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Meg Whitman ’77, president and CEO of eBay, Inc. and a Princeton trustee, will be the speaker at the university’s end-of-the-year Baccalaureate ceremony on Sunday, June 2, in the Chapel at 2 p.m. She and her family are making a gift of $30 million toward the construction of a new residential college. Princeton geochemist Satish Myneni has shown that ordinary leaf mulch contains chlorinated compounds that were previously thought to come only from pesticides and other man-made pollutants. His research was published in the February 8 edition of Science. Future studies will reveal whether these natural compounds are toxic, as are many of the man-made forms. Three faculty members, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering C.K. Law, Professor of Electrical Engineering Bede Liu, and Professor of Computer Science Brian Kernighan *69, were elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest distinctions in the field of engineering. The election brings the total number of academy members at Princeton to 14. Membership in the Academy honors those who have made "important contributions to engineering theory and practice" and those who have demonstrated "unusual accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology." Sasha Linney '02’s flat, rectangular beaded necklaces adorn many a Princeton student. She sells her necklaces to people on campus for $20 but they go for as much as $75 in upscale boutiques in New York City, reported the Daily Princetonian. The beaded design is about the size of a cracker and hangs from a silver chain. Graffiti containing a hateful message directed at African-Americans and Jews was discovered on February 13 in a storeroom in the Office of the General Counsel at 120 Alexander Street. University public safety officials and township police are investigating. Fewer students are majoring in chemical engineering which is spurring faculty to look at the department’s curriculum and requirements, the Daily Princetonian reported. Two seniors, Lindsay Campbell and Aili McConnon were awarded ReachOut ’56 Fellowships. They will receive a $25,000 grant to support a year-long public service project after graduation. UPCOMING
LECTURES/EVENTS: Juan Gabriel Valdès, ambassador of Chile to the
U.N.: "Prospects for a U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement" The Honorable Sonia
Sotomayor ’76, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit, will speak about her Latina identity and the
influence she perceives that it has on her presence on the bench. Mary Jo Bane,
Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard
University. Pamela S. Karlan,
of the Stanford Law School: "Exit Strategies in Copnstitutional
Law: Lessons for Getting 'The Least Dangerous Branch' out of the
'Political Thicket' " Stanley N. Katz,
lecturer with the rank of professor at the Woodrow Wilson School:
"Constitutionalism and Human Rights: The Dilemma of the United
States" The films Nobody
Knows My Name and The Darker Side of Black, presented
as part of the African Diaspora in Film Series Plasma Physics Science on Saturday, March 2, 9:30 a.m.: How the Brain Got Its Folds: Learning About Function by Looking at Structure, Samuel Wang, Department of Molecular Biology Heightened security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121. Plasma Physics Science on Saturday, March 9, 9:30 a.m.: The Science of Radiowave and Microwave Probing of Ionospheric and Fusion Plasmas, Raffi Nazikian, PPPL (laboratory tour following lecture). Heightened security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121. Plasma Physics Science on Saturday, March 16, 9:30 a.m.: Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era, Mona Singh, Department of Computer Science. Heightened security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121. Tony Kushner,
playwright Sydney Brenner,
Oxford University and Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley:Biology
after the Genome Project Timothy J. Clark,
University of California, Berkeley: Poussin’s Mad Pursuit: Timothy J. Clark,
University of California, Berkeley: Bruegel in the Land of Cockaigne Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory presents Science-on-Saturday talks The lectures are free and open to the public, Heightened security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events on Sept. 11. For more information about the series or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121 February 9 — "What Do Studies of the Solid Earth Tell Us About Life on Planets?" Charles Langmuir, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University. February 16 — "Who Wants To Be a Scientist? A Game About the Expansion of the Universe," Jean-Marc Perelmuter, Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Alexandria, Va. March 2 — "How the Brain Got Its Folds: Learning About Function by Looking at Structure," Samuel Wang, Princeton Department of Molecular Biology. March 9 —"The Science of Radiowave and Microwave Probing of Ionospheric and Fusion Plasmas," Raffi Nazikian, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (laboratory tour following lecture). March 16 — "Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era," Mona Singh, Princeton Department of Computer Science. Heightened security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121. Art Museum "Klinger to Kollwitz: German Art in the Age of Expressionism," an overview of late-19th-and early-20th-century German art, will be on view through June 9. Reunions 2002, May 30 - June 2, 2002 Reunions 2003,
May 29 - June 1, 2002 U.S. District Judge of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia T.S. Ellis III ’61 asked John Walker Lindh, the American who fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, "How do you plead to all the charges?" at his arraignment on February 13. Lindh answered, "Not guilty, sir," according to cbsnews.com. Ellis set jury selection for August 26 and the trial to begin two days later, the New York Times reported on February 16. In his Chatterbox column, Slate magazine’s Timothy Noah described Fred A. Bernstein ’77’s "ingenious and moving" design for a memorial to September 11. Bernstein has designed two long docks – the same size as the World Trade Center towers – that extend out into New York Harbor. For more, go to www.fredbernstein.com. Scientists in Texas have cloned a cat, "opening the door to what some experts say will be the first large-scale commercial use of cloning – to reproduce beloved pets," according to the New York Times. Louis Hawthorne ’83 is chief executive of the company that supported the effort, Genetic Savings and Clone, of College Station, Texas, and Sausalito, California. For PAW's story on Hawthorne, go to www.princeton.edu/~paw/features/features_101001b.html. Andrea Jung ’79, CEO of Avon, has been selected the winner of the 2002 Friends of the Princeton University Women’s Center Alumnae Leadership Award. It will be presented (in absentia) on Alumni Day, February 23. Men’s basketball set for Friday showdown with Yale at home Princeton’s wins
over Dartmouth and Harvard over the weekend have set up a possibly
deciding game in the race for the Ivy League championship on Friday
as the Tigers host Yale. Gretchen Anderson ’04, Lisa Rasmussen ’04, and Jessica Fedderly ’02 each scored goals in Saturday’s win. April Brown ’05 and Anderson each scored one goal and Susan Hobson ’04 added two in Friday’s tie. Princeton (14-6-3, 9-3 ECAC-North) is fourth in the ECAC-North and sits atop the Ivy League with a 6-1 mark, one game ahead of Dartmouth. Men’s squash seeded #2 for this weekends national championships at Harvard In a preview of what could be the match-up for the national title, the Tigers fell 8-1 to top-ranked Trinity College at Jadwin on Saturday. The men’s squash powerhouses could meet again this weekend in the national championships at Harvard, where Trinity is seeded #1 and Princeton, the Ivy League champions, #2. Peter Kelly ’02 gave Princeton its only point against Trinity. The Tigers took some of their frustrations out in their season finale against Navy, handing the military academy a 9-0 loss in Jadwin. The Princeton finished the season at 9-1. Kilbourne ’02 notches first Olympic goal Princeton University’s Andrea Kilbourne ’02 scored the final goal in U.S. women’s hockey team’s 5-0 win over Finland on Saturday in Salt Lake City. The win — the team’s 34th in a row — puts the U.S. in the medal round with the #1 seed. The U.S. team won the first women’s hockey gold medal in 1998 in Nagano. Kilbourne led the Tigers in scoring the last three years before taking the 2001-2002 school year off to skate with the national team. The U.S. plays Sweden on Tuesday in the semifinals. Frederick Wohlschlaeger ’73 named USOC chief of staff Kilbourne is not the only Princeton alum heavily involved at the Salt Lake Games. Frederick Wohlschlaeger ’73 was named as the new chief of staff of he U.S. Olympic Committee just before the winter Olympics commenced. Wohlschlaeger takes over a recently established position at the USOC and will oversee the organization’s legal affairs, finance, information technology, and human resources departments. Prior to joining he USOC, Wohlschlaeger served as a senior executive and general counsel for several major corporations, including the British Petroleum Co, Hartmarx Corp., Morton International, and the Maytag Corp. At Princeton, Wohlschlaeger rowed as a freshman, played football and threw the javelin for the track team. Walters ’67 and Thompson ’88 named to NCAA men’s basketball committees Princeton Director of Athletics Gary Walters ’67 has been named to the NCAA Division I men’s basketball committee and men’s basketball coach John Thompson ’88 has been selected to the Division I men’s basketball rules committee. Walters, who has been involved with college basketball as a player, assistant coach, head coach, broadcaster, and administrator over the last 30-plus years, will begin his term on the committee next season. Among the committee’s responsibilities are selecting the field for the NCAA tournament and the administration of the tournament itself. Thompson, a four-year starter with the Tigers, served as an assistant coach under Pete Carril and Bill Carmody before taking the reins last year and leading Princeton to an Ivy League title and the NCAA tournament. The team is currently in second place in the Ivy League. Click here for The Varsity Typewriter by Patrick Sullivan '02
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