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Elizabeth Diller, professor of architecture, and Kevin Kennon, a lecturer in the School of Architecture and formerly a partner in the firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox, developed the plans along with Ricardo Scofidio, Diller's partner in the firm of Diller & Scofidio, and David Rockwell of the Rockwell Group.

The first of the four platforms opened at the end of December at Ground Zero. Three more are scheduled to be opened by the end of February. The work is being supported by New York City officials, union leaders and private donors.

A book by Lionel Gossman, the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Emeritus, has won the American Historical Association's George L. Mosse Prize.

The book, "Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas" (University of Chicago Press, 2000), was honored as "an outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since the Renaissance."

In the book, Gossman explores how the city of Basel, Switzerland, became a focal point for antimodernist thought in the 19th century. He concentrates primarily on the work of two scholars, Jacob Burckhardt and Johannn Jacob Bachofen.

A Princeton faculty member since 1976, Gossman was granted emeritus status in 1999 and is now affiliated with the new Department of French and Italian.

Paul Sigmund, professor of politics, has received the Bernardo O'Higgins Order of Merit in recognition of his contributions to Chilean scholarship. O'Higgins was the leader of the independence movement in Chile and its first president. Sigmund has written three books and 80 articles on Chilean history and politics. He was the first American scholar to receive the award.