytag Corp.
At Princeton, Wohlschlaeger
rowed as a freshman, played football and threw the javelin for the
track team.
Walters
67 and Thompson 88 named to NCAA mens basketball
committees
Princeton Director of
Athletics Gary Walters 67 has been named to the NCAA Division
I mens basketball committee and mens basketball coach
John Thompson 88 has been selected to the Division I mens
basketball rules committee.
Walters, who has been
involved with college basketball as a player, assistant coach, head
coach, broadcaster, and administrator over the last 30-plus years,
will begin his term on the committee next season. Among the committees
responsibilities are selecting the field for the NCAA tournament
and the administration of the tournament itself.
Thompson, a four-year
starter with the Tigers, served as an assistant coach under Pete
Carril and Bill Carmody before taking the reins last year and leading
Princeton to an Ivy League title and the NCAA tournament. The team
is currently in second place in the Ivy League.
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