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'Galileo's Daughter' author to speak

Dava Sobel, author of an award- winning book on early scientist Galileo Galilei, will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in A02 McDonnell Hall.
     She will discuss "Galileo: Working Scientist," describing how Galileo faced many of the same problems familiar to modern researchers, including finding sources of funding, assuring patent protection, achieving technology transfer and responding to pressure to publish.
     Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of "Galileo's Daughter." The book is based on 124 surviving letters from Galileo to his eldest child. It won the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science and technology and was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. A second book, "Letters for Father," containing the full text of the correspondence, was published last fall.
     Sobel also wrote the 1995 book "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time." The book tells the story of John Harrison and his 40-year quest to build a clock that would keep precise time at sea.
     Sobel has received several awards from scientific organizations for contributing toward the public understanding of science. Her talk is designated as the Donald Ross Hamilton Lecture and is being sponsored by the Department of Physics.

Alumna to lecture on smart growth

Barbara Lawrence, executive director of New Jersey Future, will present a lecture titled "Smart Growth: New Jersey and the Nation" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 11, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     New Jersey Future is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization created 14 years ago by senior corporate, civic and environmental leaders to promote smarter land-use and growth policies.
     Lawrence is a co-founder of the organization and a 1981 graduate alumna of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which is sponsoring the lecture.

Women's History Month event slated

A Women's History Month celebration featuring former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky is set for Tuesday, March 12, in Multipurpose Room C, Frist Campus Center.
     She will speak on "Balancing Career and Life: One Woman's Perspective" during two sessions: from noon to 1 p.m.; and from 1 to 2 p.m.
     In 1992, Mezvinsky was the first woman elected in her own right to Congress from Pennsylvania. In 1995, she served as the director of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
     She currently is chair of Women's Campaign International, a group that provides political training for women throughout the world, and a senior lecturer at the Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.
     Between their combined family of 11 children and the refugee families they've been sponsoring since their marriage in 1975, Mezvinsky and her husband, Edward, have taken care of 25 children.
     The event is being sponsored by the Work/Life Task Force of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. Space is limited; to make reservations, e-mail Debra Rundle at rundle@princeton.edu

U.S. role in human rights policy is topic for March 12

A Problem From Hell: American Bystanders in the Age of Genocide" is the title of a talk set for Tuesday, March 12.
     Samantha Power, lecturer in public policy and executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     Power has just completed the book "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," which examines U.S. responses to genocide since the Holocaust. Her article on the Rwandan genocide, "Bystanders to Genocide," appeared in the September 2001 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. She is a frequent contributor to The New Republic and is the editor, with Graham Allison, of "Realizing Human Rights" (2000).
     From 1993 to 1996, Power covered the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for U.S. News and World Report and The Economist. In 1996 she joined the International Crisis Group as a political analyst, helping launch the organization in Bosnia.
     The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Expert to discuss U.S. electoral reform

A lecture on "Electoral Reform for a Changing America" will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     Robert Richie, executive director of the Center for Voting and Democracy, will give the address, which is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
     The Center for Voting and Democracy is a nonprofit organization that researches and advocates election reforms that promote voter turnout, accountable governance and fair representation. Richie has served as the director of the center since its founding in 1992. He has worked closely with local, national and international government officials on various aspects of electoral reform.
     The lecture is offered in conjunction with an undergraduate task force seminar at the Woodrow Wilson School on "Designing American Electoral Reform." The task force, taught by Assistant Professor Joshua Tucker, focuses on proposing reforms to U.S. electoral laws, and hopes to take a nonpartisan, unified approach to the subject by considering multiple aspects of electoral reform in an atmosphere free from partisan pressures.

Kesler to look at feasibility of limited government

A lecture titled "Is Limited Government a Lost Cause?" will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in 104 Computer Science Building.
     Charles Kesler, director of the Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World and associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, will discuss whether limited government is feasible in the 21st century.
     Kesler is editor of the Penguin-Putnam edition of "The Federalist Papers" (1999), and he has co-edited with William Buckley "Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought" (Harper and Row, 1988). His research interests include the founding of America and modern conservative political thought.
     A reception will follow the lecture, which is being sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. It is part of this year's Alpheus Mason Lectures, made possible by John Hansel, class of 1946.

	Catrin Finch

Welsh harpist

Welsh harpist Catrin Finch will present a recital at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. At age 19, Finch won first prize in the 2000 Young Concert Artists International Auditions as well as two special awards, the Orchestra New England Prize and the Princeton University Concerts Prize. Tickets to the performance are available through the Richardson box office at (609) 258-5000.

Series celebrates composer, reopening of chapel organ

A series of organ concerts honoring the work of Charles Marie Widor is planned for Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, at the University Chapel.
     "Widor -- Beyond the Toccata" will begin with a concert at 8 p.m. Friday. Performances and a lecture on Saturday will run from 10 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
     Featured organists will include David Messineo, principal University organist; Daniel Roth, titular of St. Sulpice in Paris; Gordon Turk of Ocean Grove Auditorium in Ocean Grove, N.J.; and Johannes Unger, winner of the St. Albans International Organ Festival competition. The lecture will be given by John Near, author of the 10-volume work, "Symphonies for Organ by Charles Marie Widor," and professor of music at Principia College in Illinois.
     The event is sponsored by the chapel music office and will mark the recent reopening of the Mander/Skinner Organ. First installed in 1928, the organ had been sealed off since a chapel restoration project began in February 2000.
     Widor, a French organist, was the first to compose great symphonies for the organ. His works also include orchestral and choral pieces as well as chamber music. Widor was a professor of organ at the Paris Conservatory, instructing pupils such as Albert Schweitzer, and was also the organist at St. Sulpice in Paris for 64 years.

Lewis Carroll, Photographer

The publication of "Lewis Carroll, Photographer" will be celebrated during a program at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 16, in Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture. It will include talks by authors Roger Taylor and Edward Wakeling and a one- man performance by British actor Kevin Moore as Lewis Carroll. It also will feature an exclusive preview of some of the photographs and letters in the University library's collection. Those wishing to attend should contact Holly Bittner, Princeton University Press, at (609) 258-5165 or holly_bittner@pupress.princeton.edu

University Art Museum

"Abduction," an etching and aquatint by Max Klinger (1857-1920), is among the work displayed in the "Klinger to Kollwitz: German Art in the Age of Expressionism" exhibit on view at the University Art Museum through June 9.

 
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March 11, 2002
Vol. 91, No. 19
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Contents

In the news
• 'Green' initiatives a go for facilities department
• Climate change top concern for 21st century
• Reducing gas emissions more than hot air at Princeton
• Tilghman co-chairs state initiative
• Camera lens was Lewis Carroll's looking glass

People
• Marsh appointed associate provost
• Faculty/staff reservists committed to two careers
• Baker to speak at Class Day
• Briefs
• Spotlight

Sections
• By the numbers: Student publications
• Nassau Notes
• Calendar of events 

Editor: Ruth Stevens
Calendar editor: Carolyn Geller
Staff writers: Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, Steven Schultz
Contributing writers: Marilyn Marks, Evelyn Tu
Photographer: Denise Applewhite
Design: Mahlon Lovett, Laurel Masten Cantor
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett