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Name: Steve Iannacone. BriefsStefan Bernhard, assistant professor of chemistry, has been chosen by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for a 2002 Dreyfus New Faculty Award. The awards, each worth $40,000, are presented to a select group of scientists who have demonstrated potential for outstanding scientific accomplishments as well as the promise of dedication to education of students at all levels. Bernhard, who studies inorganic chemistry, joined the Princeton faculty this summer. A 1988 graduate of the School of Engineering in Burgdorf, Switzerland, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 1996. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and at Cornell University. Two Princeton faculty members have been named inaugural fellows of the recently formed European Corporate Governance Institute. Patrick Bolton, the John Scully '66 Professor of Finance and professor of economics, and Ailsa Roell, senior research economist in the Department of Economics, are among 21 distinguished academics from Europe and North America chosen to provide intellectual leadership for the Brussels-based organization. The institute was founded this year as an international scientific nonprofit association to provide a forum for debate and dialogue between academics, legislators and practitioners, focusing on corporate governance issues and the promotion of best practice. Jean Schwarzbauer, professor of molecular biology, has been elected to the council of the American Society for Cell Biology. She will serve a three-year term on the council, which is the chief governing body of the 10,000-member society, beginning in 2003. Schwarzbauer came to Princeton in 1986 as an assistant professor. She was promoted to tenure in 1993 and to professor in 2000. She served as the program chair for the American Society for Cell Biology's annual meeting in 2000. Since its founding in 1960, the American Society for Cell Biology has brought together experts in the field of cell biology to advance scientific knowledge, increase public awareness of the importance of biomedical research and guide national policy on the education, training and career development of biomedical researchers. The government of Austria has awarded its national prize for science and art to Elliott Lieb, the Eugene Higgens Professor of Physics at Princeton. Austrian President Thomas Klestil presented the award, the "Oesterreichisches Ehrenzeichen fuer Wissenschaft und Kunst," in a ceremony at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture on July 29. At the same time, the Erwin Schroedinger Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna held a weeklong symposium titled "Stability Matters" in honor of Lieb's 70th birthday. Speakers from Princeton included Robert Seiringer, Michael Aizenman and Yakov Sinai. |
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