Panelists
Kimberly Bonner
Kimberly Bonner, '08, is a member of the 2007 inaugural cohort of the Princeton Scholars in the Nation's Service. She is a molecular biology major who seeks to apply her scientific background to policy matters in fields ranging from malaria eradication to energy infrastructures. She spent this past summer at the U.S. State Department working in the Office of International Health and Biodefense, located in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Previously, she completed an internship with the Energy Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Science. She is researching malaria control programs for her senior thesis, and will be working for the President's Malaria Initiative in Tanzania next year as part of the Scholars in the Nations' Service Initiative. In this program, she will return to the Woodrow Wilson School in 2010 for a Masters in Public Affairs.
Kelly Caylor
Professor Kelly Caylor joins the Civil & Environmental Department from Indiana University, where he has been an assistant professor in the Department of Geography since 2005. From 2003 to 2005, Kelly was a post-doctoral researcher in the CEE department at Princeton. Kelly received his PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia in 2003, and his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1996. His research interests include ecohydrology, savanna ecology, surface hydrology, and ecological modeling. Kelly will join the Environmental Engineering and Water Resources (EEWR) program within CEE. We all very much look forward to welcoming Kelly to our department, and look forward to the many contributions we are sure he will provide to the CEE Department and to the profession at large.
Julius E. Coles
Julius E. Coles, MPA *66, is the President of Africare. Before assuming this position, he was the Director of Morehouse College’s Andrew Young Center for International Affairs from 1997 - 2002. He served as the Director of Howard University’s Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center from 1994 - 1997. Most of Mr. Coles’ career of some twenty-eight years in the foreign service has been spent as a senior official with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). While with USAID, Mr. Coles was Mission Director in Swaziland and Senegal and served in Vietnam, Morocco, Liberia, Nepal and Washington, D.C. He received a B.A. from Morehouse College (1964) and a Masters of Public Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (1966). He has also studied at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, the U.S. Department of State Foreign Institute’s Senior Seminar, the Federal Executive Institute and Institut de Français. Mr. Coles retired from the U.S. Government’s Foreign Service in 1994 with the rank of Career Minister. He received numerous awards including the James Madison Medal from Princeton University (2007), Morehouse College National Alumnus of the Year for 2006, Amistad Achievement Award (2003), Distinguished Career Service Award (1995), the Presidential Meritorious Service Award (1983-1986), and was decorated by President Abdou Diouf of Senegal as Commander in the Order of Lion (1994). Mr. Coles is a member of the Boards of InterAction, L’Alliance Française de Washington, DC, Andrew Young Center for International Affairs at Morehouse College, Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and Society for International Development. In addition, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Rotary Club of Atlanta, Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee and has been appointed as a member of the UNESCO International Commission on the Gorée Memorial.
Carol Dumaine
Carol Dumaine serves as the head of a newly-created directorate, Energy and Environmental Security Directorate, in the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy. Her most recent assignment at the CIA was as director of the Global Futures Partnership, a strategic "think-and-do" tank she created in the late 1990s. She was a 2007 Service-to-America National Security Medal Finalist for spearheading the Global Futures Forum initiative, a multinational and multi-sector global network linking representatives of intelligence services with non-governmental organizations in communities of diversity and expertise focused on transnational security issues. Prior to this, Carol Dumaine served as an analyst and manager in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence since the early 1980s.
Dumaine's new position offers opportunities to build on her experience in fostering transnational networks of security expertise and her interest in methods for overcoming cognitive and organizational barriers to adaptive intelligence. She has a professional background in alternative analytic methods, particularly in the scenario practice techniques as developed by the Global Business Network. She currently is researching new areas of "knowledge ecosystems," "ecologies of innovation," and "collective intelligence" for applicable models, practices and theories which may be useful to prototyping a new capacity for "strategic intelligence" in energy and environmental security.
Carol Dumaine is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and has a Master's degree from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
Elfatih A. B. Eltahir
Elfatih A. B. Eltahir is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate Director of the Kuwait-MIT Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The goal of Dr. Eltahir’s research is to advance our understanding of the fundamental hydrological processes and mechanisms that govern the role of the biosphere, as characterized by vegetative cover and soil moisture conditions, in the dynamics of biosphere-atmosphere interactions and the associated water cycle at regional scales. Dr. Eltahir has published over 60 refereed publications, and he is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and member of the American Meteorological Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, The Royal Meteorological Society, and the Sudan Engineering Society. The recipient of the Gilbert Winslow Career Development Chair, NASA New Investigator Award, U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the Kuwait Prize in Applied Science, Dr. Eltahir has served as a member of National Academy of Sciences committee and several editorial boards. Dr. Eltahir received his Sc.D. in Hydroclimatology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ann Florini
Ann Florini is Visiting Professor and Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. She is also Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on new approaches to global governance, including the roles of civil society and the private sector in addressing global issues. Currently, she is examining governance in the energy sector. She co-chairs the international Task Force on Transparency, part of an international consortium spearheaded by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University.
From 1997 to 2002, Dr. Florini was Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1996 to 1997 she served as research director of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Project on World Security. She was Senior Researcher at the Center for International and Strategic Affairs at UCLA from 1987 to 1992. From 1983 to 1987 she was at the United Nations Association of the USA, where she created and directed the Project on Multilateral Issues and Institutions. Her book The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (Island Press, 2003/Brookings Press 2005) has been praised as "a beautifully written, highly accessible, authoritative explanation of how the world is changing and what we can do about those changes." Her edited volume, The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society, was critically acclaimed as a "superb volume" that "makes the case for a new understanding of transnational civil society. She is co-author of the monograph Secrets for Sale: How Commercial Satellite Imagery Will Change the World. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Disarmament Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Harvard International Review, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Issues in Science and Technology, New Perspectives Quarterly, and WorldLink. She is also the author of numerous book chapters, monographs, and policy briefs.
Dr. Florini received her Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and a Master's in Public Affairs from Princeton University.
Omar Freilla
Omar Freilla, Director, Green Worker Cooperatives, has been named one of “The New School of Activists Most Likely to change New York City” by City Limits magazine (2000). Raised in the South Bronx, where he continues to live, he has gained international recognition as an outspoken environmental justice activist who has dedicated himself to seeking solutions to the disproportionate environmental impacts faced by low-income communities of color. He is the founder and director of Green Worker Cooperatives (GWC), an organization dedicated to the creation of worker-owned and environmentally friendly businesses in the South Bronx. Through GWC, he is working to develop ReBuilders Source, the first worker-cooperative reuse center for building materials that will help create a new generation of “green collar” jobs and help reduce the generation and export of waste. Prior to founding Green Worker Cooperatives Omar served as program director for Sustainable South Bronx, where he dedicated himself to challenging corporate and governmental environmental abuses while promoting development projects capable of improving the environmental and economic health of South Bronx neighborhoods. Omar has also coordinated efforts to promote environmental justice in the realm of transportation planning for the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, a coalition of community-based groups in New York City working for environmental justice. His writing on community opposition to transportation racism in New York City was published in 2004 by South End Press in the book “Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity” edited by Robert Bullard. He has also written for the journal “Race, Poverty, and the Environment” and blogs by City Limits and the Drum Major Institute.
Omar has received numerous awards for his work including the Open Society Institute’s New York City Community Fellowship, the Union Square Award for grassroots activists, the Environmental Leadership Program fellowship, and the Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism. He has also been featured in the 2007 environmental documentary “The 11th Hour” produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. He holds a Masters degree in Environmental Science from Miami University of Ohio and a B.S. from Morehouse College.
Maria C. Freire
Maria C. Freire, Ph.D., is the President of The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Prior to her appointment at the Lasker Foundation, Dr. Freire was the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. During her six-year tenure, Dr. Freire took the organization from a nascent operation to become the world leader in TB drug development. An internationally recognized expert in technology commercialization, Dr. Freire directed the Office of Technology Transfer at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1995 to 2001. Before joining the NIH, Dr. Freire established and headed the Office of Technology Development at the University of Maryland at Baltimore and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Freire obtained her B.S. degree at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, her Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Virginia and completed post-graduate work in immunology and virology at the University of Virginia and the University of Tennessee, respectively. Dr. Freire is active on national and international boards and committees and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the DHHS Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service, Arthur S. Flemming Award and the Bayh-Dole Award.
Julie Louise Gerberding
Julie Louise Gerberding, MD, M.P.H., became the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) on July 3, 2002. Before becoming CDC Director and ATSDR Administrator, Dr. Gerberding was Acting Deputy Director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), where she played a major role in leading CDC´s response to the anthrax bioterrorism events of 2001. She joined CDC in 1998 as Director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, NCID, where she developed CDC´s patient safety initiatives and other programs to prevent infections, antimicrobial resistance, and medical errors in healthcare settings. Prior to coming to CDC, Dr. Gerberding was a faculty member at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and directed the Prevention Epicenter, a multidisciplinary research, training, and clinical service program that focused on preventing infections in patients and their healthcare providers. Dr. Gerberding is a Clinical Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at Emory University and an Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at UCSF.
She earned a B.A. magna cum laude in chemistry and biology and a M.D. at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Gerberding then completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at UCSF, where she also served as Chief Medical Resident before completing her fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology and Infectious Diseases at UCSF. She earned a M.P.H. degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.
Dr. Gerberding is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha (medical honor society), American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), American College of Physicians, Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Epidemiology Society, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Institute of Medicine.
In the past, Dr. Gerberding served as a member of CDC´s National Center for Infectious Diseases´ Board of Scientific Counselors, the CDC HIV Advisory Committee, and the Scientific Program Committee, National Conference on Human Retroviruses. She has also been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, the American Medical Association, CDC, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National AIDS Commission, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the World Health Organization.
Dr. Gerberding´s editorial activities have included appointment to the Editorial Board of the Annals of Internal Medicine; appointment as an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Medicine; and service as a peer-reviewer for numerous internal medicine, infectious diseases, and epidemiology journals. Her scientific interests encompass patient safety and prevention of infections and antimicrobial resistance among patients and their healthcare providers. She has authored or co-authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters and contributed to numerous guidelines and policies relevant to HIV prevention, post-exposure prophylaxis, management of infected healthcare personnel, and healthcare-associated infection prevention.
Dr. Gerberding resides in Atlanta with her husband, David, who is a software engineer. Her step-daughter, Renada, is a law student at the University of Virginia. Dr. Gerberding relaxes by scuba diving, reading on the beach, gardening, and doting on her three cats.
Joshua R. Ginsberg
Joshua R. Ginsberg, *88, was born and raised in New York and is currently the Vice President for Conservation Operations at the Wildlife Conservation Society. As Director of the Asia and Pacific Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society from 1996 until September 2004, Josh oversaw 100 projects in 16 countries. Dr. Ginsberg was also Acting Director of the WCS Africa Program in 2002. He received a B. Sc. from Yale, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton in Ecology and Evolution.
Dr. Ginsberg spent 15 years as a field biologist/conservationist in Africa, and two years in Asia, working on a variety wildlife conservation projects focusing on species as diverse as sea turtles, African wild dogs, Grevy's zebra, and monogooses. He sits on the NOAA/NMFS Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery Team and served as the Chairman of from 2001-2007, overseeing the drafting of the first revision in 20 years of the Monk Seal Recovery Plan. He was a AAAS Diplomacy Fellow in USAID/PPC (Policy, Planning Coordination) in the Office of Donor Coordination.
Dr. Ginsberg has held faculty positions at Oxford University and University College, London. Currently, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University where he teaches conservation biology and has supervised 14 Masters and four Ph. D. students. He is an author on over 50 reviewed papers, and has edited three books on wildlife conservation, ecology and evolution Dr. Ginsberg has served on the editorial boards of Oryx, Animal Conservation, and Conservation Biology, where he served for 9 years as an Associate Editor in charge of the section, International Issues in Conservation. Dr. Ginsberg is a founding Board member of Video Volunteers, and the Blacksmith Institute, an NGO that focuses on remediation of pollution in the developing world.
David Goldwyn
David Goldwyn, MPA/JD *86, President of Goldwyn International Strategies LLC, an international energy consulting firm. Advised the World Bank on power sector reform, assisted the US Department of State and the warring parties in the Sudanese civil war on wealth sharing options, advised the Federal Government of Nigeria on its EITI implementation program and advised a host of Fortune 100 companies on political risk, economic sanctions, and corporate social responsibility issues. Senior Fellow in the Energy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and serves on the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) Task Force on Energy Security and CFR Center for Preventive Action Task Forces on Angola, Venezuela and Bolivia. Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs, Counselor to the Secretary of Energy, and national security deputy to Ambassador Bill Richardson, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations under President Bill Clinton. Goldwyn served in the Office of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs at the State Department under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Clinton, acting as Chief of Staff from 1993-1997. Attorney with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison from 1986 to 1991. Author of numerous publications on transparency in the oil sector and on U.S. Strategic Reserve policy. Goldwyn is the Chairman of the Board of Global Giving, a foundation dubbed “the e-bay of international development”, dedicated to using the internet to match donors with projects in the developing world.
George S. Hawkins
George S. Hawkins is the Director of the District Department of the Environment for Washington, D.C. He is responsible for an $80 million dollar agency with 300 employees that provides city, county and state environmental services to the nation’s capital. His work ranges from serving as the chief of the District’s response to reducing the risks of lead poisoning to children, to negotiating and implementing the nation’s most stringent federal permit to reduce pollutants from stormwater runoff, to running the nation’s most successful program to provide support for low income residents for energy costs – including energy conservation and home weatherization. The Department is responsible for reviewing development application for compliance with environmental requirements, and for air, water, hazardous waste inspections. George serves as the Chair of the Green Building Advisory Council, which oversees the implementation of the nation’s strongest law that requires LEED Silver for all District-built buildings – and in 2011 LEED Silver for all buildings built in the District. George is a member of the Green Collar Jobs Advisory Committee and is a Board member of the Washington Area Sewer Authority (WASA) – which runs the world’s largest advanced wastewater treatment plant. George also launched and chairs the Mayor’s Green Team, which coordinates the District’s sustainability program across more than 40 agencies. Perhaps of most importance, George is responsible for restoration of water quality and natural resources to the Anacostia River and it surrounding neighborhoods – one of most polluted Rivers in the country with nearby communities that have historically not shared in the District’s economic revitalization.
Prior to coming to the District, George was the Executive Director of New Jersey Future, a statewide non-profit focused on Smart Growth – economic revitalization that strengthens cities, is oriented to public transit, and provides affordable housing that is located near jobs, retail and cultural amenities – while protecting critical natural resources, habitat and farm fields for sprawling development. George managed the development of the “Four Ways to Prosperity” campaign, launched the successful annual Redevelopment Forum, and worked with Governor Corzine’s office to focus development on transit stations and urban areas. George also served as Executive Director of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association – and in seven years transformed it into the largest community watershed association in the country – adding award winning programs to work with communities on zoning and master plans to preserve ecological resources and target growth. Before going to New Jersey, George held senior positions with the US Environmental Protection Agency, including Senior Assistant Regional Counsel and Special Assistant to the Regional Administrator, and also served Vice President Gore on the National Performance Review to streamline and strengthen environmental protection programs at USEPA and OSHA. George also practiced law for the Boston firm Ropes & Gray, and is a member of the Bar in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. George graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1983 and cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1987. Since 1999, George has taught Environmental Law and Policy for the Princeton Environment Institute at Princeton University. George is married and has two children, and has also managed a livestock farm for ten years with his wife.
Kiki Jamieson
Kiki Jamieson, Class of 1951 Director, Pace Center for Civic Engagement and Lecturer, Department of Politics
Kiki Jamieson directs the Pace Center, Princeton's center for civic engagement and public service. The Pace Center promotes learning, teaching, and acting in the public interest. Pace is a central source of information about civic engagement at Princeton; it is available to help all members of the extended Princeton University community connect with meaningful opportunities to address issues of public concern through activities including course work, research, lectures and roundtable discussions, civic activism, volunteer service, public interest break trips, public service internships and fellowships, and professional opportunities.
Jamieson has been the director of the Pace Center since 2004. Her interest in civic engagement grows out of her academic focus on the relationship between law and political power and her particular interest in issues of discrimination and inequality of opportunity and resources. She believes that we all have an opportunity and an obligation to be active participants in public life. Her leadership of the Pace Center builds on Princeton’s long tradition of commitment to public service to offer students and others the chance to develop their knowledge, skills, and commitment to engage in public work.
Jamieson was educated at Bryn Mawr College (AB) and Rutgers University (MA, PhD). She received the Law and Society Association's Dissertation Prize and is the author of Real Choices: Feminism, Freedom, and the Limits of Law, as well as articles and reviews on subjects ranging from surrogacy to speech codes. She has taught at Rutgers, Haverford College, the University of Pennsylvania, and at Princeton since 1999.
Martin P. Johnson
Martin P. Johnson,'81, is President and Founder of Isles, Inc., a community development and environmental organization. Started in 1981, Isles has received broad recognition for creating self-help approaches to environmental restoration, housing development, urban agriculture, micro-enterprise, community planning, youth training and other activities. (www.isles.org).
Mr. Johnson is a founder and chairman of the New Jersey Regional Coalition, trustee of the Capital Health System, trustee of the Capital City Redevelopment Corporation, and trustee of the National Housing Institute. He is a former Trustee and Executive Committee member of Princeton University, a founding director and former chairman of the New Jersey Community Loan Fund (now New Jersey Community Capital) and a founding trustee of the Housing and Community Development Network of NJ. He taught at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University from 1996-97. During that time, he co-founded the Success Measures Project, a national effort to create a better system to measure the impact of community building work.
A graduate of Princeton University, Mr. Johnson and his family have resided in Trenton for 26 years.
Lisa Kelley
Lisa Kelley, '08, is a student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department seeking a certificate in Environmental Studies. During her undergraduate education, her academic interests have focused generally on field and theoretical ecology and on English literature and creative writing. Most recently, she has pursued her interest in ecology with field research on a Masai group ranch in Kenya investigating how the distribution, abundance and quality of water sources shapes animal movements. Previously, she has participated in the EEB Department's field biology semester in Panama and has worked with Dr. Sarah Greenleaf at UC Davis to research if and how degraded riparian communities facilitate the transmission of Pierce's Disease of grapevines. Her plans for the upcoming year include leading an English-language immersion program in rural China and working in Hanoi, Vietnam with the wildlife trade monitoring organization Traffic. Longer-term plans are to attend graduate school for ecology.
Stuart B. Levy
Stuart B. Levy, MD, Professor of Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Medicine, is the Director of the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at Tufts University School of Medicine and Staff Physician at the New England Medical Center. He also serves as President of the international Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, and is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He is a past President of the American Society for Microbiology.
Dr. Levy led the discovery of the first energy-dependent antibiotic efflux mechanism and efflux protein (for tetracyclines). His research into multi-drug resistance revealed a regulatory locus, mar, for intrinsic antibiotic resistance and virulence among the Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas. He has published over 300 papers, edited four books and two special journal editions devoted to antibiotic use and resistance. His 1992 book, The Antibiotic Paradox: How Miracle Drugs Are Destroying the Miracle, now in its second edition, has been translated into four languages.
Dr. Levy received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, competed his residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York and performed postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Infectious Disease Society of America, the American Academy of Microbiology and the Association for the Advancement of Science. He was Chairperson of the U.S. Fogarty Center study of “Antibiotic use and resistance worldwide” and helped write the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment report on antibiotic resistant bacteria. He serves on the recently established National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity. In 1995 he received the Hoechst-Roussel Award for esteemed research in antimicrobial chemotherapy from the American Society for Microbiology and has been awarded honorary degrees from Wesleyan and Des Moines Universities.
Nolan McCarty
Nolan McCarty is acting dean at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His research interests include U.S. politics, democratic political institutions, and political game theory. He is the recipient of the Robert Eckles Swain National Fellowship from the Hoover Institution and the John M. Olin Fellowship in Political Economy. He has recently completed two books: Political Game Theory (2006, Cambridge University Press with Adam Meirowitz) and Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (2006, MIT Press with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal). Other recent publications include The Realignment of National Politics and the Income Distribution (1997 with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal), "Bureaucratic Capacity, Delegation, and Political Reform" (2004 with John Huber) in the American Political Science Review, "The Appointments Dilemma" (2004) in the American Journal of Political Science, "Political Resource Allocation: The Benefits and Costs of Voter Initiatives" (2001 with John G. Matsusaka) in the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, "The Hunt for Party Discipline" (2001 with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal) in the American Political Science Review, "Cabinet Decision Rules and Political Uncertainty in Parliamentary Bargaining" (2001 with John Huber) in the American Political Science Review, and "The Politics of Blame: Bargaining before an Audience," (2000 with Timothy Groseclose) in the American Journal of Political Science. McCarty was the program co-chair of the 2005 Midwest Political Association Meetings and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences during academic 2004-05 year.
Stephen W. Pacala
Stephen W. Pacala currently holds the Frederick D. Petrie Chair in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and is Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford in 1982 and after ten years on the faculty at the University of Connecticut, he moved to Princeton in 1992. His research focuses on forests and the global carbon cycle. He also directs, with Robert Socolow, Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative, which is aimed at finding solutions to the greenhouse warming problem. He has received numerous honors and awards, including election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.
H. Vincent Poor
H. Vincent Poor *77, Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
H. Vincent Poor joined the Princeton faculty in 1990, prior to which he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois. He has also held visiting positions at a number of universities in the U.S. and abroad, including recently Harvard, London and Stanford. His research interests are in the area of stochastic analysis, with applications in wireless networking and other fields. HIs publications in these areas include the forthcoming book Quickest Detection(Cambridge University Press, 2008). Poor is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and other scientific and technical organizations. Recent recognition of his work includes the 2005 IEEE Education Medal, and the 2007 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award. Ph.D. Princeton University.
Kimberly K. Smith
Kimberly K. Smith is Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and her law degree at the Boalt School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and teaches courses in constitutional law, the judicial process, American political thought, political theory, and environmental politics and policy. She has published articles in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Wisconsin Journal of Environmental Law, Women's Studies, California Law Review, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and Environmental Ethics. Prof. Smith's first book, The Dominion of Voice: Riot, Reason and Romance in Antebellum Politics (University Press of Kansas, 1999) was awarded the 2001 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award by the Organization of American Historians. Her second book, Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition: A Common Grace, was published in 2003, and her third book, African American Environmental Thought: Foundations was published by University Press of Kansas in Spring 2007. Currently on leave from Carleton, Professor Smith holds the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professorship at the Princeton Environmental Institute and is a Visiting Professor at the Princeton Center for African American Studies.
Anthony D. So
Anthony D. So, MD, MPA *86, is the Director of the Program on Global Health and Technology Access at Duke University’s Sanford Institute of Public Policy. The Program supports research, policy meetings, and teaching on issues in global health, particularly related to the ownership and control of knowledge and how it is harnessed to improve the health of the poor. The Program is also the Strategic Policy Unit for ReAct, an international coalition for Action on Antibiotic Resistance. Previously he had served as Associate Director of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Health Equity program, where his grantmaking focused on access to medicines policy in developing countries, charting a fairer course for intellectual property rights and enabling developing countries to respond to the challenge of tobacco use. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. So directed the activities of the Liaison Office for Quality as Senior Advisor to the Administrator at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In that capacity, he supported Secretary Donna Shalala in her role as Co-Chair of a Presidential Advisory Commission focused on improving the quality of health care for all Americans, as well as contributed background papers in the development of the Consumer Bill of Rights. From 1995-96, he had served as Secretary Shalala’s White House Fellow, when he launched the Department’s first electronic public service announcement. In a six-year, combined program at the University of Michigan, he received his B.A. in philosophy and biomedical sciences and his M.D. He earned his M.P.A. from Princeton University as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar. Dr. So completed his residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and his fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of California, San Francisco/Stanford. He has served on non-profit boards such as Community Catalyst, a national consumer health advocacy organization, as well as in various advisory capacities from the Advisory Council to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University to the Health Action International/World Health Organization’s Medicine Prices Project. He also serves on the advisory board for the national student group, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines.
Robert H. Socolow
Robert H. Socolow is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He was the Director of the University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Studies from 1979 to 1997. He teaches in both the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Socolow’s current research focuses on the characteristics of a global energy system responsive to global and local environmental and security constraints. His specific areas of interest include carbon dioxide capture from fossil fuels and storage in geological formations, nuclear power, energy efficiency in buildings, and the acceleration of deployment of advanced technologies in developing countries. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) www.princeton.edu/~cmi/, a ten-year (2001-2010) project, supported by BP and Ford. Pacala and Socolow are the authors of “Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies,” which appeared in the August 13, 2004 issue of Science.
Socolow was the editor of Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 1992-2002. He served on the Board of Directors of the National Audubon Society from 1992-99. In July 1997 he co-chaired the Workshop on Fuels Decarbonization and Carbon Sequestration, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. In 1995, Socolow was a member of the Fusion Review Panel of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). In the l970s and 80s, he directed a team of physical scientists, engineers, architects, statisticians, and behavioral scientists in a series of unique research projects on energy conservation in housing. With John Harte, Socolow co-edited Patient Earth (Holt, Rinehart, l97l), one of the first college textbooks in environmental studies.
Socolow earned a B.A. in l959 (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics in l964 from Harvard University. He was an assistant professor of physics at Yale University from l966 to l97l. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was awarded the 2003 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award by the American Physical Society: “For leadership in establishing energy and environmental problems as legitimate research fields for physicists, and for demonstrating that these broadly defined problems can be addressed with the highest scientific standards.” In 2004 he was made a lifetime National Associate of the National Academies of the U.S., "in recognition of extraordinary service to the National Academies in its role as advisor to the Nation in matters of science, engineering, and health." In 2005, he received the Axel Axelson Johnson Commemorative Lecture award from the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. The award, given every five years, in principle, had last been given in 1995. The inscription on the medal reads (translation from Swedish): “For a remarkable effort in the application of engineering science research in mankind’s service.”
Shirley M. Tilghman
Shirley M. Tilghman, President, Princeton University
Professor of Molecular Biology
Shirley M. Tilghman was elected Princeton University's 19th president on May 5, 2001, and assumed office on June 15, 2001. An exceptional teacher and a world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology, she served on the Princeton faculty for 15 years before being named president.
Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968. After two years of secondary school teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa, she obtained her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Temple University in Philadelphia.
During postdoctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health, she made a number of groundbreaking discoveries while participating in cloning the first mammalian gene, and then continued to make scientific breakthroughs as an independent investigator at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia and an adjunct associate professor of human genetics and biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tilghman came to Princeton in 1986 as the Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences. Two years later, she also joined the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as an investigator. In 1998, she took on additional responsibilities as the founding director of Princeton's multi-disciplinary Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.
A member of the National Research Council's committee that set the blueprint for the U.S. effort in the Human Genome Project, Tilghman also was one of the founding members of the National Advisory Council of the Human Genome Project for the National Institutes of Health.
She is renowned not only for her pioneering research, but for her national leadership on behalf of women in science and for promoting efforts to make the early careers of young scientists as meaningful and productive as possible.
From 1993 through 2000, Tilghman chaired Princeton's Council on Science and Technology, which encourages the teaching of science and technology to students outside the sciences, and in 1996 she received Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. She initiated the Princeton Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, a program across all the science and engineering disciplines that brings postdoctoral students to Princeton each year to gain experience in both research and teaching.
In 2002, Tilghman was one of five winners of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science. In the following year, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Developmental Biology, and in 2007, she was awarded the Genetics Society of America Medal for outstanding contributions to her field.
Tilghman is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the Royal Society of London. She serves as a trustee of The Jackson Laboratory, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a director of Google Inc.
Aritetsoma K. (Tetse) Ukueberuwa
Aritetsoma K. (Tetse) Ukueberuwa is a second-year graduate student in Urban and Regional Planning at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University. She served as co-chair of SURGE in her first year at Princeton, and is a student representative on Princeton's Sustainability Committee. Tetse was trained as a Climate Justice organizer in 2005 and in summer 2007, she worked at Trenton's Center for the Urban Environment to explore how NJ's newest climate change policies will impact the livelihoods of NJ’s urban population. As a Nigerian citizen raised in NJ, Tetse has worked in Nigeria as an international fellow for the United Nations to design safety protocols and training manuals for workers in that nation’s oil extraction and hazardous waste industries. She is a 2004 graduate of the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College.
Richard C. Vierbuchen
Richard C. Vierbuchen, *79 S*77 P05, is Vice President, Caspian/Middle East Region, of ExxonMobil Exploration Company. He joined ExxonMobil in 1978 and has held numerous positions including Research Division Manager, Corporate Exploration Advisor, Exploration Manager of Imperial Oil, Canada, and of Esso, United Kingdom, and Exploration Director of ExxonMobil International Ltd. Prior to joining ExxonMobil, Mr. Vierbuchen received a PhD in Geology and Applied Geophysics from Princeton University. He also worked for several years as a geologist for the governments of Venezuela and Ethiopia, and as a university professor.
David B. Wallinga
David B. Wallinga, MD, MPA *94, is the physician-director of the Food and Health Program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a Minneapolis-based NGO. Dr. Wallinga applies a systems perspective to the intersection of public health, agriculture, food and the environment. His expertise includes the impacts of food contamination and the means of food production on human health, including impacts from the inappropriate use of antibiotics and arsenic in livestock and poultry. Dr. Wallinga also has for several years researched and advocated around the impacts on fetuses, children and adults of early-life environments-- nutritional environments, as well as environmental chemicals in the womb or breast milk. In addition to coauthoring several peer reviewed articles on these topics, Dr. Wallinga wrote "Playing Chicken: Avoiding Arsenic in Your Meat", and "Poultry n Antibiotics: Hazards to Human Health". He serves on the Board of Scientific Counselors to the CDC's National Center for Environmental Health, and previously on the Science Advisory Board to the EPA. He received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota, his MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School, and a Bachelors from Dartmouth College.