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Fewer alcohol-related problems at sign-ins In the past, the excitement
of joining an eating club has gone hand in hand with alcohol violations
and trips to McCosh Infirmary and Princeton Medical Center. While
several students this year were treated for alcohol-related problems
during "initiations weekend," February 8-10, both at the
"Street" and in the dorms, Princeton’s medical and
law enforcement officials agreed that this year was calmer than
years in recent memory. An
Alternative to Alcohol Abuse: Housing Reform in the Residential
Colleges
by Brian Muegge ‘05 Seniors Abbie Liel and Lillian Pierce received the university's Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate, and graduate students Howard Keeley and Melissa Miller were named co-winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, which supports the final year of graduate study, at Alumni Day ceremonies Saturday, February 23. These are the highest honors Princeton awards to students. A molecular biologist leading an independent investigation into last fall’s anthrax attacks, Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson School on February 18, that the FBI knows that the perpetrator is American, according to the Daily Princetonian which reported the story. Some U.S. government insiders, she said, agree on one likely person whom they believe is responsible for the attacks. That person, she said in the speech, is probably an anthrax expert with access to a U.S. government strain of the anthrax virus, the "Ames" strain. She said that the FBI is reluctant to prosecute this person because of the risk of making public the nation’s bioweapons program. But an FBI spokeswoman later dismissed Rosenberg’s allegations as "purely speculative." Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Emeritus, Harold P. Furth, a pioneer in the U.S. fusion program, died of heart failure on February 21, in Philadelphia. He was 72. Bernard Lewis, the Cleveland Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, emeritus, has been awarded a 2001 George Polk Journalism Award for magazine reporting. One of the West’s leading authorities on the Arab world, Lewis was recognized for a story that appeared last November in the New Yorker titled "The Revolt of Islam." The piece "sought to make the unthinkable understandable, by examining the historical context and likely impact of Islam’s war with the West," according to the award committee. President Jacques Chirac of France has awarded the Legion of Honor to Ezra Suleiman, the IBM Professor of International Studies and chair of the Committee for European Studies at Princeton. The award recognizes Suleiman’s contributions to France and to French-American relations. Paul Krugman, a professor of economics and public affairs and a New York Times columnist who has criticized Enron in his columns, received $50,000 for serving on Enron’s board in 1999. According to the Daily Princetonian : "Before joining the Times in October 1999, Krugman had written an article in Fortune magazine promoting Enron. He disclosed his involvement with the company in a Times column on January 24 of last year." He wrote, "Full disclosure: Before this newspaper’s conflict-of-interest rules required me to resign, I served on an Enron advisory board that turns out to have been a hatchery for future Bush administration officials. (What was I doing there? Beats me.)" Scott Shoemaker, a graduate student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, was named as a recipient of the Biophysical Society Student Travel Award for the Year 2002. Shoemaker’s award was based on the scientific merit of the abstract he submitted to the Biophysical Society. The Biophysical Society is a professional scientific society established to encourage development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. History professor Peter Lake and English professor Nigel Smith will teach a new interdisciplinary study of Europe and its colonies. The new program – The Behrman Senior Fellows program under the aegis of the Council of the Humanities – will span from the Renaissance to the French Revolution, reported the Daily Princetonian. The National Science Foundation has granted CAREER awards, its most prestigious early-career research grant, to three Princeton faculty members. David August, assistant professor of computer science;Jeffrey Carbeck, assistant professor of chemical engineering; and Evgenii Narimanov, assistant professor of electrical engineering, received five-year grants each worth about $375,000. August will develop techniques and tools to aid the design of computer processor systems. Carbeck plans to develop miniature devices like computer chips that catalog all the proteins made by a particular cell and then analyze how the proteins interact. Narimanov will use the grant to study the resonances and scattering of light in certain kinds of non-electrically -conducting materials. UPCOMING
LECTURES/EVENTS: Princeton
area events campus
map Martin Plissner, former executive political director of
CBS-TV News and author: "Television and the Making of the President
in 2000: Lessons for the Next Round"
Frank Gehry, architect of the Guggenheim
Museum in Balboa, Spain, and architect for Princeton's new science
library, will discuss his work Stewart Smith, professor of physics: "Imperfect Opposites:
Matter vs. Antimatter at Accelerators and in the Universe: Martin Butora and Przemyslaw Grudzinski, ambassadors
of Slovakia nad Poland, respectively, will give a joint lecture:
"Rejoining the West: Central Europe 10 Years After the Revolutions" 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 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 The photographs of Fazal Sheikh ’87, who went to Afghanistan after the Taliban had taken power, are on display at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at the State University of New Jersey, at Rutgers, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, through March 31. (732-932-7237) The show is titled "The Victor Weeps: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh of Afghan Refugees, 1996-98." Other
regions The Legal Times reported in December that Charlie Richards ’59 is representing Ken Lay, former CEO of Enron. Ivy League Sports (http://www.IvyLeagueSports.com) celebrated Black History Month with a Web presentation of stories, anecdotes, photos and memories. Princetonians featured on the Web site are Nicole Harrison ’98, for track and field, Armond Hill ’85, for basketball, and Deborah Saint-Phard ’87, for her heptagonal achievements. The Web site highlights both the rich history of African-Americans’ achievements in Ivy League athletics, and the diverse contributions that these graduates have made to their institutions, their communities, and the nation at large. The New York Times has appointed R.W. Apple, Jr. ’57, who has covered wars, revolutions, and other world and national events for the paper for almost 40 years, to associate editor. "The title connotes a senior status of a special sort, as a writer, editor and a kind of resident sage on journalism," Howell Raines, the newspaper’s executive editor told the Times. Michael "Dooma" Wendschuh ’99, a recent graduate of the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC, just sold his first movie to Disney. The film is based on Kenneth Grahame’s classic "The Wind in the Willows." Peter B. Lewis ’55 is among the nation’s most generous donors. The Chronicle of Philanthropy listed him as the ninth most generous donor in its February 7 issue for pledging to donate $118 million last year to nonprofits, including the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and Princeton. Lewis has donated funds for the Institute for Integrative Genomics and last fall pledged $60 million for a new science library. The photographs of Fazal Sheikh ’87, who went to Afghanistan after the Taliban had taken power, are on display at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at the State University of New Jersey, at Rutgers, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, through March 31. (732-932-7237) The show is titled "The Victor Weeps: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh of Afghan Refugees, 1996-98." Women’s
swimming and diving earns third straight Ivy title Men’s
basketball storms into first place in Ivies \It’s
a strong #2 finish for men’s squash Fifth
straight HEPs title for men’s track and field Click here for The Varsity Typewriter by Patrick Sullivan '02 |
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