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Poet C.K. Williams is one of eight new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an honorary academy of 250 American artists, writers and composers. A formal induction ceremony will take place in May.
     A lecturer with the rank of professor in the Council of the Humanities and in the Program in Creative Writing, Williams' 16th book of poetry, "Repair," won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. His 1987 book, "Flesh and Blood," won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. That book and "The Vigil," published in 1996, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
     Williams also is the author of translations and "Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself," an "autobiographical meditation," published in 2000. He is the editor of several poetry and essay collections.
     Among his many awards and honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Voelcker Career Achievement Award in Poetry, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin. Williams joined the Princeton faculty in 1995.

 
The Alfred Sloan Foundation has selected five Princeton researchers to receive fellowships to support research in computer science, mathematics, physics and economics.
     The recipients are: Moses Charikar, assistant professor of computer science; Wee Teck Gan, assistant professor of mathematics; Steven Gubser, associate professor of physics; Han Hong, assistant professor of economics; and Christopher Tully, assistant professor of physics.
     The winners, who were among 117 recipients nationwide, each will receive $40,000 in unrestricted research support. The highly selective fellowships are designed to help researchers who are at an early stage of their careers and show exceptional promise. The Sloan Foundation gives the awards annually in seven fields, which also include chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, and neuroscience.

Karen Woodbridge, associate director of community and state affairs and special assistant to the vice president for public affairs, has been honored by the Rotary Club of Princeton.
     She and her husband, Richard Woodbridge, a 1965 Princeton graduate, were named Community Leaders of the Year for "giving back" to the community in their jobs and through their involvement in numerous civic endeavors.
     Karen Woodbridge serves as a liaison between campus and community groups. She has chaired the University's Standing Committee on the Status of Women and is a member of the Prospect Association Managing Board. She also has coordinated several campus United Way drives. Last year, she won the Gail Crews Memorial Award for leadership from the United Way of Greater Mercer County.
     A member of the Rotary Club of Princeton since 1988, Woodbridge was elected the group's first woman president in 1998. She has served on many community boards, including those of the Princeton Regional Board of Education, Princeton Adult School, Princeton YMCA/YWCA, Princeton Youth Fund and League of Women Voters.

 
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March 31, 2003
Vol. 92, No. 21
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Contents

Page one
•Greenstein: Bush a 'less sure-footed' leader in Iraq war, despite his post-Sept. 11 growth
•Princeton scientists have high hopes for hydrogen

Inside
•United Way campaign conclusion celebrated
•The ants go marching -- and manage to avoid traffic jams
•Study in Chile whets appetite for return visit under Dale award

People
•Spotlight
•LeMenager moves to campus life
•Briefs

Sections
•Calendar of events
•Nassau Notes
•By the numbers: The Papers of Thos Jefferson