Princeton University

April 2011 - Christina Marie Chang, Class of 2012, has been selected as the Gladys Anderson Emerson Scholarship recipient for 2011 by Iota Sigma Pi. The award recognizes excellence in chemistry or biochemistry at the junior undergraduate level. Chang, a major in the Chemistry Department at Princeton University, is pursuing research in the laboratory of Professor John T. Groves. Iota Sigma Pi is a National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry. It was founded in 1902 and organized nationally in 1916. The organization promotes professional development and personal growth of women in chemistry and related fields through recognition, public outreach, and the formation of supportive networks. Chang, a highly active member of the University community, currently serves as the President and founder of the Women in Science Colloquium at Princeton, a student group that works to foster discussion between female faculty in science, math and engineering and students in those disciplines.

March 31, 2011 - Cameron Myhrvold, a Quantitative and Computational Biology Certificate student, is one of two Princeton seniors who have been awarded a prestigious Hertz Foundation fellowship for graduate studies. The Molecular Biology major has been studying quorum sensing, the chemical communication between bacteria, in the laboratory of Bonnie Bassler. He started his undergraduate studies in the Institute’s Integrated Science curriculum, and plans to use his $250,000 no-strings-attached award either in the Systems Biology Ph.D. Program at Harvard University or the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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March 2011 - Christina Chang ’12, who was part of the Integrated Science program during her freshman and sophomore years, is one of four Princeton Undergraduates awarded a coveted Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. She is majoring in Chemistry with a minor in Computer Science, and is conducting research in bioinorganic chemistry in John Groves’ Lab, studying manganese porphyrin catalysts. After graduation, she plans to go to graduate school to work on artificial photosynthetic systems, and hopes to use ideas from nature to provide technical solutions to the energy crisis, and to teach at the university level.
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October 12, 2009 - The integrated science curriculum, now in its sixth year, continues to attract students with an interest in pursuing graduate programs and careers in the sciences. Through its notoriously difficult multidisciplinary program of courses, the curriculum arms graduates to work at the cutting edge of many fields, said students, professors and alumni.
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March 12, 2007 — Some of Princeton’s most scientifically talented undergraduates are dedicating their years on campus to more than learning how to conduct experiments. They have elected to be part of a grand experiment themselves — one that is attracting attention nationwide.
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June 6, 2006 — Four Princeton faculty members received President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies June 6. They are: William Bialek, the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics; Joel Cooper, professor of psychology; William Gleason, associate professor of English; and Sankaran (Sundar) Sundaresan, professor of chemical engineering. . . . Bialek, who joined the Princeton faculty in 2001, also is a member of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. He is one of the architects of the new integrated science curriculum for undergraduates, which involves faculty from chemistry, computer science, molecular biology and physics. In addition, he co-teaches the introductory course in that curriculum and leads a graduate-level biophysics class.
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May 18, 2006 – Curtis Huttenhower, a Department of Computer Science Graduate Student in Institute faculty member Olga Troyanskaya's lab, has been awarded an Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) Teaching Award for his work as an Assistant in Instruction for CHM/COS/MOL/PHY 231-234, the freshman integrated science course organized by the Institute. The APGA and the Friends of the International Center fund a competition each year to recognize and honor those graduate students who have made a significant contribution to undergraduate teaching. Mr Hibbs was nominated by his department, supported by his students and, along with four other AIs, chosen by the Teaching Award Selection Committee for this distinction.

Oct. 18, 2005 — Twenty-seven years ago, in a resort town high in Utah's Wasatch Mountains, David Botstein had a simple idea that would change the course of genetics. Botstein, then a professor at MIT, was in town for an informal meeting of University of Utah researchers. Listening to a graduate student discuss genetic markers of disease, he had a striking thought.
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May 10, 2005 - Matthew Hibbs, a Department of Computer Science Graduate Student in Institute faculty member Olga Troyanskaya's lab, has been awarded an Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) Teaching Award for his work as an Assistant in Instruction for CHM/COS/MOL/PHY 231-234, the new freshman integrated science course organized by the Institute. The APGA and the Friends of the International Center fund a competition each year to recognize and honor those graduate students who have made a significant contribution to undergraduate teaching. Mr Hibbs was nominated by his department, supported by his students and, along with four other AIs, chosen by the Teaching Award Selection Committee for this distinction.

Oct. 4, 2004 — In an age when many scientific discoveries result from the infusion of ideas from one discipline to another, faculty members at Princeton have created a unified science class for freshmen that breaks down barriers between fields without sacrificing depth of knowledge.
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