People
Natalie Davis, Henry Charles Lea Professor of
History, Emeritus, has been named recipient of the 2000
Toynbee Prize. She is to deliver the prize lecture on
"Rethinking Cultural Mixture: The Travels of 'Leo
Africanus'" and receive the prize on May 17 in the New York
Public Library.
Suzanne Keller, professor of sociology, was given
the MERIT Award of the Eastern Sociological Society for
"outstanding contributions to the discipline."
Paul Lansky, professor of music, received the Year
2000 Award from the Society for Electro-acoustic Music in
the United States in recognition of "a lifetime of
achievement and contribution to the art and craft of
electro-acoustic music."
Charles Neumeyer, NSTX project engineer in the
Plasma Physics Lab, has been named Engineer of the Year by
the Professional Engineering Society of Mercer County.
Joseph Tsien, assistant professor of molecular
biology, has received a New Investigator Award from the
Burroughs Wellcome Fund to support research on a "novel
pharmacogenetic approach to neuronal
signaling."
Obituary
Michael Quigley, 49, who was an electronics technician at
the Plasma Physics Lab for 15 years, died on February
11.
Born in Philadelphia, he was an Army
veteran of the Vietnam War and received the purple heart and
bronze star.
He is survived by his mother, Jan
Quigley-West.
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