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Neil Rudenstine, Princeton provost emeritus and president of Harvard University, will head the board of a new not-for-profit organization that will develop, store and distribute electronically digital images and related materials for the study of art, architecture and other fields in the humanities.
The initiative, called "ArtSTOR," is sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, whose president is former Princeton President William Bowen. Rudenstine, a 1956 Princeton graduate, first will lead an advisory group and will assume the duties of board chair after leaving the Harvard presidency July 1.
"Having worked closely with Neil Rudenstine over more than 20 years at Princeton and at the Mellon Foundation, I know what an extraordinarily insightful and effective leader he is," Bowen said. "I believe that his knowledge of the humanities and of art history, his exceptional organizational skills, and his familiarity with leading scholars in the field qualify him superbly to guide the development of this new scholarly resource."
Craig Cornelius '01 has been named one of this year's Luce Scholars Com-petition winners. The Luce Scholars Program provides stipends and intern-ships to 18 young Americans so that they may live and work in Asia for one year.
Started in 1974, the program's purpose is to increase awareness of Asia among future leaders in American society. It is sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation of New York City.
Larry Bartels, professor of politics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, has been named to the state Apportionment Commission that is remapping New Jersey's 40 legislative districts. The appointment was made March 27 by Supreme Court Chief Justice Deborah Poritz.
Bartels, who will serve as the independent, 11th member of the board, is the Donald Stokes Professor in Public and International Affairs. Coincidentally, Stokes, a distinguished political scientist who was dean of the Woodrow Wilson School for 18 years, served the commission in the same tie-breaking role in both 1991 and in 1981. Stokes died in 1998.
The commission, which also has five Democrats and five Republicans as members, rearranges the boundaries of voting districts to reflect shifts in population detected in the decennial census. It is charged with redistricting before key state elections this year.
William Jordan, professor of history, has been awarded an honorary degree from his alma mater, Ripon College. Jordan, who earned his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Ripon in 1969, has served on the college's board of trustees since 1999. He received the honorary degree as part of a celebration recognizing the 150th anniversary of Ripon's founding.
A book honoring Harry Frankfurt, professor of philosophy, has been published in Germany.
The book, "Autonomous Action: Essays on the Philosophy of
Harry Frankfurt" was edited by Monika Betzler and Barbara
Guckes. It contains a dozen essays by German and American
philosophers concerning Frankfurt's work on autonomy,
responsibility and the theory of action. The publisher is
Akademie Verlag in Berlin. The authors also have produced a
volume, "Liberty and Self-Determination," that contains
German translations of some of Frankfurt's essays.
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