P E O P L E Spotlight      Mark Rodill   Name: Mark Rodill Position: Project lead in the information systems area of computing and information technology. Providing information technology support for housing, dining services, ID card, the Graduate School and the DataMall. Quote: "I like working with people in the different departments. The systems we create help them do their jobs." Other interests: Writing music and playing the guitar and piano. Performing original music solo and classic rock with a partner (the "Y2Guys?") at area venues and making his own CDs. Downhill skiing, mountain biking, martial arts, drawing and painting and PC combat flight simulators. People Mathematician Ingrid Daubechies has received the Basic Research Award from the Eduard Rhein Foundation in Germany. She was honored for the invention, the mathematical development and the application of wavelets, which have found widespread application in signal processing, radar and image processing. The award cited Daubechies' fundamental research work, "which shows in an exemplary way that theoretical research in basic mathematics can lead to very practical methods useful in a variety of applications in advanced information technology," according to the foundation. Daubechies is a professor of mathematics and applied and computational mathematics and director of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. The first volume of a book by Lynn White III, professor of politics and international affairs, has received the Association for Asian Studies' 2000 Joseph Levenson Book Prize. The first volume, "Unstately Power: Local Causes of China's Economic Reforms," was published in 1998. The prize citation describes it as "a riveting narrative" and suggests that "this book should reshape the ongoing sinological debate about the relations in China between state and society." Volume two, subtitled "Local Causes of China's Intellectual, Legal and Government Reforms," was published in 1999.		October 23, 2000 Vol. 90, No. 7 previous   archives   next Contents • Neuroscientists put heads together to develop new theory on depression • Politicking aside electoral process still matters • Trussell and colleagues call for better HIV prevention • Alumnus wins Nobel in economics • By the numbers - Princetonians who have won the Nobel Prize • Committee has full complement • New sound appealing to campus • Benefits update • Community Day/Staff Day was Oct. 14 • Spotlight / People • Nassau notes • Calendar of events The Bulletin is published weekly during the academic year, except during University breaks and exam weeks, by the Office of Communications, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Permission is given to adapt, reprint or excerpt material from the Bulletin for use in other media. Deadline. In general, the copy deadline for each issue is the Friday 10 days in advance of the Monday cover date. The deadline for the Bulletin that covers Nov. 6-12 is Friday, Oct. 27. A complete publication schedule is available at deadlines or by calling (609) 258-3601. Subscriptions. The Bulletin is distributed free to faculty, staff and students. Others may subscribe to the Bulletin for $24 for the academic year (half price for current Princeton parents and people over 65). Send a check to Office of Communications, Stanhope Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Editor: Ruth Stevens Staff writer: Yvonne Chiu Hays Calendar editor: Carolyn Geller Contributing writers: Lauren Robinson-Brown, Marilyn Marks, Steven Schultz Photographer: Denise Applewhite Design: Mahlon Lovett, Laurel Masten Cantor Web edition: Mahlon Lovett
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