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Spotlight

Name: Patricia Coen.

Position: Managing editor for the Office of Development Communications. Writing and editing articles, working with freelance writers and designers, and managing production for the newsletter "Princeton With One Accord" and other publications. Creating and distributing "Links to Princeton," an e-mail sent regularly to development volunteers highlighting interesting information available on Web sites at Princeton. She was previously communications director at the Woodrow Wilson School.

Quote: "I like all of my job. I like the fact that it's very diverse. And I am always impressed when I interview a faculty member for an article -- everyone has been so interesting and so patient in explaining their work that it's really been a privilege to talk to them."

Other interests: Reading "way too much" and going to just about every new movie.


Obituary

Dorothy Rothbard, a University employee for 12 years, died Feb. 16 at age 76.

She retired in 1991 as office coordinator in the School of Architecture.

A longtime resident of Princeton, Rothbard was a volunteer at Common Cause and an usher at Richardson Auditorium. She was a member of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Elderhostel, the Historical Society of Princeton and the Princeton Getaway Club. She also was a supporter of Ralph Nader and many environmental groups.

Survivors include her daughters, Kathy and Nancy Levine. Memorial contributions may be made to the PACF/Dorothy Rothbard Memorial Fund, c/o The Princeton Area Community Foundation, 188 Tamarack Circle, Skillman, NJ 08558.
 

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April 1, 2002
Vol. 91, No. 21
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Contents

Page one
Ruby Lee draws on experience in industry and academia to rethink computer design
Class assignment flourishes as mentoring program for local girls

Inside
Labouisse prize winner hopes to 'cross-pollinate' with her research
Economic crisis supplies Goldberg with project fodder
Students earn scholarships for study in England
Discovery of bacterial 'touch sensor' could lead to biofilm treatments

People
Princeton hydrologist wins the 'Nobel Prize of water'
Spotlight, obituary

Sections
By the numbers: E-mail
Nassau Notes
Calendar of events


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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