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McCarter Theatre will present the Peking Acrobats at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 12. |
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Talk set on economic impact of AIDS
Mead Over, senior economist in the Development Research
Group at the World Bank, will speak on "AIDS, Inequality and
Poverty in Developing Countries: Policy Options for Escaping
the Vicious Circle" Tuesday, March 13.
His lecture, which begins at noon in 300
Wallace, is being sponsored by the Office of Population
Research, the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the
Research Program in Development Studies.
One year after joining the World Bank as
a health economist in 1986, Over was assigned to work with
the World Health Organization's new Global Program on AIDS
in order to estimate the economic impact of the AIDS
epidemic. Since then, he has served as principal
investigator of the research project on the economic impact
of adult mortality in Kagera, Tanzania, and has written
several articles on the economic impact of AIDS and on the
economics of prevention programs. He also has spoken on
these topics at conferences and symposia around the
world.
Over is co-author of "Confronting AIDS:
Public Priorities in a Global Epidemic," the sixth of the
World Bank's policy research report series.
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Greg Hrbek, who won the 1999 James Jones Prize for First
Fiction for "The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly," will read from
his work at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, in the
Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau St. Hrbek, a Council of the
Humanities Hodder Fellow and a graduate of the Iowa Writers'
Workshop, also has received an Iowa Arts Fellowship and a
James Michener Fellowship. The event is part of the Creative
Writing Program's Althea Ward Clark Reading Series.
Two to discuss printing research
A lecture titled "How Were the Earliest European Printing
Types Made?" will be presented at 5 p.m. Thursday, March
15, in 101 McCormick.
Paul Needham, librarian of the Scheide
Library, and Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a 1998 physics
graduate and library research associate, will discuss and
illustrate their recent findings, which are based on the
extraordinary collection of early printing in the Scheide
Library. Their work concerning 15th-century German printer
Johannes Gutenberg was prominently featured in the Feb. 12
Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
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Tom Chapin will perform |
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Russian executive gives 'insider's view'
Simon Kukes, one of Russia's leading business executives,
will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 15, in 211
Dickinson.
Kukes, president and chief executive
officer of the Tyumen Oil Co., will lecture on "Business and
Politics in Putin's Russia: An Insider's View."
Previously a top executive for Amoco and
Philips Petroleum, Kukes holds a Ph.D. in chemistry. He has
been a research scholar at Moscow's Academy of Sciences and
at Rice University. In 1999 he was named one of the 10 best
executives by the Central European Economic Review and in
2000 was nominated manager of the year in Russia by the
magazine Company. He holds dozens of U.S. patents.
Kukes recently won a privatization
contest for the Russian oil conglomerate that he now heads.
His tender, contrary to previous privatizations in Russia,
brought substantial revenues to the Russian state budget. He
also recently was appointed to the board of the prestigious
U.S.-Russia Business Council in Washington, D.C.
His lecture is sponsored by Princeton's
Russian Studies Program.
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Actor, writer and monologist Eric Bogosian will bring his
bizarre brand of humor to McCarter Theatre at 8 p.m. Friday,
March 16. His show, "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee,"
is the current product of Bogosian's overheated mind and
soul. He blends characters, angry rants and a stream of
consciousness meditation on making it to the top of the
ladder, on falling off the ladder and on the exhilarating
thrill of the ultimate crash and burn.
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Gallery talk"Tarascon Diligence," an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh, will be discussed by docent Marianne Grey in a gallery talk at 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 16, and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at the Art Museum. |
The University has donated a $500,000 gift toward a $78.2
million building program the Princeton Regional Board of
Education will place before voters April 17.
The University's contribution is intended
for the renovation of the high school auditorium to convert
it into the main reading room for an expanded and modernized
library.
"This extraordinary contribution on the
part of Princeton University demonstrates the University's
ongoing support of the Princeton Regional Schools and the
education of its children," said Schools Superintendent
Claire Sheff Kohn. "It is a major gift to be added to a long
list of other significant contributions made to this
district by the University."
School Board Vice President Frank
Strasburger added that "Princeton University has always been
a wonderful neighbor to our public schools. This gift
continues that tradition. We are thrilled, and hope that
this gift may encourage others in our community to follow
this example."
He noted that the donation is
particularly generous, given the fact that if the proposed
referendum is approved, the University -- as the largest
taxpayer in both the borough and the township -- will end up
being the single largest tax dollar contributor to the
building program.
The Princeton Regional Board of Education
unanimously voted in February to move forward with the $78.2
million referendum that will provide for renovations and
additions to all six of the district's schools. Officials
said the referendum is critical to maintaining the quality
of the schools, which have experienced a 34 percent
enrollment increase in the past 10 years.
Family heirlooms workshop set
Staff members from the Princeton University Library's preservation office will participate with other experts in a workshop on the care and preservation of family heirlooms Saturday, March 24.
Students needed as camp staffers
Community House is seeking graduate and undergraduate
students to work as paid support staff members for its
Computer Summer Camp.
The 12 middle school students
participating in the camp will be instructed in Word, Excel,
Power Point, Web design, digital cameras and more. The
support staff will help students during morning instruction
times as well as supervise recreational activities and field
trips during the afternoon.
The camp will run from July 9 to Aug.
3. Camp hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
For more information, contact Marjorie
Young at 258-6136 or may@princeton.edu
Community House is a diverse gathering of
University students and staff committed to responding to
needs identified by the community to enrich, empower and
renew the lives of underserved children and families in the
Princeton Borough and Township by providing educational,
cultural and recreational programs.
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