Archive – October, 2000
Evening of solo dances, Nov. 11
Posted October 31, 2000; 10:58 a.m.
Alumna Jill Sigman will return to campus to perform "Bodies of Knowledge: An Evening of Solo Dances," at 8 p.m. Nov. 11 in Hagan Dance Studio, 185 Nassau St.
Sigman, who has a doctoral degree in philosophy, will perform "Vision Begins," a mixed...
Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy to highlight celebration of Adlai Stevenson, Nov. 9
Posted October 31, 2000; 10:49 a.m.
Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy will join a panel of historians, biographers, and political scientists Thursday, Nov. 9 to answer the question, "Whatever Happened to Adlai Stevenson?" The discussion - the final event in Princeton University's year-lon...
Art Museum photography exhibit explores theme of survival
Posted October 31, 2000; 10:00 a.m.
An exhibition exploring the relationship between survival and photography, entitled "Surviving the Photograph," is on view at The Art Museum through Nov. 19.
The 39 photographs exhibited address the theme of survival directly through the su...
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson gives positive outlook for PPPL
Posted October 30, 2000; 10:21 a.m.
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson brought welcome news to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Wednesday, announcing a five-year extension of the contract between Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy for the operati...
Research aims to save crumbling monuments
Posted October 27, 2000; 05:32 p.m.
George Scherer, professor of civil and environmental engineering, does not see the Princeton campus as others do.
Among the meticulously maintained buildings and the treasured stone carvings, Scherer's eye seeks out the problems, the flaking st...
Princeton receives $20-million grant to address greenhouse problem
Posted October 25, 2000; 05:13 p.m.
Princeton University has started a long-term partnership with BP and Ford Motor Company to develop solutions to the greenhouse problem.
BP has pledged $15 million and Ford $5 million over 10 years to fund a project called the Carbon Mitigation ...
Princeton awarded Henry R. Luce Professorship in Information Technology, Consciousness and Culture
Posted October 24, 2000; 03:09 p.m.
Princeton University has received a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to create the Henry R. Luce Professorship in Information Technology, Consciousness and Culture. A wide-ranging search to fill the position will begin this fall.
The Lu...
Housing vouchers work, new study finds
Posted October 24, 2000; 12:41 a.m.
A bold social experiment that aims to transform peoples lives by moving them out of poor neighborhoods appears to be succeeding, with families enjoying more safety, fewer behavior problems among boys, and even better health, according to a new st...
Frist Campus Center dedicated
Posted October 20, 2000; 02:36 p.m.
Calling it the "the absolute epicenter of campus life," President Harold T. Shapiro presided over the dedication of the Frist Campus Center today (Oct. 20) and honored those involved in the "milestone in Princeton's history." Speakers praised the ...
PPPL engineer receives American Nuclear Society award
Posted October 20, 2000; 12:11 a.m.
Michael Williams, an engineer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, received this year's Outstanding Achievement Award from the Fusion Energy Division of the American Nuclear Society.
Williams is head of PPPL's Engineering and Technic...
PPPL engineer receives American Nuclear Society Award
Posted October 20, 2000; 12:07 a.m.
Michael Williams, an engineer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, received this year's Outstanding Achievement Award from the Fusion Energy Division of the American Nuclear Society.
Williams is head of PPPL's Engineering and Technic...
Art deco exhibition opens at Princeton University Library
Posted October 19, 2000; 05:02 p.m.
One of Art Deco's most vivid legacies, the printmaking technique known as pochoir, is the subject of an exhibition running through April 8, 2001 in the Leonard L. Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts at Princeton University's Firestone Library....
Friends of the Princeton University Library offer "Meet the Curator" series
Posted October 19, 2000; 04:51 p.m.
The Friends of the Princeton University Library is again sponsoring its fall "Meet the Curator" series. Each event features a distinguished curator or librarian discussing his work and showing important materials he has worked on or acquired for t...
Tiger conservationist to speak, Oct. 21
Posted October 19, 2000; 01:30 p.m.
Princeton Conservation Society and the Princeton Save the Tiger Campaign will host Dr. Ullas Karanth, director of wildlife conservation in India, to speak Oct. 21 at 5 p.m. in Guyot 10.
Karanth has devoted his life to tiger conservation in Indi...
Gore to be next president, professor predicts
Posted October 18, 2000; 05:33 p.m.
Despite the slight edge of George W. Bush in the polls, a Princeton political scientist predicted at a forum Tuesday that Al Gore will win the presidential election.
Larry Bartels said he -- and most political scientists -- believe Gore will be...
Gore to be next president, professor predicts
Posted October 18, 2000; 05:29 p.m.
Despite the slight edge of George W. Bush in the polls, a Princeton political scientist predicted at a forum Tuesday that Al Gore will win the presidential election.
Larry Bartels said he -- and most political scientists -- believe Gore will be...
Professor, colleagues call for strengthened HIV prevention
Posted October 18, 2000; 04:33 p.m.
United States is not doing enough to thwart the spread of HIV, according to a recent report issued by a national committee co-chaired by James Trussell, associate dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
The report...
Tiger conservationist to speak, Oct. 21
Posted October 18, 2000; 02:54 p.m.
The Princeton Consrvation Society and the Princeton Save the Tiger Campaign will host Dr. Ulas Karanth, Director of Wildlife Conservation in India and one of the world's leading tiger conservationists, to speak in Guyot Hall on Saturday, October 2...
Senior wins national playwrights competition
Posted October 18, 2000; 02:50 p.m.
Catherine Keyser, a Princeton University senior, has been named a winner of the National Young Playwrights Festival. Her play, "Welcome Home, Virginia Woolf," will be performed at the Miranda Theater in New York on Nov. 3 at 2 p.m.
Keyser, who ...
Speakers to address "The Promise of Genomics for New Medicine," Nov. 1
Posted October 17, 2000; 05:17 p.m.
Tilghman, Princeton's Howard A. Prior Professor of Life Sciences, will be among three speakers addressing "The Promise of Genetics for New Medicine" at a public seminar Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium.
Tilghman is founding director...
Princeton University Orchestra concerts, Oct.19, 21
Posted October 17, 2000; 01:55 p.m.
The Princeton University Orchestra will open its season with concerts on Thursday, Oct. 19 and Saturday, October 21 at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.
Michael Pratt will lead the orchestra in the music of Dvorak and Hindemith...
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to speak, Oct. 25
Posted October 17, 2000; 11:59 a.m.
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson will speak on "Comprehensive Energy Policy" Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall.
Before becoming energy secretary on August 18, 1998, Richardson served as U. S. ambassador ...
ACLU president to speak, Oct. 18
Posted October 17, 2000; 11:26 a.m.
Nadine Strossen, New York Law School professor and president of the American Civil Liberties Union, will lecture on "Current Changes in Civil Liberties." The lecture will take place 4:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in Bowl 1 of Robertson Hall.
Strossen was el...
Lecture on Buddhism and science, Oct. 24
Posted October 17, 2000; 11:13 a.m.
Michigan University Professor Donald S. Lopez, Jr. will lecture on "Buddhism and Science," 4:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in Multipurpose Rooms A and B in the Frist Campus Center.
Lopez is the Carl W. Belser Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies and cha...
Presidential search update
Posted October 16, 2000; 06:28 p.m.
The remaining members of the committee that will conduct the search for President Harold Shapiro's successor have been selected. Faculty and staff representatives were chosen by their respective constituencies in elections held this month.
The s...
Paul Kurtz to speak on secular humanism, Oct. 17
Posted October 15, 2000; 07:12 p.m.
Kurtz, philosophy professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will lecture on "Secular Humanists: The Last Repressed Minority in America," Oct. 17 at 8 p.m. in 46 McCosh. Kurtz is founder and chairman of the Committee for th...
Author Jerry Reiter to speak on religious right, Oct. 19
Posted October 15, 2000; 07:03 p.m.
Reiter, author and development officer for the Center for Inquiry-International, will speak on his experience with the Christian Coalition and the pro-life movement on Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. in McCosh 46.
A supporter of the Christian Coalition in it...
Ralph Nader to speak, Oct. 15
Posted October 12, 2000; 04:33 p.m.
The time of Presidential candidate and consumer advocate Ralph Nader's address Oct. 15 has been changed to 8 p.m. He will speak in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, in a visit sponsored by Campus Greens, a student organization.
Those wit...
Professor proposes theory of depression
Posted October 12, 2000; 03:22 p.m.
Depression, an illness that affects about 10 million Americans a year, may be caused by a lack of nerve cell generation in the brain, according to Princeton neuroscientist Barry Jacobs.
This novel theory, which Jacobs proposed in papers this ye...
Ralph Nader Visiting Princeton
Posted October 12, 2000; 02:05 p.m.
Ralph Nader visiting Princeton- On Sunday, October 15, at 8:30 pm, presidential candidate Ralph Nader will be speaking in Alexander Hall at Princeton University. For people with Princeton University I.D. doors open at 7:45, and for the general pub...
Forum on presidential election, Oct. 16
Posted October 12, 2000; 02:01 p.m.
Two Princeton professors will speak on "The Election and Why It Matters," Monday, Oct. 16 at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall. The forum will feature Larry M. Bartels, professor of politics and public affairs, and Fred I. Greenstein...
Community Day/Staff Day/Stadium Day
Posted October 12, 2000; 01:57 p.m.
The University will celebrate its third annual Community Day/Staff Day/Stadium Day at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14 at the Stadium. The event will feature a full day of activities including live entertainment, an Arts and Crafts show and a track me...
Graduate alumnus wins Nobel Prize in economics
Posted October 11, 2000; 04:58 p.m.
James J. Heckman, who received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1971, has won the Nobel Prize in economics. Heckman is now the Henry Schultz Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he has served since 1973.
Heckma...
Frist Campus Center dedication, Oct. 20
Posted October 10, 2000; 08:51 a.m.
The University will welcome back volunteers and Anniversary Campaign donors Oct. 20 to dedicate the Frist Campus Center. The ceremony on 1879 Green begins at 11 a.m. and includes remarks by University President Harold T. Shapiro, architect Robert ...
Toulouse-Lautrec lithographs featured at Art Museum
Posted October 10, 2000; 08:44 a.m.
at the Fin de Sihcle: Lithographs of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec" will be on view at The Art Museum at Princeton University through October 29.
The exhibition includes both posters and prints from the museum's rich holdings. The works survey Toul...
President Clinton's Princeton address available online
Posted October 10, 2000; 08:01 a.m.
President Clinton's address at Princeton is available online. Clinton was the keynote speaker at a two-day conference on The Progressive Tradition: Politics, Culture and History, on Oct. 5.
Scholarly panels on the Progressive Era, which took ...
Juan Maldacena will discuss "Gravity, Black Holes and Strings," Oct. 15
Posted October 6, 2000; 05:17 p.m.
Juan Maldacena, who earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1996, will speak on "Gravity, Black Holes and Strings" as part of the Graduate School Centennial lecture series. Maldacena, a professor of physics at Harvard, has played a major rol...
Princeton, Oxford, Stanford, Yale to invest $12 million in distance-learning initiative
Posted October 6, 2000; 05:10 p.m.
Oxford, Princeton, Stanford and Yale universities announced Thursdaythat they would each provide $3 million to launch their "distancelearning" venture to provide on-line courses in the arts andsciences to their combined 500,000 alumni.
Herbert M. ...
President Bill Clinton's Keynote Address
Posted October 5, 2000; 03:27 p.m.
Watch the Webcast of President Bill Clinton's Keynote Address at the Conference on "The Progressive Tradition: Politics, Culture and History".
Contact: Justin Harmon (609) 258-3601
Lecture series to address international issues of religion and politics
Posted October 1, 2000; 05:42 p.m.
A Princeton University lecture series about the role of religion in public life begins Oct. 2 with a talk on Catholics in China, reflecting a focus on international topics.
Richard Madsen, professor of sociology at the University of California ...