Board reappoints senior
officers
The following academic and corporate officers
were reappointed this spring by the board of
trustees: Michael Rothschild, professor of
economics and public affairs, as dean of the
Woodrow Wilson School; William Happer,
Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, as chair of
the University Research Board; and Jeremiah
Ostriker, Charles A. Young Professor of
Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation, as
provost.
Professors named to endowed
chairs
As of July 1, Fritz Graf will become
Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics;
Daniel Kahne will become A. Barton Hepburn
Professor of Organic Chemistry; Igor
Klebanov, Thomas D. Jones Professor of
Mathematical Physics; Stephen Pacala,
Federick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology; Herschel Rabitz,
Charles Phelps Smyth '16 *17 Professor of
Chemistry; and Virginia Zakian, Harry C.
Wiess Professor in the Life Sciences. (Photos by
Robert P. Matthews, except Graf and Zakian, by
Denise Applewhite, and Rabitz, by Nat Clymer)
People
• Three members of the Princeton faculty
were elected to the National Academy of Sciences
during its annual meeting in May: F. Anthony
Dahlen, professor of geosciences; Simon
Levin, George M. Moffett Professor of Biology;
and Alejandro Portes, professor of
sociology.
• Four graduate students have received
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation
Fellowships: Amanda Dickins, whose topic is
"Economic Interdependence and International
Distributive Justice"; Katarzyna Hagemajer,
"Philo-barbarism: A Study in Greek Interchanges
with the Non-Greeks in the Fourth Century BC";
Gregory Lyon, "The Art of History in
Reformation Germany"; and Megan Reid,
"Exemplary Excess: Devotional Piety in Medieval
Islam, 1200-1500 CE." Newcombe Fellowships,
administered by the Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation, are awarded annually to 35
students studying topics relating to ethical or
religious values.
• Roy Jackson, Class of 1950
Professor in Engineering and Applied Science,
Emeritus, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society of London.
• Robert George, McCormick Professor
of Jurisprudence, has received the Annual Stanley
Kelley Jr. Teaching Award in the Department of
Politics.
• The American Philosophical Society has
announced the election of new members William
Jordan, professor of history; Shirley
Tilghman, Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life
Sciences; and Frederick Mote, professor of
East Asian studies, emeritus.
• The London Hellenic Society has honored
Edmund Keeley, Straut Professor of
English, Emeritus, with the 1999 Criticos Prize for
his book, Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey
1937-1947.
• Dining Services director Stuart
Orefice and Princeton University have been
selected by the Food Group and Creative Food
Solutions as winner of the 2000 Menu Visionary
Award in the Independent On-site category.
• Donner Professor of Science Giacinto
Scoles has been elected a foreign member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Gennady Shvets, staff
research physicist in the Plasma Physics Lab, is
among 60 young researchers who have received the
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and
Engineers this year. The grant, which supports up
to five years of research, was made at the White
House in April. Shvets was also honored with an
Office of Science Early Career Award in Science and
Engineering from the US Department of Energy.
• Assistant Professor of Music Barbara
White has been named a Bunting Fellow and will
spend the 2000-01 academic year in residence at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She also
received a 2000 fellowship from the NJ State
Council on the Arts.
• Christian Wildberg, associate
professor of classics, has been named a Howard
Foundation Fellow for 2000-01. The $20,000 grant
will support his work on "A Translation and
Commentary on Aristotle's Cosmological Treatise 'On
the Heavens.'"
Moving on
Next year the Weekly Bulletin will be "under new
management." Sally Freedman, who has been
with the paper since 1983 and editor since 1986, is
moving to the Green Mountains of Vermont.
Caroline Moseley, who has been associate
editor since 1986, will be freelancing. We would
like to take this opportunity to thank our readers
and contributors for their interest, their help and
their feedback. We are proud to be part of the
grand educational enterprise that is Princeton.
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