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"The idea is to get students to think about science
and engineering as part of real life"
By the time students left the
second session of MAE 199 this fall, they were sweating.
That wasn't because they had spent
the last couple hours steeped in problems of physics, fluid
dynamics and materials science. It had more to do with
sitting on a stationary bicycle and pedaling madly while
talking about physics, fluid dynamics and materials
science.
That's the way it is in Barrie
Royce's Human-Powered Vehicles, a class in which the bicycle
is as much a teaching tool as the blackboard. The course
explores the machines humans have devised to leverage their
own strength and propel themselves faster and farther than
their own two feet could carry them. It ranges from dugout
canoes to human-powered airplanes but focuses on the
bicycle. [>>more]
Cancer: a complex material
Oncologist, materials scientist collaborate to model
virtual brain tumors
When Sal Torquato received a
collaboration proposal from a cancer researcher at Harvard,
he was skeptical.
What use would a physician who
studies brain tumors have for a professor of civil and
environmental engineering? As a faculty member of the
Princeton Materials Institute, Torquato is a theoretician
who studies the physical properties of complex materials
such as blends of ceramics and metals, colloids, foams and
geologic materials.
But that's exactly what Thomas
Deisboeck of Massachusetts General Hospital's Brain Tumor
Center wanted. [>>more]
Surviving change
Sociologist examines "how individuals make sense of
their world through social relations"
Over the course of 15 years in
both the developing world and the United States, Sara
Curran, assistant professor of sociology, has documented how
social change reshapes the lives of individuals, whether the
migration of rural women to urban industrial jobs in
Thailand or the influx of northern industries into the
southern United States. [>>more]
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In Washington DC, Representative Rush Holt (at podium) announced the introduction of the Federal Research Investment Act (HR3161), a companion bill to the Senate bill S.296, sponsored by Senator Bill Frist, which passed earlier this fall. The bill would double funding for research at major federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, which provide major funding for Princeton faculty research. With Holt at the time of the announcement on October 28 were Jerry Etter of SVS Inc. (l), Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, Representative Heather Wilson of New Mexico and Ed Wasserman, president of the American Chemical Society. (Photo by American Chemical Society)
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On October 28 the Graduate College celebrated the
liberation of Cleveland Tower from the scaffolding that had
shrouded it since March. Among the attendees were John
Wilson (below r), dean of the Graduate School, and his wife
Ruth (below), who displayed a tee-shirt with "before" and
"after" images of the tower.
The removal of the scaffolding
signaled the end of a $1.5 million restoration project that
included "a complete cleaning, repointing of all stone
mortar joints, and repair or replacement of all missing,
cracked or loose stone elements across the entire exterior
facade," according to project manager David Howell. "This
involved more than 200 carved replications in the original
limestone material used for the tower's four pinnacles. The
restabilization of each stone element," he noted, "will
lengthen the tower's life well into the next
millennium."
The project, which began in
January, was directed by the architectural firm Ford
Farewell Mills and Gatsch. (Photos by Denise Applewhite)
People
• The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars honored
Robert George, Cyrus Hall McCormick Professor of
Jurisprudence, with the 1999 Cardinal Wright award, which is
presented annually to "a Catholic scholar who has achieved
preeminence in an academic discipline and who has rendered
outstanding service to the church by integrating the faith
into scholarship of the highest quality."
• Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture Michael
Graves has won the 1999 National Medal of Arts, awarded
by the National Endowment for the Arts. Established by
Congress in 1984, the medal honors individuals and
organizations "who in the President's judgment are deserving
of special recognition by reason of their outstanding
contributions to the arts in the United States." Graves was
the only architect in a group of 11 that included singer
Aretha Franklin, producer Norman Lear and the Juilliard
School.
• The Art Museum has received the 10th annual Photo
Review Award for services to the field of photography, in
recognition of its outstanding program of exhibition,
publication and collection of photography under the
direction of Peter Bunnell, David Hunter McAlpin
Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art.
• Professor of Computer Science Richard Lipton
has been inducted into the National Academy of Engineering
for "application of computer science theory to
practice."
• Professor of Astrophysical Sciences Emeritus
Thomas Stix has received the 1999 Distinguished
Career Award from Fusion Power Associates for his "important
contributions to fusion energy research and
development."
• C.K. Williams, lecturer with the rank of
professor in the Council of the Humanities and Creative
Writing, is one of the National Book Award finalists in
poetry for Repair.
Athletics
Cross country. The men finished first at the
Heptagonal Championships October 29, with Paul Morrison '02
first out of 80 runners. The women finished sixth. (Men:
3-1, 0-0 Ivy; women: 3-1, 1-1 Ivy)
Football. The Tigers defeated Columbia 44-15 October
30. Thomas Crenshaw '02 completed 24 of 33 passes for 304
yards for Princeton's first 300-yard passing game since
1991. (3-4, 1-3 Ivy)
Soccer. The men's team lost to Rutgers 4-2 October
30. The women defeated Columbia October 29 and Loyola
October 31, both 2-0. (Men: 9-3-1, 4-1 Ivy; women: 12-3-1,
4-1-1 Ivy)
Water polo (men). Princeton won the Southern Division
Championship October 30-31 with wins over Grove City, Johns
Hopkins and Navy. (20-2, 8-0 CWPA.
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