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	Provost Jeremiah Ostriker, Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy   Full release to news media...		Ostriker to leave provost's office, assume Cambridge professorship.           After six years as Princeton University's second-ranking officer, Provost Jeremiah Ostriker will leave that office at the end of this summer and assume one of the most prestigious professorships at the University of Cambridge, the Plumian Professorship of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. He also will continue to hold his faculty position at Princeton as the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy and to work with his graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.   Current news and events Releases to the media Weekly Bulletin Calendar of events         "I was absolutely delighted by the selection of Shirley Tilghman as Princeton's next president," Ostriker said, "but it meant that scientists would be simultaneously holding the positions of president, provost and dean of the faculty. That seemed to me one scientist too many."     "There is great virtue in representing a range of disciplines in the most senior academic offices of the University. Leaving now allows President Tilghman to select a new provost and allows me to return for a while to the university I left when I first came to Princeton in 1965. The timing of the offer from Cambridge was most propitious, and I look forward with great eagerness to returning to full-time research and teaching," he said.     President Shapiro said, "I am very grateful to Jerry for his exceptional service as provost these last six years. He has taken leadership on a wide variety of issues and has helped to strengthen and improve the University in important respects. That he has done this while also continuing to make significant contributions as a scholar and teacher makes his many achievements as provost even more remarkable. I have benefited enormously from his clear thinking, his deep commitment to scholarship and education, his resourcefulness, his steadfast support and his friendship."
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