The conference is intended to bring together public officials, notable scholars and interested citizens to reflect upon and debate the significance of the ideals of the Declaration of Independence as they relate to the challenges facing America today.

It will run from noon to 7 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

Giving plenary addresses will be: Steve Forbes, 1970 Princeton graduate and president and chief executive officer of Forbes Inc., on "Why Investors -- and Everyone -- Need Madisonian Restraint in Economic Policies" at 6 p.m. Friday; Jennifer Hochschild, professor of government at Harvard University, at 2 p.m. Saturday; and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer at 6 p.m. Saturday.

The conference will feature five panel discussions on issues such as "Equality in the 21st Century," "Rights of the Individual" and "Religion and the Concept of Divinely Endowed Rights."

The conference is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and the D&D Foundation. For more information, including a schedule of events, visit the conference Web site or call Seana Sugrue at 258-6333.

The panel will address how various publications are covering the U.S. campaign against terrorism, explain principles that have driven the coverage and survey the general media landscape since Sept. 11.

Participants will be: Steve Coll, managing editor of The Washington Post; Richard Starr, managing editor of The Weekly Standard; and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation and a 1981 Princeton graduate. The moderator will be Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

The panel is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Students for Informed Dialogue.

The program will include an address by Kushner, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning work "Angels in America," followed by a panel discussion.

The panelists will be: Emily Mann, artistic director of McCarter Theatre; Maria DiBattista, professor of English and comparative literature; Tamsen Wolff, instructor of English; and Michael Cadden, director of the Program in Theater and Dance.

Kushner's newest play, "Homebody/Kabul," opened in December at the New York Theatre Workshop. Completed before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the play tells the story of a middle-aged English woman -- a "homebody" -- who travels to Afghanistan in 1998 and mysteriously disappears.

Kushner's appearance is designated as a Farnum Lecture and is part of the University's Public Lectures Series.

The Princeton University Figure Skating Club will present its fifth annual spring show, "Skating for the Gold!," at Baker Rink on Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6. The shows will start at 8 p.m.

This year’s program is an Olympic-themed display of artistry, athleticism and fun. The members of the student-run club compete in both traditional U.S. Figure Skating Association competitions and East Coast collegiate competitions.

Admission is $5 with University identification and $7 for general admission. Tickets will be sold at the door. Visit the Figure Skating Club Web site or e-mail kslee@princeton.edu for more details.

The foundation is an archaeological and cultural preservation group in Wisconsin. A professional geologist and archaeoastronomer, Bender will discuss a giant human-like petroform effigy found at the Kolterman earthen effigy mound site in Wisconsin. The petroform is a mirror image of the constellation Scorpius.

Petroforms are purposeful arrangements of rocks into various shapes, including circles, lines, animals and humans. The one at the Kolterman site is thought to date to the Archaic Period, approximately 4,000 years ago -- much earlier than the earthen effigies that surround it.

Recent field surveys indicate that there are many more petroforms at the site than were previously thought to exist. An article on Bender's discoveries will appear this summer in Astronomy magazine. For more information, contact Norman Muller in the University Art Museum at 258-5211.

"Sex and Sensibility" is a two-act dramatic comedy that examines sexuality in South Asian culture, intergenerational tensions and interracial relationships.

Princeton South Asian Theatrics is the first South Asian student theater group in the country. Each year, the group writes and produces original plays for performance at Princeton University and other venues throughout the nation.

Tickets are $5 each. For more information, send an e-mail to psat@princeton.edu.

Frank Santos, hypnotist and comedian, will headline a show on Saturday, April 6, in McCosh 10. Donnell Rawlings, a prominent comedian from New York, will open the show at 11 p.m.

The Class of 2003 and the Trustee Initiative on Alcohol Abuse, in an effort to provide higher quality alternatives to alcohol-related activities, are bringing the evening of humor to campus.

Doors will open for members of the Class of 2003 at 10:30 p.m. Other members of the University community with identification will be admitted at 10:50 p.m. After the show, free pizza and beverages will be distributed in McCosh Courtyard.

For more information, contact Courtney Coleman at 986-8392.

Princeton Against Cancer Together presents "Cancer Awareness Week: Research, Remembrance and Reaching Out," Monday, April 1, through Friday, April 5. All events are open to the public.

The events are planned as follows:

• Monday, April 1:
  Commemorative painting, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the 100 level of Frist
  Throughout the week, you may dedicate a space in memory of a loved one or friend affected by cancer on a commemorative painting called "Becoming Light." The painting will be permanently displayed in Frist.
   
• Tuesday, April 2:
  Blair Arch sing, 10:30 p.m.
  Members of campus a cappella groups will provide brief comments and dedicate songs to family members and friends touched by cancer.
   
• Wednesday, April 3:
  Panel discussion with President Shirley M. Tilghman, 7:30 p.m. at Prospect House.
  Tilghman will lead a panel discussion to celebrate Princeton's role in the fight against cancer. A reception will follow.
   
• Thursday, April 4:
  Remembrance Service, 7:30 p.m. at the University Chapel.
  A "Becoming Light" candlelight vigil will take place on the steps of the University Chapel with Shere Khan. A reception in Murry-Dodge will follow.
   
• Friday, April 5:
  Guest speaker Nancy Healy, 4:30 p.m. in 307 Frist.
  Healey, co-director of the Breast Cancer Resource Center of the YWCA Princeton and the co-chair of The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation New Jersey Race for the Cure, will speak about her struggle with breast cancer and offer suggestions on ways the community can offer assistance.
  
  Performance by Leslie Nuchow, 8:30 p.m. in the Colonial Club Coffeehouse.
  Lilith Fair musician Leslie Nuchow will perform and speak about how she started Virginia SLAM!, an organization committed to exposing corporate deception and exploitation. Leslie is a Brooklyn, New York-based singer/songwriter and activist. Refreshments will be served.

This event is sponsored by The Venture Fund, USG Projects Board, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, The Genomics Institute, the department of Molecular Biology, Health Professions Advising, the Anthropology Department, Princeton Against Cancer Together, Organization of Women Leaders, and The Pride Alliance.

"Chicago" is based on a 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins. It premiered on Broadway in 1975 and was revived in 1996, receiving rave reviews and seven Tony Awards. A story of "murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery," Chicago follows Roxie Hart's rise into the public eye as she is arrested and tried for the murder of her lover, Fred Casely.

The musical is a senior thesis production for director and choreographer Amanda Brandes '02. It features the singing and dancing talents of members of Sympoh, BodyHype, diSiac and several a cappella groups. The production also features the final undergraduate performances of Princeton theater veterans Devin Sidell '02, Elizabeth Greenberg '02 and Rakesh Satyal '02.

Admission is $6 for students, $10 for faculty and staff, and $12 for general admission. Students may also redeem "student events eligible" tickets from the Passport to the Arts program for free admission. To order tickets, call the Frist Ticket Office at 258-1742.

Lee Silver, professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton, will present the scientific perspective on the beginning of life and its implications for scientific and medical research.

Thomas Breidenthal, Dean of Religious Life at Princeton, will offer the various bioethical views that emerge from different lines of reasoning in Christian ethics and doctrine.

Nigel Cameron, senior fellow and chair of the International Advisory Board for the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, will conclude the lecture by discussing how theology and ethics can guide public policy decisions concerning biotechnology and the beginning of life.

Two concerts are planned in conjunction with the conference: "Venetian Extravaganza" at 8 p.m. Thursday in Richardson Auditorium; and "Capricious Idolatries" at 8 p.m. Friday in Taplin Auditorium.

The society is an international scholarly organization devoted to the study and performance of 17th-century music. This year's conference, with a special focus on Venetian topics, will include presentations by scholars from Europe and the United States, including a cross-disciplinary panel with members of the Princeton Art History and Archaeology Department.

Thursday's concert, "Venetian Extravaganza," will feature vocal and instrumental music of the 17th century. Friday's concert, "Capricious Idolatries," will include music and dance performed by Princeton students and community members.

For further information, visit the conference Web site or contact Wendy Heller at 258-1906.

The conference is sponsored by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, the Department of Music, the Program in Italian Studies, and the Dorothea van Dyke McLean Association.

Bridget Welsh, professor of political science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, will deliver the address, which is part of the Southeast Asia Lecture Series. Welsh grew up in Malaysia and earned her doctorate from Columbia University. She specializes in state formation, elections and parties, and politics in Malaysia.

The lecture is sponsored by the Center of International Studies, the Department of Politics, the Council on Regional Studies, the Southeast Asia Students Organization, Foreign Policy in Focus and the International Center.

Katz's research focuses on issues in the general areas of labor economics and the economics of social problems, as well as the patterns and determinants of recent changes in the U.S. wage structure and rising labor market inequality in a historical and international comparative context.

The committee he chaired sought to raise the wages of lower-paid employees at Harvard. Its final report, issued last December, recommended that Harvard raise pay, establish a parity wage and benefits policy to govern on-site contractors, and adopt a strengthened code of conduct for service contractors. It also called for the university to issue strong statements about workplace norms and expectations, to standardize mechanisms to ensure comprehensive supervisory training about the fair and proper treatment of employees, and to promote policies to protect the legal rights of on-campus employees.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Sheikh, who studied under Emmet Gowin and graduated from Princeton in 1987, has focused his work on refugees in Africa. Most recently, he sought out communities of Afghanis displaced by the civil war.

Sheikh's work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, the Princeton University Art Museum and the National Museum of Kenya.

This lecture is sponsored by the Program in Visual Arts.

Leighton founded Akamai in 1998 with Danny Lewin and a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists and business professionals. The company is a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. Its customers include Yahoo!, Monster.com and MSNBC.com.

"Akamai is an unusual environment that blends theory and practice," Leighton said. "I will discuss some of the technical challenges involved in operating a network of thousands of content servers across multiple geographies on behalf of thousands of customers."

He added that his talk will be introductory in nature and should appeal to a broad audience. Leighton graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT.

The Gordon Wu Distinguished Lecture was created in 1993 by the School of Engineering and Applied Science to recognize outstanding achievements and accomplishments of alumni and friends.

Moore works closely with Gallup's polling partners, CNN and USA Today, to design questionnaires to be used in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. He regularly writes analytical articles for the Gallup Poll Web site and the Gallup Poll Monthly. In addition, he is the senior analyst on the monthly survey of investors, The Index of Investor Optimism, sponsored by UBS/Paine Webber. He is the author of the 1992 book "The Superpollsters: How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America."

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Princeton Survey Research Center and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics.

Romero, a 1987 graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, became the ACLU's sixth executive director last September. A former Ford Foundation executive and public interest attorney, he is the first Latino and openly gay man to take the helm of the organization.

Romero joined the Ford Foundation in 1992 as a program officer. Within four years, he was promoted to become one of the youngest directors in Ford's history. Until last fall, he was the director of human rights and international cooperation, leading the foundation's largest program. Under his guidance, the foundation launched groundbreaking grant-making initiatives to address issues including affirmative action, voting rights and redistricting, immigrants' rights, women's rights, reproductive freedom, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.

The film "Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear Shadow" will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in McCosh 62. It will be followed by a discussion with the film's director, Pervez Hoodbhoy.

Made in Pakistan in early 2001, this 35-minute documentary takes a critical look at nuclear South Asia after May 1998, when India and Pakistan blasted their way onto the world stage as nuclear weapons states. Senior Indian and Pakistani military leaders assess the consequences of nuclear testing in South Asia and the possibility of war. Heads of Islamic militant groups explain the hopes they have for the bomb and why they believe it strengthens Islam. Leading peace activists explain why nuclear South Asia is spiraling into instability, an arms race, deepening poverty and an ever-greater threat of nuclear war.

Hoodbhoy is a professor of nuclear and high-energy physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He is one of Pakistan's leading scientists and a prominent progressive public intellectual.

As founder of the Science Education Group, he has produced and directed two major Pakistan television series on popular science -- the first ever Urdu-language television science documentary programs -- and another series on the crisis of education in Pakistan. He is a regular contributor to the Pakistani press and appears frequently on television there and in other countries.

Hoodbhoy is author of "Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality" (1992) and editor of "Education and the State: 50 Years of Pakistan" (1998) for the special Oxford University Press series "50 Years of Pakistan".

The event is sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Organizing Committee. For more information, contact Taufiq Rahim.

William Galston, professor of public affairs and director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, will deliver the Alpheus Mason Lecture in Constitutional Law and Political Thought. A reception will follow.

Galston is a political theorist who both studies and participates in American politics and domestic policy. He was deputy assistant to President Clinton during the first two years of his administration. He also was executive director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal chaired by Sam Nunn and William Bennett.

A founding member of the board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Galston has chaired the campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values. He is the author of "Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues and Diversity in the Liberal State."

The event is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

Panelists will include professors and varsity team coaches. This event is organized by the Wilson College residential community advisors. Food will be served.

A diverse panel of students, faculty and activists will discuss the status of the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza with emphasis on possible solutions for peace and an end to bloodshed in the region. Panels will include representation from the Princeton Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Princeton Committee for Palestine, the Princeton Peace Network, the Princeton Committee Against Terrorism, as well as Whig-Clio itself. The discussion will be followed by an opportunity for audience input and questions.

The American Whig-Cliosophic Society is Princeton's oldest student organization and the nation's oldest political, literary, and debating society. All are invited. Refreshments will be served.

The award is given by the International Center with the support of the United Mom's Charity Association, a local non-profit organization that aims to promote the spirit of charity and assist those in need. It will be presented on Saturday, April 27, during Communiversity, an annual town-gown endeavor.

Former recipients include the Association for India's Development (1998), which informed Princetonians through conferences and talks on specific development projects; Princeton-Belize Partnership (1999), which provided assistance to residents in Belize's Laguna and St. Margarite; and Ann Ellis '01, who founded a school and a community center in Kibera, Kenya.

Nominations can be submitted on-line at intlctr@princteon.edu. Be certain to include name(s), class year and a brief description of the individual's or organization's accomplishments. Nominations can also be mailed to: International Center, 243 Frist Campus Center. For further information, call 258-5006.

While impact on the undergraduate community serves as the primary focus, additional contribution to the larger community will be considered in evaluating proposals.

Click here to download an application. Proposals should be sent to Assistant Dean Thomas Dunne, 313 West College, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students. For more information, call 258-5750.

"Ndeysaan," which means "The Price of Forgiveness," will have its U.S. premiere at the New York African Film Festival six days before it is shown in Princeton. The film is in Wolof, which is spoken in Senegal, with English subtitles. Wade will introduce the film and participate in a discussion immediately following the screening.

The event is sponsored by the Committee for Film Studies. For more information, contact Rachel Gabara at 258-6127.

Sila Maria Calderón, governor of Puerto Rico, will present a public lecture titled "Puerto Rico: Looking Ahead" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

Calderón was inaugurated as the first female governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in January 2001, following a three-year term as the mayor of the capital city of San Juan. She began her career in government in the early 1970s, serving as executive aide to the labor secretary, special aide to the governor of Puerto Rico in charge of economic development and labor, chief of staff for the governor, secretary of government and secretary of state.

Calderón left the public sector in 1990 and served on several corporate and foundation boards. From 1990 to 1995, she was in charge of a community effort that involved the private and public sectors in the social and economic rehabilitation of one of San Juan's poorest areas.

The lecture is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Latin American Studies. It is free and open to the public.

Segev is known for his several histories of Israel: "1949: The First Israelis" (1986); "The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust" (1993), and "One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate" (2001). He is acknowledged as a major voice among Israel's so-called "new historians." His most recent work, "Elvis in Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel," will be published in May.

This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Jewish Studies.

Michael Oppenheimer and David Wilcove will give the keynote address at the "Approaches to Environmentalism Conference" at 8 p.m. Friday, April 12, in McCosh 50. The conference will close with a tour of Terhune Orchards in Lawrence Township at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14.

The conference is organized in celebration of Earth Week. Speakers will address the way the term "environmentalism" can apply to a wide variety of people and professions.

Oppenheimer and Wilcove, both formerly of Environmental Defense, will discuss "Can a Scientist be an Activist . . . and Vice Versa?"

Events also include a dinner with artist-in-residence Lynne Cherry and a talk by Dean of Religious Life Thomas Breidenthal on Saturday. For a complete schedule, visit the conference Web site.

For more information, contact Lauren Siciliano at 986-8273, Helen Luban at 986-8226 or Rebecca Jones at 986-7812. This event is sponsored by Princeton Environmental Action and the Princeton Conservation Society.

Calderón was inaugurated as the first female governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in January 2001, following a three-year term as mayor of the capital city of San Juan. She began her career in the Puerto Rican government in the early 1970s, serving as executive aide to the labor secretary, special aide to the governor for economic development and labor, chief of staff for the governor, secretary of government and secretary of state.

Calderón left the public sector in 1990 and served on several corporate and foundation boards. From 1990 to 1995, she was in charge of a community effort that involved the private and public sectors in the social and economic rehabilitation of one of San Juan's poorest areas.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Latin American Studies.

"Binds" is written and directed by Frankie Ng. It is a story about three women ghosts trapped in a toilet on the third floor of St. Nicholas Girls' Secondary School in Singapore. Caught between God and Satan, Buddha and Mara, destiny and nothing, they struggle to remember their pasts and to come to terms with how they are bound by forces of society, religion and fate.

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased by calling the Frist Ticket Office at 258-1742 or e-mail Xiuhui Lim.

This event is sponsored by the Third World Center, SHARE, Department of East Asian Studies, International Center, Department of Anthropology and the Department of English.

A DVD-based virtual tour of Rome will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 12, in 101 McCormick.

Dott Furlan will present the tour, which explores Rome through time using three-dimensional modeling. Representations of Imperial Rome and 19th-century Rome that have almost disappeared are recreated and can be magnified, examined and printed. The modeling was reviewed by archaeologists and university faculty for historic accuracy.

For more information, visit the Educational Technologies Center Web page or call Douglas Blair at 258-5816.

Expressions is Princeton's oldest dance company and only all-female dance group. Founded in 1970, the members of Expressions are known for their extensive dance training. The group is entirely student-run and performs both student and guest choreography. The dancers in Expressions hail from a variety of dance backgrounds, and several have danced professionally.

"Ex-static" features music by Janet Jackson, Outkast, Beck, Portishead, Aaliyah, Soft Cell, the Beatles, Angie Martinez, Radiohead and others. The show is comprised of an eclectic mix of styles, including ballet, pointe, modern, tap, jazz and hip-hop.

Tickets are $6 for students, $10 for non-students. Students may use their Passport to the Arts tickets. This performance is sponsored by the USG Projects Board.

Guest speakers will include Valerie Ackerman, president of the Women's National Basketball Association; Geraldine Laybourne, chairman and chief executive officer of Oxygen Media; Michaela Walsh, founder and executive director of Women's World Bank; Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities; Janet Dickerson, vice president for campus life; Nancy Lublin, founder and chief executive officer of Dress for Success; Deborah Nord, director of the Program in the Study of Women and Gen der; Bonnie Reitz, senior vice president of sales and distribution for Continental Airlines.

The conference will provide the opportunity for feminists to discuss, network and learn from a wealth of experience. Through a wide range of panels, debates an d discussions, the organization aims to broaden the perspective of every woman at the conference.

The organization will also present the "Reclaiming the OWL" award to one woman in each of 15 fields in recognition of her role as a pioneer.

The conference is sponsored by the Organization of Women Leaders. For more information or to register for the free catered dinner, visit their conference Web site.

This performance of Duke Ellington's collection of religious and spiritual music will also feature a tap dancer and a modern dance group. The musicians and dancers will be under the direction of Anthony D.J. Branker. The pe r formance is this year's Milbank Memorial Concert and is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Penna Rose at 258-3654.

A jury of administrators, students, architects and professors will select prize winners from among 13 semi-finalists' entries. The semi-finalists include undergraduate and graduate students, as well as alumni. An open discussion regarding the future development will be h eld from 4 to 4:30.

The new four-year residential college, to be named Whitman College, will be built on the site of the tennis courts south of Dillon Gymnasium. The competition challenged members of the University community to help envision ways in w hich Whitman College can be designed and operated.

For more information, visit the Prospects02 Web page or contact Harris Ford.

This event is sponsored by Office of Vice President for Campus Life, Office of Vice President and Secretary, Office of the Vice President for Facilities, School of Architecture and Wilson College.

Author and poet Michael Ondaatje will read from his work in a program at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, in McCosh 50.

Ondaatje won the Booker Prize, England's highest honor for fiction, in 1992 for "The English Patient," which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film. He also has won Canada's Governor General's Award and the Canada-Australia Prize.

His other works include a memoir of his childhood, "Running in the Family"; a collection of poetry, "There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning To Do"; and several novels, "Anil's Ghost," "In the Skin of the Lion" and "Coming Through Slaughter." He has taught for many years at York University in Toronto.

The reading is sponsored by the Canadian studies program and the Council of the Humanities.

A lecture on "Challenges for Women: Political and Economic Decision-Making" is set for Monday, April 15, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.

June Zeitlin, executive director of the Women's Environment and Development Organization, will speak at 4:30 p.m.

A women's rights advocate for more than 25 years, Zeitlin joined the organization as executive director in 1999. She previously worked at the Ford Foundation, where she oversaw work on women's rights in the United States and expanded its global work on women's issues. While at the foundation, she developed a program examining the integration of gender, work and family and the need for institutional change.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice.

The Engineering Council Teaching Awards will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, in the Friend Center convocation room.

The teaching awards are presented each semester to professors and teaching assistants in undergraduate engineering, mathematics and physics courses. The awards are a student-run event. Professors are selected based on their ability to present course material in a clear and effective manner, their use of innovative and creative teaching methods, their concern for student learning, and their responsiveness to student concerns.

President Shirley M. Tilghman and Dean James Wei will present the awards to this semester's winners:

• Clarence Rowley - MAE433
• Kyle Vanderlick - CHE245
• Ed Zschau - ELE491
• Bob Dondero - COS217
• Leonard Pease - CHE 345
• Koray Simsek - ORF311

Refreshments will be provided after the ceremony. This event is sponsored by the the Engineering Council and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Gifford Miller, a 1992 Princeton graduate who is speaker of the New York City Council, will present the Priscilla Glickman/Ivy Club Lecture at 8 p.m. Monday, April 15, in 104 Computer Science Building.

His address, titled "From Princeton Senior to Speaker of the New York City Council in 10 Years," will be followed by a reception at the Ivy Club, 43 Prospect Ave.

Miller first won a seat on the city council in 1996. He was elected speaker in January 2002, replacing Peter Vallone. The job is considered by many the second most powerful position in the city.

John Efron, a historian of science at Indiana University, will present two lectures on campus the week of April 15.

Efron is an associate professor of history and associate director of Jewish studies at Indiana. He conducts research on the relations between medicine and Jewish identity.

On Monday, April 15, he will speak on "Medicine, Modernity and the German Jews" at 4:30 p.m. in 211 Dickinson. On Tuesday, April 16, he will discuss "Orientalism and the Jewish Historical Gaze" at noon in 210 Dickinson.

Efron is a Stewart Fellow in Jewish Studies under the auspices of Princeton's Council of the Humanities. His lectures are being coordinated by the Program in Jewish Studies.

June Zeitlin, executive director of Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), will present a lecture on “Challenges for Women: Political and Economic Decision-Making,” at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.

Zeitlin has been a women's rights advocate for more than 25 years. She joined WEDO as executive director in 1999, following more than a decade of service at the Ford Foundation where she oversaw work on women's rights in the United States and expanded its global work on women's issues. While at the foundation, she developed a program examining the integration of gender, work and family and the need for institutional change.

The talk is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, president of the League of Women Voters, will speak on "The League of Women Voters and Election Reform" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

Jefferson-Jenkins was elected president of the League of Women Voters and chair of the League of Women Voters Education Fund in 1994. She is the first woman of African-American descent to head the organization. In her second term as president, she has placed a high priority on issues such as increased citizen participation in the electoral process, campaign finance reform, voting and health care. She leads the education and advocacy efforts of the league on public policy issues while also working to encourage women and ethnic minorities to run for public office.

Jefferson-Jenkins is a recognized authority on the voting rights of African Americans and is the author of "The Road to Black Suffrage" and "One Man One Vote: The History of the African-American Vote in the United States."

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and offered in conjunction with an undergraduate task force on "Designing American Electoral Reform."

Peter Singer, the Ira De Camp Professor of Bioethics at the Center for Human Values, will give a lecture on the topic “What Can We Do to Help Children in Developing Countries?” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16 in McCosh 10.

Singer is the author of “Animal Liberation,” “Practical Ethics” and “Writings on an Ethical Life.” Following the speech, there will be a question and answer session. The event is hosted by P-UNICEF.

P-UNICEF is a student organization affiliated with UNICEF that helps raise awareness of the plight of children in developing and war-torn nations and raises money for the U.S. fund for UNICEF.

Kallistos is the Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies (Emeritus) at Oxford and one of the leading spokesmen of the Orthodox Church.

Bishop Kallistos' two major works, "The Orthodox Church" (1963) and "The Orthodox Way" (1979), have served as introductions to the faith for generations of Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike. He has also co-translated a number of important liturgical works into English and has contributed numerous chapters in books. His articles have appeared in countless religious and historical journals throughout the world. The first volume (of an anticipated eight) of his collected works was recently published under the title "The Inner Kingdom."

The lecture honors Father Georges Florovsky, eminent Orthodox theologian who taught in four University departments and later at the Princeton Theological Seminary, until his death in 1979.

The event is sponsored by the Orthodox Christian Fellowship and the Orthodox Chapel of the Transfiguration at Princeton. The lecture is free and open to the general public.

The Princeton University Wind Ensemble will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a spring concert at 8 p.m. Friday, April 19, in Richardson Auditorium.

The group will perform Shostakovich's "Festive Overture," a fast-paced Russian piece; Whitacre's "Ghost Train," which musically portrays a train moving through forgotten towns and canyons; Bennett's "Suite of Old American Dances," which gives the impression of an electric carnival; and "Capriccio Espagnol," a collection of Spanish dances.

The 60-member ensemble is a student-run organization that is affiliated with the music department. For more information, contact the ensemble.

Representatives from three advocacy groups will present a panel discussion titled “Backlash: Discrimination Facing the Asian Pacific American Community After 9/11” on Wednesday, April 17. The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. in 302 Frist.

The panelists will be Nicholas Rathod of South Asian American Leaders for Tomorrow, June Han of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium and Joshua Salaam of the Council on American Islamic Relations. These three organizations have led calls for the government to further explore the hate crimes committed against South Asians and Muslims after Sept. 11, as well as to re-evaluate its own policies to prevent racial profiling and discrimination.

The event is presented as part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebration. For more information, contact Taufiq Rahim.

"Government Deception and the Constitutional Right of Access to the Courts" is the title of a talk to be presented at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.

The speaker will be Harry Litman, who served as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 1998 to 2001. During his tenure, he launched and directed a number of law-enforcement initiatives while overseeing a 20 percent increase in federal prosecutions and personally litigating cases in both the district court and the court of appeals.

Presently an attorney with the firm of Phillips and Cohen of Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, Litman also serves as executive counsel for KidsVoice, a Pittsburgh-based child advocacy organization.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Law and Public Affairs.

Ji-Kwang, a Korean Buddhist Zen master, will address "The Self as a Storehouse of Images: The Principle of Buddhist Visualization Meditation" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, in McCosh 64.

Ji-Kwang founded Neuning Seonwon, the largest Buddhist Zen center in Seoul. Ji-Kwang also teaches at Dong-Guk University and is known for charismatic explanations of dharma (the cosmic order) and the power of human imagination.

There will be a brief meditation session during the talk. Admission is free, and a vegetarian dinner will be served afterward.

The event is sponsored by the Department of Religion East Asian Studies Program. For more information, contact Lorraine Fuhrmann at 273-1555.

T.J. Clark, the George and Helen Pardee Professor of Art History at the University of California-Berkeley, will deliver the Tanner Lectures on Human Values on Wednesday and Thursday, April 17-18, in 101 Friend Center.

The theme of his lectures, which begin at 4:30 p.m., will be "Painting at Ground Level." He will explore the uniquely human phenomenon of standing upright, and how painters use bipedalism to explore the pleasures, weaknesses and ambiguities of human existence.

Four specially invited scholars will deliver commentaries following each lecture. The discussants for Wednesday’s lecture, titled "Poussin’s Mad Pursuit," will be Elizabeth Cropper, dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, and Richard Wollheim, professor of philosophy at Berkeley. The commentators following the second lecture, titled "Bruegel in the Land of Cockaigne," will be Svetlana Alpers, professor emerita of the history of art at Berkeley and visiting research professor at New York University, and David Freedberg, professor of art history at Columbia University.

The lectures are sponsored by the University Center for Human Values. Each will be followed by a reception at Prospect House. For more information, call 258-4798 or e-mail the center.

Joseph Bosco, an attorney and adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, will speak on “Crisis and Commitment: U.S. Foreign Policy in the China-Taiwan Strait” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, at Whig Hall Senate Chamber.

Bosco practices international, commercial and government contracts law in Washington, D.C. He served as one of the international observers of Taiwan’s 2000 presidential election and has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on China policy.

His lecture is sponsored by the Taiwanese-American Students Association, the Department of Politics and the Department of East Asian Studies.

Two legal scholars will debate "Should the U.S. Revoke John Walker's Citizenship?" at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber.

Walker is the 21-year-old American who went from Marin County, Calif., to a Mazar-i-Sharif prison after being captured fighting for the Taliban.

Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, will take the position that Walker can and should be stripped of his citizenship. Squaring off with Turley will be J.M. Spectar, a former law professor and current director of studies at Princeton's Rockefeller College.

The debate is sponsored by the Ivy Leaguers for Freedom, the Princeton Committee Against Terrorism, and the Center for New Black Leadership. It is supported by funding from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, and the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board.

For more information, contact Eric Wang at 986-7648.

Two legal scholars will debate "Should the U.S. Revoke John Walker's Citizenship?" at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber.

Walker is the 21-year-old American who went from Marin County, Calif., to a Mazar-i-Sharif prison after being captured fighting for the Taliban.

Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, will take the position that Walker can and should be stripped of his citizenship. Squaring off with Turley will be J.M. Spectar, a former law professor and current director of studies at Princeton's Rockefeller College.

The debate is sponsored by the Ivy Leaguers for Freedom, the Princeton Committee Against Terrorism, and the Center for New Black Leadership. It is supported by funding from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, and the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board.

For more information, contact Eric Wang at 986-7648.

Two legal scholars will debate "Should the U.S. Revoke John Walker's Citizenship?" at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber.

Walker is the 21-year-old American who went from Marin County, Calif., to a Mazar-i-Sharif prison after being captured fighting for the Taliban.

Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, will take the position that Walker can and should be stripped of his citizenship. Squaring off with Turley will be J.M. Spectar, a former law professor and current director of studies at Princeton's Rockefeller College.

The debate is sponsored by the Ivy Leaguers for Freedom, the Princeton Committee Against Terrorism, and the Center for New Black Leadership. It is supported by funding from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, and the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board.

For more information, contact Eric Wang at 986-7648.

Two men who were convicted of murder and later exonerated, along with the daughter of a murder victim, will discuss their perspectives on the death penalty on Wednesday, April 17. The event, which is sponsored by the Princeton University chapter of Amnesty International, begins at 8 p.m. in McCosh 50.

The three lecturers are speaking on behalf of New Jerseyans for a Death Penalty Moratorium. Jimmy Landano was convicted of the murder of a police officer and later exonerated and released. George White was wounded by his wife's murderer but was then taken into custody and convicted of the crime. He eventually was exonerated and released. SueZann Bolser was nearly killed trying to defend her father from his attacker, but she launched a campaign against the execution of her father's murderer.

For more information, contact Katharine Roberts at 986-7814.

Yom Ha'atzmaut is the official day of celebration in honor of the anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. The day's events at the center will include a barbeque and a performance by Rich Recht. Recht is a prominent Jewish musician and recently released a new album entitled "Tov."

The performance is free and open to the Princeton community. The dinner is free to upperclass and graduate students, and $ 10.95 for others.

The Yom Ha' atzamaut festivities are part of a weeklong series of events entitled "Absolute CJL Week." For more information, contact Kate Lester at 258-2288 or visit the Center for Jewish Life Web site.

Stanley Katz, a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history, will present a lecture titled "The Just University" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall. He is expected to address the importance of morality and justice in higher education.

Katz is director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, faculty chair of the undergraduate program and lecturer with the rank of professor at the Woodrow Wilson School. His current research focuses upon the relationship of constitutionalism and civil society, both in the United States and in emerging democracies around the world. He also serves as president of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Two legal scholars will debate "Should the U.S. Revoke John Walker's Citizenship?" at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber.

Walker is the 21-year-old American who went from Marin County, Calif., to a Mazar-i-Sharif prison after being captured fighting for the Taliban.

Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, will take the position that Walker can and should be stripped of his citizenship. Squaring off with Turley will be J.M. Spectar, a former law professor and current director of studies at Princeton's Rockefeller College.

The debate is sponsored by the Ivy Leaguers for Freedom, the Princeton Committee Against Terrorism, and the Center for New Black Leadership. It is supported by funding from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, and the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board.

For more information, contact Eric Wang at 986-7648.

An unusual concert of "reactionary" music, with performances of world premieres and classic repertoire, is planned for Thursday, April 18.

Titled "For Every Action There is a Reaction," the free event will begin at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.

It will feature four second-year Ph.D. candidates who are required to present a concert as part of their general examination -- a crucial step towards the achievement of the final degree. Each candidate has selected an existing work and composed a musical response to it.

Works by John Dowland, Johannes Brahms, Leos Janacek and Steve Reich have served as the principal inspiration for the program. The "responses" have been composed by Randall Bauer, Brooke Joyce, Tae Hong Park and Sharon Zhu. Performers will include the Brentano String Quartet, pianist Margaret Kampmeier and the Princeton Chapel Choir.

For their spring performance, diSiac Dance Company will present "Voyeur: Dance Like No One's Watching…" on April 18-20. The shows will take place at 8 p.m. Thursday, 6:30 and 9 p.m. Friday, and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday in Frist Film/Performance Theater.

Drawing on the student dancers' diverse backgrounds, the troupe performs in a variety of styles, from jazz to modern to hip hop.

Tickets are $6 with University identification, $10 for general admission and free with Passport to the Arts. For reservations call 258-1742 or stop by the Frist Campus Center booth.

Comics Jay Mohr and Tracy Morgan will headline a show presented by the Undergraduate Student Government on Thursday, April 18. The production, entitled "Thursday Night Live," begins at 10 p.m. in Dillon Gym.

Mohr has appeared in several television shows and movies, including "Saturday Night Live" and "Jerry Maguire." Tracy Morgan has been a repertory player on "Saturday Night Live" since 1996. New York comedian Robert Kelly will be the host. The show is intended for mature audiences.

University identification holders can purchase general admission ticket for $14, with a limit of four tickets per identification holder, at the Frist Ticket Office.

The Princeton Conservation Society will host the sixth annual "Run for the Tiger," starting at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 20, from Forbes College.

Each year, runners and walkers show their support for endangered tigers by participating in the 5- and 10-kilometer walk/run. Donations go to the Princeton Save the Tiger Campaign's work to preserve tiger habitats in Asia. The campaign is a class of 1976 project.

Advance registration forms are available online or participants can register at the event beginning 2 p.m. in the Forbes foyer. For more information, contact Brooke Kelsey Jack at 986 8767.

Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel Laureate in Literature, will visit Princeton's campus Monday through Thursday, April 15-18. As part of his stay here, Heaney will give a public reading and a lecture at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.

During his visit to Princeton, which is sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies, the Program in Creative Writing and the Council of the Humanities Heaney will meet informally with faculty and students.

He will also deliver the 11th Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture in Hellenic Studies at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in McCosh 50. The title of his address is "'Hellenize It': Poets, Poems, Predicaments in Greece and Ireland."

In addition, an exhibition in the Firestone Library lobby has been organized in connection with Heaney's visit. Titled "Seamus Heaney: An Irish Poet in Greece," it will be on display until April 30.

Heaney is currently the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard University and has previously held academic appointments at the universities of Dublin and Oxford.

He has made repeated visits to Greece. His most recent volume of verse, "Electric Light" (2001), includes several poems in which Heaney draws on his observation of the modern Greek society and people, as well as on his knowledge of classical Greek literature.

An abstract of Heaney's talk proposes that "Greece and Ireland have much in common: two nations with ancient mythologies and interrupted histories; two nations that achieved independence through the growth of romantic nationalism, both political and cultural; two nations where a prophetic or at least a public role is always available to the poet." The abstract states that Heaney "will consider the parallel situation of the Greek and Irish poet in modern times and talk about some representative achievements."

Heaney received the Nobel Prize for his "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." His many volumes of verse include "Death of a Naturalist" (1966), "North" (1975), "Field Work" (1979), "Station Island" (1984) and "Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996" (1999). He also has published numerous translations, including "Beowulf: A New Verse Translation" (2000), as well as books of literary criticism and essays.

The Ridley Scott film "Black Hawk Down" will be shown at 11:15 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 18-20, in Frist Film/Performance Theater.

The gritty film tells the story of 123 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord. Their plans turn awry when they find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

The film is presented by the University Film Organization. Tickets are $3 and available at the Frist ticket office two hours before show time.

For more information, contact at 986-8407.

A conference titled "Seen and Heard: The Place of the Child in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1850" is scheduled for Thursday through Saturday, April 18-20, in the Convocation Room/Staff Lounge at the Engineering Quadrangle.

Sponsored by the Cotsen Children's Library, the event will feature 17 internationally-recognized scholars exploring how the figure of the child -- and actual children -- were central to the articulation of important philosophical, political, religious and cultural aspirations in early modern Europe. Topics that will be addressed include innocence, socialization, the acquisition of knowledge and innovations in teaching, as well as the consideration of children's status, experience and activities.

Sessions will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Registration at the door is $35 ($15 for students). For more information, contact Eric Johnson at 258-1148. Visit the conference Web site for program information and abstracts of the papers.

"In Government We Trust?" is the topic to be debated at the University's annual Symposium on New Jersey Issues Friday, April 19.

The event will run from 8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. It is open to the public free of charge, but registration is required.

The symposium will feature a panel of legislators who respond to the comments made by a panel of non-elected officials with diverse academic and professional expertise in government.

Sponsored by the Office of Community and State Affairs and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the symposium focuses on topics of interest to New Jersey legislators. Persons interested in attending may register by e-mail or fax at 258-1294.

In the 24 years that she ran a biology lab, Shirley Tilghman had a tradition of sending off departing members with a gathering and dinner.

Now, as Tilghman prepares to close her lab to devote all her time to the presidency of Princeton, it is her lab's turn to do the same for her.

Scientists who worked and received training in Tilghman's lab will gather on Friday, April 19, for a symposium in honor of their mentor. It is titled "Exploring Genes to Genomes: The Scientific Legacy of Shirley Caldwell Tilghman." About 70 former graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and technical staff members will reflect on the influence she has had both on their own scientific careers and on the field of biology.

"It's going to be really exciting to be all together at one time," said Laurie Jo Kurihara, who has been a postdoctoral researcher in the lab since 1995 and helped organize the event.

Participants will represent Tilghman's lab through all her scientific and career development, starting from 1978 when she first opened her own lab as an assistant professor in the Temple University School of Medicine. Before coming to Princeton in 1986, Tilghman ran a lab at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia.

The nine people scheduled to speak at the symposium are scientists whose work is still focused on mouse development and gene regulation, which have been Tilghman's main areas of interest, said Kurihara. Among them will be one of Tilghman's mentors, Phillip Leder, with whom she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health and who is now at the Harvard University School of Medicine.

The speakers will give scientific descriptions of their current work and reflect on how it has been influenced by their time in Tilghman's lab, said Kurihara. The talks, which will begin at 8:45 a.m. in 003 Lewis Thomas Lab, will be open to the public, although seating will be limited.

Following the symposium, the lab members will gather for a private reunion dinner. It will be an opportunity, said Kurihara, for lab members to meet others whose work preceded or followed their own and to put the scientific developments in a personal context.

In some cases, people working in the lab became intimately familiar with the work and scientific papers of their predecessors without ever having met them. "Questions that were active in the lab 10 and 15 years ago are, in some aspect, still being studied," she said.

Planning for the symposium began shortly after Tilghman was appointed president last May. "Right away we thought, 'What a fantastic opportunity,' but for us in the lab it also meant the end of an era," said Kurihara.

The other organizers of the event are Tamara Caspary, a former graduate student now at the Sloan Kettering Institute, and Robert Ingram, who is Tilghman's lab manager and has worked with her for all 24 years. The symposium is sponsored and supported by the Department of Molecular Biology.

Fifteen recent South Asian documentaries will be shown April 18-20 in Friend Center rooms 108, 109 and 110. The screenings begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and at 5 p.m. Saturday.

The documentaries are among the best non-fiction films from the 2001 Film South Asia festival. All films are in English or subtitled in English. Free samosas will be served.

The film festival is sponsored by the Council on Regional Studies and the International Center. For a description of the films and a film schedule, visit the South Asian Students Association Web site.

A conference on "Urban Diaspora: The City in Jewish History" will take place Wednesday through Friday, April 17-19, on campus.

Focusing on the enduring significance of the city as the locus of Jewish experience, the conference will provide an opportunity to explore new ways of taking history beyond the political frontiers of nation and empire. The primary goal is to use specific urban settings to enable discussion of broader issues, including economic restructuring, social mobility, and intellectual and cultural interchange.

Kenneth Jackson, the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University and a commentator on the PBS series "New York: A Documentary Film," will present the keynote lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in 101 McCormick. Jackson, who teaches a legendary course on the history of New York, will speak on "Jewish Metropolis: The Past and Future of New York City."

Sessions will run from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday and from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday in Bobst Hall. Click here to see a complete schedule.

The conference is being sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies, Ronald Perelman Institute, Shelby Collum Davis Center for Historical Studies, Eberhard Faber IV Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture Fund and School of Architecture. For more information, call 258-0394 or e-mail the Program in Jewish Studies.

The Princeton Singers, under the direction of Artistic Director Steven Sametz, will present a variety of choral music at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at the Princeton University Art Museum.

The program, presented in conjunction with the museum's special exhibition "Anthony van Dyck: Ecce Homo and The Mocking of Christ," will reflect the music of the early 17th century, when Van Dyck created his masterpieces, as well as demonstrating the singers' stylistic flexibility and range of repertoire.

The American venue for the exhibition which is made possible through support from the Friends of Princeton University Art Museum. For more information on this event and other exhibitions, click here.

John Taylor, undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, will present a lecture titled “Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction and Foreign Aid: The New Agenda” at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.

Prior to his appointment at the U.S. Treasury, Taylor served as the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He currently is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers and the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, which advises the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census.

A 1968 Princeton economics graduate, he also has taught at Princeton, Yale and Columbia. The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Research Program in Development Studies.

John Taylor, undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, will present a lecture titled "Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction and Foreign Aid: The New Agenda" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.

Prior to his appointment at the U.S. Treasury, Taylor served as the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He currently is a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers and the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, which advises the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census.

A 1968 Princeton economics graduate, he also has taught at Princeton, Yale and Columbia. The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Research Program in Development Studies.

Greengard will speak on "The Neurobiology of Synaptic Transmission" at 4 p.m. in the Friend Center Auditorium.

Greengard is the Vincent Astor Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at Rockefeller University. He shared the Nobel Prize for his discovery of how dopamine and a number of other transmitters in the brain exert their action in the nervous system. His research has provided a conceptual framework for understanding how the nervous system functions at the molecular level.

A lecture on "State Formation, State Reformation: Deciphering Decentralization in the Philippines and Thailand" will be presented on campus Monday, April 22.

Paul Hutchcroft, assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 2, Robertson Hall. This event was rescheduled from March 25.

Hutchcroft is a specialist in Southeast Asian politics and a foremost scholar of Philippine political economy. His publications include "Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines" (Cornell University Press, 1998) and numerous articles on political economy and state formation in the Philippines. He has been an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy of Area and International Studies and a Fulbright scholar.

The talk is sponsored by the Center of International Studies, the Department of Politics, the Council on Regional Studies, the Southeast Asia Students Organization, Foreign Policy in Focus and the International Center.

Architect Michael Graves will present a lecture titled "Telling Stories" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, in McCosh 10.

Graves, the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture Emeritus, joined the Princeton faculty in 1962. Over the next four decades, he built an international reputation as an architect and designer. His designs, from office buildings to single-family homes, have been credited with introducing historical and contextual themes into modern architecture. His designs for furniture and household items, now sold in national retail stores, have helped bring a higher level of design to everyday objects.

Graves is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, which awarded him its highest honor, the AIA Gold Medal, in 2001. His talk is designated as a Stafford Little Lecture and is part of the University's Public Lectures Series. It will be Webcast live on this site.

A seminar on "The Five Fundamentals of Successful Wealth Accumulation" is set for Tuesday, April 23, in Frist Multipurpose Room C. There will be two sessions: from noon to 1 p.m.; and from 1 to 2 p.m.

David Bailin, chartered financial consultant and chartered life underwriter, will lead a discussion of the basic rules one should follow in making investment decisions in all markets, utilizing principles of the 1990 Nobel Prize-winning Modern Portfolio Theory. Participants will learn how to get higher returns without taking significant risks. The seminar is intended as a primer not only for those beginning to manage investment portfolios, but also for those who are approaching retirement and wondering how to invest their funds.

Those planning to attend are encouraged to e-mail their questions in advance. The seminar is sponsored by the Work-Life Task Force of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women.

Barton Gellman, one of the eight journalists on The Washington Post's national reporting team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Sept. 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism, will speak on campus Tuesday, April 23.

Gellman, a 1982 Princeton graduate who is a Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Council of the Humanities, will speak on "The War on Terror Before Sept. 11: What Were Clinton and Bush Doing?" at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.

A special projects reporter in the New York bureau of the Post, Gellman recently completed a series of articles on the efforts of the government in the war against terrorism prior to Sept. 11. He previously served at the Post as a diplomatic correspondent, Jerusalem bureau chief, Pentagon correspondent and local courthouse reporter. He has received numerous professional awards, including twice being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 for beat reporting and again in 2000 for public service.

Gellman is the author of "Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power" (Praeger, 1984). He graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which is sponsoring the talk, and earned a master's degree in politics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

Dipesh Chakrabarty will give a talk entitled 'Democracy, Discipline and the Politics of the Multitude' at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, in McCosh 40.

Chakrabarty is a professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of Chicago. A reception in McCosh 20 will follow his talk.

The event is sponsored by the Department of English and the Council of the Humanities. For more information, contact Jennifer Houle at 258-4061.

Felten received a bachelor's degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology. He then attended the University of Washington, where he earned both a master's degree and a doctorate in computer science and engineering. He has been on the faculty of Princeton's computer science department since 1993.

Felton is spending the 2001-2002 academic year on sabbatical leave at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, working on a book about the impact of the law on technology. His lecture will provide a layperson's introduction to cryptography, using examples from everyday life.

This event is part of the 2002 Evenin Lecture Series and sponsored by the Council on Science and Technology.

Hoffman joined the Washington Post staff in 1982. After covering the Reagan and Bush presidencies as a White House correspondent, he served as diplomatic and Jerusalem correspondent and then moved to Russia to head the Post's Moscow bureau from 1995 through 2001.

Hoffman's talk is based on his book of the same name.

This event is sponsored by Russian Studies and the Liechtenstein Institute for Self-Determination.

Harold Pachios, chair of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, will speak on "Influencing Foreign Public Opinion -- America's Role" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.

Pachios, a 1959 Princeton politics graduate, became a member of the commission in 1993, and was designated chair by President Clinton in 1999. The commission is responsible for assessing public diplomacy policies and programs of the U.S. State Department, American missions abroad and other agencies.

A practicing attorney in the Portland, Maine, law firm of Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, Pachios & Haley, he previously has served as deputy congressional liaison for the Peace Corps and associate White House press secretary. He chaired Maine's Democratic Party for four years.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Elizabeth McAlister will present a lecture entitled, “Vodou Spirits, Rara Queens and Small Men: Gender, Vulgarity and Slavery in Afro-Creole Religion” at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in 302 Frist Campus Center.

McAlister is a professor in the Department of Religion at Wesleyan University. Her lecture will be based upon her recent book and CD entitled "Rara: Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora" and will address the unique blend of music, religion and politics that is found in Haitian culture, focusing specifically upon the vulgarity that is often found in Vodou songs.

Joan Dayan will offer a critical response, which will be followed by audience discussion. Dayan, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, specializes in Caribbean studies; 19th-century American, French and English literary history; and the comparative legal and religious history of the Americas. She is also the author of several books devoted to the history and religion of the Caribbean and has held fellowships from the DuBois Institute at Harvard, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center in Princeton’s Department of History, and the Program in Law and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School.

The lecture is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and is part of the center’s ongoing project on Women and Religion in the African Diaspora, which is funded by the Ford Foundation. Further information can by contacting the center at 258-5545.

A lecture on "The New World Politics: Great Power Peace and Terrorism" is set for 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

Robert Jervis, the Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, will deliver the 2001-02 Klaus Knorr Memorial Lecture.

Jervis, a highly regarded scholar of international relations, is the author of more than 80 publications, including "System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life" (1997), for which he shared the 1998 award of the American Political Science Association for the best book in political psychology, and "The Meaning of Nuclear Revolution" (1990), which was awarded the Grawemeyer Award for the book with the best ideas for improving world order.

Jervis is the co-editor of a book series on security affairs published by Cornell University Press and serves on the editorial boards of nine scholarly journals. He was the president of the American Political Science Association in 2000-01.

The lecture is sponsored by the Research Program in International Security and the Center of International Studies.

Kavita Ramdas, president and chief executive officer of the Global Fund for Women, will discuss "Philanthropy for Change: Investing in Grassroots Women" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.

The Global Fund for Women is a San Francisco-based grantmaking foundation supporting women's human rights organizations around the world that address issues such as economic independence, increasing girls' access to education and stopping violence against women.

Ramdas received the Women's Funding Network award in 1999 for "Changing the Face of Philanthropy" in recognition of her philanthropic leadership. Before joining the Global Fund, Ramdas spent eight years working on issues of U.S. poverty and economic development as well as international population concerns as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago.

Ramdas earned a master's degree in international development and public policy studies from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and currently is a member of the school's advisory council. Her lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.

The event will feature authentic Southeast Asian food and a traditional Malaysian dance performance. The dinner and performance are open to the public. Ethnic wear is welcome.

Dinner is $ 5 each with a University identification or $10 each for others. RSVP here.

"Indulge," a charity fashion show benefiting breast cancer research, will take place at 9 p.m. Thursday, April 25, on Frist Lawn.

"Indulge" is a University-wide charity fashion show that will feature Princeton students modeling fashions from Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica, Laundry, Miss Sixty, Bisou Bisou, Laundry, ENYCE and others. Guest performers include dancers from BodyHype, Expressions and Sympoh, as well as the a capella singing group Shere Khan and a belly dancing troupe.

Clothing donated by Banana Republic and other brands will be raffled and auctioned, and food will be provided.

The cost of admission will be $7 for students and $10 for general admission. The show is sponsored by Forbes College, the Asian American Students Association, PACT, the Graduate School and the Department of Music. For further information, contact Vivian Weng at 986-7061.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected four Princeton faculty members as new fellows in 2002.

They are: Douglas Arnold, the William Church Osborn Professor of Public Affairs; Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History; Alan Krueger, the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1976, and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor in Economics and Public Affairs; and Thomas Shenk, the James Elkins Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology.

The academy is one of the nation’s most distinguished learned societies and research institutions. Election to it is the result of "a highly competitive process that recognizes those who have made pre-eminent contributions to all scholarly fields and professions," according to the organization. The Princeton faculty members are among 177 fellows and 30 foreign honorary members elected this year.

Jerry Price has been promoted to associate director of athletics/director of athletic communications.

"I am delighted to announce Jerry Price's appointment," said Director of Athletics Gary Walters. "Jerry possesses a complete combination of skills. He is an outstanding writer, he has tremendous experience in all facets related to the job and has a clear vision for sustaining and enhancing the excellent performance of his department."

Price has worked in Princeton's Office of Athletic Communications for eight years, serving as its primary media relations representative. Prior to his arrival at Princeton, he covered Princeton athletics for 11 years at both The Times of Trenton and the Princeton Packet. He has also served as a broadcaster of Princeton football, basketball and lacrosse for the past 13 years.

Price is a 1985 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a native of Manalapan, N.J.

He replaces Kurt Kehl, who left Princeton after 13 years to become director of communications for the Washington Capitals, a National Hockey League team.

Joyce Carol Oates has been selected by the Tulsa Library Trust as recipient of the 2002 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. She will receive a $25,000 cash prize and an engraved crystal book. The award, which was announced Tuesday, will be presented in Tulsa in December.

Oates, the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, has written several novels, including the recent "Faithless: Tales of Transgression" (2001). She also has written poetry, drama and literary criticism.

The library trust has given out the Helmerich award annually since 1985. Past winners include Toni Morrison, the Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton, as well as Margaret Atwood, John Hope Franklin, Oliver Sacks, Norman Mailer, Neil Simon and Eudora Welty.

In an effort to decrease the spread of conjunctivitis on campus, Princeton University health services will provide all students and staff with a free bottle of Care Instant Hand Sanitizer (waterless soap).

The outbreak of conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye, has continued after spring break, although at a lower rate than before the break. From the beginning of February through April 9, health services has seen 395 cases of the disease in students. An additional 35 cases have been seen in employees.

The hand sanitizer, which has been supplied by Caligor Distributors and Medical Packaging, contains an alcohol-based gel which may limit the spread of infections.

One bottle will be placed in each undergraduate student's mailbox this week, along with an information sheet about its use. A bottle will be placed in the mailboxes of graduate students who live in the Graduate College. Mail services has begun distributing these bottles today.

Graduate students who live elsewhere and University employees will need to visit McCosh Health Center to pick up their free bottles of hand sanitizer.

Students and staff are advised to continue to follow health services' tips for prevention and treatment. Washing your hands frequently with soap and water is one of the recommendations. The hand sanitizer will not be placed in University washrooms, because it is intended for use when soap and water are not available.

In addition, the Centers for Disease Control, working with health services, has developed a short Web-based survey to help determine risk factors and develop potential public health preventive measures for conjunctivitis. Dr. Bowen requests that University students complete the survey, whether or not they have had pink eye.

Of the 24 cultures done on campus patients, 12 tested positive for Streptococcus pneumoniae. Further testing by the Centers for Disease Control shows this to be the same organism that was identified at Dartmouth College.

The Princeton University Art Museum launched its new Web site, princetonartmuseum.org, on April 1.

In addition to general information about the museum and its educational resources, the elegantly designed site includes easily accessible information about the museum’s collections, exhibitions, programs and publications. Also included are sections on curators’ choices and a press room, which will enable newspapers, magazines and the electronic media to receive information on special museum exhibitions and events and related images.

"It is our hope that visiting the museum through the Web site will be helpful and enjoyable," said Susan M. Taylor, director of the museum, "and that it will encourage Web browsers to visit the art museum and experience first-hand the collections, exhibitions and events."

The site's production was coordinated in the museum’s publications department by Jill Guthrie, managing editor. For further information, please contact the museum’s webmaster, Janet Strohl.

For more information, see the news release.

Admission decision letters were mailed on Wednesday, April 3, to applicants for the undergraduate class of 2006.

These decisions will not be posted on the Web site or sent via email. However, if letters have not arrived by Friday, April 5, applicants (and only the applicants themselves) may call the Admission Office between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. EST on Friday, April 5, and beginning again on Monday, April 8, at (609) 258-3060. The admission staff will respond to as many calls as possible, but patience may be required if all lines are busy.

The blockbuster film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" will be shown in the Frist Film/Performance Theater at 11:15 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 4-6.

Based on the J.K. Rowling books, the story follows an 11-year-old boy who learns that he is the orphaned son of two wizards, just as he begins an exciting trek to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Daniel Radcliffe stars as Harry. He is joined by an all-star supporting cast, including Alan Rickman, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Ian Hart, Maggie Smith and Fiona Shaw .

Tickets are $3 and are available at Frist Ticket Office two hours before show time. The University Film Organization is presenting the series. For more information, contact Gabe Pell.

The 2002 Frist Cafe Concert Series is sponsored by the Trustee Initiative, Undergraduate Student Government and Frist Campus Center. The concerts will take place at Cafe Vivian in the Frist Campus Center on Thursdays and Saturdays throughout the spring semester. Shows begin at 11:00 p.m. and will be open and free of charge to all members of the Princeton University community.

• Erase Errata Thursday, April 4
  This all-girl, new-wave/no-wave band combines frantic energy and solid musicianship, creating a sound that is distinctly their own. They've opened for indie rock veterans The Fall, Le Tigre, and numerous others. The Village Voice and the New York Press call their debut, "Other Animals," one of the best records of 2001.
• Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos Thursday, April 11
  Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos ("the fake Cubans"), is a group of downtown jazz veterans putting their own personal stamp on Latin music. Ribot has backed up Elvis Costello on the soundtrack to the film The Big Lebowski and performed solo at hip New York venues like the Knitting Factory and Tonic. Postizos' eponymous debut album was voted one of 1998's "Essential Albums" by Rolling Stone, and "Muy Divertado!" (Atlantic), their follow-up, has garnered scores of rave reviews.
• Gibb Droll Band Saturday, April 27 Master blues guitarist, Gibb Droll, has played with such blues greats as B.B King, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, and Widespread Panic. He plays with an extraordinary frenzy, often wielding his instrument behind his back and manipulating it with his teeth and beer bottles as impromptu slides.

For more information contact Scott Lescher, Alex Rosenfeld, or Dave Morris.

The film "1984" will be the first in a series of movies presented around the theme "Visions of Dystopia" on Thursday evenings, beginning April 4. All five screenings will take place at 10 p.m. in 101 McCormick Hall.

Upcoming films include: "Mad Max," April 11; "eXistenZ," April 18; "Brazil," April 25; and "A Clockwork Orange," May 2.

The University Film Organization is presenting the series, which is free and open to all members of the University community.

For more information, contact Gabe Pell.

The society cited Silhavy for his "exceptional teaching and mentoring" both at Princeton and at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, where he taught from 1981 to 1985.

Silhavy, who holds the Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professorship of Molecular Biology, teaches "Prokaryotic Molecular Biology," which is a required course for first-year graduate students in the department. The society praised the course for its "extensive reading of classic and modern scientific literature" and for the way it "encourages the development of informed and creative scientific minds."

Silhavy also is the author, with Jonathan Beckwith, of the widely used 1992 textbook, "The Power of Bacterial Genetics: A Literature-based Course." He received the University's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1993.

Seniors Clifford Sofield and Matthew Lembo are co-directing the production as part of their thesis work. Performances will be in the Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St., at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 11-13, at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 14, and at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 18-20.

"Sweeney Todd" is probably the best known and most beloved of Sondheim's plays. The musical tells the story of the murderous barber Sweeney Todd and his revenge for an unjust exile.

Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for students, and are available through the Frist Ticket Office at 258-1742.

A lecture series on the topic "Just War vs. Just Cause: What Role Does Justice Play in the War on Terrorism?" is planned for Monday and Tuesday, April 15-16, at McCosh 66.

Jonathan Marks, visiting lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School and the politics department, will speak about "The Search for Infinite Justice: What is the Best Forum for the Trial of International Terrorists?" at 7 p.m. on April 15. Marks is a barrister at Matrix Chambers in London. His fields of interest are international law, human rights law and environmental law.

"The War on Terrorism: The Challenge of Our Lifetimes" will be the topic of Kasey Pipes’s lecture at 7:30 p.m. on April 16. Pipes, associate director of the White House’s Office of Strategic Initiatives, will present a philosophical defense of why we are fighting, what we are fighting for, and why this struggle is truly the challenge of our times.

The series is sponsored by Ideas In Action, a program dedicated to promoting awareness of issues and student discussion at Princeton through a series of theme weeks. These weeks are the result of the collaborative efforts of student organizations, performing arts groups, faculty, staff and alumni to provide an engaging series of debates, lectures, discussions and performances relating to current issues. The lecture series is co-sponsored by the Projects Board, the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the College Republicans.

The week of April 15 has been designated as Employee Appreciation Week in Building Services.

The 235 employees in the department provide janitorial and other support services to academic, administrative and dormitory buildings on both the main and Forrestal campuses.

"This week is all about saying 'thank you' to the men and women who work so hard to give us a clean, safe environment," said Jonathan Baer, director of Building Services. "I believe that our employees contribute a great deal to the quality of life for our students too -- and few things are valued more than when a student takes the time to simply say 'thank you.'"

Employees will be wearing special badges during the week. On Thursday, they will be recognized at a luncheon in the Frist Campus Center.