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Position: Director of the Center for Visitors and Conference Services. Coordinating a "one-stop shop" for people from the University community and outside who want to plan events on campus. Coordinating everything from food to facilities and registration to audio-visual coverage for more than 200 events each year.
Quote: "We have top-notch facilities, so that makes my goal of meeting people's needs much easier. I enjoy being exposed to all the different people, ideas and topics."
Other interests: Spending time with his family, which includes his wife, a 14-month-old and another baby due in January.
Briefs
Princeton physicist Phillip James Peebles has been named one of the first two recipients of the Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation.
Peebles, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus, was recognized for his work in explaining the origin and structure of the universe.
The Gruber Cosmology Prize, with an award of $150,000, is to be awarded annually to honor "fundamental scientific advances that shape the way we see and comprehend our universe." In the prize's first year, the foundation gave two awards, one to Peebles and the other to Allan Sandage of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Theodore Ziolkowski, professor of Germanic languages and literatures and comparative literature, was awarded the Order of Merit (First Class) by President Johannes Rau of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Consul General Bernhard Edler von der Planitz said Ziolkowski's scholarly works qualify him as "one of the most prominent Germanists of our age." He noted that Ziolkowski's "unwearying efforts" have helped give the study of languages an important place in the curriculum of American universities.
Ziolkowski is the Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages and the former dean of the Graduate School.
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October 16, 2000 Contents • Close
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