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Obituary
Paul Robertson, 45, who has been with the University since 1979, died Oct. 18.
Born in Philadelphia and living in Plainsboro for the past 15 years, he was a NSTX water systems technician at the Plasma Physics Lab. A 1976 graduate of the University of Delaware with a bachelor's degree in sociology, he was a member of Merchantville Presbyterian Church and the National Rifle Association.
He is survived by his mother, Grace, and sisters, Joyce and Karen.
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Name: RuthAnne Lavis
Position: Receptionist and business manager for the Department of Romance Languages. Greeting visitors, answering questions and handling business transactions.
Quote: "I enjoy the interaction with people -- as crazy as it can be. I have the opportunity to meet a diverse population, from students to faculty members to visitors. I like to help out people."
Other interests: Playing tennis, working with the Glendale Civic Association and doing advising and alumni projects for a women's fraternity.
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Toma Tasovac, a graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature, has been selected to receive the National Graduate Student Essay Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
The selection committee described Tasovac's essay as a "multi-layered reflection on poetry, translation, metaphor, space and the semantics of biography."
The association is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Russia, Central Eurasia and Eastern and Central Europe.
Pablo Debenedetti, the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, was inducted last month into the National Academy of Engineering, a private institution whose mission is to provide independent advice to the federal government on questions of engineering and technology.
Election to the academy is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Membership honors those who have made "important contributions to engineering theory and practice, including significant contributions to the literature of engineering theory and practice," and those who have demonstrated "unusual accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology," according to the academy.
Debenedetti was recognized for his contributions to microscopic theory, insight embodied in a scholarly monograph and application of supercritical and metastable fluids.
Princeton University has been selected as a winner of the 2000 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey.
The University was chosen in the Emerging Technology Category for a patent on an invention that provides a new way to capture high resolution images of human lungs. The magnetic resonance imaging using hyperpolarized noble gases is helping physicians diagnose pulmonary-related diseases. Normal MRI technology is incapable of creating clear images of lung tissue because, unlike other tissues that contain an abundance of water, the lungs are mostly air and do not have enough hydrogen atoms to emit detectable radio frequency radiation when bathed in a magnetic field.
Among the lead inventors of the new technology are Princeton physicists William Happer and Gordon Cates.
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