• Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, Jan. 15
    <Posted 01/03/2001 15:16>
    The University will observe the birthday of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 15, with a tribute that will include a keynote address, a performance by a steel band and the presentation of awards to essay and poster contest winners from area schools. (For a list of award winners, click King).

    The program will begin at 1 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.

    Janet Smith Dickerson, the University's new vice president for campus life, will give the keynote address. The 50-member New York Daily News Carribeat CASYM Steel Orchestra, which performed to rave reviews at Princeton's 1999 King Day observance, will play again this year.

    "This is the University's official observance of Martin Luther King Day, and all members of the Princeton community are encouraged to attend," said Robert Durkee, vice president for public affairs. "Dr. King has left a living legacy that challenges us all to strive for a better world. Attending the tribute is a fitting way to honor this legacy."

  • Library hosts tours of Jewish-American writers exhibit, Feb. 3
    <Posted 01/31/2001 12:00>
    Exhibition tours of "Not For Myself Alone: Celebrating Jewish-American Writers" will be held in the main exhibition gallery of Firestone Library on the following Sundays at 3 p.m.: Feb. 3, March 3 and April 7. The exhibition will remain on view until April 21.

    Visit the library's Rare Books Special Collections site for more details on the exhibition.

  • John Darley elected president of the American Psychological Society
    <Posted 01/30/2001 14:06>
    John Darley, the Dorman T. Warren Professor of Psychology, has been elected president of the American Psychological Society. He will begin his one-year term in June.

    The society was founded in 1988 to promote, protect and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application and the improvement of human welfare. The society's nearly 15,000 members include the nation's foremost psychological scientists and academics.

  • "Art of the Print" featured at Art Museum
    <Posted 01/30/2001 11:22>
    The Art Museum presents an exhibition on "Great Impressions: The Art of the Print in the Western World," through March 19.

    Drawn from the collections of The Art Museum and Firestone Library, works in the exhibition were selected to represent a range both of major printmakers (mostly German, Italian, Netherlandish, and French) and of the primary printmaking techniques developed by the end of the eighteenth century.

    The Art Museum is open to the public without charge. Free highlights tours of the collection are given every Saturday at 2 p.m. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. It is closed on Mondays and major holidays.

    For further information, click on http://webware.Princeton.EDU/artmus/ or call (609) 258-3788.

  • Christopher Clarkson to speak on Kennicott Bible, Feb. 12
    <Posted 01/25/2001 12:13>
    Christopher Clarkson, an internationally renowned consultant on the care of medieval manuscripts and bindings, will speak on Monday, Feb. 12, at 5 p.m., in 101 McCormick Hall.

    The title of his lecture is "The Kennicott Bible. A Description of its Illumination and Conservation Problems."

    The Kennicott Bible was copied by the famous scribe Moses Ibn Zabara in 1476 at the commission of Isaac, the son of Don Solomon di Braga of La Coruņa in northwestern Spain. The illuminations were executed by Joseph ibn Hayyim, almost certainly a kinsman of Abraham ibn Hayyim, who composed a treatise on illumination in the 1460s. The manuscript -- a treasure of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England -- is housed in an extremely rare, highly decorated and contemporary morocco box binding.

    Mr. Clarkson will describe aspects of the Bible's parchment pages, text and illuminations as well as the construction of the box binding and of its conservation problems.

    For further information, contact Robert Milevski at (609)258-5591.

  • Alexander Nehamas is co-winner of Nietzsche Prize
    <Posted 01/24/2001 11:04>
    Alexander Nehamas, Edmund N. Carpenter II professor in the humanities and professor of philosophy and comparative literature, is co-winner of the Fifteenth International Nietzsche Prize.

    The Prize is awarded by the Associazione Internazionale di Studi e Ricerche Federico Nietzsche in recognition of overall intellectual accomplishment. Previous winners include the sociologist Henri Lefebvre, the novelist Roberto Calasso, the historian Eric Hobsbawm, and philosophers Emmanuel Levinas, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida, Sir Karl Popper and Richard Rorty.

    The award ceremony will be held in Palermo, Sicily on April 20, 2001.

  • Alexander Nehamas and Dimitri Gondicas honored by Academy of Athens
    <Posted 01/16/2001 11:59>
    Alexander Nehamas, the Edmund N. Carpenter II Professor in the Humanities and director of Princeton's Program in Hellenic Studies and Dimitri Gondicas, lecturer in Modern Greek and the program's executive director, were honored by the Academy of Athens for their scholarly achievements and the broad range of activities of the Program in Hellenic Studies.

    The award ceremony took place on Dec. 28 and was attended by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Kostis Stephanopoulos. The Academy of Athens,which has 65 permanent members, was founded in 1926 and is the country's highest educational and scientific institution.

  • Dance company celebrates 10 years with performances, Jan. 11-14
    <Posted 01/11/2001 13:52>
    BodyHype, Princeton's original jazz and hip-hop Dance Company will celebrate 10 years of innovative choreography and dance with its "Birthday Bash" performance at Theatre Intime.

    This year's show features music by D'Angelo, Bush, Destiny's Child, Madonna, and more, with a special live performance by The Rhythm Method.

    Show times are 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 11 and Friday, Jan. 12; 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 13; and 8 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 14.

    Prices are $6 with student ID and $8 for general admission. For more information visit BodyHype.

  • Physicist David Wilkinson wins James Craig Watson Medal
    <Posted 01/11/2001 12:52>
    The National Academy of Sciences has awarded Princeton physicist David T. Wilkinson its James Craig Watson Medal in recognition of his major contributions to the field of astronomy.

    Wilkinson, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, has been a central figure in measuring "cosmic background radiation," a faint after-glow of energy from the first moments after the Big Bang. Measuring and analyzing this radiation has become an important pursuit in astronomy and is expected to answer fundamental questions about the history and fate of the universe.

    In its award citation, the National Academy recognized Wilkinson not only for his direct contributions, but also for his mentoring of generations of students who have made significant advances in the same area.

    The James Craig Watson Medal is awarded once every three years and has been given since 1887. It includes a cash prize of $25,000. The award will be presented April 30 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., during the Academy's 138th annual meeting.

  • Amy Gutmann elected president of scholarly society
    <Posted 01/10/2001 17:23>
    Amy Gutmann, the Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Human Values, has been elected president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP).

    The society was founded in 1955 to foster discussion of issues in political and legal philosophy as they relate to the fields of law, philosophy, and the social sciences. It publishes NOMOS, a yearly collection of articles based on discussions at the society's annual meetings.

  • Middle Eastern Studies Association honors two Princetonians
    <Posted 01/05/2001 16:09>
    The Middle East Studies Association of North America has honored two recent graduate alumni for their dissertations.

    Samer S. Shehata, a politics student who received his Ph.D. last year, won the 2000 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the social sciences for his dissertation, "Plastic Sandals, Tea and Time: Shop Floor Politics and Culture in Egypt."

    Mohammed Shahab Ahmed received an honorable mention for the Kerr award in humanities for "The Satanic Verses Incident in the Memory of the Early Muslim Community: An Analysis of the Early Riwayahs and their Isnads." He received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies in November 1999.

  • Science on Saturday
    <Posted 01/03/2001 15:31>
    The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will offer a series of "Science on Saturday" talks this winter geared toward high school students but open to all.

    Students, teachers, parents and community members are invited to attend the free lectures, which begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Gottlieb Auditorium on the Forrestal Campus. The talks will be given by scientists, mathematicians and other professionals involved in cutting-edge research.

    For a schedule and additional information, call (609) 243-2121 or visit the Science on Saturday home page.

  • Library hosts tours of Jewish-American writers exhibit, Jan. 6
    <Posted 01/02/2001 12:00>
    Exhibition tours of "Not For Myself Alone: Celebrating Jewish-American Writers" will be held in the main exhibition gallery of Firestone Library on the following Sundays at 3 p.m.: Jan. 6, Feb. 3, March 3 and April 7. The exhibition will remain on view until April 21.

    Visit the library's Rare Books Special Collections site for more details on the exhibition.