"Bhangra Beats," a South Asian dance party, is scheduled for 10 p.m. Thursday, April 17, at the Carl Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.

The party will feature a mix of modern South Asian music, infused with hip-hop and R&B. Indian food and drinks will be served.

The party is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Princeton University Trustee Initiative on alcohol, the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

For more information, contact Rishi Jaitly.

Two documentary films will be shown on Friday, April 4, and Sunday, April 6, as part of Disability Awareness Week.

"Sound and Fury," about a family coping with two deaf children, is set for 7 p.m. April 4 in McCosh 50. "When Billy Broke His Head," a film by journalist Billy Golfus about people with disabilities, will be shown at 7 p.m. April 6 in McCosh 50.

Disability Awareness Week was organized by the Association for Disability Awareness and Advocacy. The films are sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Venture Fund, the Projects Board, the Frist Campus Center, the Department of Sociology and the Department of Near Eastern Studies.

Four artists who were invited to create new works inspired by paintings, sculptures, and other objects from the Princeton University Art Museum's vast holdings will discuss their work at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the museum.

The talks by Sanford Biggers, Anne Chu, Ellen Harvey and Zhang Hongtu are part of the museum's "First Friday" festivities. The event marks the student opening reception for the exhibition "Shuffling the Deck: The Collection Reconsidered," which will be on view through June 29.

All "First Friday" events are free of charge and open to the public.

Bernard Lewis, one of the West's leading authorities on the Arab world, will present the 25th Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in McCosh 10.

Lewis, the Cleveland Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton, will discuss "The Judaeo-Islamic Tradition." His books include "The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years" (1996), "What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East" (2001) and "The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror" (2003).

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

Author Iris Chang will deliver a lecture titled "What Does an American Look Like?" as the closing event for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in McCosh 50.

Chang is the author of the best seller "The Rape of Nanking" and a new book, "The Chinese in America." Her lecture will take a fresh look at what it means to be an American and draw a complex portrait of hardships faced by minorities.

Chang has been awarded the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation Award and the Woman of the Year Award from the Organization of Chinese Americans. Her work also has appeared in many publications, such as Newsweek, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

For more information, contact Evelyn Thai.

The annual Communiversity celebration scheduled for Saturday, April 26, has been canceled due to forecasts for rain. Three associated events will continue as planned.

Anyone interested in a morning architectural tour of the Princeton campus should gather at the Frist Campus Center welcome desk at 10 a.m.

The athletics department will sponsor a Spring Sports Festival, where varsity athletes will give a multisport clinic, from 10 a.m. to noon at Weaver Track or, in the event of rain, in Jadwin Gym.

The Princeton Environmental Network is sponsoring 5k and 10k races for the Princeton Save the Tiger Campaign. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. at Forbes College, and all of the proceeds from the $15 entrance fee go to the Save the Tiger Campaign.

The event will explore the implications of a return to morality -- or at least the rhetoric of morality -- in public life by bringing together prominent scholars, policymakers and practitioners from around the globe. Lectures, panels and roundtable discussions will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in McCosh Hall, Robertson Hall and the Computer Science Building.

Participants will address the ethical and policy considerations underlying key foreign and domestic policies, ranging from homeland security and the confrontation with Iraq to the Monterrey Declaration and global public health. In all these areas, speakers will ask the fundamental question: Is the dichotomy of good and evil the appropriate way to view the challenges facing the global community?

Centers, programs and departments across the University will sponsor sessions. Historians will consider the antecedents of American unilateralism; philosophers will debate the moral and ethical dimensions of the good and evil dichotomy; economists and practitioners will analyze its effects on global welfare; and political scientists and diplomats will discuss its effects on the structure of the international system and America's place.

Keynote speakers will include: Brady Kiesling, a career diplomat who has served in U.S. embassies from Tel Aviv to Athens and who made international headlines in late February after resigning in protest against Bush administration policies on Iraq; and Dennis Ross, the former special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton and a point person in both the Bush and Clinton administrations responsible for exploring ways to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A complete schedule is available online, and much of the conference will be Webcast.

Following the colloquium, which is free and open to the public, a report will be posted on the site to stimulate debate in both academic and policy circles.

"The presidency of George W. Bush has been fascinating, controversial and unexpectedly eventful," said conference organizer Fred Greenstein, professor of politics emeritus and chair of the Program in Leadership Studies in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. "There are no shortages of defenses of and critiques of Bush and his presidency, but there has been more heat than illumination."

Scholars from around the country will present papers at four of the sessions. The plan is for the papers to be published in a scholarly volume.

A fifth session, scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday, will feature a roundtable discussion of journalists who have covered the Bush presidency, including Dan Balz of The Washington Post, Carl Cannon of National Journal, Jeanne Cummings of The Wall Street Journal and Todd Purdum of The New York Times. Mike McCurry, former press secretary to President Bill Clinton, also will participate in the roundtable.

For a complete schedule including panel times and participants' biographies, visit the conference Web site.

The conference is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Program in Leadership Studies, the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, the Center of International Studies and the Woodrow Wilson School.

Theatre Intime and the Princeton University Players will present "The Fix," a rock musical, at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 24, through Saturday, April 26. A matinee performance will be held at 2 p.m. April 26.

Tickets are $6 for students, $10 for University staff and senior citizens, $12 for the general public and free for Passport to the Arts ticket holders. They are available at the Frist Campus Center ticket office, (609) 258-1742.

Sympoh, the University's only breakdancing group, will perform "The Urban Sympohsium" at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 24-25, and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, in the Frist Campus Center theater.

The show will combine elements of breakdancing, hip-hop and martial arts for a "danceable dialogue between war and peace, self and other, man and woman, irony and sincerity." Tickets are $6 for students, $8 for staff and senior citizens, $10 for the general public and free for Tiger Tickets holders. Tickets can be purchased at the Frist ticket office, (609) 258-1742.

The Drummers Circle, an Israeli percussion group dedicated to promoting peace, will perform "King David's Peace Drummers" at 9 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at the Terrace Club.

The performance is sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Terrace Club.

The 13-member Drummers Circle, founded in 1997, has performed with Arab and Israeli groups throughout the world. Its mission to create understanding, peace and cooperation between individuals, groups and cultures.

For more information, contact Malvina Goldfeld.

Death Penalty Awareness Week at Princeton will take place Monday, April 21, through Monday, April 28, with a series of events sponsored by the Princeton Coalition Against Capital Punishment and the American Civil Liberties Union of Princeton University.

The events will include:

• A keynote address, "Live Man Talking," by Ray Krone, who had spent 10 years on death row in Arizona before being exonerated by DNA testing. The lecture is at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 21, in McCosh 10.
• A panel discussion, "What is Wrong with the Death Penalty?" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, in McCosh 10.
• A panel discussion, "Death Penalty Alternatives," at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in 2 Robertson Hall.
• An American Whig-Cliosophic Society debate on the death penalty at 8 p.m. April 24 in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber.
• A screening of "Dead Man Walking" at 8 p.m. Friday, April 25, in McCosh 50.
• An interfaith discussion on the death penalty hosted by the Religious Life Council at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, in Murray-Dodge Hall.

More details are available online.

The events are co-sponsored by the Pace Center for Community Service, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Office of Religious Life, the Program in African-American Studies, the Program in American Studies and the Department of Sociology.

Rosner, a distinguished service professor in the astronomy and astrophysics and physics departments, will discuss "Burning Stars in One's Office: The Physics of Astrophysical Nuclear Flames."

He will describe such astrophysical phenomena as novae and supernovae being a result of the acceleration of nuclear "flames." He also will explain nuclear flames and their relation to pre-mixed combustion flames at a laboratory scale.

Rosner is a Woodrow Wilson fellow, chief scientist of Argonne National Laboratory and a fellow of the American Academy of Art and Sciences and of the American Physical Society.

The lecture is sponsored by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the School and Engineering and Applied Science.

Credited with influencing the study of American constitutional and administrative law, the politics of European integration and comparative constitutional law, Shapiro is the recent recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the law and courts section of the American Political Science Association.

He is the author of "Law and Politics in the Supreme Court"; "Freedom of Speech: The Supreme Court and Judicial Review"; "Supreme Court and Administrative Agencies"; "Courts: A Comparative and Political Analysis"; and "Who Guards the Guardians? Judicial Control of Administration."

A public reception will follow the lecture, which is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Walter F. Murphy, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus, and his wife, Mary Therese Margaret (Terry) Murphy, will be in attendance. For more information, contact Seana Sugrue at (609) 258-6333.

Ryan, the Doherty Senior Scholar at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, will speak on "Causes and Consequences of the Catastrophic Black Sea Flood." It is the final talk in the 2003 Evnin Lecture Series on "Fire, Water and Ice: Catastrophes in Earth History" sponsored by the Council on Science and Technology.

In 1993, Ryan and Walter Pitman teamed up with oceanographers from Bulgaria, Russia and Turkey to explore the Black Sea. Advanced sonar revealed a vast and now-drowned terrestrial landscape surrounding an ancient freshwater lake fed by streams from melting glaciers and ice sheets.

Sediment cores showed an abrupt transformation of this lake into a saltwater sea that he and Pitman described for the general reader in "Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History," published by Simon and Schuster in 1999. Their theory was the first novel interpretation of the flood in more than 150 years.

The third annual Fristfest spring celebration will run from Thursday, May 1, through Saturday, May 3, with a series of events at the Frist Campus Center.

Fristfest will begin with food, live entertainment and games on the south lawn and north plaza from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. on May 1. It continues May 2 with a concert and dance party featuring the Uplifters at 7 p.m. on the south lawn and a party featuring the Beatnuts at 10 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room.

On May 3, the Princeton University Wind Ensemble will perform its "Concert Under the Stars" at 9 p.m. on the lawn outside 1879 Hall. A stand-up comedy performance will begin at 10 p.m. in the Frist theater.

Fristfest is open to all members of the University community.

The debate between Mary Jo Bane of Harvard University and Lawrence Mead of New York University will be based, in part, on their forthcoming book, "Lifting Up the Poor -- A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty and Welfare Reform," which is part of the Brookings/Pew Forum Series on Religion and Public Life.

Bane is the Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management in Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She served as co-chair of President Clinton's Working Group on Welfare Reform and as assistant secretary for children and families in the Department of Health and Human Services.

Mead is a professor of politics at NYU and has been a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton. Both have written extensively about welfare reform.

The event is sponsored by the America's Founding and Future lecture series of the James Madison Program, as well as the Kuyper Center for Public Theology of the Princeton Theological Seminary. For more information, contact Seana Sugrue at (609) 258-6333.

Andrew Bocarsly, professor of chemistry, will speak on "Fuel Cells: Bringing Hydrogen to the Marketplace" and give a fuel cell demonstration at 1:30 p.m. in the lab's Gottlieb Auditorium. Bocarsly's lab is one of several Princeton research groups investigating the science, technology and public policies needed to bring hydrogen fuel into widespread use.

The day also will include pollution prevention displays in lab's lobby on the Forrestal Campus from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

A government-issued photo I.D., such as a passport or driver's license, is required for admittance to the lab.

The speaker will be Tamar Hermann, director of the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University and chair of the Department of Sociology and Political Science at The Open University of Israel. Hermann's research focuses on the making of foreign policy, public opinion and national security, as well as on Israeli politics and extra-parliamentary activity, especially that of peace movements. Her most recent book is titled "Crack in the Israeli Identity" (2001).

Hermann previously has served as a research fellow at Princeton's Center for International Studies. Her lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Survey Research Center.

Stevan Harnad, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at the University of Quebec in Montreal, will make the presentation, which is intended for researchers in all disciplines.

"In the paper era it was enough to publish one's research findings in refereed journals in order to ensure that they reached their would-be users and made their maximum impact on further research," said Harnad, who earned his Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton in 1992. "In the online age this is no longer enough; not even making the journals online is enough, for impact-blocking tolls still restrict online access to the minority of universities that can afford them (and even the richest universities can afford only a minority of the 20,000 refereed journals published annually)."

He will discuss a remedy for the situation: depositing electronic versions of research articles in university e-print archives.

The talk is sponsored by the Office of Information Technology and the University Library.

The Quipfire improvisational comedy troupe will perform at 9 p.m. Thursday, May 1, and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 2-3, at Theatre Intime.

Admission is $5. For tickets, call (609) 25-UCALL and enter IMPROV.

For more information, contact Hugh Strange.

The event will include the screening of six films, all with English subtitles. Following a 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, showing of "Cinema Paradiso" (1988), Tornatore will participate in a discussion about the picture, which won an Academy Award in 1989 for best foreign film.

All showings will be in the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St. The other films are: "The Star Maker" (1995) at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27; "Everybody's Fine" (1990) at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 28; "A Pure Formality" (1994) at 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 30; "The Legend of 1900" (1998) at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1; and "Malhna" (2000) at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2.

The retrospective is sponsored by the Council of the Humanities, Department of French and Italian, Film Studies Committee and Gruppo Esponenti Italiani, New York.

Princeton will host the Ultimate Players Association Metro East Regional Frisbee championships from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4, at the University's West Windsor fields.

The Princeton men's and women's teams will be among those from 16 colleges in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware competing for two bids to the national championships May 23-25 in Austin, Texas.

For more information, contact Mati Chessin or Nelly Ward.

Jeanne Altmann, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Isaac Held, lecturer with rank of professor in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and senior research scientist at the U.S. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, were among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates elected during the academy's 140th annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Altmann studies animal behavior and ecology with a particular focus on baboons in Kenya. Held studies atmospheric and ocean fluid dynamics, including work on climate dynamics and global warming.

The election brings the total number of active members in the National Academy of Science to 1,922.

The professorship makes it possible for highly distinguished American scholars to serve as visiting professors at Oxford's Balliol College. Rubenstein, who will be associated with Oxford's Department of Zoology, will participate in 24 academic functions arranged in accordance with his interests.

Oates was honored as "one of America's most significant and inventive contemporary writers." She will share the $250,000 prize, presented by the PNC Financial Services Group, with four other recipients: television journalist Sam Donaldson; former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole; director-choreographer Susan Stroman; and inventor Dean Kamen.

The award winners, representing the fields of history, history of science and political science, were selected from among 164 scholars nominated by administrative officers of colleges and universities throughout the country.

Burnett, a historian of science, will use the fellowship for a project titled "Knowledge of Leviathan: Science, Technology and the Meanings of Whales, 1787-1987."

The South Asian Students Association will present its annual cultural show, "Sangam," at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 19, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.

The show will feature performances from Princeton groups such as Naacho, an Indian dance troupe, and Princeton South Asian Theatrics. Atma, an a capella group from the University of Pennsylvania, also will perform.

The show is free. It is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board, the Venture Fund, the Office of Religious Life, the Department of Music and the Department of Electrical Engineering.

Castañeda served as secretary of foreign affairs from January 2000 to January 2002. Previously, he was one of the principal electoral strategists of the presidential campaign of Vicente Fox Quesada, who won the July 2000 elections.

A 1973 Princeton graduate, Castañeda is a faculty member at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and New York University. His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Latin American Studies.

Lawrence Krauss, the Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, professor of astronomy and chair of the Department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University, will speak. He is the author of several acclaimed popular books, including, "The Fifth Essence: The Search for Dark Matter in the Universe," "Fear of Physics," "The Physics of Star Trek," "Beyond Star Trek," "Quintessence: The Mystery of the Missing Mass" and "Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth ... and Beyond."

He is expected to discuss models developed after recent cosmological and astrophysical observations and their relationship to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. A question-and-answer period and book signing will follow the lecture.

Thomas was sworn in as secretary of state in January 2002. Previously, she was a partner at IEM Message Management, a voter contact firm specializing in grassroots organization and voter education. She has served as a consultant to the Democratic Governor's Association and is the former director of base vote operations for the Democratic National Committee.

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

Mark Noll, the McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College, will deliver a lecture titled "Lincoln's God" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, at Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

The lecture will present key events and relationships in Abraham Lincoln's life that are central to understanding his religion. Noll is the author and editor of more than 20 books and has written widely on the interaction of Christianity and culture in 18th- and 19th-century Anglo-American societies.

The lecture is the first in a three-year series offered by the Center for the Study of Religion featuring speakers who combine strong interests in public affairs with rich understanding of theology, theological ethics, philosophy of religion and religious history.

Armstrong is the editor-at-large of Chatelaine magazine and a contributing editor at Maclean's magazine. She is the co-producer and host of several documentaries, including "They Fell From the Sky" and "The Daughters of Afghanistan" for the CBC. The recipient of the Amnesty International Media Award in 2000 and in 2002, she has written stories about women in conflict all over the world, also including Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda.

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

A lecture titled "Acts of Reflection: Washington Irving and the English Essay Tradition" will be delivered by Richard Squibbs, a graduate student at Rutgers University, at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in McCosh 40.

The lecture will focus on Irving, the popular American author, historian and diplomat whose early writings bridged British and American literary traditions. In particular, the presentation will examine this trans-Atlantic literary relationship as it developed within the periodical essay genre.

The lecture is the final event of the year for the Eighteenth-Century Studies Colloquium, sponsored by the Department of English.

The Southeast Asia Society will hold "Kenduri 2003," its annual spring banquet, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in the Carl Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.

In addition to dishes from several nations, the event will feature Vietnamese music and servers dressed in traditional costumes.

Tickets are $7 for students and $10 for the general public. Reservations can be made via e-mail.

The banquet is sponsored by the Venture Fund, the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Graduate College, the Department of East Asian Studies, the Department of Music, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Sociology and the International Center.

President Shirley M. Tilghman will be among the speakers at a forum titled "Diversity at Princeton: A Closer Look at Admissions, the Faculty and Academics," at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in 302 Frist Campus Center.

The panel discussion will deal with issues relating to diversity in the faculty and the student body and the need to enhance ethnic studies at Princeton. Other panelists include sophomore Ayana Harry, vice president of the Black Student Union; Keith Light, associate dean of admission; and William Massey, the Edwin Wilsey Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.

The event is the second of two diversity forums organized by the Carl Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding. The first, on April 3, examined social life on the Princeton campus.

For more information, contact Taufiq Rahim.

Service in Style will present its second annual charity fashion show, with proceeds benefiting the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 24, on the south lawn of the Frist Campus Center.

The show will feature a diverse group of student performers and models, who will showcase popular designer fashions.

Tickets are free for students and $10 for the general public. They are available at the Frist ticket office, (609) 258-1742.

The show is sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Pace Center for Community Service and the Venture Fund.

The keynote speaker will be Thomas Levin, an associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Princeton whose teaching and scholarship have focused on the history and theory of media. He will discuss "'Tones From Out of Nowhere': Rudolf Pfenninger and the Discovery of Synthetic Sound."

Other speakers will come from Europe, Latin America and the United States. The conference also will feature a performance on radio called "Impossible Voices, Unmakeable Beings: The Poetics of the Radiophonic Body, in Pieces" by Gregory Whitehead, an experimental sound artist and co-editor of "The Wireless Imagination."

The event, sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Elyse Kovalsky at (609) 258-7180.

The 2003 Franklin Medalists are: Norman Phillips, former principal scientist with the National Weather Service's National Meteorological Center; and Joseph Smagorinsky, former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and lecturer at Princeton. They were awarded the medal for their major contributions to the prediction of weather and climate using numerical methods.

Lauded as the most inventive lyric poet and essayist of the younger generation, Gr|nbein was the 1995 recipient of the Georg B|chner Prize, Germany's highest literary award.

Gr|nbein will take part in the following events, which are free and open to the public:

• a poetry reading of his most recent work (translated in English) at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, in 106 McCormick,
• a dialogue with the critic and novelist Aris Fioretos of Rutgers University at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in 105 Bobst,
• a lecture on the practice of poetry at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in the Rockefeller-Mathey Theater and
• a poetry reading of three selected works in German at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, in 105 Bobst.

Four Princeton students have been named Goldwater Scholars by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

They are: junior Anthony Miller of Hopewell, N.J., who is majoring in physics; junior Ruth Tennen of Collinsville, Conn., who is majoring in molecular biology; junior Michael Tibbetts of Clearwater, Fla., who is majoring in molecular biology; and sophomore Darsh Ranjan of Lexington, Ky., who expects to major in mathematics.

The scholarship program, part of the federally endowed Goldwater Foundation, was established in honor of Sen. Barry Goldwater and is designed to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

The full story is available in a news release.

The medal, the highest honor presented by the Royal Anthropological Institute, is awarded annually to a scientist, British or foreign, distinguished in any field of anthropology in the widest sense.

Obeyesekere joined the Princeton faculty in 1980 and served as chair of the anthropology department from 1983-88. He has conducted fieldwork in Sri Lanka and India, and is interested in psychoanalysis and anthropology and the ways in which personal symbolism is related to religious experience.

As part of the award, Obeyesekere has been invited to present a lecture on July 15 at the University of Manchester during the Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.

The video, which was named in the "video recruitment features category," focuses on students as they embark on the Princeton experience. Drawing on conversations with students, faculty members and President Tilghman as she began her first year in office, it attempts to describe to potential applicants the nature and uniqueness of Princeton, and the kinds of experiences students have as they begin their college careers.

The video was produced by Andy Greenspan, who also produced the University's previous admission video in 1992 and a video on "defining moments" in Princeton's history in connection with the University's 250th anniversary. The production was coordinated by Vice President for Public Affairs Robert Durkee and Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon.

The video exists in VHS and DVD format, and is used by admission staff and alumni schools committee volunteers as they meet with potential applicants. It can be viewed in various formats on the admission office Web site. Copies of the DVDs are available for a nominal fee from Tom Bartus in the Office of Communications.

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is the professional organization for advancement professionals who work in alumni relations, communications and development. Membership includes more than 3,000 colleges, universities and independent elementary and secondary schools in the United States, Canada, Mexico and 42 other countries.

L'Atelier, the French theater workshop, will perform "Fragments" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, and Thursday, May 1, at the Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St.

"Fragments" consists of scenes from classical French theater, including works by writers such as Moliere, Marivaux, Claudel, Racine, Feydeau and Corneille. Admission is free.

The performance is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and the Center for French Studies.

FireHazards, a student theater and a capella group, will perform its fifth anniversary show, "Five Years of Flame," at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in the Frist Campus Center theater.

Guest performers will include the New Jersey Gay Men's Chorus, the Spruce Street Singers from Philadelphia and Thema Bryant-Davis, coordinator of Princeton's SHARE program.

The program is sponsored by the Princeton University Pride Alliance, LGBT Student Services and the Frist Campus Center.

Tickets are $2 and can be purchased via e-mail.

Senior Ian Yohai has been named a junior fellow by the Philadelphia-based American Academy of Political and Social Science, which also granted Yohai one of its undergraduate research awards for his paper, "Race and Redistricting: The Case of New Jersey, 2001."

Yohai, a senior, was nominated for the fellowship by the Department of Politics. Winners were selected based on their grasp of a discipline's theories and methods, an enthusiasm for understanding social issues and the promise of making substantial contributions to the social sciences.

Evan Morrison, who graduated from Princeton in 2002 with a psychology degree, also was named a junior fellow.

The University's dining services department has won a 2003 Ivy Award from Restaurants and Institutions magazine, a major industry publication. The award cited Princeton for overall excellence in the college and university category.

Past winners offer nominations for Ivy Awards, which are then chosen by the magazine's readers. In addition to Princeton, 2003 winners include the New York restaurants Nobu and Smith & Wollensky and the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai in Hawaii.

The awards will be presented at a ceremony May 18 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Composer, performer and multimedia artist Maryanne Amacher will discuss her work at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in 106 Woolworth as part of the Department of Music's Composers Colloquium series.

An innovator in exploring sonic telepresence, Amacher has pioneered the use of telecommunication in sound installations. She is known internationally for her dramatic architectural staging of music and sound. Her work includes three series of multimedia installations produced in the United States, Europe and Japan: "City Links," "Music for Sound Joined Rooms" and "Mini-Sound Series."

For more information, contact Stefan Weisman.

The P-Rides shuttle linking graduate student housing and the main campus has extended its service hours. P-Rides now runs from 7:55 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday.

In addition, P-Rides is now available every 20 minutes from the peak periods of 7:55 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and 4:01 p.m. to 7:29 p.m. It runs every 30 minutes at other times.

Details about stops and real-time shuttle locations are available online.

The Princeton University Concert Choir will perform Bach's "Johannes Passion" at 8 p.m. Friday, April 18, in Richardson Auditorium.

The performance will be preceded by a lecture on "Johannes Passion" by John Gager, the William Danforth Professor of Religion, and Michael Marissen, professor of music at Swarthmore College. The lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in 102 Woolworth Center.

Tickets to the concert are $25 for general audiences and $10 for students. They are available at the Richardson box office, (609) 258-5000. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Tilghman will head the Commission on Jobs, Growth and Economic Development with the governor and Roy Vagelos, retired chairman of Merck & Co.

"The commission will set forth a blueprint to enable New Jersey to not simply compete in the new economy, but to thrive and prosper in the coming decade," McGreevey said. "We have the ability to make New Jersey the premier state for research, development and innovation -- and to encourage companies to build facilities here and create high-paying jobs for skilled workers."

McGreevey said the commission will create jobs by maximizing the advantages and resources New Jersey offers to the business community. "We are located in close proximity to major financial centers in New York City and Philadelphia, and we offer access to a premier transportation network," he said. "We have a world-class industrial base, leading academic research universities and a commitment to making New Jersey a national model for education. We also have a highly skilled work force and a critical mass of research talent at our pharmaceutical, telecommunications and high-tech companies."

Forty-two university, business and government leaders are serving on the commission, including Burton Malkiel, the Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics at Princeton.

The commission's first meeting is scheduled for May 1.

As an environmental engineering major, senior Cynthia Lin is exploring issues of water management in destinations far from her hometown of Emmaus, Pa. The 2003 winner of the Henry Richardson Labouisse '26 Prize, Lin will spend next year in Chile examining a range of factors that impact water resources in that country.

"In Chile there have been a lot of international, national and grassroots efforts to develop plans for managing water resources," said Lin. "It is important to find ways to reconcile these efforts."

The Labouisse fellowship provides $25,000 in funding to support research in developing countries by a graduating senior or a first-year alumnus or alumna who intends to pursue a career devoted to problems of development and modernization. Lin will work in two locations in Chile, combining her findings to support initiatives in water resource management.

The full story is available in a news release.

Three Princeton undergraduates have been awarded the annual A. Scott Berg '71 Scholarship by the Department of English.

The prize includes a $3,500 stipend designed to help meet the living, travel or research expenses of undergraduate English majors who plan to use the summer for writing or research in connection with their Princeton courses or independent work.

The winners are: sophomore Patrick Cunningham, who will use the prize to research a novel he is writing, "The Relic Thief"; junior Caroline Murphree, who plans to spend part of the summer studying Jane Austen's juvenilia notebooks housed in the British Library in London and the Bodleian Library in Oxford; and junior Andrew Romano, who will spend the summer in Los Angeles, researching his senior thesis on the city "as a literary idea, an imaginative construction, a landscape of symbols."

Berg, who established the scholarship in 2001, is a member of Princeton's class of 1971 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for his best-selling biography of Charles Lindbergh.

Sophomore Ryan McDonald has been named a Goldman Sachs Global Leader, which honors the academic and leadership achievement of 100 second-year students around the world. Each winner receives $3,000.

McDonald was cited for his work as the corporate contacts director for the Foundation for Student Communication, a nonprofit organization run by Princeton students to foster communication between business leaders and college students. The foundation publishes Business Today magazine, for which McDonald serves as editor.

McDonald also has served on the youth advisory board of Free the Children, is the founder of Kids Bridge Foundation and was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Caring Americans in Washington, D.C.

Adam Rosenberg, a research assistant at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, has been awarded the American Physical Society's Congressional Science Fellowship.

Rosenberg will begin a one-year fellowship this September in Washington, D.C. The program enables scientists to broaden their experience through direct involvement with the legislative and political processes.

Rosenberg is pursuing a Ph.D. from Princeton University's Program in Plasma Physics, which is part of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.

More information is available in a news release.

David Botstein, the incoming director of Princeton's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, has been selected to receive the 2003 Genetics Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation.

Botstein, who is currently the Stanford Ascherman, M.D., Professor and chair of the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will receive a gold medal and $150,000 on July 10 at a meeting of the International Congress of Genetics in Melbourne, Australia.

The Gruber Foundation, which established and first presented the annual award in 2001, cited Botstein for his wide-ranging and fundamental contributions to genetic research. Calling him a "powerhouse of innovation," the foundation said "his concepts and strategies have repeatedly opened new avenues for modern genetic research."

Princeton selected Botstein as director of the genomics institute in September 2002. He will succeed Shirley M. Tilghman, who was the founding director of the institute and is now president of the University, and James Broach, who is acting director. Botstein's appointment will begin July 1.

Botstein's contributions to modern genetics range from early pioneering work in yeast and bacteria to recent studies of cancer-causing genes. In 1980, he cowrote a paper that laid the groundwork for the Human Genome Project.

In its award announcement, the Gruber Foundation also noted Botstein's record as an innovative educator and as a leader in bridging the disciplines of biology, engineering, physics and mathematics to develop new approaches to biological questions. Foundation chair Peter Gruber noted that Botstein's selection did not present the award committee with the common problem of whether to honor an individual for a lifetime of achievement or someone who demonstrates great promise for the future. "With Professor Botstein, we honor both," the foundation quoted Gruber as saying.

Botstein received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and doctoral degree from the University of Michigan. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1967 to 1988. He then served as vice president for science at the biotechnology company Genentech before joining the faculty at Stanford. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.

The Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, created by the University in 1999, is developing new approaches to studying and teaching biology now that the enormous task of sequencing the genomes of humans and many other organisms has been completed. The University recently completed construction of a building to house the institute, the Carl Icahn Laboratory, and will hold a formal dedication of the building on May 8.

The conference is a response to a challenge posed by George Shultz, a 1942 Princeton graduate and secretary of state from 1982 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan. Shultz has asked scholars and statesmen to begin grappling seriously with the tension that exists between an international order based on the principle of state sovereignty and the creation of international tribunals to enforce human rights and to pursue other ends. Among the questions addressed at this conference will be: Are there universal principles of justice? Might international tribunals erode state sovereignty, and therefore self governance, in democratic states?

The conference will begin on Friday with a keynote address by Charles Larmore of the University of Chicago, who will consider the question, "Is Justice Universal?" It will be followed with an address by Shultz at 12:15 p.m. about his reflections on the tensions between international institutions and state sovereignty. Shultz's address is cosponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Other featured speakers at the conference include Ruth Wedgwood of Johns Hopkins University, Jack Goldsmith of the University of Chicago, Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, Anne-Marie Slaughter of the Woodrow Wilson School and Jeremy Rabkin of Cornell University.

The event is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and the Center of International Studies. A complete schedule is available online. For more information, contact Seana Sugrue at (609) 258-6333.

Cornel West will be among the speakers at "Civil Rights and Resolutions: How to Repair the Next Generation," a conference scheduled for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at the Frist Campus Center.

The conference will be preceded by poetry readings at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 10, at Cafe Vivian in Frist, featuring New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka and Vanessa Hidary, as well as a student performance of African dance.

The conference, sponsored by the Princeton Justice Project, will focus on discussing, developing and proposing resolutions about civil rights issues, including reparations. Randall Robinson, founder of the lobbying organization TransAfrica, will be the keynote speaker.

In addition to West, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion, other speakers will include Howard Taylor, professor of sociology; Kiki Jamieson, lecturer in politics; New Jersey Assemblyman Craig Stanley; and Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, a civil rights activist.

A full conference schedule is available online.

"On Top of the World: An Everest Anniversary Conference," commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, is scheduled for Saturday, April 12, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

The conference, organized by the Friends of the Princeton University Library, will feature four speakers, including two Everest climbers. It will run from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Dr. Thomas Hornbein, who traversed the summit of Everest from the West Ridge with the first successful American expedition in 1963, will kick off the conference with a lecture titled "Everest Then and Now: The Maturation of a Mountain."

Hornbein's lecture will be followed by a panel discussion called "The Changing Face of Mount Everest: The Politics of Mountaineering." Panelists will include Maurice Isserman, a professor of history at Hamilton College; Ed Douglas, a journalist and editor of Britain's Alpine Club Journal; and Ed Webster, a freelance writer and Everest veteran. The panel moderator will be David Robertson, former president of the Friends of the Princeton University Library, and the son-in-law and biographer of Everest climber George Leigh Mallory.

The conference also will include "My Storm Years on Everest: Climbing the Kangshung Face," a slide show by Webster, who in 1988 attempted to scale Everest using the most difficult approach, the Kangshung Face, without the support of oxygen, a Sherpa guide or radio contact.

A reception will follow in the Firestone Library's main exhibition gallery. Visitors can view a special display of manuscripts, photos and memorabilia, lent by the participants or culled from the papers of James Ramsay Ullman, a member of Princeton's class of 1929 and the historian of the first successful American expedition.

The conference will conclude with a mini film festival, featuring archival documentary footage about Everest, and a discussion moderated by Hornbein.

The event is co-sponsored by the Council for the Humanities, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, the Department of Geosciences and the National Geographic Society. A full agenda is available online or by contacting conference coordinator Margaret Rich at (609) 258-3174.

The Princeton Shakespeare Company will present "Two Gentlemen of Verona," directed by junior Cara Marsh Sheffler, at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 10-12, with a 2 p.m. matinee performance April 12. The performances will be held at the Frist Campus Center theater.

Tickets are $6 for students and $10 for the general public. They are available at the Frist ticket office, (609) 258-1742.

Tickets are $5 and are available at the Frist Campus Center ticket office, (609) 258-1742.

Beilin served as Israel's minister of justice from July 1999 to March 2001. A leading proponent of the peace process with Israel's neighbors and especially the Palestinians, he initiated the secret channel of talks that resulted in the 1993 Oslo Accord.

His lecture is part of the Program in Near Eastern Studies lecture series, "Israel-Palestine Peace Process: What Went Wrong and Can It Be Righted?" It is co-sponsored by the Center for Regional Studies, the Global Issues Forum, the Center for International Studies and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.

"Oversight of Government in Peace and War -- Where Is the Media?" is the topic of a lecture set for 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 14, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. Walter Pincus, writer for the national news staff of The Washington Post, will present the talk, which is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program on Science and Global Security.

At the Post, Pincus has written about a variety of subjects including nuclear weapons and arms control, political campaigns, the American hostages in Iran and investigations of Congress and the executive branch. For six years he covered the Iran-contra affair. He also was a part-time consultant to NBC News and later to CBS News, where he developed, wrote and produced television segments for network evening news, magazine shows and documentaries.

Pincus has won several awards including a Pulitzer in 2001, which he shared with others for stories about Osama bin Laden. He also was awarded the first Stewart Alsop Award for national security and intelligence reporting, the George Polk Award for national reporting and a television writing Emmy for a one-hour program on CBS.

The Department of Politics, in conjunction with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, is sponsoring two events Monday, April 14.

The first, a seminar convened by Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the Madison program, is titled "Reflections on a Letter from the Birmingham Jail" and will take place at noon in the Senate Chamber of Whig Hall. It will focus on the concepts expressed in a letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. from his jail cell in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963

Participants will include: the Rev. Samuel Atchison, supervisor of chaplaincy services at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton; Thomas Breidenthal, dean of religious life and dean of the chapel at Princeton; Rabbi James Diamond, director of the Center for Jewish Life at Princeton; Jean Bethke Elshtain, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School; the Rev. Peter Lillback of the Proclamation Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Father Thomas Mullelly, director/chaplain of Aquinas House in Princeton; and the Rev. DeForest Soaries Jr. of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, N.J.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School concert choir, led by Gary Taylor, will sing in honor of King at the close of the discussion. A box lunch will be served while supplies last.

In the second event, Elshtain will speak on "International Justice and American Power" at 8 p.m. in 2 Robertson Hall. She is expected to discuss the connections between political and ethical convictions.

A political philosopher, Elshtain is the author of several books and more than 400 articles and essays in scholarly journals. She also is the editor of "Just War Theory," co-editor of "Women, Militarism and War" and co-author of "But Was It Just? Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War."

Robert Bartlett, a professor of medieval history at the University of St. Andrews, will deliver a lecture titled "Supernatural Dangers and Supernatural Protectors in Medieval Scotland" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 14, in 28 McCosh Hall.

Bartlett, the author of several influential studies of medieval Europe, will discuss miracle stories of the 10th through 12th centuries. His talk will focus on St. Margaret, Scotland's most well-known medieval queen and daughter of the last Anglo-Saxon royal house.

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of History's British studies series; the Eberhard Faber IV, Class of 1915, Memorial Fund; and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.

Former U.S. presidential candidate Gary Hart will speak on "Restoration of the Republic" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Hart served as a U.S. senator from Colorado for two terms beginning in 1974. He was a Democratic presidential candidate in 1984 and 1988, after which he returned to private practice in Denver with the law firm Coudert Brothers.

From 1998 to 2001, Hart co-chaired the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, which issued three public reports forecasting the age of terrorism and outlined a new, post-Cold War national security policy. He also co-chaired the Council on Foreign Relations' task force on homeland security, which recently released its report "America -- Still Unprepared, Still in Danger."

In 2001, Hart earned a Ph.D. from Oxford University. His thesis, "Thomas Jefferson's Ideal of the Republic in 21st-Century America," culminated a decade-long exploration of the idea of restoring the republican ideals of civic and citizen duty. When published in book form in 2002, "Restoration of the Republic" completed a trilogy of works that began with "The Patriot" in 1996 and continued with "The Minuteman" in 1998.

Throughout the trilogy, Hart stresses the theme of republican restoration concurrent with a new definition of security that includes not only traditional national and homeland security, but also security of livelihood, security of community and security of the natural environment.

The Global Issues Forum is hosting a panel discussion, "Reflections on the War in Iraq: Looking Toward the Future," at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

Panelists will include Cornel West, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion; Jeffrey Herbst, professor of politics and international affairs and chair of the Department of Politics; Abdellah Hammoudi, professor of anthropology and director of the Transregional Institute for the Study of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia; and Erica Cosgrove, lecturer in public and international affairs and a specialist in international humanitarian law.

Topics of discussion will include the difficulty of reconstructing and governing Iraq, how to bridge the chasm between Western powers and the effect of the war in the Arab and Muslim world.

Activist Patrick Connors will discuss the Palestinian nonviolence movement in a lecture at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, in McCosh 10.

Connors has been a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement and has worked for organizations such as Save the Children and CARE. His lecture is titled "The Growing Palestinian Nonviolent Movement, Israeli Settlements and Israel's New 'Security Wall': What You Won't Learn on the News."

The lecture is sponsored by the Princeton Committee on Palestine.

For more information, contact Philippa Townsend.

John Hennessy, president of Stanford University, will speak on "Perspectives on High-Performance Computer Architecture: History and Challenges" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, in McCosh 50.

A pioneer in computer architecture, Hennessy drew together researchers in 1981 to focus on a computer architecture known as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), a technology that has revolutionized the computer industry by increasing performance while reducing costs. In addition to leading the basic research, he helped transfer this technology to industry.

In 1984, he cofounded MIPS Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies, which designs microprocessors. In recent years, his research has focused on the architecture of high-performance computers.

The talk is designated as the Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture and is part of the University's Public Lectures Series. It will be Webcast live.

Author Yoko Tawada, who writes in both Japanese and German, will read from her works at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, at Cafe Vivian in the Frist Campus Center.

Tawada was born in Tokyo and moved to Hamburg, Germany, at the age of 22. She has won numerous literary awards for her work in both languages, including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the highest honor bestowed in Germany upon a foreign-born author.

The reading is sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature.

Edith Springer, a leading advocate for alternative methods to fighting drug addiction, will present a lecture titled "The Failings of the War on Drugs" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in 302 Frist Campus Center.

Springer has helped found a number of outreach and educational organizations, including the Association for Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment, the New York Peer AIDS Education Coalition and the Harm Reduction Coalition. She also serves as a consultant for needle exchange programs in New York.

Her lecture is sponsored by the Princeton Justice Project, the Pace Center for Community Service and the Office of Religious Life.

Composer, performer and multimedia artist Maryanne Amacher will discuss her work at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in 106 Woolworth as part of the Department of Music's Composers Colloquium series.

An innovator in exploring sonic telepresence, Amacher has pioneered the use of telecommunication in sound installations. She is known internationally for her dramatic architectural staging of music and sound. Her work includes three series of multimedia installations produced in the United States, Europe and Japan: "City Links," "Music for Sound Joined Rooms" and "Mini-Sound Series."

For more information, contact Stefan Weisman.

French scholar and author François Bizot will recount his experiences as a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the subject of his critically acclaimed book "Le Portail" (The Gate), at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in the 1915 Lounge, Butler College.

Bizot is an ethnologist and holds a chair in Buddhism at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. In 1971, while in Cambodia studying ancient Buddhist texts, he was arrested on suspicion of being an American spy. He was released after three months, reportedly the only Westerner to survive Khmer Rouge capture.

Bizot's lecture will be delivered in French and will be followed by question-and-answer period in French and English.

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and the Center for French Studies.

As with other weather emergencies, critical staff members remained at work until the end of their scheduled times, unless directed otherwise by their supervisors.

Information about closings or late openings is available on the University's weather emergency hotline at (609) 258-SNOW.

Students are advised that classes will go on as scheduled. Critical staff members are to remain at work until the end of their scheduled times unless directed otherwise by their supervisors.

Information about closings or late openings is available on the University's weather emergency hotline at (609) 258-SNOW.

In the book, published last fall by Paulist Press, Raboteau recounts the story of his own spiritual journey. He tells of the murder of his father before he was born, being raised in a devout Roman Catholic African-American family, his education, marriage and career crises, and rebuilding his life following a conversion to Orthodox Christianity.

In addition to teaching in the religion department, Raboteau serves as lay coordinator of Mother of God Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Mission in Rocky Hill, N.J., and as a member of the advisory board of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship. He also is a former dean of the Graduate School.

The reading is sponsored by the Program in African-American Studies.

A dedication ceremony for the Pace Center for Community Service will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at 246 Frist Campus Center.

Speakers will include President Shirley M. Tilghman; Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson; Sasa Montaño, director of the Pace Center; and Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics Burton Malkiel, who proposed the idea for the center during the University's 250th anniversary celebration in 1996.

The Pace Center collaborates with various University entities and forms partnerships with the external community to coordinate and provide service opportunities. Service organizations affiliated with the Pace Center include Princeton in Africa, the Princeton-Blairstown Center, the Princeton Justice Project, Community House and the Student Volunteers Council.

For more information, contact the Pace Center at (609) 258-7260.

Akhmadov also will present a newly drafted proposal to resolve the Russian-Chechen conflict. He will outline in greater detail the implementation of such a proposal.

Prior to his present appointment in 1999, Akhmadov assisted Doctors Without Borders in the delivery of humanitarian assistance, counseled Chechen officials and organized a political party. From 1994 to 1996, he served as a soldier in the Chechen resistance, where he was the aide de camp to Chechen chief of state Major Aslan Maskhadov.

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

His lecture at 4:30 p.m. in 302 Frist Campus Center is part of the Charles Test, M.D., Distinguished Visiting Scholar Seminars sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

DiIulio is the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion and Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as assistant to the president of the United States and first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives during 2000-01. He also was a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton for 13 years.

A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the Brookings Institution, he is the author, co-author or editor of a dozen books, including "American Government: Institutions and Policies," "What's God Got To Do With the American Experiment?" and "Medicaid and Devolution."

Middle East expert Avi Jorisch will present a lecture titled, "Hezbollah and the War on Terror," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in 2 Robertson Hall.

Jorisch is a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, specializing in Arab politics and Islamic society. He has written several policy briefs for the research foundation, including "The Language of Terrorism," "U.S. Military Operations and the Question of Ramadan" and "Hezbollah's Vision of the Israel-Lebanon Border."

The lecture is sponsored by the Princeton Committee Against Terrorism.

Professor Stanley Katz will join members of the Seeds of Peace nonprofit organization, including two Princeton students, in a panel discussion titled "Hope and Dialogue in the Arab-Israeli Conflict" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

Katz is a lecturer in public and international affairs with the rank of professor in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Speakers also will include freshmen Malvina Goldfeld and Karen Karniol-Tambour and other members of Seeds of Peace, a New York-based group that seeks to help teenagers from areas of conflict develop leadership skills to promote peace.

The event is sponsored by the Wilson School, the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the International Students Association at Princeton.

Sir Adam Roberts, the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, will speak on "The Impact of the Laws of War in Contemporary Conflicts" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in 28 McCosh.

A member of the Oxford faculty since 1981, Roberts previously was a lecturer in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the editor, with Richard Guelff, of "Documents on the Laws of War" (2000) and, with Benedict Kingsbury, of "United Nations, Divided World: The U.N.'s Roles in International Relations" (1993). He served on the council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs from 1985 to 1991, and currently is a member of the council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

He will be the final guest of the "Current Issues in International Relations" lecture series sponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, the Center of International Studies and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Sneh served as the Israeli minister of health from 1993 to 1996, as deputy minister of defense from 1999 to 2001 and as minister of transportation from 2001 to 2002. He was elected to the Knesset in 1992 and has served as a ranking member of its Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

An M.D. by training, he commanded the Israeli medical team in the Entebbe rescue operation in 1976. In 1987 he retired from the Israel Defense Force at the rank of brigadier general.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Center for Jewish Life and Caravan for Democracy. A photo I.D. is required for admission. Those with a University I.D. will be admitted to Dodds Auditorium; the lecture will be simulcast in other rooms for the general public.

"Property Tax Reform: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? How Will We Get There?" is the subject of Princeton University's annual Symposium on New Jersey Issues scheduled for Friday, April 11. The event will run from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

The program will feature a panel of New Jersey state legislators, as well as presentations by nationally recognized authorities on state tax policy. Katherine Barrett, a special project editor and columnist at Governing magazine, will kick off the program by commenting on the subject of her recent research, "The Way We Tax: A 50 State Report."

Also presenting will be: Brendan "Tom" Byrne Jr., president of Byrne Asset Management and a longtime New Jersey political activist; Henry Coleman, director of the Center for Government Services and faculty member in the Edward Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University; and Robert Franks, former U.S. congressman from New Jersey and currently president of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey.

The program is sponsored by: Princeton University's Office of Community and State Affairs; Princeton University's Policy Research Institute for the Region; Rutgers University's Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy; and the Regional Planning Partnership.

The program is free and open to the public. However, registration is requested by e-mailing Pam Hersh, director of community and state affairs, or faxing (609) 258-9000.

The Princeton University Wind Ensemble will present its spring concert at 8 p.m. Friday, April 11, in Richardson Auditorium.

The concert, conducted by Bruce Yurko, will feature a rendition of Rossini's "Barber of Seville."

Admission is free for Tiger Tickets holders and $5 for others. Tickets are available at the Richardson box office, (609) 258-5000.

Nominations for the eighth annual Sprit of Princeton Awards, which honor undergraduates for their positive contributions to campus life, are due by noon Friday, April 18.

Nomination forms are available online. They can be submitted to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, 313 West College, or via e-mail to Assistant Dean Thomas Dunne.

Spirit of Princeton winners have demonstrated a strong commitment to enhancing the undergraduate experience through contributions to student organizations, athletics, community service, religious life, residential life and the arts.

Patricia (Patty) Allen, a communications professional with 16 years of experience in journalism and public relations, has been appointed Princeton University's media relations manager, effective April 14.

Working in the Office of Communications, she will be responsible for serving as a spokesperson and for coordinating external coverage of the University. She will succeed Marilyn Marks, who is now editor of Princeton Alumni Weekly.

Since 1998, Allen has been a press officer at New York University. She has served as media relations director for the Steinhardt School of Education and managed universitywide media events, including visits from former President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

The full story is available in a news release.

The Protein Society, an international scientific organization, has awarded its annual Emil Thomas Kaiser Award to Princeton chemist Michael Hecht. "Professor Hecht has made significant, original and creative contributions to our understanding of protein structure and design," the society said in its citation.

Hecht, an associate professor of chemistry, came to Princeton as an assistant professor in 1990. He received his Ph.D. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 and worked in postdoctoral positions there and at the Duke University Medical Center.

The Protein Society cited Hecht for his work in designing "de novo proteins," custom-made proteins that do not arise from natural processes. His studies, which show that water-attracting and water-repelling portions of a protein are crucial in determining the molecule's three-dimensional structure, are "a real tour de force," the society said. The work could have applications in fields from medicine to materials science.

The Protein Society has given the Kaiser award annually since 1995 "in recognition of a recent, highly significant, contribution to the science of proteins." As part of the award, Hecht will deliver a lecture at the 17th Annual Symposium of The Protein Society in Boston in July.

John DeLooper, associate director of external affairs at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, has received the U.S. Department of Energy's Distinguished Associate Award. DeLooper was honored for his "valuable coordination of countless education outreach activities and special events."

In particular, DeLooper was cited for his efforts in running the Snowmass Fusion Summer Study Workshops, which took place in Snowmass, Colo., in 1999 and 2002. At the most recent workshop, about 300 leading scientists from the U.S. and international fusion community gathered for two weeks to assess the major next steps in fusion energy science research.

More information is available in a news release.

The book by Muldoon, the Howard Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities, is included among the four international shortlisted nominees. There also are three Canadian shortlisted nominees. The winners in each category will receive $40,000 (Canadian).

The shortlisted poets will give a reading in Toronto at a Harbourfront Reading Series special event on June 11. The winners will be announced at a ceremony the following day. A selection of poems from the 2003 shortlisted books will be included in the Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology.

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month will kick off with a banquet at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the atrium of the Carl Icahn Laboratory.

The keynote speaker, retired Gen. John Fugh, will discuss the Committee of 100, a national nonpartisan organization composed of American citizens of Chinese descent, as well as attitudes toward Chinese Americans and Asian Americans.

Jack Tchen, director of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program at New York University, also will discuss how affirmative action policies affect Southeast Asian Americans.

The banquet is open to all members of the University community.

A calendar of events for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is available online. For more information, contact Evelyn Thai.

Pasternack is assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services. In January 2002, President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which represents his education reform plan and contains sweeping changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Before joining the federal government staff in 2001, Pasternack served as director of special education for the New Mexico Department of Education. He led the development and implementation of state regulations for special education and created a variety of statewide initiatives designed to improve results for students with disabilities.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Education Research Section, Educational Testing Service, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the Princeton Speech-Language and Learning Center and the Cambridge School.

The Class of 2004 will hold its spring concert, featuring California-based rock band Brightlife, at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, on the south lawn of the Frist Campus Center.

Fabled, a group composed of Princeton students, will be the opening act.

Free tickets are available for all University ID holders at the Frist ticket office. The concert is co-sponsored by the Princeton University Trustee Initiative on alcohol.

The Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA), the world's first fully interactive, Web-accessible digital archive of policy-relevant data on culture and the arts, is now available online.

The CPANDA initiative is designed to help policymakers, journalists, scholars and others gain easy access both to current research findings and to previously hard-to-find data on the arts, including public opinion on the arts, city-specific data and recently released statistics. It is the result of a collaboration between the Princeton University Library and the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.

More information is available in a news release.

The event will look at aesthetic-political questions raised by the new media of radio, avant-garde book-publishing and cinema in Germany in the teens and '20s.

It will begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday with a screening of two silent German films, "Der Student von Prag" (Stellan Rye, 1913) and "Nosferatu, eine Symfonie des Grauens" (F.W. Murnau, 1921).

The colloquium will continue from 1 to 6 p.m. Friday and will feature papers on topics ranging from "Fantastic Film and 'The Right to One's Own Image'" to "Weimar Cinema and the Great War."

The colloquium is being organized by Thomas Levin, associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures. Sponsored by the Eberhard Faber IV, Class of 1915, Memorial Fund and the Program in Media and Modernity, it is free and open to the public.

Expressions Dance Company, Princeton's oldest dance troupe, will perform "eXposed" at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 3-5, in the Frist Campus Center theater.

The show will feature a mix of dance styles -- including hip-hop, jazz, modern and ballet -- and music by 50 Cent, George Michael, Norah Jones and Outkast.

Tickets are $6 for students and $10 for non-students. Students may use their Passport to the Arts tickets. For tickets, contact the Frist ticket office, (609) 258-1742.

The Princeton University Art Museum will present "Spring Songs," a children's concert by the Princeton Pro Musica Chamber Chorus, at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 5.

The performance, part of the museum's regular "Children's Talk" series, will include a variety of songs from the Middle Ages to the present, all celebrating the new season.

The concert is free and open to the public.

The Pat McGee Band will headline the Class of 2005 and Class of 2006 spring concert, which begins at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5.

The concert will be held in the U-Store courtyard. Matt Whipple is the opening act.

For more information, contact Beau Harbour.

The University Chapel Choir will perform Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Serenade to Music" at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 5, in the University Chapel.

Admission is free. For more information, contact Penna Rose.

Tigressions, an all-female a capella group, will perform "Almost Famous: Tigressions Jam 2003" at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 5, in Richardson Auditorium.

The concert will feature a wide selection of music and guest performances from Sympoh, an urban dance troupe from Princeton, and Mass Transit, an all-male a capella group from New York University.

Tickets are $6 for Princeton students and children, $8 for senior citizens and $12 for adults. They are available at the Richardson ticket office, (609) 258-5000.

An exhibition and symposium sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies and the East Asian Library will focus on Sugamo Prison, where accused Japanese war criminals were held from 1945 to 1952.

The exhibition, "Encounters: Sugamo Prison, 1945-52," will run from Sunday, April 6, through Wednesday, June 4, at the East Asian Library, 317 Frist Campus Center. A two-day symposium, "Encounters at Sugamo," will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 9-10, in 302 Frist.

The exhibition features rare drawings, poems, photographs, craft objects and documents that present, from multiple perspectives, an intimate view of the contact between Japanese and American cultures in occupied Japan. Accompanying documentary videos will be shown at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in 302 Frist.

Speakers at the symposium will include a former prisoner and former American guard from Sugamo, as well as scholars from the United States, Canada, Korea and elsewhere in East Asia. The discussions will run from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. May 9 and from 9 a.m. to noon May 10.

A companion exhibition will be on view at St. Joseph's Seminary in Plainsboro, N.J., from April 6 through June 6. The exhibition traces the history of two men whose fates became entwined at Sugamo Prison on the night of April 5, 1948, when Capt. John A. Ryan, the Catholic chaplain of Sugamo, was murdered outside the main prison gate. Three months later, Pfc. William Manis, a 19-year-old guard, was charged with the crime. For more information on the exhibit at St. Joseph's Seminary, call (609) 716-4235.

Community House will honor three local residents for their contributions and service to the Princeton community at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at the Carl Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.

James Floyd Sr., the first African-American mayor of Princeton Township, will be given the organization's Legacy of Service "Living Legend" Award. Albert Hinds and Clyde "Buster" Thomas also will receive Legacy of Service Awards, which are presented every two years.

Floyd, who was elected mayor in 1970, also founded the Princeton Association of Human Rights, was a trustee of the Princeton Community Housing Group and has been active in issues involving open and affordable housing and civil rights.

Hinds, 100, is the oldest living African American in Princeton and has served on the Princeton Borough zoning board, the board of Princeton Group Arts and the advisory committee of the Historical Society of Princeton.

Thomas has served on the board of trustees of the Princeton Nursery School and the Arts Council of Princeton and has been a mentor for African-American elementary school students in the community.

The awards ceremony is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required by March 30. To register, call Community House at (609) 258-6136.

Activities will include exhibitions, presentations, food and performances to fete diversity, promote understanding and spread knowledge of the ethnic and cultural differences and similarities of the Princeton community.

International films will be shown at 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday in 302 Frist. The events will include a cultural and fashion show at 8 p.m. Friday and will culminate with a variety of activities from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. Both of these events will take place on the Frist South Lawn.

The International Festival is a collaborative effort of the Consortium of International Student Organizations and the International Center. For a complete listing of activities, visit the center's Web site or call (609) 258-5006.

The Rumi Club for Interfaith Dialogue and the Religious Life Council will host an exhibition on interfaith attitudes at Princeton from Monday, March 31, through Sunday, April 6, on the 100 level of the Frist Campus Center. An open dialogue also will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, at Frist.

As part of the effort, the groups invite Princeton students to participate in an online questionnaire about religious attitudes. The exhibition will include answers from the questionnaire along with icons and symbols of different faiths.

The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Office of Religious Life and International Center.

Mathey College will host "Cross Cadence," a five-day event featuring a panel discussion on affirmative action and a diverse series of performances, from Monday, March 31, through Friday, April 4.

"Cross Cadence" will begin with the affirmative action discussion at 6 p.m. March 31 in the Mathey private dining room, with participants including Howard Taylor, professor of sociology, and Nancy Malkiel, dean of the college.

A variety of student groups will give performances in the Mathey common room at 5:30 p.m. April 1 and 3 and at 6:15 p.m. April 2. A Korean fan dance troupe will perform at 5:30 p.m. April 4.

The event will conclude with a performance by the hip-hop dance group Clyde Evans and the Chosen at 9 p.m. April 4 at Dillon Gym.

All "Cross Cadence" events are open to the entire University community. For more information, contact Daniel Broaddus.