- Details on tickets to President Clinton's address available
<Posted 09/25/2000 09:45>
Information about the distribution of tickets for President Bill Clinton's address at Princeton Oct. 5 is now available at the website for the University's conference on "The Progressive Tradition: Politics, Culture and History."
Seating for the President's address is limited to Princeton University students, faculty and staff. Tickets are available by lottery only.
The conference will be the occasion for a major scholarly re-evaluation of the Progressive Era, the two-decade period of political and social reform that began in 1900. There will be panels on the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, as well as on the era's long-term historical legacy.
Admission to the scholarly panels, which will be held Oct. 6, is free and open to the public. Speakers and commentators include renowned senior scholars as well as younger historians and writers.
The conference website contains a schedule, list of participants and other conference information, in addition to the lottery details.
- Andrew Wiles elected to Royal Society of Canada
<Posted 09/21/2000 22:13>
Mathematics Professor Andrew Wiles has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities. He will be inducted in a ceremony in Ottawa on Nov. 17.
Wiles, who joined the faculty in 1982 and is widely celebrated for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Science. He is one of only five Foreign Fellows named this year to Canada's senior national body of eminent scientists and scholars. Sixty new Fellows and one Specially Elected Fellow also will be inducted.
"The work and research accomplished by each of these distinguished men and women have had a profound impact on sciences and humanities in Canada," said William Leiss, Royal Society president. "The Society is proud to welcome them as Fellows, and in so doing to recognize and salute their outstanding contribution to their disciplines."
England, France, Germany and Israel are among other countries that have recognized Wiles for his outstanding contributions. Wiles is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics.
- Eritrean President to speak Today
<Posted 04/10/2000 12:42>
His Excellency Isaias Afworki, president of Eritrea, will speak on Monday, April 10 at 4:30pm in McCosh 50. In a talk entitled "Conflict and Challenge of Development in Africa: The Case of the Horn of Africa," he will discuss the ongoing war between Eritrea and Ethiopia which has resulted in tens of thousands of casualties in the last year. This lecture is sponsored by the Program in African Studies.
- Information Technology Fair
<Posted 03/16/2000 11:27>
The seventh annual Information Technology Fair will take
place on
Thursday,
March 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in McDonnell
Hall. The fair offers presentations and demonstrations of
information
technology
resources for administration, research, instruction, and
more. For
information, see
www.princeton.edu/fair
- Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond to speak
<Posted 03/13/2000 12:15>
Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond
will speak on
“2000: A Race Odyssey,” on March 22 at 8 p.m. His
lecture will take
place in McCosh 50 on the Princeton campus and is
free and open to the
public. Bond's appearance marks the 30th anniversary
of Princeton
University’s Program in African-American Studies.
- Princeton Conference Examines Russia's Nuclear Complex
<Posted 03/13/2000 01:05>
Policymakers from the U.S. and Russia will gather at Princeton University March 14 and 15 to discuss the conversion of Russia's nuclear weapons complex, a critical issue for both the Russian economy and for international efforts to stem nuclear weapons proliferation.
The conference will bring together key American and Russian officials with experts from the U.S. Congress, universities, foundations, and non-governmental organizations to assess efforts to convert Russia's once-secret nuclear cities from weapons work to peaceful production. It is sponsored by Princeton University's Program on Nuclear Policy Alternatives and has been made possible by a grant from the JJJ Foundation.
For information and an agenda, contact Sharon Weiner at (609) 258-6424, or e-mail her at skweiner@princeton.edu.
- Men's Basketball Vs. Penn Available Via Satellite at 7:30 PM
<Posted 02/15/2000 09:30>
Tonight's basketball game between the men's teams from Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania will be available live via satellite at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
The satellite coordinates are: KU Band, GE 5, Transponder 16 Lower.
- Computing Services to Be Curtailed to Allow Urgent Electrical Repair
<Posted 02/11/2000 10:40>
Some computing services must be curtailed today, Friday, February 11, between 12:30 and 1 p.m. to allow urgent electrical repair to core network components. This repair will result in an outage
of the mail server, the data mall, Oracle databases, Sesame Street
servers, Novell file services, and the NT Princeton domain. Users should
log off their desktop systems before 12:30 p.m. and log back in after 1 p.m.
- Lautenberg reflects on senate career, Nov. 30
<Posted 11/29/2000 11:43>
U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg will offer "Reflections on a Senate Career," at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, 2000 in Dodds Auditorium, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Lautenberg, who has a distinguished 18-year career in public service, is expected to discuss his roots and how his background influenced the issues that he championed. Born as the son of immigrants in Paterson, N.J., Lautenberg graduated with a degree in economics from Columbia University in 1949. A founder of Automatic Data Processing, one of the largest computing services companies in the world, Lautenberg was serving as its chairman and ceo when first elected to public office in 1982. He has held the senate seat since.
Lautenberg also will address the state of politics today, particularly in light of the recent presidential election. He also will meet with Princeton students and faculty members. The lecture is free and open to the public. More information on the senator is available at Sen. Lautenberg.
- Saxophonist Oliver Lake to perform, Nov. 11
<Posted 11/10/2000 14:49>
Saxophonist Oliver Lake, playing his big band music as part of the Princeton University Jazz Ensembles Concert, will perform Saturday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. in Richardson Hall on the Princeton campus.
Tickets are $10 for students and senior citizens, $20 for
regular admission, and $5 for kids under 12. For more information please visit the Princeton University Jazz Ensembles web site.
- Torricelli to speak to students; hold book signing, Nov. 9
<Posted 11/08/2000 18:25>
U.S. Senator Robert G. Torricelli is scheduled to lecture to students on Thursday, Nov. 9 during an afternoon class at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Later, at 7 p.m., Sen. Torricelli is scheduled for a public appearance to sign copies of his book, "Quotations for Public Speakers," at the University Store.
For more information, contact the Senator's office at 973-624-5555.
- Sarbanes, attorney and education reformer, to Lecture on Nov. 8
<Posted 11/06/2000 17:47>
John P. Sarbanes, special assistant for the Baltimore City-State Education Reform Partnership and partner in the law firm of Venable, Baejter, Howard and Civiletti, will deliver the lecture
"Where Have All the Teachers Gone?: A View from Ground Zero of the Service Economy" on Wednesday, November 8 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall at the University.
A partner in the health care group at Venable, a multi-disciplinary corporate law firm with offices in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, Sarbanes received an A.B. from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1984. At Venable, Sarbanes advises hospitals, managed care organizations, and other institutional health care providers, targeting issues concerning care for the elderly. Since 1998, Sarbanes has reduced his workload at Venable to serve on a part-time basis as a special assistant for Maryland's state superintendent of schools, focusing on the Baltimore city school reform effort.
This lecture is cosponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Law and Public Affairs. It is free and open to the public.
- Arthur Winfree to speak on sudden heart attacks in Graduate School lecture series, Nov. 12
<Posted 11/03/2000 21:18>
Arthur Winfree, a 1970 alumnus of Princeton's Graduate School and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation's "genius" award, will return to Princeton on Sunday, Nov. 12 to speak on "Total Eclipse of the Heart: Electrical Vortices and Fatal Heart Attacks."
Winfree will speak at 4 p.m. in Helm Auditorium (50 McCosh Hall). His address is the third in the "Frontiers of Knowledge" lecture series, which brings back distinguished graduate alumni to mark the centennial of the Graduate School.
Winfree's unique work over the past 30 years integrates chemistry, physiology and applied mathematics. His latest theories concern the chemical and electrical waves thought to underlie sudden cardiac death.
Currently Regents Professor at the University of Arizona, Winfree has won numerous honors and awards for his work, including a MacArthur Foundation grant commonly known as the "genius award" in 1984 and the Einthoven Award in Cardiology in 1989. Among his recent honors are the 2000 Aisenstadt Award/Chair of the Centre de Récherches Mathématiques, Université de Montréal, and the 2000-2004 Norbert Wiener Prize presented by the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
His address at Princeton, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a reception in the Frist Campus Center's Multipurpose Room B.
For more information, visit http://www.princeton.edu/centennial, e-mail centen@princeton.edu or call (609) 258-2742.
- U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to speak, Oct. 25
<Posted 10/17/2000 11:51>
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson will speak on "Comprehensive Energy Policy" Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall.
Before becoming energy secretary on August 18, 1998, Richardson served as U. S. ambassador to the United Nations and served seven terms as U. S. congressman from New Mexico.
Richardson has served as President Clinton's special envoy on numerous sensitive missions, negotiating the release of hostages, American service personnel, and prisoners in North Korea, Iraq, Cuba and Sudan. He has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
- New trustees on Board
<Posted 09/21/2000 15:26>
Six alumni joined the Board of Trustees this weekend, when the Board held its first meeting of the academic year. The new members are:
· Ruth L. Berkelman '73, assistant surgeon general and senior advisor to the director of the Centers for Disease Control. She is also a visiting professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
· Dennis Keller '63, chairman and CEO of DeVry Inc. and founder of the Keller Graduate School of Management. Keller served a four-year term as a Princeton trustee beginning in 1994, and was co-chairman of the University's 250th Anniversary campaign.
· Henry Kennedy '70, U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia. He is a member of the Defender Services Committee of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. and a 1973 graduate of Harvard Law School.
· Spencer Merriweather '00, legislative associate for U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents Washington, D.C. During his senior year, he served as president of the Undergraduate Student Government and was selected by his classmates as the senior who had done the most for Princeton and for his class.
· Thomas R. Reid '66, London bureau chief for the Washington Post. He is also the co-creator of the syndicated column "Computer Report" and the author of several books in English and Japanese.
· Margaret C. Whitman '77, president and CEO of eBay Inc. Whitman also has served as president and CEO of Florists Transworld Delivery and of the Stride Rite Corporation's Stride Rite Division.
Princeton's Board of Trustees has 40 members, including President Harold T. Shapiro and New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, who serve as ex-officio members.
- Commencement will be webcast
<Posted 05/30/2000 09:13>
Princeton University's 253rd Commencement can be viewed by webcast. Click here for the commencement program.
- Commencement, Baccalaureate to be webcast
<Posted 05/10/2000 11:09>
Those unable to attend Princeton's 2000 Commencement on May 30 and Baccalaureate service on May 28 may view the events on the web. For information, visit
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/webannounce.WebMedia_Home.shtml#1.
For more information about Commencement-related events, visit http://www.princeton.edu:80/~vp/commence2000/index.html. The site includes a schedule of Commencement and Reunions activities.
- "Educated Guesses" symposium, May 27
<Posted 05/08/2000 16:08>
A forecast for the 21st century -- in society, science, technology, the arts and other areas -- will be the focus of a Princeton University symposium Saturday, May 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Richardson Auditorium. "Educated Guesses: Cross-Disciplinary Predictions for the Next Century" will be moderated by Princeton University President Dr. Harold T. Shapiro *64 and will feature five graduate alumni speakers.
The speakers are: Dr. Margaret J. Geller *75, a Harvard University astrophysicist who maps the large-scale structures of the universe; Dr. Rebecca Goldstein *77, an analytic philosopher and novelist; Dr. Robert E. Kahn *64, who helped found the U.S. government's original Internet program and who continues to lead research and development on the National Information Infrastructure; Dr. Andrei N. Lupas *91, a widely-published molecular biologist who is investigating genomic approaches to creating new types of antibiotics; and Dr. Harrison C. White *60, a Columbia University sociologist and authority on topics ranging from organizational mobility to the interlinking of careers and creativity.
The symposium, which is open to the public, is sponsored by the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni in celebration of the Centennial of the Graduate School.
- Toni Morrison lecture, April 18
<Posted 04/13/2000 13:23>
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison will deliver the
last lecture of the Princeton Millennium Project's lecture series on Tuesday, April 18 at 4:30 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium. Morrison,
the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and director of the
Princeton Atelier program, will be concluding a lecture series that has
featured Polish President Lech Walesa and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Morrison's lecture will be followed by an outdoor reception on Alexander
Beach. For more information, contact Michael Bosworth at msb@princeton.edu.
- Austrian foreign minister to speak, April 18
<Posted 04/12/2000 12:36>
Dr. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austria's federal minister for foreign affairs, will lecture on "Austria, the European Union and the United States," April 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Ferrero-Waldner is Austria's top foreign-policy official, serving during an especially challenging time. Since the far-right, anti-immigrant Freedom Party of Jorg Haider joined Austria's governing coalition, 14 European Union countries have downgraded relations with Austria, and Israel has withdrawn its ambassador. Haider has resigned as head of the Freedom Party but his party's members remain in office and relations have not improved.
Ferrero-Waldner, a senior member of Austria's conservative People's Party who became foreign minister in February, has distanced herself from Haider and urged an end to the political isolation of her government. In the U.S. to work on a resolution to the problem, she will make her only public address at Princeton.
- Psychologist Carol Gilligan to address 'The Birth of Pleasure'
<Posted 03/14/2000 14:38>
Writer and psychologist Carol Gilligan will
lecture on “The Birth of
Pleasure” on April 6 at 4:30 p.m. in
McCosh 10 on the Princeton
University campus. Gilligan, named one of
the 25 most influential people
in the United States by Time Magazine, is
known for her research in gender issues, beginning with her
book "In a Different Voice"
in 1982. Since then,
Gilligan’s research has led to
the founding of the Harvard Project on
Women’s Psychology and Girls’
Development and the publication of five more
books.
Gilligan’s current research extends to
studies of courage and resistance
in young boys, the power of education and
the role of gender in social
change. She is the first Patricia Albjerg
Graham Professor of Gender
Studies at Harvard University.
On April 7 from 10 a.m. to noon, Gilligan
and Princeton Trustee Marsha
Levy-Warren, Class of 1973, will lead an
informal discussion in 210
Dickinson. Her lecture is sponsored by the
Program in the Study of Women
and Gender.
- Swing: The Big Band Thing
<Posted 02/25/2000 13:00>
The Princeton University Concert Jazz Ensemble, directed by visiting conductor and internationally renowned drummer Ralph Peterson, will perform on Friday, February 25th at 8:00 in Richardson Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for the public, $5 for students.
- Connections Dance Theater to perform, Jan. 26
<Posted 12/22/2000 11:40>
The International Center is pleased to present Connections Dance Theater in concert with Panterinya Primavera del Tango Quintet in "Tango: Memories of an Immigrant," featuring the music of Astor Piazzolla on Friday, Jan. 26 in the Frist Campus Theater at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Admission is free with a Princeton University ID, $10 for non-PU students, children and seniors and $15 for other adults. Tickets will be on sale at the Frist Campus Center box office, starting at 4 p.m. on Jan. 26.
For more information call (609)895-2981.
- Edmund Synakowski named fellow of American Physical Society
<Posted 12/20/2000 13:59>
Edmund Synakowski, a physicist at the Plasma Physics Laboratory, was named a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Synakowski was recognized for his work in fusion energy research concerning heat retention in plasmas (hot, ionized gases) that are used as fuels for the production of fusion energy.
- Fagles translations to be performed
<Posted 12/20/2000 13:44>
Translations of ancient Greek dramatists by Robet Fagles, the Arthur Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, are being produced by the American Repertory Theatre(ART) in Cambridge, Mass., and the Berkeley, Calif. Repertory Theatre.
Over the years, Fagles' works have been performed primarily on college and university campuses. Fagles regards the move to more public venues as an extra bonus.
At the ART, Fagles' 1982 translation of Sophocles' "Antigone" opened the season with previews Nov. 24. The play runs through Jan. 17 at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge. His 1975 translation of Aeschylus' "The Oresteia" will inaugurate the Berkeley Rep's new 600-seat theater when it opens March 14. The trilogy is scheduled to run through May 6.
- Patricia Fortini-Brown named Slade Professor of Fine Arts
<Posted 12/19/2000 13:55>
Professor Patricia Fortini-Brown, chairwoman of the Department of Art and Archaeology, has been named the 2000-01 Slade Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cambridge.
Fortini-Brown will deliver the annual Slade Lectures during the winter term. In April and May she will be a resident fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
- Giving tree project
<Posted 12/13/2000 14:25>
The Class of 2001 sponsored the first annual Princeton Giving Tree Project, designed to provide gifts for the holidays to children living in low to moderate income communities in the Princeton area.
The project was open to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff. On Tuesday, December 12th the Senior Class reached their goal of providing 206 presents to 103 children. Justin Browne, President of the Class of 2001, hopes "that this project will become a tradition here at Princeton and will grow and include more children in years to come."
To learn more about the project visit www.princeton.edu/2001/giving or contact Justin Browne at 256-9459 or jebrowne@princeton.edu
- American Revolutionary War 225th Anniversary Commission meets, Dec. 13
<Posted 12/11/2000 17:32>
Princeton University will host the convening meeting of New Jersey's 225th Anniversary of the American Revolutionary War Celebration Commission in Nassau Hall on Wednesday, Dec. 13. The 10 a.m. meeting, which is open to the public, will be chaired by Secretary of State DeForest B. Soaries, Jr. The 23-membered Commission will be greeted by University Vice President for Public Affairs Robert K. Durkee, who will note Princeton's significant links to the war, including the four months in 1783 that Nassau Hall served as the Capitol of the United States.
The Commission was established by Gov. Christie Whitman in July to plan and coordinate state events, from 2001 through 2008, that celebrate and increase awareness of New Jersey's crucial role in the American Revolutionary War. The Commission also will work with local communities and others involved in such events. Among its duties, it is charged with planning a special observance, on Sept. 3, 2008, to mark the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the Revolutionary War.
Nassau Hall served as the nation's Capitol after mutinous American troops forced the Continental Congress to flee Philadelphia. The site was chosen primarily because Continental Congress President Elias Boudinot had grown up in Princeton.
Several significant events happened during these months, from June to November, 1783, including commendation of George Washington for his conduct in war; the receipt of word that the Treaty of Paris had been signed and the receipt of the first foreign minister accredited to the independent United States, Peter John van Berkel from the Netherlands. Nassau Hall also served as the meeting site of New Jersey's first State Legislature, in 1776, and was used, at different times, as a barracks and hospital during the Revolutionary War.
There will be limited public seating for the meeting, which will be held in the Faculty Room of Nassau Hall on campus. For more information, contact Lauren Robinson-Brown, University Communications, 609-258-3601, or Mike Kinney, Department of State, 609-777-2533.
- Tobacco opponent to lecture, Dec. 12
<Posted 12/11/2000 14:13>
Robert M. Montgomery will present his lecture "Detours down Tobacco Road" on Tuesday, Dec. 12 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
Montgomery, partner with the Florida-based law firm Montgomery & Larmoyeux, headed Florida's controversial class-action suit that won a monumental decision against "big tobacco," resulting in reparations that could exceed $150 billion when all disputes are reconciled.
This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Law and Public Affairs.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
- Andrew Yao elected to the Academia Sinica
<Posted 12/11/2000 14:07>
Andrew Yao, professor in the department of computer science, has been elected to the Academia Sinica, the most prominent academic institution in the Republic of China.
- Daniel Chee Tsui elected foreign academician
<Posted 12/08/2000 08:00>
Daniel Chee Tsui, Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been elected a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for outstanding contributions to China's international scientific exchanges and cooperation.
Professor Tsui was a co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Michael Graves to receive the 2001 AIA Gold Medal
<Posted 12/07/2000 13:29>
Michael Graves, the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture, has been selected to receive the 200 Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
The highest honor the AIA confers to an individual, the Gold Medal recognizes a person whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture.
Graves has been in the forefront of architectural design for 35 years and has designed more than 200 buildings. Some of his best-known projects include the Humana Building, Louisville, Ky; Disney Corporate Headquarters, Burbank,Calif.; The Netherlands' Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport; The Hague; and the much-celebrated interpretive design scaffolding for the Washington Monument Restoration, Washington D.C.
Graves has won more than 120 other awards and citations including the National Medal of Arts presented to by President Clinton in 1996 for his exceptional achievements in architecture, design and education.
Graves will receive the Gold Medal at the 2001 Accent on Architecture awards ceremony Feb. 16 in Washington, D.C.
- Vincent Poor to receive Graduate Teaching Award
<Posted 12/07/2000 08:00>
Vincent Poor, professor in the department of electrical engineering, will receive the 2001 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Graduate Teaching Award
Poor was noted for "exemplary teaching, inspired guidance of graduate students, and contributing to graduate education in statistical signal processing."
- Professor James C. Sturm honored
<Posted 12/06/2000 15:23>
James C. Sturm, professor in the department of electrical engineering, has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) "for contributions to novel silicon-based semiconductor devices, large-area electronics, and engineering education."
- Bowen honored for groundbreaking book
<Posted 12/06/2000 13:27>
William Bowen, president of Princeton from 1972 to 1988, has been selected to receive the 2001 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education.
Bowen, now president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will receive the award with Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University, for their book on the use of race-sensitive admissions policies.
In The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences on Considering Race in College and University Admissions (Princeton University Press, 1998), Bowen and Bok studied the academic, employment and life histories of more than 90,000 students who attended 28 academically selective colleges and universities throughout the country. They then systematically addressed many of the issues raised by critics of race-sensitive policies, looking at each supposition and analyzing the data to determine its validity.
They tackled issues such as drop-out rates and demoralization of minority students attending institutions under selective admissions guidelines, the effect selective admissions has on diversity and racial tension, and alternatives to race-sensitive admissions.
"Bowen and Bok have made an unparalleled contribution to informing the debate regarding race-sensitive admissions policies," said the Grawemeyer selection committee. "In an area in which discussions often get bogged down in a wind tunnel of rhetoric, this work represents a guiding light."
The two will share the $200,000 award. Bowen is donating his share to Morehouse College in honor of Henry Drewry, former director of Princeton's Teacher Preparation Program and former senior adviser at the Mellon Foundation who started the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program.
- Palestinian film series, Dec 5, 11
<Posted 12/05/2000 11:30>
The Program in Near Eastern Studies is sponsoring a series of films by Arab and Palestinian filmmakers. The last two films will be shown this month.
On Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. in Frist 307, the series features Wedding in Galilee, a richly detailed allegory of marriage, tradition, and national identity by Palestinian director Michel Khleifi. The film is 113 minutes long, in Arabic with English subtitles.
The second film, on Monday, Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. in 113 Jones Hall, is A Day For You, A Day Against. "This documentary film, based on three years of research, explores the historical complexity of the war of 1948 and its impact upon the Arab inhabitants of Palestine, and provides insight into the diversity of Palestinian refugee experiences since then." It is 45 minutes.
- Introductory lecture for alumni studies course, Dec. 6
<Posted 12/05/2000 11:17>
Professor Caryl Emerson from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is presenting a free introductory lecture for her upcoming Alumni Studies course on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and the Tasks of the Russian Novel.The lecture will be held Wednesday, Dec. 6 from 2:30 -3:30 p.m. in McCormick 101.
The Alumni Studies program is open to all Princeton alumni, parents, faculty, and staff. Community members can enroll as guests of a Princetonian.
For more information, please contact Christine Hollendonner at the Alumni Council, chollen@princeton.edu or 258-5854.
- Health Announcement
<Posted 12/05/2000 01:26>
Princeton University faculty, staff, and students may receive flu shots through University Health Services.
Students should call 258-5357 for an appointment. The cost is $10.00 and chargeable to your student account. Faculty and staff should call Occupational Medicine at 258-5035 for an appointment. The cost is $10.00 and payable at the time of the visit.
- Princeton University contributes to Public Library, Dec. 4
<Posted 12/01/2000 18:13>
Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro is scheduled to attend a news conference at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 4, at the Princeton Public Library, to announce a major contribution toward construction of the new Princeton Public Library.
President Shapiro is expected to be joined by public libary board President Harry Levine and other Princeton officials including Robert Durkee, vice president of public affairs, and Pam Hersh, director of community and state affairs. For more information, contact Ms. Hersh at (609) 258-3018.
- Expert on Bedouins in Israel to speak, Dec.4
<Posted 12/01/2000 13:38>
Ishmael Khaldi, public relations assistant to the chair of the Bedouin Local Councils Forum in Israel, will lecture on Monday, Dec. 4 about his experiences growing up as a Bedouin Arab Israeli and about Bedouin contributions to modern Israeli society, at 6 p.m. in Room 210 of the Frist Campus Center.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please e-mail the Princeton Israel Public Affairs Committee (PIPAC).
- Cultural comedy night, Dec. 2
<Posted 11/30/2000 13:39>
Butler College is sponsoring "Cultural Comedy Night" on Saturday, Dec. 2 from 9 PM - 11 PM in Chancellor Green. The event will feature professional comedian Steve Burn and Student comedians Jennifer Lenore Schanbacher, Matt Ornstein, Nate Allard, Adam Ruben, and Suprise Student MC. The student comedians will be competing for prizes.
The evening is free and open to the public. For more information, please e-mail Natalia Tucker.
- Jazz ensemble to perform, Dec. 2
<Posted 11/30/2000 10:29>
The Princeton University Concert Jazz Ensemble will perform Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite on Saturday, Dec. 2 at 8:00 p.m. at Richardson Auditorium. The Jazz Ensemble II will also perform.
Tickets are $5 for students when purchased prior to the concert from members of the jazz band, $10 at the door for students with Princeton ID, $20 general admission.
- Moral foundations of American democracy lecture, Dec. 4
<Posted 11/29/2000 16:15>
Jeremy Waldron will deliver the inaugural address of the John M. Olin Foundation Lectures on the Moral Foundations of American Democracy on Monday, Dec. 4 at 4:30 p.m. in 104 Computer Science Building.
Waldron's lecture is titled "Popular Sovereignty and Judicial Supremacy."
The lecture is co-sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and the Department of Politics. A reception will follow at 6:00 p.m. in 127 Corwin Hall.
- Computer reception and lecture, Nov. 30
<Posted 11/29/2000 15:00>
CIT is holding a reception celebrating their new "hats" Linux public computing service on Thursday, Nov. 30 at 4:00 p.m. in the Wall Display Area of the Frist Campus Center.
Phil Copeland of Redhat Corporation will present the lecture "Why is Linux such a good operating system for clustering?" at 5:00 p.m. in Frist room 302.
- Author Peter Baker to speak on Clinton, Dec. 6
<Posted 11/29/2000 10:16>
Peter Baker, co-author of the original article that broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal, will present a lecture, "The Breach: Clinton, Impeachment and the Next President" on Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
- Columnist to lecture, Dec. 6
<Posted 11/29/2000 10:15>
"Life's Work: Balancing the Two in the Year 2000" is the title of a lecture to be presented by Lisa Belkin '82 on Wednesday, Dec 6 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 5, Robertson Hall.
Belkin, a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, specializes in medical and social issues. She is the author of two books, "First Do No Harm" and "Show Me a Hero."
The lecture is being sponsored by the Program in the Study of Women and Gender, the Department of Sociology, and the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing.
- Media coverage lecture, Dec. 5
<Posted 11/29/2000 10:15>
Donatella Lorch, who covers the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI for Newsweek's Washington, D.C. bureau, will present a lecture, "Media Coverage of Refugees and International Humanitarian Crises: Responsibilities, Successes and Failures" Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
Lorch's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
- Former Advisor to Boris Yeltsin to speak, Dec. 5
<Posted 11/29/2000 10:15>
Emil Pain, a former advisor to Boris Yeltsin, will offer the lecture "From Yeltsin to Putin: The Evolution of Relations Between the Federal Government and the Regions of Russia" on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 4:30 p.m. in 3 Robertson Hall.
His lecture is sponsored by the Russian Studies Program.
- Wind Ensemble to perform, Nov. 30
<Posted 11/28/2000 10:34>
The Princeton University Wind Ensemble will perform its fall concert in Richardson Auditorium at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 30. This is the first concert of the year for the ensemble, featuring works by Mendelssohn, Persichetti, Grainger, Ticheli, and others.
Admission is $5 and students may use their Passport to the Performing Arts.
- Jean Kilbourne to speak, Dec. 6, 7
<Posted 11/27/2000 14:35>
Dr. Jean Kilbourne will present "The Naked Truth:Advertising's Image of Women" in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall on Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 7:00 p.m. and "Under the Influence:The Pushing of Alcohol via Advertising" in McCosh 10 on Thursday, Dec. 7 at 7:00 p.m.
Kilbourne is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising. A widely published author and speaker, she was recently featured in The New York Times as one of the three most popular lecturers on college campuses. Kilbourne has served on the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and has been an advisor to two surgeon generals.
The presentations are co-sponsored by the Women's Center, Trustee Alcohol Initiative, Eating Concerns Peer Educators, Frist Campus Center, Friends of the Women's Center, and the Office of the Dean of the College.
Admission is free and open to the public. Call the Princeton University Women's Center at (609) 258-5565 for more information.
- Electoral college debate, Nov. 28
<Posted 11/27/2000 14:03>
Barbara Olsen, best-selling author of Hell to Pay, a biography of Hillary Clinton, will speak as part of a debate over the future of the electoral college, on Tuesday, Nov. 28 at 7:00 p.m. at the Whig Hall Senate Chamber. The debate will feature Olson, who is an attorney and TV commentator and S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, a graduate student in the politics department.
Admission is free and is open to the public.
- Princeton researchers moderate chat on single dads
<Posted 11/27/2000 08:00>
Two postdoctoral fellows in Princeton's Center for Research on Child Wellbeing will moderate a weeklong online chat about single fathers beginning Monday, Nov. 27.
Marcia J. Carlson and W. Bradford Wilcox will moderate the discussion about challenges facing single fathers and the policies and programs that can help them stay connected to their children. The chat is sponsored by Connect for Kids, an online publication of the Benton Foundation.
To participate, visit Connect For Kids and log in.
Recent findings by researchers at the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing have shattered myths about unmarried parents and single fathers. For example, their research shows that despite common perceptions to the contrary, most single dads want to play a role in raising their children.
Connect for Kids is an award-winning multimedia project of the Benton Foundation. The foundation works to shape the emerging communications environment in the public interest and bridge the worlds of philanthropy, public policy and community action.
- Writer Kevin Phillips to speak, Nov. 30
<Posted 11/23/2000 08:00>
"The 2000 Elections and the Future of American Politics" is the subject of a lecture to be presented by writer and columnist Kevin Phillips on Thursday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. in 101 McCormick Hall.
"Mr. Phillips, is widely regarded as one of the leading commentators on modern American politics," said Sean Wilentz, director of the Program in American Studies. "His book from 1969, The Emerging Republican Majority, proved prophetic in its forecast of the post-'68 conservative upsurge. Since then, he has had his finger on the pulse of numerous trends, from the influence of the media to the 'boiling-point' populism of recent years, and discussed them in numerous books and in the mass media with greater accuracy and balance than any other analyst."
In addition to writing books, Phillips is a regular speaker on National Public Radio, writes a monthly column for the Los Angeles Times and has been an analyst for CBS-TV News on presidential elections.
The lecture is sponsored by the Program in American Studies and the Humanities Council.
- Fred Greenstein honored for work in political psychology
<Posted 11/22/2000 21:57>
Politics Professor Fred I. Greenstein has received the Lasswell Award from the International Society of Political Psychology for his contributions to the field over many years.
The society cited Greenstein for having built "new roads rather than following the beaten paths," beginning with his doctoral dissertation in the late 1950s and continuing through publication of his new book, The Presidential Difference, this year.
The award honors Greenstein for his work in several areas of political psychology: the political socialization of children, personality and politics, and presidential leadership style.
"His work is not only marked by theoretical sophistication, creativity, and careful attention to evidence, but is also characterized by a sharp clarity of articulation that makes it accessible to both the scholarly and policy communities, thus contributing to a gap-bridging dialogue between the two communities," the citation states.
- Stanley Cavell to deliver James A. Moffett '29 lecture in ethics, Dec. 14
<Posted 11/20/2000 12:29>
Philosopher Stanley Cavell will address "The Good of Film" on Thursday, Dec. 14 at 4:30 p.m. in room 104 of the Computer Science Building.
Cavell is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a past president of the American Philosophical Association.
The James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics are offered by the University Center for Human Values. The lectures are open to the public.
A reception will follow. For more information please visit the University Center for Human Values web site princeton.edu/values or call
(609) 258-4798.
- African-American studies lecture on manhood, Nov. 30
<Posted 11/20/2000 12:20>
Nikol G. Alexander will speak on "'We Shall Have Our Manhood': Black Macho, Black Nationalism, and the Million-Man March," at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 30 in 211 Dickinson Hall.
Alexander is a postdoctoral fellow in African-American studies at the University of Houston. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University and a J.D. from the University of Texas.
This lecture is one of the Works-in-Progress lecture series marking the 30th anniversary of the Program in African-American Studies. For more information, call (609) 258-4270.
- Musical about Wiles opens Nov. 21
<Posted 11/19/2000 08:00>
Andrew Wiles, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, is the subject of a new musical that opens in New York City on Nov. 21
Wiles is widely celebrated for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. The musical by Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum is titled "Fermat's Last Tango." A promotional piece describes the musical as "a whimsical and provocative look at the true story of the Princeton professor who took on the world's most notorious math problem, and got more than he bargained for."
Performances will be staged Tuesday through Sunday from Nov. 21 to Dec. 30 at the York Theater in New York.
- John Gillham elected fellow of Society of Plastics Engineers
<Posted 11/18/2000 13:13>
John Gillham, professor of chemical engineering, emeritus, has been elected a fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers in recognition of his long-term contribution to the industry.
He was one of 14 senior members to receive the honor this year, and one of only 168 of the society's 32,000 members to receive it since the inception of the awards in 1984.
- Lecture on black women and contradictions of race, class and gender; Nov. 28
<Posted 11/18/2000 12:20>
Jacquelyn Grant, Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Systematic Theology at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, will lecture on "Being Broad in the Concrete: Black Women and Race/Gender/Class Contradictions," Nov. 28 at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Grant founded the Black Women in Church and Society Center at the Interdenominational Theological Center in 1981 and has served as its director since then. She has taught at institutions including Harvard University, Emory University, United Theological Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary. Grant has written or edited four books and more than 40 journal articles, reviews, sermons and conference papers.
Grant serves as an advisor to the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. She is an ordained elder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and has been described by Ebony Magazine as one of its "10 women to watch."
For more information, contact the Center for the Study of Religion at askline@princeton.edu or 258-5545.
- Music under Construction concert, Nov. 18
<Posted 11/17/2000 11:40>
The University Art Blakey Jazz Ensemble, with Anthony Branker conducting and organ improvisation by David Messineo, will perform Saturday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. at the Princeton University Chapel.
Admission is $10 and $8 for students. For more information visit princeton.edu/~puje.
- Dean of religious life receives lifetime achievement award
<Posted 11/16/2000 14:00>
Joseph Williamson, dean of religious life and of the chapel, has received a lifetime achievement award from the Association of College and University Religious Affairs.
Williamson is one of three people presented with the award, the first ever made by the organization. The honor is intended to recognize the long and distinguished leadership and service that he has demonstrated in the realm of higher education.
According to the organization, the three leaders "profoundly deepened the humanity and extended the hospitality of their institutions and thereby the vision of higher education. Each has developed a kind of collegiality with faculty and students that has led to productive synergy, great programs, worthy risks."
- Scott Turow reads from latest novel, Nov. 29
<Posted 11/15/2000 09:40>
Scott Turow, whose best-selling legal thrillers are the basis of blockbuster Hollywood movies, will read from his latest novel, Personal Injuries, at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
Turow's first book, One L, about his first year as a student at Harvard Law School, was published in 1977. Ten years later, he reached the top of the bestsellers list with Presumed Innocent. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages and have sold nearly 20 million copies.
Turow is a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, an international law firm, where his practice centers on white-collar criminal litigation. His presentation is part of the Althea Ward Clark Reading Series, sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
- Faculty members to discuss Electoral College and the 2000 election, Nov. 15
<Posted 11/14/2000 14:48>
Scholars from the Princeton University faculty will direct their attention to the debate concerning the Electoral College and the 2000 election at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15 in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
Panelists will include Christopher L. Eisgruber, faculty fellow in the Program in law and Public Affairs; Jonathan Riley, visiting research scholar at the University Center for Human Values; Joan C. Tronto, visiting research scholar at the University Center for Human Values; Keith E. Whittington, assistant professor of politics; and Melissa S. Williams, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching, University Center for Human Values.
The discussion is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Law and Public Affairs. It is free and open to the public.
- Discussion on Middle East crisis, Nov. 16
<Posted 11/14/2000 12:20>
A panel discussion on the "Crisis in the Middle East: Human Rights, International Law, and U.S. Foreign Policy," will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
The discussion will feature Roger Normand, executive director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights; Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Transnational Institute and Institute for Policy Studies; and Richard A. Falk, Princeton professor of politics and international affairs and director of the World Order Studies Program.
This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
- Panel discussion on local hunger, Nov. 15
<Posted 11/14/2000 10:58>
On Wednesday, Nov. 15, the Student Volunteers Council will hold a
panel discussion on "Hunger in Our Community." Participants will be Bob Krisak, administrative supervisor of the Mercer County Food Stamp Program; Peter Wise, director of the Trenton Area Street Kitchen (TASK); Misha Marvel, policy analyst and advocate with Mercer Street Friends; and Ted Tambournino, assistant director of Crisis Ministries.
The discussion will be held in McCosh 46 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
This panel discussion is one part of Hunger Awareness Week, when the
Student Volunteers Council seeks to raise campus awareness of local and global hunger. More details are available at
http://www.princeton.edu/~svc/.
- African-American studies lecture on girls' games, Nov. 16
<Posted 11/09/2000 07:00>
Dr. Kyra D. Gaunt will speak on "Learning to Be Some Body: Girls’ Games and Musical Blackness from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop" at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16, in 211 Dickinson Hall on the Princeton University campus.
Gaunt is the 2000-2001 Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellow in-residence at New York University and is an assistant professor of music at the University of Virginia. Gaunt is the author of "Learning to Be Some Body: Girls’ Games, Musical Blackness," and the forthcoming "Ethnomusicologist in the Making," (New York University Press).
This lecture is open to the public and is offered as part of the Works-in-Progress lecture series marking the 30th anniversary of the
Program in African-American
Studies. For more information, please call (609) 258-4270.
- Political philosopher to lecture on "Next Liberal Agenda," Nov. 16
<Posted 11/09/2000 07:00>
One of America's leading political philosophers and constitutional lawyers will present a lecture on "The Next Liberal Agenda" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in 104 Computer Science Building.
Bruce Ackerman, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, will deliver the James Moffett '29 Lecture in Ethics.
His most fundamental works are "Social Justice in the Liberal State" and "We the People." He also has written books on topics ranging from housing policy to environmental law to international relations. The most recent of these is "The Stakeholder Society."
Ackerman also serves as a lawyer in selected cases. He testified on behalf of President Clinton at the impeachment hearings in December 1998.
A member of the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ackerman has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation, Ford Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
The lecture is being coordinated by the Center for Human Values. A reception will follow in the lobby of the Computer Science Building. For more information, call 609-258-4798.
- Serra sculpture dedicated, Nov. 10
<Posted 11/08/2000 17:15>
Internationally renowned artist Richard Serra joined Princeton University officials at a dedication ceremony on campus today for his dramatic new sculpture, "The Hedgehog and the Fox."
The sculpture, three vast ribbons of rust-colored steel, was donated by Peter Joseph, a member of the class of 1972 who died in 1998. Before he died, Joseph, a New York art enthusiast, had commissioned the $1 million sculpture for the university in honor of his children, Danielle and Nicholas.
Serra is considered one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, and perhaps the most significant American sculptor to emerge since the 1950s. His work, standing 94 feet long and 15 feet high, was erected between Peyton and Fine halls on the Princeton campus and is a major contribution to the university's well-known collection of modern outdoor art.
Serra has "extended the space of sculpture more creatively, and explored the experience of sculpture more critically, than any other artist in the post-war period," said Hal Foster, a Princeton professor of modern art.
Like other Serra works, "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is understood not merely by viewing, but by walking through it -- encountering different glimpses of sky and light and experiencing new spatial sensations. His works have a reputation for demanding interaction and reflection.
The sculpture creates an experience "that renders us more sensitive not only to facts of material, principles of structure, and terms of building, but to our own human sensorium as it engages its surroundings," Foster wrote.
The name of the sculpture, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," refers to an essay by Isaiah Berlin, who quotes from the Greek poet Archilochus: "The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one great thing." Serra explained, "It points to how scholars either become free thinkers and invent or become subjugated to the dictates of history. This is the classical problem posed to every student."
Serra does not grind, polish or paint the metal used in his sculptures, but allows them to rust and bear the scrapes and scratches that occur during creation. His work is displayed in leading galleries and museums across Europe and the United States.
Joseph, the former chairman and chief executive officer of the merchant banking firm Rosecliff, Inc., graduated from Yale Law School after attending Princeton. Throughout his life, he was a great patron of the arts, serving as chairman of the governing board of the American Ballet Theater and member of the board of the directors of the Second State Theater in New York. He was a leading collector of studio art furniture and established the Peter Joseph Gallery in New York to showcase that art form.
- Distinguished Fellows named by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
<Posted 11/08/2000 11:57>
Francis "Rip" Perkins and Charles Neumeyer, researchers at the U.S.
Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), have been named the 2000 PPPL Distinguished Research and Engineering Fellows. (Full details, PPPL News Release)
Perkins, who is on long-term assignment at General Atomics in San Diego, was recognized for his outstanding contributions in many critical areas of plasma physics research with applications in fusion, basic plasma physics experiments, and ionospheric physics, and for leadership in an
international collaborative effort to document and assess the physics basis of a next-step burning plasma experiment. He was further honored for contributing prominently to graduate education in plasma physics.
Neumeyer, the lead project engineer for the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), was cited for contributions and technical leadership of the engineering effort to design power systems for several magnetic fusion devices, including the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, the Tokamak
Physics Experiment, and NSTX, and for extraordinary creativity and accomplishments in the development of control systems for fusion devices. NSTX began operating at PPPL in 1999.
For more information, visit PPPL.
- Former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow to speak, Nov. 16
<Posted 11/08/2000 11:24>
Jack F. Matlock, the George F. Kennan Professor of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies and former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, will lecture on "Putin and Russia's Future," on Thursday, November 16 at 4:30 p.m., Bowl 1, Robertson Hall on the Princeton campus.
As U.S. ambassador to Moscow, Matlock served the Reagan administration as the primary liaison with Soviet leadership during the Gorbachev period. A career diplomat fluent in Russian and scholastically grounded in Russian history and culture, Matlock served in the U.S.S.R. until six months before its collapse. His 1995 book, "Autopsy on an Empire," has been called a monumental work of observation and scholarship - encompassing more than thirty years of Matlock's research and personal experience as a foreign diplomat.
This lecture is cosponsored by Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, International Center, Slavic Society, and Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination. It is free and open to the public.
- Minnesota law professor to speak on regionalism and civil rights, Nov. 14
<Posted 11/08/2000 09:00>
John A. Powell, University of Minnesota Law School professor and executive director of the Institute on Race and Poverty, will lecture on
"Regionalism and Civil Rights," Tuesday, November 14, 4:30 p.m. at
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall on the Princeton campus.
Powell, who joined the Minnesota law school faculty in 1993, teaches race and poverty, civil rights law, property law, and jurisprudence. Seven years ago, he founded the Institute on Race and Poverty, a strategic research center focusing on the unique dynamic created by the intersection of racial segregation and poverty. The Institute's goals are to create scholarship, commentary, and dialogue to promote a better understanding of the issues confronting communities that face the combined challenges of racial segregation and poverty.
Prior to his current position, Powell received an International Human Rights Fellowship from the University of Minnesota to work in southern Africa. He has served as a consultant to the government of Mozambique and as the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
This lecture is cosponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Isles, Inc., a Trenton-based community service organization. It is free and open to the public.
- Dance Theater of Nepal to perform, Nov. 18
<Posted 11/07/2000 14:00>
The Dance Theater of Nepal will perform at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18 in the Film and Dance Theatre of the Frist Campus Center, Princeton University. The concert will feature master Nepali dancer, musician, teacher, and Dance Theater of Nepal co-director, Raj Kapoor, and eleven other artists performing dances, songs, and instrumentals that represent the diverse and rich cultural heritage of Nepal.
The program will feature ten dances, including the Avalokiteshvara
Dance, a classical spiritual discipline dance that is popular in
Buddhist traditions; the Newari Dance, a folk dance that recognizes the
Newari people, the first settlers of the Kathmandu valley; the Lakhe
Dance, a masked dance depicting a demonic-like deity that is driven away
with the birth of Krishna, who signifies benevolent and divine power;
the Shebru Dance, a dance from Sherpa, who are known for their
mountaineering skills; and the popular Jhhyaure Dance, a folk
dance.
Located in the Himalayas of South Asia, Nepal is home to Hindus and
Buddhists, as well as other groups including Magars, Ksatriyas,
Brahmins, Newars, Tamangs, Gurungs, and Sherpas. Nepal’s music and
dance are a major force in the daily lives of the people and represent
their religious, cultural, and personal experiences.
The Princeton University International Center and the South Asian
Students Association, with financial assistance and co-sponsorship from
the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board and the Frist Campus
Center, organize the concert. Admission is free with a Princeton
University ID and a limited number of general admission tickets are available for $10. Tickets can be picked up or purchased at the Welcome Desk of the Frist Campus Center. For more information, contact the International Center at Princeton University at (609) 258-5006.
- Debenedetti inducted into National Academy of Engineering
<Posted 11/07/2000 07:00>
Pablo Debenedetti, the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, was inducted last month into the National Academy of Engineering, a private institution whose mission is to provide independent advice to the federal government on questions of engineering and technology.
Election to the academy is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Membership honors those who have made "important contributions to engineering theory and practice, including significant contributions to the literature of engineering theory and practice," and those who have demonstrated "unusual accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology," according to the academy.
Debenedetti was recognized for his contributions to microscopic theory, insight embodied in a scholarly monograph and application of supercritical and metastable fluids.
- Princeton University wins 2000 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award
<Posted 11/06/2000 18:37>
Princeton University has been selected as a winner of the 2000 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey. The award will be presented at the 21st annual New Jersey Science/Technology Medal Dinner Nov. 9 at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City.
The University was chosen in the Emerging Technology Category for a patent on an invention that provides a new way to capture high resolution images of human lungs. The magnetic resonance imaging using hyperpolarized noble gases is helping physicians diagnose pulmonary-related diseases. Normal MRI technology is incapable of creating clear images of lung tissue because, unlike other tissues that contain an abundance of water, the lungs are mostly air and do not have enough hydrogen atoms to emit detectable radio frequency radiation when bathed in a magnetic field.
Among the lead inventors of the new technology are Princeton physicists William Happer and Gordon Cates.
The patent awards are intended to encourage creativity and technological, commercial and sociological leadership on the part of New Jersey organizations through recognition of their inventors.
- Library Exhibit Marks Graduate School Centennial
<Posted 11/06/2000 17:19>
The yearlong observance of the centennial of Princeton University's Graduate School continues with a new exhibition at the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library. Entitled "A Community of Scholars: Graduate Education at Princeton," the exhibition opens on Sunday, November 19 and runs until April 8, 2001. It chronicles the evolution of graduate studies at Princeton University from a time when master's degrees were awarded for good citizenship to the diverse and competitive academic programs of today.
James Axtell, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary, will inaugurate the exhibition with a public lecture entitled "Reading and Writing the History of a Graduate School" at 3 p.m. on Sunday, November 19 in the Betts Auditorium at Princeton University's School of Architecture. Professor Axtell, whose areas of interest include the history of American higher education, was commissioned to update the authoritative history of the Graduate School, "The Princeton Graduate School: A History." An alumnus of Yale and Cambridge, he is also an expert on the ethnohistory of colonial North America and has published scores of books and articles, including "The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration and Defense of Higher Education."
The exhibition includes more than 100 photographs, documents, and artifacts, drawn primarily from the Princeton University Archives. Together, they present a vivid portrait of graduate life at Princeton University, in both its intellectual and social aspects, as well as a cross-section of graduate students who have left an indelible mark on the world at large. The University's graduate alumni include no fewer than 12 Nobel laureates, the first president of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, five presidents of Princeton University, and such notables as Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Thornton Wilder, astronomer Henry Norris Russell, and syndicated columnist George Will.
Brief biographies of distinguished alumni are accompanied wherever possible by their student photographs and items that symbolize their interests: an autographed baseball from Ted Williams in the case of George Will; a piece of an Iraqi SCUD missile in the case of Norman Augustine, father of the Pentagon's Patriot missile program; and a first edition of The Bridge of San Luis Rey in the case of Thornton Wilder.
"A Community of Scholars" bears witness to the importance of graduate education at Princeton University and its role in human advancement in a wide range of disciplines, despite the challenges inherent in an exhibition of this kind. In the words of lead curator Dan Linke, "In the same way that nuclear physicists define and detect sub-atomic particles through inference and indirect observation, we hope that this exhibit will allow an understanding of graduate education, even though much of what is accomplished there remains within the confines of the mind, and the remainder as words on paper."
"A Community of Scholars" is located in Firestone Library's main exhibition gallery and is open to the public without charge from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, noon to 5 p.m. on weekends, and until 8 p.m. on Wednesdays. For additional information concerning the exhibition, please contact the Princeton University Library at (609) 258-6345.
- Presidential search forums to be held, Nov. 8, 9, 10
<Posted 11/06/2000 14:44>
University presidential search committee members are holding open forums this week to invite comments and suggestions from members of the University community.
Forums will be held for students in 302 Frist on Nov. 8 at 8:30pm; for faculty members in the Tower Room of 1879 Hall on Nov. 9 and Nov. 10 from 4-5:30pm; and for staff in Frist's Multipurpose Room on Nov. 10 at 12:00pm.
For more information please go to
Presidentialsearch
- Graduate student wins prize for Slavic studies essay
<Posted 11/03/2000 21:18>
Toma Tasovac, a graduate student in the department of comparative literature, will receive the National Graduate Student Essay Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies on Nov. 11 in Denver.
The selection committee described Tasovac's essay as a “multi-layered reflection on poetry, translation, metaphor, space, and the semantics of biography.”
The AAASS is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Russia,
Central Eurasia, and Eastern and Central Europe.
- Small-scale sculpture exhibition featured at Art Museum
<Posted 11/03/2000 21:18>
The Princeton University Art Museum is presenting the exhibition "Material Language: Small-Scale Sculpture after 1950" through Dec. 30, to complement the Nov. 10 dedication of the new Richard Serra sculpture on campus.
Among the artists represented are sculptors Alexander Calder and Kenneth Snelson with models for their outdoor pieces in the John B. Putnam, Jr., Memorial Collection. Leo Steppat's whimsical "Toro" and Jasper Johns's "Flashlight" represent the 1950s. Harry Bertoia's untitled welded bronze work, Pol Bury's kinetic sculpture "66 Balls and Their Cylinders," and Claus Oldenburg's "Soft Engine" are among the diverse works from the 1960s.
The richness of figural sculpture of the 1970s is represented by "Girl on a Chair" by George Segal and Jonathan Shahn's "Armless Seated Figure." Works by Christopher Wilmarth bring the exhibition up to the generation of Richard Serra, who was born in 1939.
The Art Museum is open to the public without charge. For further information, call (609) 258-3788.
- Evening of solo dances, Nov. 11
<Posted 11/03/2000 10:47>
Alumna Jill Sigman will return to campus to perform "Bodies of Knowledge: An Evening of Solo Dances," at 8 p.m. Nov. 11 in Hagan Dance Studio, 185 Nassau St.
Sigman, who has a doctoral degree in philosophy, will perform "Vision Begins," a mixed media piece involving dance, voice and video. Also on the program is "Athena, Goddess of Wisdom," a dance-theater work set to French cabaret songs and a soundtrack of a philosophy seminar.
The performance is sponsored by Princeton's Program in Theater and Dance. Admission is free. For more information visit thinkdance.org.
- Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy to highlight celebration of Adlai Stevenson, Nov. 9
<Posted 10/31/2000 10:46>
Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy will join a panel of historians, biographers, and political scientists Thursday, Nov. 9 to answer the question, "Whatever Happened to Adlai Stevenson?" The discussion - the final event in Princeton University's year-long celebration of the centennial of Stevenson's birth -- will take place at 4 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall.
Fred I. Greenstein, professor of political science and director of the Research Program in Leadership Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will lead the panelists in a discussion of Stevenson and changes in the Democratic Party since the Stevenson era.
Other participants will be Jean Baker, professor of history at Goucher College and author of The Stevensons of Illinois: A Biography of an American Family; Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University and author of Liberalism and Its Discontents; and Jonathan A. Cowden, assistant professor of government at Cornell University and author of numerous articles on Stevenson.
Sen. McCarthy (D-Minnesota) conducted his "Clean Gene" campaign to end the Vietnam War in 1968, which led President Lyndon B. Johnson to withdraw from the race that year. In 1960, McCarthy nominated Adlai Stevenson - a member of Princeton's class of 1922 -- for president at the Democratic national convention in Los Angeles. The convention, however, selected John F. Kennedy as the party's nominee.
The Stevenson panel is sponsored by the Friends of the Princeton University Library and the Research Program in Leadership Studies.
A related exhibition entitled "A Voice of Conscience: The Legacy of Adlai Stevenson" continues at Princeton's Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, 65 Olden Street in Princeton, through February 10. The library is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and until 8 p.m. on Wednesday evenings.
- Art Museum photography exhibit explores theme of survival
<Posted 10/31/2000 09:46>
An exhibition exploring the relationship between survival and photography, entitled "Surviving the Photograph," is on view at The Art Museum through Nov. 19.
The 39 photographs exhibited address the theme of survival directly through the subject matter -- famine, war, AIDS, or death. They also demonstrate more conceptual manifestations of the theme.
Artists represented in the exhibition include Thomas Barrow, Uta Barth, Gregory Crewdson, Maxime DuCamp, Walker Evans, Roger Fenton, Lee Friedlander, Emmet Gowin, Eikoh Hosoe, Bill Jacobson, Michiko Kon, Richard Misrach, August Sander, Fazal Sheikh, Otto Steinert and Shomei Tomatsu.
The exhibition was organized by Department of Art and Archaeology graduate students Andrew Hershberger and Marta Weiss in conjunction with a conference Oct. 21 and 22 sponsored by the Princeton University Graduate School.
The Art Museum is open to the public without charge. For information, call (609) 258-3788.
- PPPL scientist receives Presidential Early Career Award
<Posted 10/30/2000 10:22>
Zhihong Lin, a scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, was among 59 young researchers who received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers during a ceremony at the White House last week.
The award provides up to five years of funding to further the recipients' research. Lin also received an Early Career Award from the Department of Energy.
Lin's research involves understanding the physics of hot ionized gasses called plasmas, which are a key component of potential fusion energy systems. When effectively confined in a reactor, plasmas could produce a reliable energy system that is environmentally and economically sustainable.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by Princeton University. It is a collaborative national center for science and innovation leading to an attractive fusion energy source.
- U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson gives positive outlook for PPPL
<Posted 10/30/2000 10:16>
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson brought welcome news to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Wednesday, announcing a five-year extension of the contract between Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy for the operation of the Laboratory through Sept. 30, 2006.
"The performance of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has been strong. This extension will ensure there is no disruption in the vital scientific work taking place at the lab," Secretary Richardson said before a large assembly of lab personnel and visitors.
PPPL is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by Princeton University. It is a collaborative national center for science and innovation leading to an attractive fusion energy source.
- Professor's award-winning film plays at Princeton
<Posted 10/26/2000 13:46>
The Princeton premiere of "Jinnah," an internationally acclaimed film on the founder of Pakistan, will take place 7 p.m. tonight at the Jimmy Stewart Theatre, 185 Nassau St. The film was produced by Akbar Ahmed,
visiting professor in the Department of Anthropology and Stewart Fellow
of the Humanities Council at Princeton University.
In addition to being an authority on Islam, Ahmed is well known in
diplomatic circles. He served as the High Commissioner for the Islamic
Republic of Pakistan in the United Kingdom from November 1999 to July
2000. During this period, he gave talks to members of Parliament and lectured at the Sternberg Center for Judaism, the Saudi Information Center and the Royal College of Defense Studies.
The film’s portrait of Mohammed Ali Jinnah lies in contrast with his more popular image as an austere and inflexible leader. "Mr. Jinnah provides a model of a modern Muslim leader who believes in human rights, women’s rights, minority rights and law and order," Ahmed said. "If his model succeeds, there can be harmony and dialogue in parts of the world. If his model fails, for us in the Muslim world, we are in trouble."
The film began production 10 years ago and has spurred additional
projects, including a documentary called "Mr. Jinnah, the Making of Pakistan" and a
book, Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Ideology. A panel discussion with Ahmed, history Professor Gyan Prakash and anthropology Professor Lawrence Rosen will follow after the showing.
- Cable failure causes power disruption
<Posted 10/24/2000 15:52>
Power throughout the Princeton campus was down for almost an hour Tuesday, as three 26,000-volt cables failed.
The outage on campus began at 1:37 p.m. when the second of the three cables failed, and lasted until 2:24 p.m. Customers throughout Princeton Borough and Princeton Township were affected, in addition to at least one large customer in Montgomery, according to a spokeswoman for Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G).
Most customers had power restored by 3 p.m., the spokeswoman said. Repairs were not expected to cause further disruptions.
- Speakers to address "The Promise of Genomics for New Medicine," Nov. 1
<Posted 10/20/2000 16:52>
Shirley Tilghman, Princeton's Howard A. Prior Professor of Life Sciences, will be among three speakers addressing "The Promise of Genetics for New Medicine" at a public seminar Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium.
Tilghman is founding director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton's new multi-disciplinary institute for studying integration and complexity in biological systems.
Elliott Sigal, senior vice president for early discovery and applied technology at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, will speak about corporate drug development. Sigal also is a visiting research scientist in the University's department of molecular biology.
John Baumann, president of the medical and dental staff at the Medical Center at Princeton, will offer the perspective of the practicing physician. Author Richard Preston, whose articles about science and technology have appeared in The New Yorker and many other publications, will moderate the seminar.
The seminar is free and is sponsored by the Medical Center at Princeton Foundation.
- PPPL engineer receives American Nuclear Society award
<Posted 10/20/2000 12:10>
Michael Williams, an engineer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, received this year's Outstanding Achievement Award from the Fusion Energy Division of the American Nuclear Society.
Williams is head of PPPL's Engineering and Technical Infrastructure Department and is deputy director of NSTX, the lab's leading fusion experiment.
The award recognizes Williams' longstanding research and leadership in past and current fusion energy experiments: Poloidal Divertor Experiment, Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor and National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). It is the most prestigious award from the society's Fusion Energy Division and is presented to a member in recognition of exemplary individual achievement requiring professional excellence and leadership of high caliber in the fusion science and engineering area.
- Art deco exhibition opens at Princeton University Library
<Posted 10/19/2000 16:52>
One of Art Deco's most vivid legacies, the printmaking technique known as pochoir, is the subject of an exhibition running through April 8, 2001 in the Leonard L. Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts at Princeton University's Firestone Library. Entitled "Art Deco Paris: 1900-1925," the exhibition captures not only a little known art form but the sensuous spirit of affluent society in the first quarter of the 20th century.
The approximately 100 original color prints in "Art Deco Paris" document the uninhibited era that gave us jazz, the tango, high fashion, and modern art.
The exhibition is open to the public without charge from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, noon to 5 p.m. on weekends, and until 8 p.m. on Wednesdays. For additional information concerning the exhibition or to order a catalog, contact the Princeton University Library at (609) 258-5049.
- Friends of the Princeton University Library offer "Meet the Curator" series
<Posted 10/19/2000 16:43>
The Friends of the Princeton University Library is again sponsoring its fall "Meet the Curator" series. Each event features a distinguished curator or librarian discussing his work and showing important materials he has worked on or acquired for the library.
On Oct. 25 at 7 p.m., Scott Husby, rare books conservator, will speak on "Historical Book Bindings at Princeton."
Martin Heijdra, Chinese bibliographer and caretaker of the Gest Oriental Rare Books Library, will discuss "The Gest Library and the History of the Chinese Book," Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.
To register for these sessions and obtain directions, call (609) 258-5049. The sessions are open to the public, but space may be limited for those who are not members of the Friends.
- Tiger conservationist to speak, Oct. 21
<Posted 10/19/2000 13:22>
The Princeton Conservation Society and the Princeton Save the Tiger Campaign will host Dr. Ullas Karanth, director of wildlife conservation in India, to speak Oct. 21 at 5 p.m. in Guyot 10.
Karanth has devoted his life to tiger conservation in India. He will be available for discussion following his presentation.
- Senior wins national playwrights competition
<Posted 10/18/2000 14:47>
Catherine Keyser, a Princeton University senior, has been named a winner of the National Young Playwrights Festival. Her play, "Welcome Home, Virginia Woolf," will be performed at the Miranda Theater in New York on Nov. 3 at 2 p.m.
Keyser, who is majoring in English, has been writing plays since the age of 10 and has won state, national and international awards for her work. The National Young Playwrights honor was awarded by Young Playwrights, Inc., which was founded by Stephen Sondheim. The organization offers young writers the opportunity to have their work evaluated by theater professionals and produced off-Broadway.
"Welcome Home, Virginia Woolf" depicts the interactions of three generations of women confronted with questions of identity, purpose, and creativity. A young woman faces her great-aunt, who is convinced that she is Virginia Woolf. In the process, she learns a great deal about herself and her aspirations.
The Miranda Theater is located 259 West 30th St., between 7th and 8th Avenues. The production is open to the public, but reservations are required. To make reservations, contact Rebecca Sheir of Young Playwrights, Inc. 212-307-1140.
- Princeton University Orchestra concerts, Oct.19, 21
<Posted 10/17/2000 17:00>
The Princeton University Orchestra will open its season with concerts on Thursday, Oct. 19 and Saturday, October 21 at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.
Michael Pratt will lead the orchestra in the music of Dvorak and Hindemith, and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Tickets are available at the Richardson Auditorium box office, 258-5000.
- ACLU president to speak, Oct. 18
<Posted 10/17/2000 11:14>
Nadine Strossen, New York Law School professor and president of the American Civil Liberties Union, will lecture on "Current Changes in Civil Liberties." The lecture will take place 4:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in Bowl 1 of Robertson Hall.
Strossen was elected president of the ACLU in 1991, becoming the first woman to head the nation's largest and oldest civil liberties organization. She has more than 200 published works to her credit, including Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights, which was deemed one of the notable books of 1995 by the New York Times.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
- Lecture on Buddhism and science, Oct. 24
<Posted 10/17/2000 11:08>
Michigan University Professor Donald S. Lopez, Jr. will lecture on "Buddhism and Science," 4:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in Multipurpose Rooms A and B in the Frist Campus Center.
Lopez is the Carl W. Belser Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies and chairman of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.
He has written several books about Buddhism and Tibet and has translated into English various works by the Dalai Lama. His lecture is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion.
- Presidential search update
<Posted 10/16/2000 18:14>
The remaining members of the committee that will conduct the search for President Harold Shapiro's successor have been selected. Faculty and staff representatives were chosen by their respective constituencies in elections held this month.
The staff member elected is Kathleen Deignan, dean of undergraduate students. The faculty members elected include one from each of the four academic divisions and one non-tenured member. They are: humanities -- Mark Johnston, professor of philosophy; social sciences -- Alan Krueger, the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1976, and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor in Economics and Public Affairs; natural sciences -- Shirley Tilghman, the Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences and professor of molecular biology; engineering -- James Sturm, professor of electrical engineering; and non-tenured -- Jeffrey Carbeck, assistant professor of chemical engineering.
The faculty and staff members join these previously announced members of the committee: trustees -- Robert Rawson Jr., who is the committee chair, Brent Henry, Dennis Keller, Spencer Merriweather III, Heidi Miller, Robert Murley, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, John Wynne and Paul Wythes; undergraduate students -- P.J. Kim and Lisa Lazarus; and graduate student -- Lauren Hale. Thomas Wright, secretary of the University, is serving as secretary of the search committee.
The committee is charged with making a recommendation to the full Board of Trustees on a successor to Shapiro, who Sept. 22 announced his decision to complete his presidency and return to the faculty when this academic year ends.
- Paul Kurtz to speak on secular humanism, Oct. 17
<Posted 10/15/2000 19:05>
Paul Kurtz, philosophy professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will lecture on "Secular Humanists: The Last Repressed Minority in America," Oct. 17 at 8 p.m. in 46 McCosh. Kurtz is founder and chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), the Council for Secular Humanism and Prometheus Books. He is editor-in-chief of Free Inquiry Magazine.
For information, contact CommonSense, which is sponsoring the talk.
- Author Jerry Reiter to speak on religious right, Oct. 19
<Posted 10/15/2000 18:56>
Jerry Reiter, author and development officer for the Center for Inquiry-International, will speak on his experience with the Christian Coalition and the pro-life movement on Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. in McCosh 46.
A supporter of the Christian Coalition in its infancy, Reiter went on to work as a broadcast journalist and became a critic of the organization. As a reporter, he encountered radical elements of the religious right and pro-life movements.
His address is sponsored by the group CommonSense.
- Princeton and Harvard glee clubs in concert, Oct. 20
<Posted 10/14/2000 16:26>
The annual Princeton-Harvard "Football Concert" will be presented by the universities' glee clubs on the eve of the Princeton-Harvard football game, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.
Richard Tang Yuk will conduct the Princeton Glee Club and Constance
de Fotis will conduct the Harvard Glee Club. The concert will feature the music of Elgar, Barber, Max Reger, Rachmaninoff and others.
- Rush Holt to speak on U.S.-Israel relationship, Oct. 23
<Posted 10/13/2000 17:14>
The Princeton Israel Public Affairs Committee (PIPAC) will host Democratic Congressman Rush Holt to speak on the importance of a strong U.S.-Israel relationship, 7 p.m. Oct. 23 in McCosh 46.
Dick Zimmer, the Republican candidate for Holt's congressional seat, spoke this month on the same issue.
For more information, contact PIPAC.
- Forum on presidential election, Oct. 16
<Posted 10/12/2000 16:30>
Two Princeton professors will speak on "The Election and Why It Matters," Monday, Oct. 16 at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall. The forum will feature Larry M. Bartels, professor of politics and public affairs, and Fred I. Greenstein, professor of politics.
Bartels is the author of Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice and recently led a national task force on campaign reform. Greenstein's new book, The Presidential Difference: Leadership Styles from FDR to Clinton, examines the leadership qualities of modern presidents.
The forum, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
- Ralph Nader to speak, Oct. 15
<Posted 10/12/2000 16:22>
The time of Presidential candidate and consumer advocate Ralph Nader's address Oct. 15 has been changed to 8 p.m. He will speak in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, in a visit sponsored by Campus Greens, a student organization.
Those with Princeton University ID will be admitted at 7:30 p.m. and the general public will be admitted at 7:45 p.m. The event also will be simulcast in 50 McCosh Hall. Signs and banners will not be permitted in the auditorium.
For information, contact Helen Labun, president of the Campus Greens, by email or at 986-9578.
- Graduate alumnus wins Nobel Prize in economics
<Posted 10/11/2000 14:26>
James J. Heckman, who received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1971, has won the Nobel Prize in economics. Heckman is now the Henry Schultz Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he has served since 1973.
Heckman was honored along with Daniel L. McFadden of the University of California at Berkeley for his work in developing "theory and methods that are widely used in the empirical analysis of individual and household behavior, within economics as well as other social sciences," said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the Nobel Prize.
His research evaluates the impact of a variety of social programs on the economy and on society at large. He has written on the impact of civil rights and affirmative action programs, taxes, unionism and other issues.
At Princeton, Heckman was involved in the industrial relations section of the economics department.
- Toulouse-Lautrec lithographs featured at Art Museum
<Posted 10/10/2000 08:41>
"Life at the Fin de Siècle: Lithographs of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec" will be on view at The Art Museum at Princeton University through October 29.
The exhibition includes both posters and prints from the museum's rich holdings. The works survey Toulouse-Lautrec's contributions to two art forms: the poster, designed for public viewing, and the print, intended for a more private audience.
The Art Museum is open to the public without charge.
- President Clinton's Princeton address available online
<Posted 10/10/2000 07:53>
President Clinton's address at Princeton is available online. Clinton was the keynote speaker at a two-day conference on The Progressive Tradition: Politics, Culture and History, on Oct. 5.
Scholarly panels on the Progressive Era, which took place Oct. 6, also may be viewed and heard online.
- Author, illustrator Maurice Sendak to speak, Oct. 18
<Posted 10/06/2000 16:50>
Maurice Sendak, the illustrator and author of such children's classics as Where the Wild Things Are and In Grandpa's House, will discuss his work 5 p.m. Oct. 18 in 50 McCosh Hall.
Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. to holders of Princeton University ID cards. All others are welcome to enter at 4:45 p.m. There is no admission charge.
In conjunction with his visit, the Cotsen Children's Collection in Firestone Library is featuring Sendak's illustrations of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers, Hans Christian Anderson and others. They will be on exhibit until Dec. 1.
- Juan Maldacena will discuss "Gravity, Black Holes and Strings," Oct. 15
<Posted 10/06/2000 16:50>
Juan Maldacena, who earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1996, will speak on "Gravity, Black Holes and Strings" as part of the Graduate School Centennial lecture series. Maldacena, a professor of physics at Harvard, has played a major role in the recent resurgence of an area of physics called string theory.
Although it started in the 1970s as a solution to highly specific problems in physics, string theory has emerged as a possible tool for developing the much-sought "theory of everything." Physicists believe string theory could bridge inconsistencies between Einstein's theory of relativity and the laws of quantum mechanics. In the process, string theory may answer puzzles about black holes and the origin of the universe.
He will deliver the talk at 4 p.m. Sunday, October 15, in McCosh 50. A reception will follow in the First Campus Center Multipurpose Room.
Maldacena is currently spending a year's sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study.
- Lecture series to address international issues of religion and politics
<Posted 10/01/2000 17:34>
A Princeton University lecture series about the role of religion in public life begins Oct. 2 with a talk on Catholics in China, reflecting a focus on international topics.
Richard Madsen, professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, will give the premier
address Oct. 2, discussing "China's Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society." He will
speak at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall on the Princeton campus.
Other subjects to be addressed during the academic year include the role of religion in post-communist
Eastern Europe, women in the Middle Eastern Islamic world, conflict resolution programs in the developing
world, and Zionism in Israel. Future speakers include William Vendley, secretary general of the World
Conference on Religion and Peace International; Arthur Hertzberg, Bronfman visiting professor of the
humanities at New York University; Ann Elizabeth Mayer, associate professor of legal studies at the
University of Pennsylvania; James Billington, librarian of Congress; and DeForest B. "Buster" Soaries, Jr.,
New Jersey secretary of state.
The series is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs.
Information about the series is available from the Center for the Study of Religion (609-258-5545) or the Office of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School (609-258-1792).
- Professors discuss ethics and science of human genome sequencing, Sept. 25
<Posted 09/21/2000 20:00>
Peter Singer, Decamp Professor of Bioethics; Shirley Tilghman, director of the Institute for Integrative Genomics; and Dan Notterman, professor of molecular biology, will address scientific and ethical implications of the completion of the human genome sequence, 8 p.m. Sept. 25 in McCosh 50.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for students, faculty and staff with Princeton University ID. Members of the public will be admitted at 7:45 p.m. if space permits.
The discussion is sponsored by the Student Bioethics Forum
of Princeton University. Direct questions to bioethic@princeton.edu.
- Angela Davis to speak, Sept. 29
<Posted 09/18/2000 12:22>
Activist and author Angela Davis will speak on "Human and Economic Impacts of the Prison Industrial Complex," Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. in McCosh 10.
The author of several books, Davis is a professor at the University of California in Santa Cruz. Her address marks the 30th anniversary of Princeton University's Third World Center, which will offer events on the theme of "social justice" throughout the year.
- West Nile virus update
<Posted 09/18/2000 09:31>
Last month, a dead crow found on the Princeton campus tested positive
for the West Nile virus, which is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.
No infected mosquitoes have been found in Mercer County, home to the
University. The county has had no reports of this virus in humans.
The University is working with county and state officials to monitor the virus. The state Department of Health and Senior Services has
reported that 726 infected birds have been found throughout New Jersey, but only five of those have been in Mercer County.
For most healthy young people, the West Nile virus does not present a threat. Generally, it causes only mild, flu-like symptoms with fever, headache and body aches - or no symptoms at all. Elderly people are at higher risk of more serious disease such as encephalitis, with symptoms of severe headache, high fever, stiff neck, confusion and muscle weakness. Anyone with these symptoms should seek medical care as soon as
possible.
To minimize the risk, health experts suggest using insect repellant and wearing long pants and long sleeves when outdoors, especially around
dawn and dusk during the summer. For more resources and facts about the West Nile virus and its presence in New Jersey, visit the Princeton University Health Services West Nile Virus information page.
- Ira Fuchs receives leadership award
<Posted 09/12/2000 13:38>
Ira Fuchs, Princeton's former vice president for computing and information technology, has been selected by EDUCAUSE to receive its 2000 Leadership Award.
The award recognizes extraordinary effectiveness, influence, statesmanship and lifetime achievement on both individual campuses and in the wider higher education community.
Fuchs, who left the University in July to become the vice president for research in information technology at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, was chief information technology officer at Princeton for 15 years.
During that time, he established a world-class networking environment at the University and provided it with vital, innovative leadership. Fuchs continues to advise Princeton President Harold T. Shapiro on information technology matters on a one-day-a-week basis.
Fuchs also has been active nationally in major technology initiatives. He was the co-founder and long-time leader of the BITNET international academic networking project. He also has provided leadership to the worldwide higher education community as chairman of the board of the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking, as chief scientist and board member of the JSTOR (Journal Storage) Project and through his work to develop the European Academic and Research Network. He has served on the boards of trustees of the Usenix Association, the Internet Society and Educom, and on corporate advisory boards at Apple, IBM and NeXT.
The award will be given to Fuchs Thursday, Oct. 12, at the EDUCAUSE 2000 conference in Nashville.
Shapiro described the honor as "well-deserved recognition not only for his many significant contributions to Princeton but his leadership in the field of information technology more generally."
The award comes with a one-time, $5,000 scholarship that will be given in Fuchs' name to a student majoring in computer science at Vassar College.
"It's a great honor to receive this prestigious award," Fuchs said.
EDUCAUSE is an international, non-profit association whose mission is to help shape higher education through the introduction, use and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research and institutional management.
- Students honored at Opening Exercises
<Posted 09/11/2000 12:20>
At Opening Exercises Sunday,
President Harold Shapiro encouraged Princeton's newest students to seek out the unfamiliar, take intellectual risks and take "full advantage of the new beginnings" that the University can offer.
The ceremony welcomed new students and honored returning ones, as six undergraduate and graduate students received awards for their academic achievements at Princeton.
Jared George Kramer, a senior from Atkinson, N.H., received the Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award, which is given to the undergraduate with the highest academic standing at the end of the junior year. A B.S.E. candidate in the Department of Computer Science, he has a record of academic honors at Princeton, including the Freshman First Honor Prize for the Class of 2001 and the President's Award for Academic Achievement in the freshman and sophomore years. He is a member of the Princeton University Glee Club and the Human Value Forum.
Sophomore Peggy Ping Hsu, who is pursuing pre-medical studies, won this year's Freshman First Honor Prize, which recognizes exceptional academic achievement during the freshman year. Hsu, from Bethelem, Pa., has a strong interest in chemistry and molecular biology. Outside the classroom, she has participated in the Manna Christian Fellowship and plays the violin.
Junior Abbie Boggiano Liel of Portland, Ore. won the George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize for exceptional achievement during the sophomore year. Liel is concentrating in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is pursuing a certificate in the Woodrow Wilson School. She plays the bassoon in the Princeton University Orchestra and provides computer assistance to the university community as a consultant on the CIT help desk.
The George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize for exceptional achievement during the junior year was awarded to senior Vance Foster Serchuk of Katonah, N.Y., who is concentrating in the Department of History and pursuing certificates in Russian Studies, European Cultural Studies and Slavic Languages and Literatures. Outside the classroom, he is a leading member of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society and serves on its governing council. He serves as co-executive director of Princeton Model Congress and is a peer advisor in Wilson College.
Two graduate students also were recognized at Opening Exercises, representing more than a dozen graduate students who receive honorific fellowships each year.
Manfred Laubichler, a graduate student in the History of Science, is a Charlotte Elizabeth Procter fellow. A native of Austria, he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Vienna and studied in the Ph.D. program in biology at Yale University. He has written research publications and book reviews, and twice has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Graduate student Jayanthi V.J. Wolf, of Sri Lanka, is a Harold W. Dodds fellow. She graduated summa cum laude from Susquehanna University and is studying molecular biology at Princeton. She won awards for the quality of her precepts two times, and was a visiting scholar at the Curie Institute in France.
- Washington Road closed Wednesday
<Posted 09/05/2000 12:37>
Washington Road between Nassau St. and Prospect Ave. will be closed Wednesday, Sept. 6 from 9 am to 4 pm to accommodate construction in Green Hall. The University apologizes for the inconvenience.
The construction project involves placing a brain imaging device, called an fMRI scanner inito a newly renovated space in the psychology department. Because of its size and weight of more than four tons, the scanner must be lowered, piece by piece, into the laboratory space by crane. The crane will rest on Washington Road, making through traffic impossible.
Princeton researchers will use the fMRI scanner to study the biology behind such mental functions as logical reasoning, learning and memory and conciousness. The research could yield insights into diseases from Alzheimer's to schizophrenia. More information on the research is available from the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior and from www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/00/0501/p/brain.shtml
- Princeton tops magazine's ranking
<Posted 09/01/2000 15:54>
The latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of America's best colleges puts Princeton at the top of the list. While University officials were pleased with the recognition, they downplayed the significance of year-to-year fluctuations in the rankings and noted that the methodology in this report and similar surveys cannot capture the uniqueness of any institution or its appropriateness for any individual student.
- Phillip James Peebles wins cosmology prize
<Posted 08/21/2000 16:22>
Princeton physicist Phillip James Peebles has been named one of the first two recipients of the Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation.
Peebles, Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus, was recognized for his work in explaining the origin and structure of the universe.
The Gruber Cosmology Prize, with an award of $150,000, is to be awarded annually to honor "fundamental scientific advances that shape the way we see and comprehend our universe." In the prize's first year, the foundation gave two awards, one to Peebles and the other to Allan Sandage of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
In its award citation, the Gruber Foundation stated that Peebles "has made profound contributions to our knowledge of the physical processes that have shaped the structure of our universe. Over more than three decades he has, with rigor and imagination, advanced our understanding of phenomena that range from the creation of the lightest elements to the formation of galaxies and the cosmic distribution of matter and radiation."
- Bookbinding expert to lecture at Princeton Aug. 24
<Posted 08/21/2000 15:58>
Dr. Mirjam Foot, an international authority on bookbinding, will lecture on "Bookbindings: Purpose, Use, and Content; a Historical View" at 5 p.m. August 24 in Room 104 of Princeton's Computer Science building, 35 Olden Street. Foot's lecture is sponsored by the Friends of the Princeton University Library and is open to the public.
Foot recently retired as director of collections and preservation in the British Library. She is the author of many books and articles on the history of bookbinding, and delivered the 1997 Panizzi Lectures at the British Library.
Foot will be in Princeton all week conducting a course for members of the Friends and Princeton University Library staff. The course is a historical survey of decorative bookbinding in England and on the European continent, concentrating on the period 1500-1800.
For additional information, please contact Robert Milevski at (609) 258-5591.
- Lin A. Ferrand named associate dean of the faculty
<Posted 08/16/2000 12:08>
Lin A. Ferrand, former associate professor of civil engineering at the City University of New York, will become associate dean of the faculty at Princeton on Sept. 1.
Until recently, Ferrand served as associate director of CUNY's Center for Water Resources and Environmental Research. She has been a visiting research collaborator, lecturer and post-doctoral research associate in the Water Resources Program at Princeton, where she also earned her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees.
At Princeton, Ferrand's responsibilities will focus on the administration of the professional research, technical and library staffs, according to Dean of the Faculty Joseph H. Taylor.
- Computing services unavailable Thursday morning
<Posted 08/16/2000 11:52>
Most computing services will be unavailable Thursday, Aug. 17 from 3 to 7 a.m. as repairs are made in the CIT machine room. For information on what services will be affected, visit CIT's website.
- Carillon concert, reception to honor Graduate School
<Posted 08/15/2000 15:01>
The Graduate School at Princeton University invites the public to a free carillon concert and reception, Sunday, Aug. 27 at 1 p.m. in celebration of the Graduate School's Centennial.
The performance, at Cleveland Tower of the Graduate College, will feature Dr. Scott B. Parry playing works by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Bizet, Beethoven and Schubert. The Graduate College is off Springdale and College Roads in Princeton.
Parry, a Princeton resident and Princeton University alumnus from the Class of 1954, studied with the University's first carillonneur, Professor Arthur Bigelow. He has performed on more than 50 carillons in nine countries and has led handbell groups throughout the northeast.
The concert is one of many programs and lectures throughout 2000 and 2001 that will honor the 100th anniversary of the Graduate School. The events will offer "an opportunity to celebrate the School's distinguished history, the contributions of its alumni to scholarship and research, education, public policy and industry, and the School's contributions to Princeton's teaching and research programs," said University President Harold T. Shapiro, a Graduate School alumnus.
For further information about the concert, call 609-258-3654.
- Computing services unavailable Sunday morning
<Posted 08/09/2000 14:49>
Most computing services will be unavailable Sunday, Aug. 13 from 5 to 10 a.m. The CIT machine room will have a scheduled power outage to allow for electrical upgrades and repairs.
For information on what will not be available, read CIT's full announcement.
- Princeton gets grant to study self-government crises
<Posted 08/09/2000 09:27>
Princeton's Liechtenstein Research Program on Self-Determination has received a $308,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to develop strategies to prevent and manage crises of self-government -- strategies which may help avoid the bloodshed that has marked such places as Kosovo and Kashmir.
Program director Wolfgang Danspeckgruber is heading the project, which will analyze strategies to prevent conflicts of self-determination from turning violent as well as responses and management techniques if violence does occur. The two-year, interdisciplinary project will focus on Africa, the Balkans and the Far East, and on international mandates, Danspeckgruber said.
In addition to Danspeckgruber, the investigators are Michael Doyle, director of the Center of International Studies and professor of politics and international affairs; Jeffrey Herbst, chairman of the politics department and professor of politics and public affairs; and Gilbert Rozman, professor of sociology.
The four researchers intend to produce a book at the end of their study. Results also will be discussed at meetings with regional experts and representatives both in the United States and abroad.
"We intend to undertake in-depth theoretical analysis of the causes of self-determination as well as the development of potential mechanisms for their resolution," Danspeckgruber said.
The Liechtenstein Research Program on Self-Determination supports and advances work in the field of self-determination and self-administration. It was established in 1994 with the support of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein.
- Theodore Ziolkowski honored by Federal Republic of Germany
<Posted 08/03/2000 17:04>
Theodore Ziolkowski, professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, was awarded the Order of
Merit (First Class) by President Johannes Rau of the Federal Republic of Germany.
"Like few other scholars, you have succeeded in combining teaching, research and university administration," Consul General Bernhard Edler von der Planitz said in a ceremony July 26. "Your scholarly works qualify you as one of the most prominent Germanists of our age."
Von der Planitz noted that Ziolkowski's "unwearying efforts" have helped give the study of languages an important place in the curriculum of American universities. Ziolkowski's teaching and research have "acquainted countless young Americans with Germany, her language, history and culture," he said.
Ziolkowski is the Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages and the former dean of the Graduate School.
- Managing editor named for University communications office
<Posted 07/31/2000 12:33>
Ruth A. Stevens, an experienced editor and consultant to
colleges and universities, will become managing editor in Princeton's Office of Communications on Aug. 1.
For 15 years, Stevens supervised news and public information
activities at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich., where she also edited the faculty-staff newspaper. Previously she had similar
responsibilities at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn.
She has been a consultant for the last two years with George Dehne & Associates, advising colleges on admissions and communications issues.
At Princeton, Stevens will edit the
Weekly Bulletin, a newspaper distributed on campus and mailed to the
homes of faculty, staff members and about 2,000 non-university
subscribers. She will have shared responsibilities for Web-based communications and other activities.
- Princeton scientist wins Volvo Environment Prize
<Posted 07/19/2000 12:43>
Robert H. Williams, senior research scientist at Princeton's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, has been named a co-winner of the 2000 Volvo Environment Prize.
Williams shares the prize with Jose; Goldemberg of Brazil, Thomas Johansson of Sweden and Amulya Reddy of India. Working together since the early 1980s, the four scientists have developed an innovative policy-driven approach to technical analysis of world energy. They have formulated energy strategies that help solve major energy-linked problems of poverty, local and global environmental concerns, military conflict, and nuclear weapons proliferation -- problems that would be exacerbated in a "business-as-usual" future based on today's energy technologies. These strategies include more efficient energy use, various forms of renewable energy, hydrogen as an energy carrier, and, as a response to climate change concerns, deep underground sequestration of the carbon dioxide byproduct of hydrogen manufactured from fossil fuels.
Their analyses also show that the developing countries can avoid retracing the polluting energy path of industrialized countries and "leap-frog" directly to cleaner, safer technologies.
- Neuroscientist wins Keck young investigator award
<Posted 07/19/2000 12:33>
Princeton neuroscientist Joe Tsien, whose creation last year of a "smart mouse" was hailed as a breakthrough in neuroscience, has received a young investigator award that provides major new funding for his research.
The W. M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles named Tsien one of five Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research. The award, provides about $1 million in funding over five years, will accelerate Tsien's search for genes that control learning and memory.
- Joseph Greenberg named as University registrar
<Posted 07/12/2000 13:13>
Joseph L. Greenberg, the University's acting registrar since October 1999, has been appointed registrar for a five-year term.
Greenberg, who earned a doctorate in English literature at Princeton, was a lecturer in the University's English department before joining the administrative ranks as assistant registrar in 1978. He earned several promotions, most recently to the position of deputy registrar in 1993.
Greenberg assumed leadership of the registrar's office on an interim basis last year, when Registrar C. Anthony Broh left to become director of research at the Consortium on Financing Higher Education.
He has implemented significant automated systems in the registrar's office, including one that allows students to view their academic records on the web, and has been a leading team member in the campus-wide initiative to upgrade administrative information systems. He also made significant contributions in planning the construction and renovation of academic buildings, and has been "an important resource and participant in making decisions regarding academic policy and other matters," said Provost Jeremiah P. Ostriker.
In addition to his Ph.D. degree from Princeton, Greenberg holds a master's degree in English literature from the University of Minnesota and a master's degree in education from Temple University in Philadelphia.
"President (Harold) Shapiro and I are delighted that Joe has accepted this position and we look forward to continuing to work with him on a variety of issues," Ostriker said.
- Jeffrey Carbeck selected for Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
<Posted 07/10/2000 11:19>
The National Academy of Engineering has selected assistant professor of chemical engineering Jeffrey Carbeck to participate in its 2000 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
The annual event, to be held Sept. 14-16 in Irvine, CA, brings together outstanding engineers from academia, industry and government to discuss leading research and technical developments over a range of engineering disciplines. Carbeck's research focuses on molecular recognition in biology and how these recognition processes affect the interaction of biological media (proteins, DNA, cells, virus) with synthetic materials (surfaces, gels, colloids, lipids and polymers).
- Professor's musical composition performed at Independence Day celebration
<Posted 07/10/2000 11:17>
"Raging River, Rolling Stone," a composition by Assistant Professor of Music Barbara White, had its premier performance at the Fourth of July celebration in Fitchburg, Mass.
The eight-minute piece was performed by the Thayer Symphony Orchestra during a concert July 4. The march portion of the composition was performed earlier that day during the July Fourth parade.
White's work was part of a program called Continental Harmony, which teams communities and composers and is spearheaded by the American Composers Forum and the National Endowment for the Arts. White visited Fitchburg several times to conduct research for the piece. She incorporated the city's ethnic and musical heritage within her work.
- President Shapiro to receive honorary degree from University of Edinburgh
<Posted 07/07/2000 14:25>
Princeton University President Harold Shapiro will receive an honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh on July 20.
Among the other recipients will be Bernard Shapiro, President Shapiro's twin brother. Bernard Shapiro is principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University in Montreal.
Both are scheduled to receive the Degree of Doctor honoris causa.
- Registrar's Office puts transcript requests on the web
<Posted 07/05/2000 11:34>
The Princeton University Registrar's Office has launched a new service for students and alumni: an easy-to-use transcript request process using the Web, coupled with the elimination of transcript fees.
Students and alumni needing transcripts can now download a transcript-request form anytime of day or week from the Registrar's Web site, http://ntigger.princeton.edu/registrar/trans/trans_order.htm.
- Museum of Natural History to close Labor Day weekend
<Posted 07/05/2000 11:25>
The Museum of Natural History in Guyot Hall will close to the public Labor Day weekend in preparation for renovation of the building. The
exhibit will re-open in a new and better space when the renovation
project is complete.
- Three named to American Philosophical Society
<Posted 06/14/2000 16:37>
Three Princeton professors have been elected to the American Philosophical Society: William Jordan, professor of history, Shirley Tilghman, Howard A. Prior professor in the life sciences; and Frederick Mote, professor of East Asian studies, emeritus.
- History professor honored for medieval studies
<Posted 06/07/2000 09:33>
William Chester Jordan, a Princeton University professor of history, has received the Charles Homer Haskins medal from the Medieval Academy of America.
The medal is awarded annually for an outstanding book in the field of medieval studies. Jordan was honored for his book, The great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century (Princeton University Press).
- Graduate students awarded Newcombe Fellowships
<Posted 05/31/2000 16:33>
Four Princeton University graduate students have received Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships, awarded to 35 students nationwide studying topics relating to ethical or religious values. More than 400 graduate students applied for the fellowships, which are administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
The Princeton students and their proposed dissertation titles are: Amanda Dickins, "Economic Interdependence and International Distributive Justice;" Katarzyna B. Hagemajer, "Philobarbarism: A Study in Greek Interchanges with the Non-Greeks in the Fourth Century B.C.;" Gregory B. Lyon, "The Art of History in Reformation Germany" and Megan H. Reid, "Exemplary Excess: Devotional Piety in Medieval Islam, 1200-1500 C.E.."
- Commencement, Baccalaureate service on the web
<Posted 05/31/2000 09:52>
Those who missed Princeton University's 253rd Commencement or Baccalaureate service may still view them on the web. Click on special events and select the event you wish to view.
- Centennial CD released
<Posted 05/26/2000 17:06>
A compact disc has been released in celebration of the Centennial of the Princeton University Graduate School, with selections recorded during a concert performance at the Graduate College in February.
The CD features university organist Joan Lippincott and graduate student musicians on piano, computer, ocarina, trumpet and more. For
additional information, visit http://www.princeton.edu/~gradcol/cd.htm.
- James A. Baker to deliver lecture, May 27
<Posted 05/24/2000 09:30>
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III '52 will deliver a public lecture entitled "Third-World Debt Relief: No Easy Answers; No Simple Solutions," on Saturday, May 27th at 9 a.m. in AO2 McDonnell Hall. Professor Alan S. Binder will be introducing Baker.
The lecture is sponsored by Princeton University's Center for Economic Policy Studies.
- Interim leadership named at CIT
<Posted 05/23/2000 16:58>
During the search for a new vice president of computing and information technology, Provost Jeremiah Ostriker will assume more direct responsibility for CIT leadership along with two CIT directors.
CIT Vice President Ira Fuchs has announced he is joining the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on July 1, although he will continue at Princeton part-time as senior technology adviser to President Harold T. Shapiro.
David Koehler and Steven Sather will be named managing directors during the interim period. Koehler will have oversight for administrative computing and infrastructure, which includes information systems, information technology architecture, and enterprise services. Sather will direct academic computing and customer service, including support services, administrative services, academic technology services, and budget and finance.
The University will conduct a national search to replace Fuchs, Ostriker said. "We are seen as a leader in providing a robust infrastructure for campus computing and in identifying and deploying new technologies," he said. "We will be seeking someone who will follow in and extend this tradition of excellence and innovation."
- Warning: New computer worm
<Posted 05/19/2000 10:09>
A new destructive worm, "NEWLOVE," has been reported which, like the variants of the "ILOVEYOU" virus, attacks those who use Microsoft Outlook for e-mail.
While there have been no sightings reported on the Princeton University campus, those who use Outlook are urged to take precautions and contact the known senders of any suspicious e-mail before attempting to open the messages. CIT has installed a filter intended to capture messages with the worm.
For more information, see www.princeton.edu/newlove.
- Research associate wins grant
<Posted 05/18/2000 16:33>
James Kroger, a research associate in psychology, was awarded a Young
Investigator grant from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. The $60,000 award will support his use of neuroimaging to study cognitive processes, such as working memory and attention, in the prefrontal cortex.
The research could lead to a better understanding of the mental deficits characteristic of patients with schizophrenia. Kroger's work
is associated with the University's Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior.
- E-mail service interrupted
<Posted 05/18/2000 08:54>
The CIT central e-mail server currently is not operating. CIT is working to restore service by 10 a.m. Outgoing mail is being delivered normally.
CIT apologizes for the inconvenience.
- E-mail outage
<Posted 05/17/2000 12:00>
CIT's central e-mail service will experience a 30-minute emergency outage beginning today at 12:15 pm. CIT apologizes for the inconvenience and will restore e-mail service as quickly as possible.
During the outage, you
will be able to send e-mail messages.
- Senior wins national rugby honor
<Posted 05/17/2000 08:49>
Princeton senior Katherine Stewart won the 2000 Woodley Award, considered the Heisman Trophy of rugby, at the national championships May 14. Stewart, who played fullback for Princeton, also won the tournament's Most Valuable Player award. The Woodley is awarded by the New York Rugby Club to the top male and female players.
Princeton finished second to Penn State in the national championship game.
- Emeritus Professor receives PEN honor
<Posted 05/12/2000 17:01>
Edmund Keeley, Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, Emeritus, has been honored by the PEN American Center with a 2000 Career Achievement Award, the Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation.
PEN cited Keeley for "an exceptional body of work by a literary translator."
- Professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
<Posted 05/11/2000 17:05>
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected five Princeton faculty members as new fellows. They are: Anthony Evans, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering; Paul Muldoon, Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities; Daniel Tsui, Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering; C.K. Williams, lecturer with rank of professor in the Council of the Humanities and Creative Writing; and Andrew Yao, William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which now includes 3,600 fellows and 600 foreign honorary members, was chartered in Boston in 1780. Its purpose, as stated in the charter, is "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honour, dignity and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people."
- Installation Art project, May 12-26
<Posted 05/11/2000 11:40>
The Installation Art project, which brings together the work of students
from disciplines ranging from anthropology to architecture, opens to the
public on May 12.
The project at 13-15 Olden St., which is part of the Atelier Program,
explores questions of domestic space based on 12 weeks of collaborative
work between the students and guest artist Irina Nakhova, a graduate of
the Moscow Institute of Graphic Arts and member of the artists' group
now known as the Moscow Conceptual School. The work addresses questions
of voyeurism, private and public space, and other issues of the family
and home.
Contact Ellen Goellner at goellner@princeton.edu or 258-3697 for more information. The house will be open during the following hours: May 12, 4-8 p.m.; May 13, noon to 6 p.m.; May 14, noon to 6 p.m.; May 25, 4-8 p.m.; and May 26, 4-8 p.m.
- Physicist honored at White House
<Posted 05/09/2000 12:57>
Gennady Shvets, staff research physicist in the Plasma Physics Lab, is
among 60 young researchers who have received the Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and Engineers this year. The grant, which
supports up to five years of research, was made at the White House in
April.
Shvets was also honored with Office of Science Early Career Award in
Science and Engineering from the U.S. Department of Energy. He was cited
for "theoretical and computational investigations of the interaction of
ultra-strong pulses with plasmas."
- Jazz Ensemble concert, May 6
<Posted 05/05/2000 14:10>
The Princeton University Jazz Ensemble presents its 25th Anniversary Concert with internationally acclaimed pianist Jacky Terrasson on Saturday, May 6th at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium.
Student tickets are $10; all others are $20.
- Sound Kitchen posts Internet Radio Show
<Posted 05/05/2000 14:10>
The Princeton Sound
Kitchen has posted its fourth Internet Radio Show. The music is
available in RealAudio, RealAudio G2, Windows Media and MP3 formats.
This show includes "the mind's fear, the heart's delight," by Barbara White, "anthem [rowhouses. Indianapolis.]" by Alan Shockley,
"Cantata V, 'Byzantium' (W. B. Yeats)," by Peter Westergaard and "The Spell of Sensuality (after
Chernobyl)" by Van Stiefel.
- CIT warns of new virus dangers
<Posted 05/04/2000 11:09>
New, more destructive variations on the "love bug" computer virus are appearing, and CIT has issued a special appeal for caution.
The University's central e-mail services can no longer filter for all new variations because doing so could have a serious impact on campus e-mail deliveries.
The new bugs have a variety of subject lines.
For information on how to protect yourself,
see:
http://www.princeton.edu/loveletter.
- Sloan Fellows named
<Posted 05/03/2000 13:45>
Four Princeton assistant professors have been named research fellows by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation: Adam Finkelstein in computer science, John Morgan in economics, Giovanni Forni in mathematics and Samuel S.H. Wang in molecular biology.
They are among 104 outstanding young scientists and economists in the United States and Canada chosen to receive grants of $40,000 each for a two-year period. Fellows may pursue whatever lines of inquiry most interest them, according to the Sloan Foundation.
- Princeton University Wind Ensemble concert, April 29
<Posted 04/26/2000 15:34>
The Wind Ensemble will perform an outdoor concert in the Woodrow Wilson
School fountain plaza on Saturday, April 29 at 9 p.m. This is the
second concert of the year for the ensemble, featuring works by
Grainger, Nelhybel, Holst, and others. Admission is free and open to
the public. Refreshments will be served.
The event is sponsored by the Trustee Alcohol Initiative and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.
- Graduate U-Council representatives elected
<Posted 04/26/2000 15:34>
Five graduate students have been elected as representatives to the U-Council.
They are: Karthick Ramakrishnan (Chair), Tamar Friedmann, Mary "Betsy" Wheeler, Manish Vachharajani and Michiko Taga.
- Senior thesis production, April 20-30
<Posted 04/26/2000 13:12>
A senior thesis production, "A Little Night Music," will be presented April 20-23 at 8 p.m., April 27-29 at 8 p.m., and April 30 at 2 p.m. The production features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and is directed by Matthew Ferraro '00. Tickets are $7 for students, faculty and staff, and $10 for general admission. Call 258-3676 for reservations.
- Governor Whitman to speak, April 27
<Posted 04/26/2000 13:04>
New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman will speak on Thursday, April 27 at 5 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium of Robertson Hall. Gov. Whitman's lecture is entitled "Sewers: The Last Frontier of Smart Growth." This event is free and open to the public.
Her talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and is the final lecture in the student-initiated state and local government series.
- Art Museum Open House, April 30
<Posted 04/25/2000 09:25>
The Friends of The Art Museum will hold an Open House in connection with the exhibition "A Window into Collecting American Folk Art: The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton" on Sunday, April 30 from 1 to 5 p.m.
The event, planned as a family day at the Museum, will feature tours, musical entertainment, refreshments and numerous gallery talks. For more information, call (609) 258-3788.
- Outdoor safety management workshops, April 26 and 27
<Posted 04/25/2000 08:49>
This seminar is designed to make all wilderness travelers familiar with
the causes of accidents in the wilderness, how to prevent accidents
through effective pre-trip planning, how to identify risks in the field,
and how to increase your margin of safety. The workshop is offered Wednesday, April 26, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. or Thursday, April 27, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. in McCosh 64.
It is sponsored by Outdoor Action.
- BodyHype Dance Company show, May 4-7
<Posted 04/25/2000 08:49>
BodyHype Dance Company will perform its Spring Show in Theatre~Intime on May 4 -7. All shows are at 8 p.m. except those on Saturday, which are at 7 and 10 p.m.
The show highlights the company's diverse choreographic
talents with styles ranging from pointe and lyrical to hip-hop, kung-fu and funk. Special breaks with video clips, various
acapella groups, and hosts from Quipfire. Reserve tickets by calling x4950 early, as seating is limited.
- Materials science lecture, April 24
<Posted 04/21/2000 11:16>
Professor Robert Cava of the Department of Chemistry will speak on "A Brief History of High Temperature Superconductivity," April 24 at 12:30 p.m. in the Bowen Hall auditorium. Pizza will be served before the lecture, at noon.
This is the first faculty lecture sponsored by the newly reinstated
Princeton Materials Research Society, which aims to enhance awareness of materials research and the
materials science program at Princeton. For more information, please visit
the society or contact pmrs@princeton.edu.
- Comedian performs, April 20
<Posted 04/20/2000 15:06>
Actor and comedian Rob Nash will perform
8 p.m. April 20 in McCormick
101 (art and archaeology building). Nash has performed on HBO, Comedy Central and VH1. He will be opening his critically-acclaimed solo
show this summer off-Broadway.
The event is free and
open to everyone. It is sponsored by the Princeton Pride
Alliance and the USG Projects Board.
- Graduate school fair, April 20
<Posted 04/20/2000 14:10>
A graduate school fair will be held Thursday, April 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Dillon Gym. Graduate schools of medicine, law, engineering, business, and arts and sciences will be represented.
Participants include: Duke University (Law), College of William and Mary (Law and Business), Columbia University (Law), Cornell University (Engineering), New York University (Arts & Sciences), Stanford University (Medicine), University of Chicago (Law), University of Iowa (Medicine), University of Michigan (Business), University of Rochester (Business), University of North Carolina (Business) and Washington University (Law). This event is sponsored by the National Society of Black Engineers.
- Governor Whitman to speak, April 27
<Posted 04/20/2000 14:10>
New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman will speak on Thursday, April 27 at 5 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium of Robertson Hall. Gov. Whitman's lecture is entitled "Sewers: The Last Frontier of Smart Growth." This event is free and open to the public.
Her talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and is the final lecture in the student-initiated state and local government series.
- Senior thesis production, April 20-30
<Posted 04/20/2000 14:10>
A senior thesis production, "A Little Night Music," will be presented April 20-23 at 8 p.m., April 27-29 at 8 p.m., and April 30 at 2 p.m. The production features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and is directed by Matthew Ferraro '00. Tickets are $7 for students, faculty and staff, and $10 for general admission. Call 258-3676 for reservations.
- Talk on faith and violent crime, April 25
<Posted 04/20/2000 14:10>
Ex-gang member, community activist and author Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III will speak on Tuesday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium at Robertson Hall. His lecture is entitled, "The Role of the Faith Factor in Violent Crime Reduction" and is being co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Center for the Study of Religion. This event is free and open to the public.
- Lecture on "dark side" of Christian history, April 17
<Posted 04/14/2000 09:37>
Helen Ellerbe, writer, researcher and author, will lecture on "The Dark
Side of Christian History" on April 17 at 8 p.m. in Betts Auditorium in the Architecture building.
With the Pope's recent apology and the Church's
commitment to addressing its past, a chronicle
of some of the Church's more unseemly deeds is more relevant than ever.
What events in Christian history were remarkably un-Christian and how did the Church justify them? What can this tell us about the role of the Church today and its trajectory for the future?
The lecture has been organized by CommonSense, Princeton's freethought alliance.
- Orchestra and glee club present final concert, April 14 and 15
<Posted 04/13/2000 13:21>
The Princeton University Orchestra and Princeton Glee
Club will perform
Gustav Mahler's Symphony #2:
"The Resurrection" and Edward Cone's "Now Let Us Praise
Famous Men"
Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15 at 8 p.m. in
Richardson
Auditorium.
Tickets are on sale at the Richardson Auditorium Box
Office, 258-5000
and cost $5 for students, $12 for others.
- “A Walk through Time,” April 13-15
<Posted 04/13/2000 13:15>
A
Walk Through Time . . . from stardust to us, a mile-long
display of approximately 90 panels detailing moments from five
billion years of Earth's history, will be set up through the Princeton
campus from April 13 to 15. The panels are dispersed so that each foot
represents one million years.
To kick off the display, Princeton Environmental Action (PEA),
in coordination with faculty members, has planned a symposium at 3 p.m. on April 13 in Frick's Kresge Auditorium. Among the speakers are Professor Kenneth Deffeyes and Sid Liebes '52, the display's creator. They will discuss the unique process that allowed complex life
to evolve as well as the fragility of the environment and ecosystems.
- Lecture on racial preferences and white nationalism, April 20
<Posted 04/12/2000 12:33>
Carol Swain, a professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University, will lecture on "Demographic Change, Racial Preferences, and the Rise of White Nationalism" on Thursday, April 20 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1 of Robertson Hall at the Woodrow Wilson School.
- A cappella concern, April 13
<Posted 04/12/2000 12:32>
The a cappella group Shere Khan presents its Spring concert on Thursday, April 13 at 9 p.m. in McCosh 10. Tickets may reserved through Rich at 258-9148, or purchased at the door. Tickets cost $6 for students and $10 for non-students. U-Store Cards will be accepted for payment.
- Communiversity festival, April 15
<Posted 04/12/2000 12:29>
Communiversity, the annual spring celebration of the arts, will be held in the streets of downtown Princeton, Saturday, April 15 between noon and 4 p.m. This year's events include performances by student groups, displays by organizations such as The Princeton University International Center, a "Walk Through Time" presented by Princeton Environmental Action and many children's activities.
In case of rain, the festivities will be moved to alternative locations. For more information, contact co-chairs Andrew Shtulman '01 (258-8195) or Ayse Tanyeri '02 (258-9396).
- Sexual Violence Awareness events, April 14-15
<Posted 04/12/2000 12:00>
Princeton is observing Sexual Violence Awareness Week with a series of events. On Friday, April 14 from 10-4 p.m., the Clothesline Project, a visual display of violence aimed at women, will be on view in the Hyphen at Chancellor Green. For more information, contact share@princeton.edu
A free workshop on women's self-defense, taught by Sensai Linda Ranson, will be offered on April 15 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pre-registration is required; contact womenctr@princeton.edu
A "Take Back The Night" gathering in support of survivors of sexual violence will be held on April 15 beginning at 8 p.m. in Firestone Plaza. Contact brookef@princeton.edu.
- Dance performance, April 13
<Posted 04/12/2000 11:53>
DiSiac Dance Company presents its 2000 Spring Show, Thursday, April 13 at 8 p.m; Friday, April 14 at 7 & 10 p.m.; and Saturday, April 15 at 2 & 8 p.m. in the Forbes Theatre. Tickets are $5 with a Princeton University ID and $7 for all others.
- Body Acceptance Fair, April 14
<Posted 04/12/2000 11:52>
The Eating Concerns Peer Educators are holding a Body Acceptance Fair, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on April 14 in the courtyard of Dillon Gymnasium. There will be free food, chair massages, yoga and kick-boxing demonstrations, a raffle for prizes, plus many other activities, information tables, and displays.
- Talk on breakdown of the family, April 13
<Posted 04/10/2000 12:47>
Psychologist Patrick Fagan will speak April 13 at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh 46 on "Alienation of the Sexes and Breakdown of the Family: Should We Care?" This event will be hosted by the Jacques Maritain Society. For more information, contact Mike McClane at (609) 258-9602.
- Egyptian, Israeli UN representatives to speak April 17
<Posted 04/10/2000 12:44>
Ambassador Ahmed Aboul Gheit, permanent representative of Egypt to the United Nations, and Ambassador Yehuda Lancry, permanent representative of Israel to the UN, will speak April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in McCosh 50. The lecture is entitled "Light at the End of the Tunnel? Costs and Benefits of Mideast Peace for the International Community" and will focus on prospects for peace between Israelis, Syrians, and Palestinians. This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the United Nations Association of the United States. This event is free and open to the public.
- "Women, Power and Leadership" discussion, April 14
<Posted 04/07/2000 15:14>
A panel of Princeton alumnae and women student leaders will address issues of women in power and leadership roles, April 14 at 4:30 p.m. in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber. Panelists will be Patricia Garcia-Monet '92 (former USG president); Cecelia Rey Hallisey '88 (former USG president); Jennifer Jennings '00 (former co-chair of Student Volunteers Council); Nancy Peretsman '76 (managing director of Allen & Co., listed among Fortune Magazine's "Most Powerful Women in American Business"); Susan Rea '00 (student athlete and Marshall Scholar); Meg Whitman '77 (CEO of eBay, Inc., listed among Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" ); and Janelle Wright '00 (former chair of Third World Center Governing
Board). The panel will be moderated by Stephanie Ramos '00.
This free event is sponsored by the Women's Center and other campus organizations in honor of the 30th anniversary of undergraduate women of Princeton. For information, contact Susan Overton at 258-5565 or sco1@princeton.edu.
- Performing Arts Cabaret, April 7
<Posted 04/07/2000 12:47>
Muse, a performing arts cabaret, will be presented at Chancellor Green on April 7 at 10 pm. The performance will feature comedy sketches, rhythmic gymnastics, Irish dance, kung fu, singing, juggling, live music and more. Admission is free. This event is sponsored by The Dean of Undergraduate Students, NightLive! and the Trustee Initiative.
- Ortschaften (Localities) Colloquium
<Posted 04/05/2000 12:47>
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures under the auspices of the Humanities Council of Princeton University will present the Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Colloquium on Ortschaften (Localities) on April 15.
Professor Susan Bernstein of Brown University, Professor Svetlana Boym of Harvard University and Professor Samuel Weber of UCLA will read cities as texts. Bernstein will talk on Vienna ("Freud's Couch"); Boym on St. Petersburg ("Ruins of the Renamed City [Petersburg/Leningrad]: An Archaeology of Nostalgia"); and Weber on "`Streets, Squares and Theaters: Walter Benjamin's Paris: A City on the Move." The colloquium will be held in 106 McCormick Hall. For a schedule and other information, contact the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at 258-4137 or 258-4141.
- The Surreal War: Film Series
<Posted 04/05/2000 12:44>
The Program in European Cultural Studies is presenting "The Surreal War," a film series of non-conformist, thoroughly surreal and seriously
distorted World War II films. Shows take place Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. in
McCormick 106. Films include: "The Travelling
Players" (Theo Angelopoulos, 1975 -- April 12) and "It Happened Here"
(Kevin Brownlow, 1961 -- April 19). Shows are free and are
followed by a discussion.
For more information, contact asbury@princeton.edu.
- Future entrepreneurs compete
<Posted 04/05/2000 12:35>
Amazon.com was once a business plan written by a Princeton student. Who
knows where the next great company will begin? Watch five teams of
Princeton students compete for $10,000 in cash prizes as they present
ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the Second Annual Business Plan Contest, 3 p.m. April 8 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
- Former U.S. Senator speaks on First Amendment
<Posted 04/05/2000 11:57>
Former Senator Alan K. Simpson, director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, will speak on "The First Amendment Belongs to Me, Too!" 4:30 p.m. on April 13 at Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall.
- Book signing by children's author
<Posted 04/05/2000 11:36>
Jane Yolen, an award-winning children's author, will read from her new book, Not One Damsel in Distress, April 8 at 2 p.m. in the Cotsen Children's Library in Firestone Library. Following her reading, the author will sign books at Micawber Books on Nassau Street. This program is recommended for readers ages 7 to adult. Admission is free but space is limited. For more information or to register to attend, call 258-1148.
- Senator Rockefeller to speak
<Posted 04/05/2000 11:17>
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV will lecture on "There's Nothing Wrong with Public Service," April 18 at 4:30 p.m. in Whig Hall's Senate Chamber. The talk is sponsored by the Whig-Clio Speakers Program. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome. For more information, contact justinr@princeton.edu
- Talk on managed care
<Posted 04/05/2000 11:11>
Uwe E. Reinhardt, Princeton University's James Madison Professor of Political Economy and a leading expert on the economics of health care, will lecture on "Is Managed Care Dead?" on April 10 at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. His talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Center for Health Care Strategies, with funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This event is free and open to the public.
- Figure skating show
<Posted 04/05/2000 11:02>
The Princeton University Figure Skating Club will be
hosting its third
annual show on Saturday, April 8 at 8pm at Baker Rink.
Come dance
through the decades with solo programs, group numbers and
our nationally
ranked synchronized skating team! Admission is $5 for
students and
children, $8 for all others. For more information,
contact
pufsc@princeton.edu or call 258-8404.
- Conference on Religious Chant
<Posted 04/05/2000 10:57>
The Center for the Study of Religion will sponsor
a conference, "Chant in World Religions: Modern
Perspectives on Traditional Practice," April 11-13
in Taplin Auditorium. Exploring the
diversity of chant traditions from a comparative perspective,
this event features lectures and demonstrations by experts who
will highlight the theory and especially the practice
of religious chant. The event is free and open to
the public. For a schedule and additional
information, please visit The Center for the Study of Religion
- Dr. King remembered
<Posted 04/04/2000 10:57>
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. on
April 4, 1968. Thirty-two years later, his vision and dream live on.
Come to the University Chapel today, April 4, at 4:30 p.m.
to hear recordings of two of his most famous speeches: "I Have a Dream"
and "Been to the Mountaintop," in addition to Bobby Kennedy's speech announcing the assassination. Contact USG President PJ Kim'01 at x8418 for more information.
- Internet pioneer to speak
<Posted 04/03/2000 17:15>
Internet pioneer John Little '80, the founder and CEO of Portal Software, Inc., will deliver the G.S. Beckwith Gilbert '63 Lecture on Wednesday, April 5 at 7 p.m. in McCosh 10. His lecture is titled "All I Needed to Know in Business I Learned at Princeton, or, After Fifteen Years, I'm an Overnight Success."
Portal, founded in 1985, evolved as one of the country's first Internet service providers. In 1996, the company introduced Infranet® software, a customer management and billing program designed specifically for the needs of the Internet and emerging communications service providers. Little's achievements prompted Forbes magazine to put him on the cover of a recent issue.
- Campus Volunteer Day
<Posted 04/03/2000 11:49>
Princeton University staff, faculty and students are invited to assist at non-profit community organizations during Campus Volunteer Day, April 8 from 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participating agencies include the Borough Housing Authority, Princeton Community Village, Stonybrook-Millstone Watershed Association, Princeton YWCA Nursery School, Princeton Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center and Princeton Nursery School.
For more information about the event and participating agencies, visit Office of Community and State Affairs. Campus Volunteer Day is sponsored by the Office of Community and State Affairs, and Community House.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski lecture
<Posted 03/31/2000 10:34>
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter (1977-81), will deliver the 2000 Cyril Black Memorial Lecture, "The Transformation of Russia" at Princeton University's Center of International Studies on Wednesday, April 12, at 4:30 p.m., in Room 101, McCormick Hall.
- South Asian Theatrics show
<Posted 03/31/2000 09:54>
Princeton South Asian Theatrics will present an original spring show, "Birds, Bees, & Biodata," on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1 at 8 p.m. at the Forbes Black Box Theater. Tickets are $5 at the door.
- Lecture on child soldiers
<Posted 03/31/2000 09:54>
Erin O'Brien, executive director of Soldier Child International, will give a talk entitled "Caution: Children at War - The International Problem of Child Soldiers" on April 4 at 8 p.m. in McCosh 46. O'Brien will speak about children who participate in armed conflicts throughout the world. Amnesty International is sponsoring this event, which is funded by a grant from the USG Projects Board and the Dean of Student Life.
- Taiwanese banquet
<Posted 03/31/2000 09:54>
The 2nd Annual Taiwanese-American Students Association Banquet will be held Friday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Whig Senate Chamber. There is a $10 fee for the Taiwanese cuisine. After the banquet, a dance featuring trance and hip-hop music will be held from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. in Chancellor Green Café. Both events are sponsored by the Dean of Student Life and Undergraduate Student Government.
- Young Curators exhibition
<Posted 03/31/2000 09:54>
Exhibits on the history of education curated by local children will be on display April 3-15 in the Cotsen Children's Library on the main floor of Firestone Library.
The first show, which runs April 3-7, features two exhibits: "Netting Poseidon's Knowledge: How Children Have Learned about the Sea" and "Learning Math: Changes Over Time." A second set of exhibits will be on display April 10-15 featuring: "A Typical School Day throughout Our Country's History," "The Tune of the Hickory Stick: The History of Punishment in American Schools," and "School Fads and Fashions: What Were You Thinking?"
Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday to Friday and noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free. For more information, call Bonnie Bernstein at 258-2697.
- Spirit of Princeton nominations
<Posted 03/31/2000 09:54>
The Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students is accepting nominations for the 5th annual Spirit of Princeton Awards. These awards will be given to undergraduates who have involved themselves in several facets of student life at Princeton University and have contributed to positive changes in those areas. Nominees are expected to come from groups with a strong tradition of involvement with the University community, but the awards particularly seek to recognize those whose contributions have gone unrecognized.
To nominate a student, submit the nominee's name with a description of the efforts he or she has made to improve life at Princeton by 5 p.m. April 17 to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, 313 West College. For more information, contact Thomas Dunne at 258-5750.
- Expressions dance performance
<Posted 03/31/2000 09:50>
Expressions Dance Company will perform a spring show in Wilson College's Blackbox Theater on Friday, March 31 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 1 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.
- Lecture on sprawl, race and poverty
<Posted 03/30/2000 13:41>
David Rusk, former mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, will speak on "Sprawl, Race and Concentrated Poverty: The New Jersey Story" 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5. The talk will take place in Bowl 1 of Robertson Hall. Rusk is a nationally recognized author and advocate for bringing cities and suburbs together. His lecture is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Isles, a Trenton-based community service organization. This event is free and open to the public.
- Talk on Confucianism and modern values
<Posted 03/30/2000 13:40>
East Asian Studies Professor Prof. Yu Ying-shih will speak about "Confucianism and Modern Values" at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5th in Bowl 5 of Robertson Hall. Refreshments will be served. This lecture is sponsored by the South East Asian Society.
- Asian Pacific American heritage month
<Posted 03/30/2000 13:35>
The opening ceremonies of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month will be held in Whig-Clio Hall from 6-8 p.m. on Saturday, April 1. The Pan-Asian Banquet will feature a short talk and Southeast Asian cuisine. This event is free and open to the public. For more information please go to Princeton.edu/~apahm or contact us at apahm@princeton
- Arch sing
<Posted 03/29/2000 17:15>
The Tigertones will host the Williams College Accidentals, an all-female a cappella group, in an arch sing 10 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29. The two groups will sing in the 1879 arch, near Prospect Street.
- Security expert to speak
<Posted 03/29/2000 12:22>
James B. Steinberg, deputy national security adviser to President Clinton, will speak on "Two Elections: Taiwan and Russia" at Princeton University's Center of International Studies on Tuesday, April 4, at 8 p.m., in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall. Steinberg will address the implications of the two elections for U.S. foreign policy.
- Grants deadline April 3
<Posted 03/27/2000 11:07>
Monday, April 3 at 5 p.m. is the deadline for Trustee Initiative proposals. Application packets are available at 313 West College. Proposals will be considered for programs planned for
the remainder of this Spring Term and the 2000 Fall Term.
Grants will be awarded to projects that address alcohol-related issues
on campus including: education, alcohol abuse, and social cultures
independent of alcohol-related activities. The Initiative funds are
available to all members of the University community.
For more information, please contact Thomas Dunne, Assistant Dean of
Undergraduate Students, at x5750 or via email at tdunne@princeton.edu
- Writer presents Tanner Lectures on Human Values
<Posted 03/27/2000 11:03>
Michael Ignatieff, the London-based writer, historian, and broadcaster will deliver the Tanner Lectures
on Human Values on April 5 and 6 at 4:30 p.m., at Helm Auditorium (McCosh 50). On April 5, Ignatieff will speak on "Human Rights as Politics." The lecture on April 6 is entitled "Human Rights as Idolatry."
Michael Ignatieff is the author of A Just Measure of Pain: Penitentiaries in the Industrial Revolution and The Needs of Strangers, an essay on the philosophy of human needs. He holds five honorary degrees and is currently serving as a member of the independent international commission on Kosovo.
The lectures are presented under the auspices of the University Center for Human Values. Both lectures will be followed by remarks from other scholars and a reception at Prospect House. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (609) 258-4798 or e-mail values@princeton.edu
- Talk on education, citizenship and service
<Posted 03/27/2000 11:02>
Dr. Badi Foster *74, director of the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs at Tufts University, will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 28 in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1. Dr. Foster's topic is university-community partnerships and Tuft's new initiative to provide all students with an education for active citizenship.
- GSG meeting to feature U-Council elections
<Posted 03/27/2000 10:53>
The Graduate Student Government Assembly
princeton.edu/~gsg will hold elections for next year's graduate student representatives to the Council of the Princeton University Community princeton.edu/~vp/cpuc on April 19, 6 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Office of Population Research.
There are five vacancies for elected positions for graduate students
on the U-Council for the academic year 2000-2001.
Graduate students interested in standing for
election should notify Jim Vere, GSG Representative Secretary, at gsg@princeton.edu and should plan to be present at the April 19th meeting.
- Seminar on workplace safety for women
<Posted 03/27/2000 10:40>
A Brown Bag Lunch Seminar will be held in the Senate Chamber of Whig Hall on Tuesday, April 4 from noon to 1 p.m. and again from 1 to 2 p.m. The seminar is entitled Safety: You and Your Workplace, and participants will learn about campus safety resources, sexual harassment services and more. This seminar is sponsored by The Standing Committee on the Status of Women. Questions about the Brown Bag Lunch Seminars and the Work/Life Task Force may be directed to Joyce Offery, chair of the task force, at 258-1430 or
joffery@princeton.edu
- Players present Tommy
<Posted 03/27/2000 10:12>
The Princeton University Players will present The Who's Tommy in Richardson Auditorium, March 31 at 8 p.m. and April 1 at 2 pm. and 8 p.m. Tickets are $6 for students, $10 for adults. Call 258-5000 for tickets and information.
- The Roaring 20 presents R2K
<Posted 03/24/2000 17:00>
The Roaring 20 a cappella group presents R2K, the first a cappella jam of the Millenium, March 25 at 8 p.m. Admission is $5 for students, $10 for adults. The jam features the Penn-Six 5000 and Bodyhype.
Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults.
- New Jersey Mayor to Speak
<Posted 03/23/2000 11:23>
Susan Bass Levin, the mayor of Cherry Hill, N.J., will speak on "Reinventing the Suburbs" on Monday, April 3 at 4:30 in Bowl 2 of Robertson Hall. This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School as part of the state and local government series.
- Former Inspector General of CIA to speak
<Posted 03/23/2000 10:11>
Frederick P. Hitz, former inspector general of the CIA,
will present the 1999-2000 John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. lecture
entitled "Washington Rejected: The Declining Appeal of U.S.
Government Service," at 4:30 p.m. on April 4 in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall. Hitz, who began his career with the CIA in the late 1960s, has won numerous awards for his service to the U.S. government, including the
Distinguished Intelligence Medal in 1998.
Hitz is a 1961 graduate of Princeton University and a Woodrow Wilson
School professor.
- Internet Entrepreneur to Speak
<Posted 03/23/2000 10:05>
Jared P. Schutz ’96, chairman and founder of Proflowers.com, and the
founder of numerous Internet businesses will speak on Tuesday, March 28
at 8 p.m. at Frist Campus Center, room 302. Schutz, who was named one of the top 10 young entrepreneurs by Success Magazine, served as executive director of Bluemountain.com, the popular electronic greeting card site, which was sold in 1999 for nearly a billion dollars.
- Comparative Literature Colloquium
<Posted 03/22/2000 12:15>
The Comparative Literature Department is presenting a colloquium on "Comparative Literature in Transnational Times" on March 23 and 24. For information and a schedule, visit
www.princeton.edu/~complit and click under "News and Events."
- Conference on African Artistic Expression
<Posted 03/22/2000 12:09>
A program on African Artistic Expression: Its Foundations and
Effects in the Diaspora and Pop Culture, is being held through March 25.
The program focuses on how African music, oral histories, dance, art,
and lyricism have been translated and adapted in the Diaspora to produce the sounds and visions of today.
The program features a talk by Professor Robert Thompson of Yale University on "New
York Mambo: Microcosm of Afro-Atlantic Creativity" on Wednesday, March 22 in LTL 003 at 4:30 p.m. It closes with Clyde Morgan and Sankofa Dance Troupe (SUNY Brockport) and Echoes d'Afrique (Princeton) at 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 25 in Wilcox Hall.
- Professor Harry Frankfurt to Speak
<Posted 03/20/2000 13:12>
Professor of Philosophy Harry G. Frankfurt, the Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professor for 1999-2000, will
deliver three public lectures on the theme "Some Thoughts about Norms, Love and the Goals of Life." His talks are entitled "How Should We Live?" (March 23), "Some Mysteries of Love," (March 28) and "The Dear Self" (March 30). All the lectures will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall.
The Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship is a national honor recognizing both distinguished achievement and potential contributions to public understanding of philosophy.
- Detroit Public Schools Chief to Speak
<Posted 03/20/2000 13:10>
David Adamany, chief executive officer of Detroit Public Schools, will speak on "Urban Education Reform" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, March 30, 2000 at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1. His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
- Rabbi Telushkin delivers Bowen lecture
<Posted 03/20/2000 11:18>
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin will present the William G. Bowen Lecture on "The 21st Century: A Jewish Vision, One Day at a Time" at 4:30 pm on March 27. Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Life, the lecture will take place in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Telushkin is the author of Jewish Literacy: The Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History and Biblical Literacy: The Most Important People, Events and Ideas of the Jewish Bible.
Following the lecture there will be a dedication of the Jewish heritage Video Collection, which includes feature films and documentaries on Jewish life and history. The reception will be held at 6:00 p.m. at the Center for Jewish Life.
- Speaker on Rwandan Genocide
<Posted 03/20/2000 10:01>
MacArthur Fellow Alison Des Forges, author of Leave None
to Tell The Story: Genocide in Rwanda, will speak on "Ignoring
Genocide: The International Community and Rwanda, 1994." The lecture
will be held Thursday, March 30, 2000 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 2 in
Robertson Hall, and is free and open to the public.
Des Forges directs research on Rwanda and Burundi for Human Rights
Watch. She serves as an expert witness to the International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda and has provided evidence to judicial authorities in
several countries. She has also assisted U.N. officials and others
investigating the Rwandan genocide.
- Economic Development Lecture
<Posted 03/14/2000 14:35>
Kei Hayashi, vice president for financing initiatives for the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC), will speak on "Economic Development: New York City Style" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, March 23 at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 5.
Hayashi, who earned a master of public affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School in 1992, assists businesses and not-for-profit organizations obtain financing for their capital needs through the issuance of Industrial Development Bonds. Before joining the EDC, she spent several years at New York Consulting Partners, a management consulting firm specializing in helping corporations streamline operations and cut costs. Her talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School as part of the state and local government series.
- "The Americas in the 21st Century": A Film and Lecture Presentation
<Posted 03/14/2000 14:31>
Eric P. Farnsworth, a senior adviser for international trade with the law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Phillips, and filmmaker Charles Krause will team up for a screening of "The Americas in the 21st' Century" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Wednesday, March 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium. Farnsworth and Krause are both alumni of the Woodrow Wilson School.
Farnsworth served as senior adviser to President Clinton's special envoy for the Americas, Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty and was instrumental in formulating and implementing the administration's Latin American policies. In his current post he continues to focus on Latin America.
Krause, an Emmy Award-winning former chief foreign correspondent for PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" has reported from Central and South America, Haiti, Cuba, the Philippines, Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Before joining the NewsHour in 1983, Krause was a Latin American correspondent for CBS News and South America bureau chief for The Washington Post. In 1978, Krause was the Washington Post correspondent who accompanied Congressman Leo Ryan to Jonestown and was among the jou
- Superior Court Judge to Speak on Police Profiling
<Posted 03/14/2000 14:20>
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Travis L. Francis will lecture on "Police Profiling: Walking the Legal Tightrope" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, March 27 at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
Judge Francis, who sits on the Middlesex County Criminal Court Bench, has held that post since 1992. He was previously a private practitioner in New Brunswick, NJ, where his practice included extensive criminal and civil litigation.His talk is being sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.
- State Health Administrator to Speak on "Insuring New Jersey's Families"
<Posted 03/14/2000 14:05>
Margaret A. Murray, director of the New Jersey's Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services, will speak on "Insuring New Jersey's Families: Choices and Trends" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, March 20, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
Murray, who earned a master's degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School in 1992, was formerly senior program analyst for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, where she specialized in health financing. Her talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Center for Health Care Strategies with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- 24th Annual Banff Festival of Mountain Films
<Posted 03/13/2000 12:00>
The Banff Mountain Film Festival brings short
films and documentaries on mountain adventure and mountain culture to
the Princeton campus on Tuesday, March 14 from 7 to 9 p.m. in McCosh 10.
Tickets are $8 for students, faculty and staff in advance. At the door,
tickets are $8 for students and $12 for faculty and staff. Tickets are
available at the Outdoor Action Office, 330 Alexander Road; and Blue
Ridge Mountain Sports in the Princeton Shopping Center. Proceeds provide
summer camper scholarships for local youth at the Princeton-Blairstown
Center summer camp program. The festival is sponsored by Outdoor Action, the Princeton-Blairstown Center and Blue Ridge Mountain Sports.
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- Diallo Verdict Prompts Student Rally Against Alleged Police Misconduct
<Posted 03/09/2000 11:20>
In the wake of the Amadou Diallo verdict, students from various campus groups plan to gather at
Firestone Plaza today at 1 p.m. to rally against alleged police misconduct, particularly the use of excessive force.
- 'Visions of Princeton' Survey Explores Undergraduates' Hopes for Future
<Posted 03/07/2000 10:10>
The Undergraduate Student Government is sponsoring an online survey of undergraduates concerning campus life. Called "Visions of Princeton," the survey poses questions about what students would like to preserve about campus life, what they would like to change and how. The survey runs until March 9 at midnight.
- Former Secretary of State James Baker III Speaking on "U.S. Relations with Russia"
<Posted 03/03/2000 16:30>
Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker III will speak on "U.S. Relations with Russia" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Friday, March 3, at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh 50.
The talk is being webcast at http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia.
Baker, a member of Princeton's Class of 1952, served in senior overnment positions under three presidents. As secretary of state during the Bush administration, he traveled to 90 foreign countries as the United States confronted the unprecedented challenges presented by the post Cold-War era. He ended his tenure in the Bush administration as White House chief of staff. He had previously served as the secretary of the treasury, chair of the President's Economic Council, and White House chief of staff during the Reagan administration, and as the undersecretary of commerce for the Ford administration.
Baker, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991, is currently a senior partner in the law firm of Baker & Botts, and honorary chairman of the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
- Consumer Activist and Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader to Speak
<Posted 03/03/2000 14:45>
Graduate Students for Local Activism (GSLA) and Students for Progressive Education and Action (SPEAC) present a talk by Ralph Nader '55, on Tuesday, March 7 at 4 p.m. in McCosh 50. Mr. Nader, a founder of the consumer rights movement, is running for President under the Green Party. His platform includes campaign finance reform, environmental protection and corporate accountability. For more information, visit http://www.princeton.edu/~gsla.
- Panel to Assess 'Thomas Wolfe's Place in Literary History'
<Posted 03/02/2000 19:30>
Professor of English William Howarth will moderate a panel discussion about Thomas Wolfe on March 6 at 4:30 p. m. in McCormick 101 at Princeton University. The panel is in conjunction with the current exhibition, "'The Story of a Novelist.' Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)," on display in the Leonard L. Milberg Gallery of the Graphic Arts in Firestone Library through April 9.
- 'Adlai Stevenson: The Man from Libertyville' to Screen on Campus
<Posted 03/02/2000 10:00>
The public is invited to attend a screening of 'Adlai Stevenson: The Man from Libertyville,' a PBS documentary that vividly chronicles the life of Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956. Produced by Andrew Schlesinger in 1989-1990 and narrated by Gregory Peck, this ninety-minute documentary is being shown as part of festivities marking the one hundredth anniversary of Stevenson's birth. The screening will take place on Thursday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Betts Auditorium at Princeton University's School of Architecture. The producer, who has won two Emmy Awards and a Writers Guild Award, will be present to talk about his work and answer questions from the audience.
- Russian Businessman to Address 'Russia at a Crossroads'
<Posted 02/29/2000 10:00>
Boris Berezovsky, a prominent and controversial Russian businessman, will
speak on Monday, March 6, at 4:30 p.m., in the Dodds Auditorium of
Robertson Hall. The title of his lecture will be: "Russia at a
Crossroads: The March 26 Presidential Elections and Beyond."
The holder of a Ph.D. in systems theory, Berezovsky heads a financial conglomerate
with interests in media, oil, metals, aviation and automobiles. He has served as executive secretary of the Commonwealth of
Independent States (after the dissolution of the Soviet Union) and as
deputy chief of Russia's Security Council under President Boris
Yeltsin. In December, Berezovsky was elected to the Russian
parliament from a district in the Northern Caucasus, near Chechnya.
The lecture is sponsored by the Center of International Relations and
the Russian Studies Program.
- Wilson College to Host Wild West Casino Night
<Posted 02/29/2000 09:50>
Wilson College will host a "Wild Wild West" Casino Night for all students on
Friday, March 3. Casino dwellers will enjoy food, drinks, "authentic"
western entertainment, and prizes for the most skilled gamblers. The action
will take place in Wilcox Dining Hall, from 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
More
information is available at the Wilson College and Casino Night web pages.
- Taekwondo Tournament on March 4 at Dillon Gym
<Posted 02/28/2000 14:00>
The Princeton Taekwondo Club will host its Fifth Annual Collegiate
Taekwondo Tournament on Saturday, March 4, from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Dillon Gymnasium.
The club will compete against opponents from the Ivy
League and the Northeast Collegiate Taekwondo League. The forms
competition will run from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., when team sparring begins. Admission is free.
For more
information, see the Taekwondo Club website.
- 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' to Be Performed March 2-4
<Posted 02/28/2000 10:35>
The Princeton University Orchestra and the Princeton Shakespeare Company present "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on March 2, 3 and 4 at Richardson Auditorium.
The program is conducted by Michael Pratt and directed by Thomas P. Roche. The production features over 100 actors, singers, dancers and musicians.
Performances will be March 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. and March 4 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale at the
Richardson box office at $15 for adults and $5 for students and children.
- 'Republic.com' Topic of Inaugural Program on Law and Public Affairs
<Posted 02/28/2000 10:15>
Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs will sponsor an inaugural event, "Republic.com: Television, the Internet, and the Public Interest" on Wednesday, March 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
The program will feature a talk by Cass Sunstein, Karl Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and Department of Political Science, as well as commentary by Robert Willig, Woodrow Wilson School Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton.
The Program in Law and Public Affairs seeks to promote the interdisciplinary study of law. It sponsors teaching, research, public
discussions and scholarly collaborations concerned with when and how legal systems, legal practices and legal concepts contribute to justice, order, individual well-being and the common good.
- International Festival to Begin February 25
<Posted 02/24/2000 22:20>
Princeton's International Festival will begin Friday, February 25, at 7:30 p.m. in McCosh 10. It will feature Ballet Forklorico, the Black Arts Company, the Mideastern Dance Troupe, the Ballroom Dance Club, and a presentation of Indian classical music with Pandit Kinnar Kumar Seen on the sitar and Manjul Bahargava on the tabla.
International snacks will be served immediately following the performances.
From 10 p.m. until 2 a.m., there will be a semiformal party organized by the International Students of Princeton in the basement of Chancellor Green.
For more information, call the International Center at 8-5006. Photos from previous International Festivals are posted at the International Festival website.
- CPUC to Discuss Wythes Committee Report at March 8 Meeting
<Posted 02/23/2000 10:30>
Members of the University community are encouraged to attend the next meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community, on March 8 at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium of Robertson Hall. The council will discuss the report of the Wythes Committee, which addresses long-range plans concerning undergraduate and graduate students, faculty
and staff, financial and physical resources, the Library, and distance
learning.
The meeting will feature a
discussion about the recommendations with Provost Jeremiah Ostriker, who has served as secretary to the Wythes Committee, and with
other senior administrators. All members of the University community are welcome.
A copy of the report is available online.
- Black Men's Appreciation Dinner Planned for February 25
<Posted 02/22/2000 11:00>
The National Council of Negro Women will host a Black Men's Appreciation Dinner on Friday, February 25, in Liberation Hall at the Third World Center.
All members of the community are welcome. Please register by e-mailing Laura Coates at lgcoates@princeton.edu.
- Bioethics Colloquium to Address Consent, Confidentiality, and Decision-Making
<Posted 02/22/2000 10:30>
The Princeton University Bioethics Forum will present its spring colloquium on "Choices and Voices: Consent, Confidentiality and Decision-Making Capability." The colloquium will take place on Friday, February 25, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. in McCosh 46.
Topics will include: protecting information obtained through genetic testing, conducting research on the mentally ill, and
weighing ethical and legal issues involved in the termination of treatment soon after an acute injury.
To register for the colloquium, please visit the Bioethics Forum website.
- Pride Alliance to Sponsor Semiformal Dance February 19
<Posted 02/18/2000 11:15>
The Pride Alliance presents "Matchmaker," a semiformal dance, Saturday, February 19, at 10 p.m. in the Chancellor Green Rotunda. The event is open to everyone and is free of charge for members of the University community.
For further information, please visit the Pride Alliance website.
- Table Tennis Club Organizes Campus Tournament for February 27
<Posted 02/18/2000 11:10>
The Table Tennis Club is organizing a campus tournament for Sunday, February 27, starting at noon. All students are invited to participate.
To register, e-mail puttc@princeton.edu. There will be a $2 entry fee. For further information, visit the Table Tennis Club website.
- Glee Club to Perform Bach's Mass in B-Minor
<Posted 02/17/2000 14:00>
The Princeton University Glee Club will perform Bach's Mass in B-Minor on Saturday, February 26, at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium.
Admission is $8 for students, $20 for all others.
For further information, visit the
Glee Club website.
- Artist Pepon Osorio to Give Lecture, Slide Presentation
<Posted 02/17/2000 12:00>
Artist Pepon Osorio will give a lecture and video presentation on Friday, February 25, at 4 p.m. in McCosh 10, Wood Auditorium.
Born in Puerto Rico, Osorio resides in New York City and works
in the South Bronx. His work has been shown at El Museo
del Barrio and the Ronald Feldman gallery in New York City, in museums
and galleries in San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia, as well as in
Paris, Madrid and Caracas. His work earned him a New York Dance and Performance Bessie award in 1985, an International Association of Art Critics Award in 1996, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1999.
This event was organized by graduate students affiliated with the Program in Latin American Studies.
- Israeli Diplomat to Address Developments in Syrian Peace Process
<Posted 02/17/2000 11:30>
The Princeton Israel Public Affairs Committee will sponsor a talk by Deputy Consul General Yosef Livne of Israel on recent developments in the Israeli-Syrian peace process. The event will February 24 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 2 of Robertson Hall.
For further information, e-mail pipac@princeton.edu.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Life, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and the Program in Jewish Studies.
- Congressman Holt to Participate in Public Forum at Stevenson February 20
<Posted 02/15/2000 17:00>
Congressman Rush Holt will discuss issues concerning women, ethnic minorities and new Americans during a public forum on Sunday, February 20, from 4 to 5 p.m. at Stevenson Hall, 83 Prospect Street.
Holt also will discuss the effects of census undercounting on municipalities, particularly regarding funding allocations for educational and service organizations.
The forum is open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Princeton University International Center and the Central New Jersey Chinese American Association. For further information, please call the International Center at 258-5006.
- Princeton Leadership Summit Planned February 19
<Posted 02/15/2000 12:00>
Students are invited to participate in the Princeton Leadership Summit on Saturday, February 19, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Registration will be at 11 a.m. in Auditorium 302, on the second floor of the Frist Campus Center. A continental breakfast will be provided, as well as refreshments throughout.
For more information, please contact Aime M. Scott at 8-9755 or amscott@princeton.edu.
- Art Museum to Host Celebration in Honor of African-American Artists Exhibit
<Posted 02/15/2000 09:50>
The Art Museum will host a celebration for the university community on
Saturday, February 19, from 7 to 9 p.m., in honor of the current
exibit, "Selections: Contemporary Art by African-American Artists."
Food and beverages will be served, and the Princeton University Jazz
Ensemble will perform. Admission is free with Princeton University ID.
The event is co-sponsored by the Third World Center. For further information, call 258-3762.
- Princeton University Players, Theatre Intime to Present 'Assassins'
<Posted 02/15/2000 09:45>
The Princeton University Players and Theatre Intime will present "Assassins," with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, February 24 through 26 and March 2 through 4.
The production, directed by Ben Beckley '02 and Clifford Sofield '02, will be performed at the Hamilton Murray Theatre at 8 p.m. on each date. In addition, there will be a 2 p.m. matinee on February 26.
- Seventh Annual Tribute to African-American Women February 17
<Posted 02/14/2000 08:30>
In celebration of Black History Month, all are invited to attend a dinner recognizing the accomplishments of African-American women. The celebration includes performances by student groups as well as a keynote address by Kathleen Smallwood Johnson, former president of
the Trenton Branch of the NAACP. The celebration begins at 7 p.m. in Liberation Hall at the Third World Center. For more information, contact Bridget Wright 8-8525 or Rodlescia Sneed 8-8910.
- Graduate College to Host Waltz Night with Live Orchestra February 19
<Posted 02/14/2000 08:30>
The Graduate College will host a Waltz Night with a live orchestra on Saturday, February 19, from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Procter Hall.
Free waltz lessons will be offered from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Chocolates and refreshments will be on hand prior to the dance. Semi-formal attire recommended. The event is free with a Princeton University ID, $5 for all others.
- Ballroom Dancing Club to Host Swing Night at Chancellor Green
<Posted 02/11/2000 10:20>
The Princeton Ballroom Dancing Club will hold a Swing Night on Saturday, February 12, in Chancellor Green, featuring music by the Crescent City Maulers.
The evening begins with a dance lesson at 9 p.m. The main event starts at 10 p.m. and includes a swing competition and a performance by the dancing club.
For further information, contact Christina Brown at clb@princeton.edu.
- International Center Seeks Nominees for Service Award
<Posted 02/11/2000 09:45>
The International Center solicits nominations for its International Service Award, presented annually to one or more students or to a student organization pursuing humanitarian endeavors.
Initiated in 1997, the award recognizes those who, while at Princeton, have promoted intercultural understanding among students and area residents or have assisted individuals or communities in other countries.
Please submit nominations by February 28 to Paula K. Chow at pchow@princeton.edu or to the International Center, 91 Prospect Avenue. Include the name(s), class and/or group affiliations of any nominees, as well as a supporting statement. Call the IC at (609) 258-5006 for more information.
Recipients will be recognized at Communiversity on April 15. The award is made possible through the generous support of the United Mom's Charity Association, a New Jersey non-profit organization.
- 'Time Out of Mind' to Showcase Student Readings, Faculty Talks
<Posted 02/11/2000 09:30>
"Time Out of Mind: A Millennium Show," directed by Emily Holland '01,
will be performed Saturday, February 12, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Prospect House. The performance features poetry and plays by students, as well as talks by faculty on the concept of time. Admission is free of charge.
- PMI Center Makes High-Performance Computers Available to Campus Users
<Posted 02/11/2000 09:30>
The Princeton Materials Institute has established a computational facility with funding from the Keck Foundation, the National Science Foundation and University sources. The center features state-of-the-art IBM SP and SGI Origin 2000 computers, each with 64 processors and 32 G-bytes of memory. Access to these high-performance computers is available to members of the University community at nominal cost. Contact Bill Wichser at bill@princeton.edu for further information.
- Brotherhood Sunday to Feature the Rev. Kenyatta R. Gilbert
<Posted 02/11/2000 09:20>
Brotherhood Sunday will be celebrated at the Hallelujah Service
on February 13 at 1 p.m. in the East Room of Murray-Dodge Hall.
The Rev. Kenyatta R. Gilbert, associate minister of the Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn, will be the preacher. All are welcome.
- Princeton Conservation Society Hosts Student Environmental Conference
<Posted 02/09/2000 10:00>
Princeton Conservation Society is hosting the second annual Greening of the Ivies Conference this weekend, February 11th-13th. The conference, which debuted last spring at Columbia, is a gathering of all of the ivy league student environmental groups and serves as a forum for the discussion of environmental issues on college campuses and in the world at large. This year, students are attending from Cornell, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Dartmouth.
All are welcome to attend the three plenary sessions on Saturday, February 12th featuring Princeton professor and conservation biologist Andy Dobson, green architect Tim Michels, and Dirty Jobs Campaign activist Rachel Heller. The conference is an opportunity to learn more about the environmental movement here on campus and share ideas with motivated activists from other universities.
For more information or to register, contact Liz Bernier at ebernier@princeton.edu or visit Princeton Conservation Society's website. You may also register for the conference on Friday evening from 5:30-7:30 in the hyphen of the Student Center.
- Community House to Host Study Break February 9
<Posted 02/08/2000 14:25>
Community House will host a study break on Wednesday, February 9, at 9 p.m. at Chancellor Green. Students and staff involved with Community House will be on hand to describe current service projects.
Community House provides educational, cultural and recreational programs to enrich, empower and renew the lives of underserved children and families in Princeton Borough and Township.
For further information, e-mail house@princeton.edu or call 8-6136. Students can sign up on-line at the Community House web site.
- Akwaaba to Host Celebration of African History, Culture
<Posted 02/08/2000 14:15>
Akwaaba invites members of the campus community to join in "Sankofa," a celebration of African history and culture, on Saturday, February 12, at 6 p.m. in Liberation Hall at the Third World Center.
The event will include vocal performances, dances by Echoes D'Afrique, and gourmet African cuisine. Obakunle Akinlana will offer a presentation rooted in the arts and folklore of the Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria.
- Standing Committee to Offer Seminar on Violent Behavior in the Workplace
<Posted 02/08/2000 10:30>
The Standing Committee on the Status of Women will sponsor a series of Brown Bag Lunch Seminars to be planned by its Work/Life Task Force. The first seminar, "Would You Know What to Do If Confronted By Threatening or Violent Behavior at Work?" will be presented in the Senate Chamber of Whig Hall on Tuesday, February 15, from noon to 1 p.m. and again from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Learn about University policy on workplace violence, how to recognize potentially threatening behavior, and how to deal with threatening or violent incidents. Presenters will include Fred Clarke, director of employee relations, labor relations and services in Human Resources; William Sanderson, Employee Assistance Program counselor in Human Resources, and Lieutenant Donald Reichling of Public Safety.
Information about the Work/Life Task Force and the Standing Committee on the Status of Women is available at the Standing Committee web site. Questions about the Brown Bag Lunch Seminars and the Work/Life Task Force also may be directed to Joyce Offery, chair of the task force, at 258-1430 or joffery@princeton.edu.
- @Princeton Courseware Offers View of Mandela's 'Life and Times'
<Posted 02/07/2000 17:10>
The newest course available through the Alumni Council's @princeton courseware program will be "The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela." Professor of Politics and International Affairs Jeffrey Herbst '83, who serves as director of the Council on Regional Studies and of the Program in African Studies, directs the course. In two online multimedia lectures, he reviews the modern history of South Africa and Nelson Mandela's uniquely successful dual role, first as a revolutionary fighting apartheid and then as leader of South African politics during his five year presidency, when he laid down a permanent constitutional structure for non-racial governance. Each lecture is divided into four parts. There will also be an email discussion group, moderated by Professor Herbst. There is no charge for the courseware.
The courseware requires the free Basic Real Player G2 or 7. A 56K modem is recommended as a minimum. Additional information and links are available on the @princeton courseware page.
The multimedia lectures are intended for members of the alumni and campus communities, but the audio portion is freely available to anyone, either in Real Audio or as downloadable mp3 files. To attend the multimedia course, register through the Alumni Council's online alumni community, TigerNet. For the audio-only version, go to the course page.
- Author Farai Chideya to Address Media Coverage of Social Issues
<Posted 02/07/2000 08:00>
Political analyst and writer Farai Chideya will speak on Thursday, February 10, at 7 p.m. at Dodds Auditorium. Chideya, author of "The Color of Our Future" and "Don't Believe the Hype," will discuss media coverage of complex social issues and suggest ways that citizens can better participate in media, government and society at large.
The event is part of Princeton's celebration of Black History Month.
- GSG to Sponsor 'Y2Kupid: A Valentine for the New Millennium' February 12
<Posted 02/07/2000 08:00>
On Saturday February 12, the Graduate Student Government will hold its
first annual semi-formal dance, "Y2Kupid: A Valentine for the New
Millennium," from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Stevenson Clubhouse at 83 Prospect Street.
The event will feature a live "Dating Game" show and the results of the infamous "Love Match Questionnaire." Graduate students over 21 and their guests are welcome.
- Black Arts Company Auditions Scheduled February 6 at Wilcox
<Posted 02/03/2000 19:00>
The Black Arts Company will host auditions Sunday, February 6, from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Wilson Dance Studio, Wilcox Hall. All are encouraged to try out, regardless of past dance experience.
Please wear comfortable clothing that will allow you to stretch. However, clothing should not be so baggy that we cannot observe your movements.
- Tigerlillies Plan Open House, Auditions
<Posted 02/03/2000 18:00>
The Princeton Tigerlilies will hold an informational open house on Sunday, February 6, from 9 to 11 p.m. in 1904 Henry Hall. Spring auditions will be February 7 to 9. Sign up for audition times at Woolworth.
- Chinese Students Association to Celebrate Year of the Dragon February 5
<Posted 02/03/2000 16:00>
The Chinese Students Association will celebrate the Year of the Dragon with a dinner banquet, dragon dance performances, and a DJ dance on Saturday, February 5. The banquet will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Whig Hall. The dragon dance performances will begin at 8:30 p.m. in Chancellor Green. The DJ dance will follow at 10 p.m.
Students interested in attending the banquet should e-mail csa@princeton.edu. The dragon dance
performances and the DJ dance party will be free for those with Princeton University ID.
- Band to Hold Open Rehearsal February 7
<Posted 02/03/2000 14:10>
The Princeton University Band will hold an open rehearsal on Monday, February 8, from 9 to 11 p.m. in the McAlpin rehearsal hall in the Woolworth music building. Musicians of any ability are welcome, including beginners and those interested in learning unique percussion instruments. New members will be able to participate in events immediately.
- Roaring 20 to Hold Spring Auditions February 7 to 9
<Posted 02/03/2000 14:00>
The Roaring 20 will hold spring auditions Monday, February 7, through Wednesday, February 9. All freshmen and sophomores are welcome to sign up in Woolworth Hall. Contact Adam Friedlander at adamf@princeton.edu
for more information.
- BodyHype Dance Company to Hold Auditions February 6
<Posted 02/02/2000 16:50>
BodyHype Dance Company will hold spring auditions Sunday, February 6,
from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Hagan Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street. Callbacks will be that evening from 8 to 10 p.m. All are encouraged to try out, regardless of past dance experience. Please note that black-soled shoes cannot be worn in the studio, but ballet shoes and socks are fine.
- Health Services Achieves Three-Year Reaccreditation
<Posted 02/02/2000 16:35>
Princeton University Health Services has been reaccredited for a full three years by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.
- 'Time Out of Mind' to Feature Poetry, Drama
<Posted 02/02/2000 08:00>
"Time Out of Mind: A Millennium Show," directed by Emily Holland '01, will take place on Saturday, February 12, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Prospect House. The event will feature poetry readings and plays by students, as well as talks by faculty on the concept of time. Admission is free of charge.
- Works by Contemporary African-American Artists on view at University Art Museum
<Posted 02/01/2000 16:00>
"Selections: Contemporary Art by African-American Artists," an exhibition of works in all media drawn primarily from the permanent collection, will be on view through March 5, 2000 at The Art Museum, Princeton University, in recognition of Black History Month.
- Centennial Exhibition at Firestone to Feature Writer Thomas Wolfe
<Posted 02/01/2000 15:30>
To honor the centennial of the birth of the writer Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), the Princeton University Library has mounted an exhibition, "The Story of a Novelist," which will open to the public in the Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts on the second floor of the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library on February 7.
- Black History Month to Open with February 4 Ceremony
<Posted 02/01/2000 14:30>
Princeton's observation of Black History Month will begin on Friday, February 4, at 6 p.m., with an opening ceremony and dinner at the Third World Center. The evening will feature the "Voices of Africa," a vocal and percussion ensemble performing a capella harmonies and African poly-rhythms. Professor Nell Irvin Painter and Alleda Flagg '00 will offer reflections. The event will feature original art by Jimi Karji Weah.
- Expressions Dance Company to Hold Auditions February 5
<Posted 02/01/2000 14:20>
Spring auditions for Expressions Dance Company will be held this
Saturday, February 5, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the dance studio at Dillon Gym.
- Legacy of Adlai Stevenson Explored in Centennial Exhibition at Firestone
<Posted 01/31/2000 13:40>
Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic party's nominee for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956, is the focus of a new exhibition at the Princeton University Library.
Entitled "A Voice of Conscience: The Legacy of Adlai Stevenson," the exhibition marks the one hundredth anniversary of Stevenson's birth and explores the life of a principled politician who, in the words of Alastair Cooke, "remains the liveliest reminder of our time that there are admirable reasons for failing to be president."
- South African Nationalism Before and After Mandela to Be Subject of Talk
<Posted 01/27/2000 17:00>
Anthony Marx, an associate professor of political science at Columbia University, will speak on "South African Nationalism Before and After Mandela" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, February 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
- South African Scholar to Speak on Nelson Mandela's Influence
<Posted 01/26/2000 12:35>
Professor Annette Seegers of the Political Studies Department of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, will give a talk titled "Madiba: How South African Political Scientists See President Mandela" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, February 3, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
- Lippincott and Friends in Concert at Graduate College
<Posted 01/26/2000 12:15>
The Graduate College will present "Joan Lippincott and Friends: A Concert for the Princeton Community" on Friday, February 4, at 8 p.m. at Procter Hall.
In addition to Lippincott, who is university organist, the concert will feature graduate students performing on piano, trumpet, computer, ocarina and clarinet.
Admission is free of charge. Program information and directions are available online at the Graduate College web site.
- Community House Seeks Nominations for Legacy of Service Award
<Posted 01/26/2000 11:50>
Community House, a community service organization committed to helping people in need in the Princeton Borough and Township communities, seeks nominations for its Legacy of Service Award.
- Director of Kuwait Information Office to Address Future of the Arab World
<Posted 01/26/2000 11:45>
Shafeeq Ghabra, director of the Kuwait Information Office, will speak on "Is the Arab World Coming in from the Cold War? Possibilities for Democratization" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, February 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
- Jordan's Ambassador to the U.S. to Speak on His Country's Future
<Posted 01/26/2000 11:40>
Ambassador Marwan Muasher, Jordan's ambassador to the United States, will speak on "Jordan's Political and Economic Challenges for the Millennium" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, February 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
- University Closes Due to Severe Winter Weather
<Posted 01/25/2000 11:45>
Princeton University has closed Tuesday, January 25, due to severe winter weather. The regular academic schedule is in effect.
Those employees designated critical and necessary have been asked to report to work at their regular times. Employees with alternate schedules are asked to call their supervisors.
Dining Services has posted a modified service schedule on its web page.
- Yegor Gaidar to Speak on Economic Reform in Russia
<Posted 01/21/2000 15:30>
On Tuesday, January 25, Yegor Gaidar, a prominent Russian economist-politician, will give a public lecture at 4:30 pm in 101 McCormick. The lecture, sponsored by the Russian Studies Program and the Center of International Studies, is entitled "Success or Failure: Russia's Grand Experiment in Economic Reforms." All are welcome.
- Large Format Prints of the 1960s and 1970s at Princeton
<Posted 01/21/2000 12:05>
"Transfer," an exhibition of large format prints of the 1960s and 1970s, will be on view at The Art Museum, Princeton University, through April 2, 2000. Acting Museum Director Peter C. Bunnell, David Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art, organized the exhibition with Hal Foster, professor of art and archaeology, Princeton University.
- Queen Noor of Jordan to Deliver Baccalaureate Address
<Posted 01/17/2000 11:30>
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, a member of the Princeton class of 1974, will deliver this year's Baccalaureate address. Baccalaureate, the interfaith worship service that marks the end of the school year, will take place on Sunday, May 28, in the University Chapel.
- Service of Recommitment to Honor Legacy of Martin Luther King
<Posted 01/14/2000 10:00>
A Service of Recommitment honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther
King Jr. will be held in the University Chapel on Sunday, January 16, at
11 a.m. The Rev. Dr. DeForest B. Soaries, N.J. Secretary of State and senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, N.J., will be guest preacher for the service.
All members of the community are invited to participate.
- LaPaugh to Become Master of Forbes College
<Posted 01/07/2000 10:00>
Professor of Computer Science Andrea S. LaPaugh will become master of Forbes College, effective July 1, 2000.
- Gospel Ensemble to Present 'Concert of Praise' on January 9
<Posted 01/06/2000 11:30>
The Princeton University Gospel Ensemble will present "A Concert of Praise" on Sunday, January 9, at 3 p.m. in Taplin Auditorium.
Admission is $5. Tickets are available at the Richardson box office.
The Regeneration Baha'i Youth Dance Company also will perform. Members of the campus community who are interested in presenting a 5- to 10- minute performance -- such as dancing, singing, or poetry reading -- as a part of the concert are invited to email puge@princeton.edu, or call Cindy Terlonge at 8-9824 by Friday, January 7.
- Student Groups Sponsor 'Celebration of Unity the New Millennium' on January 8
<Posted 01/06/2000 11:30>
The South Asian Students Association, the Hindu Students Council and
the Muslim Students Association cordially invite members of the community to attend "SAATH: A Celebration of Unity in the New Millennium," on Saturday, January 8, at 6:30 p.m. in Liberation Hall of the Third World Center.
The celebration will feature a South Asian dinner and entertainment. Tickets are $6. Seating is limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Frist Campus Center dedication, Oct. 20
<Posted 10/10/2000 08:45>
The University will welcome back volunteers and Anniversary Campaign donors Oct. 20 to dedicate the Frist Campus Center. The ceremony on 1879 Green begins at 11 a.m. and includes remarks by University President Harold T. Shapiro, architect Robert Venturi, Dr. Thomas F. Frist, Jr. and Senator William H. Frist.
- Traffic delays on Elm Drive
<Posted 06/09/2000 10:21>
There will be traffic delays on Elm Drive Thursday, June 8 through Wednesday, June 14, due to contruction on the water line there. Construction will begin at the crosswalk by West College and move south toward Faculty Road.
Flagmen will be working in the construction area.
- Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces
<Posted 03/13/2000 12:30>
The Tenth Annual Conference on Solid Films and
Surfaces will be held
July 9-13 at Princeton University. For information,
visit Princeton.edu/~pmi/ICSFS/
- Photos by Princeton Photography Club on Display at Woodrow Wilson School
<Posted 01/26/2000 11:40>
An exhibit of color and black-and-white photographs taken by the members of the Princeton Photography Club is on display at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, in Robertson Hall's Bernstein Gallery, through February 26.