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	Barbara Smith

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Name: Barbara Smith.

Position: Administrative assistant in the Office of Health Professions Advising in the Office of the Dean of the College. Assisting pre-med students during their four years at Princeton. Helping the 140 or so juniors, seniors and alumni who are pursuing careers in the health professions. Answering questions, making sure they see the advisers, administering the MCATs and sending out committee letter packets to the medical schools to which they've applied.

Quote: "I love working with the students -- they're very appreciative of everything we do. It's fun to be a small part of the process, especially when they get accepted into a program."

Other interests: A staff member in the Department of Molecular Biology for seven years, she has been in her present position for one year. She enjoys spending time with her family (husband and three adult daughters), traveling, skiing, hiking, knitting, playing bridge and ringing in a handbell choir.

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Briefs

Four Princeton faculty members have been presented awards by the American Political Science Association.

Fred Greenstein, professor of politics emeritus, received the Frank Goodnow Award for Distinguished Service. Named for the association's first president, the award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to both the development of the political science profession and the building of the APSA.

Gene Grossman, the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics and professor of economics and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School, received the best book award from the Political Economy Section of the APSA. The award was presented for "Special Interest Politics" as "the best book in political economy published in 2001." Grossman wrote the book with Elhanan Helpman, the Galen Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University. Published by MIT Press, the book is about the mechanisms by which special interest groups affect policy in modern democracies.

Evan Lieberman, assistant professor of politics, won the Gabriel Almond Prize for the best dissertation in comparative politics. His dissertation is titled "Payment for Privilege? Race and Space in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa." He also was the winner of the Mary Parker Follett Award, given by the APSA's Politics and History Section, for his article, "Causal Inference in Historical Institutional Analysis: A Specification of Periodization Strategies," which was published in Comparative Political Studies 34 (November 2001). The award is given to the best article or book chapter for the year.

Tali Mendelberg, associate professor of politics, received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, which honors "the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics or international affairs." It was presented to Mendelberg for her 2001 book, "The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages and the Norm of Equality." Published by Princeton University Press, the book traces the evolution of political rhetoric about race from the Civil War to the present, analyzing the causes, dynamics and consequences of racially loaded political communication.

October 7, 2002
Vol. 92, No. 5
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Contents

Page one
•Malkiel: Princeton has 'another extraordinary year' in admissions, financial aid
•Biologist Bonnie Bassler wins MacArthur Fellowship

Research
•Electrical engineer programs cells to do his bidding
•Sociologist studies mixing money and relationships

 People
•Richard Challener '44, scholar of American history, dies at 79
•Increased effectiveness goal of development reorganization
•People, spotlight, briefs

Sections
• Nassau Notes
• Calendar of events
• By the numbers

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, Margaret Westergaard
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett

 
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