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Picasso's "Head of a Woman" sculpture marks the entrance to the Princeton University Art Museum. The museum recently launched its new Web site www.princetonartmuseum.org. In addition to general information about the museum and its educational resources, the site includes easily accessible details about the museum's collections, exhibitions, programs and publications.

Michael Graves

Architect Graves to speak April 22

Achitect Michael Graves will present a lecture titled "Telling Stories" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, in McCosh 10.
     Graves, the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture Emeritus, joined the Princeton faculty in 1962. Over the next four decades, he built an international reputation as an architect and designer. His designs, from office buildings to single-family homes, have been credited with introducing historical and contextual themes into modern architecture. His designs for furniture and household items, now sold in national retail stores, have helped bring a higher level of design to everyday objects.
     Graves is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, which awarded him its highest honor, the AIA Gold Medal, in 2001. His talk is designated as a Stafford Little Lecture and is part of the University's Public Lectures Series. It will be Webcast; for viewing information, visit http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/

Lecture set on decentralization

A lecture on "State Formation, State Reformation: Deciphering Decentralization in the Philippines and Thailand" will be presented on campus Monday, April 22.
     Paul Hutchcroft, assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 2, Robertson Hall. This event was rescheduled from March 25.
     Hutchcroft is a specialist in Southeast Asian politics and a foremost scholar of Philippine political economy. His publications include "Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines" (Cornell University Press, 1998) and numerous articles on political economy and state formation in the Philippines. He has been an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy of Area and International Studies and a Fulbright scholar.
     The talk is sponsored by the Center of International Studies, the Department of Politics, the Council on Regional Studies, the Southeast Asia Students Organization, Foreign Policy in Focus and the International Center.

U.S. Treasury officer to lecture

John Taylor, undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, will present a lecture titled "Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction and Foreign Aid: The New Agenda" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     Prior to his appointment at the U.S. Treasury, Taylor served as the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He currently is a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers and the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, which advises the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census.
     A 1968 Princeton economics graduate, he also has taught at Princeton, Yale and Columbia. The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Research Program in Development Studies.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to focus on U.S. counterterrorism efforts

Barton Gellman, one of the eight journalists on The Washington Post's national reporting team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Sept. 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism, will speak on campus Tuesday, April 23.
     Gellman, a 1982 Princeton graduate who is a Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Council of the Humanities, will speak on "The War on Terror Before Sept. 11: What Were Clinton and Bush Doing?" at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     A special projects reporter in the New York bureau of the Post, Gellman recently completed a series of articles on the efforts of the government in the war against terrorism prior to Sept. 11. He previously served at the Post as a diplomatic correspondent, Jerusalem bureau chief, Pentagon correspondent and local courthouse reporter. He has received numerous professional awards, including twice being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 for beat reporting and again in 2000 for public service.
     Gellman is the author of "Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power" (Praeger, 1984). He graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which is sponsoring the talk, and earned a master's degree in politics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

Talk explores public opinion influences

Harold Pachios, chair of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, will speak on "Influencing Foreign Public Opinion -- America's Role" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     Pachios, a 1959 Princeton politics graduate, became a member of the commission in 1993, and was designated chair by President Clinton in 1999. The commission is responsible for assessing public diplomacy policies and programs of the U.S. State Department, American missions abroad and other agencies.
     A practicing attorney in the Portland, Maine, law firm of Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, Pachios & Haley, he previously has served as deputy congressional liaison for the Peace Corps and associate White House press secretary. He chaired Maine's Democratic Party for four years.
     The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Ramdas to discuss Global Fund for Women's grassroots investment

Kavita Ramdas, president and chief executive officer of the Global Fund for Women, will discuss "Philanthropy for Change: Investing in Grassroots Women" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     The Global Fund for Women is a San Francisco-based grantmaking foundation supporting women's human rights organizations around the world that address issues such as economic independence, increasing girls' access to education and stopping violence against women.
     Ramdas received the Women's Funding Network award in 1999 for "Changing the Face of Philanthropy" in recognition of her philanthropic leadership. Before joining the Global Fund, Ramdas spent eight years working on issues of U.S. poverty and economic development as well as international population concerns as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago.
     Ramdas earned a master's degree in international development and public policy studies from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and currently is a member of the school's advisory council. Her lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.

New world politics is subject of talk

A lecture on "The New World Politics: Great Power Peace and Ter-rorism" is set for 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
     Robert Jervis, the Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, will deliver the 2001-02 Klaus Knorr Memorial Lecture.
     Jervis, a highly regarded scholar of international relations, is the author of more than 80 publications, including "System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life" (1997), for which he shared the 1998 award of the American Political Science Association for the best book in political psychology, and "The Meaning of Nuclear Revolution" (1990), which was awarded the Grawemeyer Award for the book with the best ideas for improving world order.
     Jervis is the co-editor of a book series on security affairs published by Cornell University Press and serves on the editorial boards of nine scholarly journals. He was the president of the American Political Science Association in 2000-01.
     The lecture is sponsored by the Research Program in International Security and the Center of International Studies.

University Art Museum

The arrest, trial, torture, death and resurrection of Christ is examined in an exhibition titled "In the Mirror of Christ's Passion: Prints, Drawings and Illustrated Books by European Masters" on view through June 9 at the University Art Museum. The exhibit features 56 prints, drawings and illustrated books from the museum and the Department of Rare Books at Firestone Library, including this engraved volume by 15th-century German printer Albrecht Dürer. The exhibition was organized by Todor Todorov, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art and Archaeology.

 
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April 22, 2002
Vol. 91, No. 24
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Contents

Page one
• New appointments build on programs across disciplines
• Kalmbach named senior VP
• Architect selected for Whitman College

Inside
• Trustees approve faculty promotions
• Survivors fire up support in dragon boats
• Longtime classics professor dies
• Center gets new name to better reflect its mission
• Communiversity celebration is April 27
• International Fest fetes diversity
• Campus Volunteer Day 

Sections
• People
• By the numbers
• 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, Megan Peterson
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett