The new center will include modern classrooms and seminar spaces, a large auditorium with projection and audiovisual equipment, a multimedia center with advanced computer technology, and a high-technology engineering library that will be the most advanced in the university's library system. The center will be located near the intersection of Olden and William streets, adjacent to the computer science building, where a parking lot is now. It will stand as a symbolic gateway to the engineering campus and be named to honor Keller's boyhood friend and Princeton roommate, Peter W. Friend '63, who died in 1962.

The center will cost about $20 million, said Justin Harmon '78, a university spokesman. Keller's gift, he added, allows the university to hire an architect and start the planning. A target date for the start of construction has not been set.

Among his volunteer activities for Princeton, Keller chairs the Leadership Council of the engineering school and cochairs the Anniversary Campaign, which is seeking to raise $750 million by the year 2000. The campaign has raised more than $500 million since it was launched in 1995. Keller also is chairman of the Graduate School of Business Council for the University of Chicago.

Keller's undergraduate major was economics. After earning an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, he went on to cofound the Keller Graduate School of Management, which today offers M.B.A. and other master's degree programs for working adults at 23 centers in 10 cities across the United States. Ten years ago, Keller Graduate School acquired the DeVry Institutes of Technology, which provide curricula in general education, technology, and business for the associate and the bachelor's degree levels on 15 campuses in the United States and Canada. Both units are contained within DeVry Inc., a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Students break to Belize rain forest
A group of 12 undergraduates spent their fall break in Belize, help- ing prepare part of that Central American country's rain forest to meet the demands of ecotourism. Working through the Student Volunteers Council (SVC), the students lived and ate with families in the jungle village of Saint Margarets while performing geological and biological fieldwork in the Five Blues Lake National Park, about four miles away.

The group was invited to Belize by Terrance A. McCloskey '76, who worked for the Peace Corps in Belize and now lives there, serving on its National Park Board. At the initiation of McCloskey and former SVC director Chris Drake, groups of students from Princeton have been traveling to Belize for the past five years to teach and aid in relief efforts there.

The trip--the first to focus on ecotourism--was led by two seniors, Sarah Bertucci and Scarlet Soriano. It was designed to gather data on the jungle while making sure villagers felt involved with the ecotours that will soon be changing their way of life. The students divided into two groups, one going daily into the jungle to collect samples and lay out trails, the other remaining in the town to interview villagers and work in the local school, leading workshops on conservation for the children and teachers. Some students also wrote grant requests for the Five Blues Lake Park, while others collected oral histories from the villagers.

Tourism is expected to play an essential role in jump-starting the regional economy, and the students have thought about ways to make it marketable. "We're compiling all the material we gathered, putting together all kinds of brochures, leaflets, things that will make the tourists come back," said Bertucci.

A geology major, Bertucci was particularly impressed with the group's findings, some of which she is working into a senior thesis on Belize. "The place shouldn't need any advertising," she said. "The jungle is amazing, the caves are unreal. We found intact Mayan pots up to a foot and a half in diameter, hundreds of years old."

This isn't the last time a group from Princeton will travel to Belize. The Class of 1998 is currently seeking sponsorship from alumni classes to continue the Princeton-Belize connection. --Katherine Zoepf '00

PPPL's hot Website
It's "cool" and a "Hot Spot." It's the Internet Plasma Physics Educational experience (IPPEX), the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's interactive Website.

The site allows users to operate their own fusion experiments and analyze data from real experiments conducted by physicists. It includes an introduction to fusion; interactive physics modules on matter, electricity and magnetism, energy, and fusion at an upper-middle-school level; a section of data analysis from PPPL's Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor; a virtual fusion reactor, the "Virtual Tokamak"; and "Ask a Scientist," in which students from all over the world can ask questions on plasma physics and fusion energy. The Web address is http://ippex.PPPL.gov/ippex/.

IPPEX was cited for its excellence on at least five Websites in September. New Scientist magazine selected it for the Hot Spots section of its Planet Science site. The Exploratorium museum in San Francisco chose it as one of the "Ten Cool Sites." WWW Associates voted it one of the top 10 science sites on the Web. The Yahooligans Directory on the Internet cited IPPEX as its only "cool" physics site under Top Science and Oddities: Physics. And the Virtual Tokamak was named among the top 25 percent of Web applets by the JAVA Review Service.

"We were able to develop a means for students to interact with real scientists, doing real experiments in a way that is significant and helpful to students," said project manager Andrew Post Zwicker.

IPPEX was featured in the WNET program, "The Internet in Action--Real Time and Remote Visits," in which 10th graders at the Bronx High School of Science used it as part of their physics class. And the site helped create a new plasma physicist when an Italian undergraduate who had completed the Tokamak data analysis section wrote expressing a desire to pursue graduate studies in fusion energy. Post Zwicker introduced him to an Italian colleague who arranged an interview for him; he is starting graduate work in plasma physics at the University of Milan this fall.

Alumni to receive awards
Biologist Eric S. Lander '78 and pianist Charles W. Rosen '48 *51 will receive the university's highest awards for alumni on Alumni Day, February 21.
Lander will receive the Woodrow Wilson Award, given to an undergraduate alumnus or alumna who exemplifies "Princeton in the Nation's Service." Rosen will receive the Madison Medal, which recognizes an outstanding alumnus or alumna of the graduate school.

Lander is director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research. His group has produced the first genetic maps of the human and mouse genomes. A mathematics major at Princeton, Lander was a Pyne Prize winner, Rhodes Scholar, and class valedictorian. He also wrote for The Daily Princetonian and was an On the Campus columnist for paw. After earning his Ph.D. at Oxford University, he joined the faculty at Harvard Business School. He taught himself biology and molecular biology, and he won a 1987 MacArthur Fellowship.

Professor of Music and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, Rosen is known particularly for his interpretations of Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt. At Princeton, he majored in modern languages and literatures, the field in which he earned his Ph.D.

In Memoriam
Carl G. Hempel,a philosophy professor who refined and defended the approach known as logical positivism or logical empiricism, died November 9, of pneumonia. He was 92 and a resident of Princeton Township. Hempel was the last survivor of the logical positivists who emigrated from Germany and Austria to this country around the time of World War II.

A beloved teacher, Hempel joined the faculty in 1955 and held the Stuart Professorship of Philosophy until he transferred to emeritus status in 1973. He also taught at the City College of New York; Queens College in Flushing, New York; Yale University; and the University of Pittsburgh.

Generations of students were treated to a lively introduction to the rigors of logic and the philosophy of science. His contributions to the latter subject, the most widely known of which lay in the areas of scientific explanation and the confirmation of hypotheses, shaped much of the discussion of the philosophy of science in the last 50 years.

Born in Germany, Hempel (known as "Peter"), studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy at the universities of Göttingen, Heidelberg, Vienna, and Berlin.

Julian Jaynes, a former lecturer in psychology, died November 21 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He was 77 and had suffered a stroke.

Born in Massachusetts, he received his doctorate from Yale University. A popular teacher, he lectured in the psychology department from 1966 to 1990. After making significant contributions to the study of animal behavior and ethology, he turned his attention to the riddle of human consciousness and became best known for his provocative book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, a nominee for the National Book Award in 1978.