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university BulletinVolume 99, Number 8 February 15, 2010 Diemand-Yauman selected to receive Pyne Honor Prize

Ru t h St e v e n s the relationship between the Univer- sity and the eating clubs, instituting a rinceton senior Connor Diemand- gender-neutral housing pilot project, Yauman has been named the implementing measures to help foster P winner of the University’s 2010 understanding about Princeton’s grad- Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the ing policy, revising the pass-D-fail highest general distinction conferred policy and reallocating Undergraduate on an undergraduate. Student Government (USG) funds for He will be recognized at a luncheon student-initiated service projects. during Alumni Day on campus Satur- “I never considered that I would day, Feb. 20. actually be in the running for this The Pyne Honor Prize, established distinction so I was floored when I first in 1921, is awarded to the senior who heard the news,” Diemand-Yauman has most clearly manifested excellent said the day after he was informed. scholarship, strength of character and “It’s wonderful to be recognized for effective leadership. Previous recipients academic and extracurricular work include the late Princeton President that was intrinsically rewarding from Emeritus Robert F. Goheen ’40, former the start.” Brian Wilson U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes ’54 and cur- His senior thesis tests a theory on Connor Diemand-Yauman, winner of the 2010 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, is a psychology rent U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia learning and retention. He conducted major and former president of the Undergraduate Student Government. Sotomayor ’76. a field study with 250 students in 15 Diemand-Yauman, who is from classrooms at a high school and is that Princeton students produce,” and probing.” In a letter of support, Chesterland, Ohio, is majoring in analyzing the data for papers that will said Danny Oppenheimer, associate Ronald Comer, lecturer on continuing psychology. He is writing a senior be submitted not only as his thesis, but professor of psychology and public appointment in psychology, wrote that thesis that his adviser expects will also for presentation at international affairs, who is his adviser. “It is a he is “friendly, engaging, remarkably be published in a top-tier journal. He conferences and for publication in legitimate piece of scholarship in its energetic, caring of others and truly served as president of his class during prestigious journals. One already has own right that has the potential to be committed to helping others” and that his freshman, sophomore and junior been accepted for presentation at the very influential in both psychology and he “listens carefully and sensitively years, and was elected president of fourth annual International Conference education, and has both theoretical and and, at the same time, presents his the undergraduate student body in on Psychology to be held in May in real-world importance.” own points in a very articulate and 2009. He has championed various Athens, Greece. Faculty members have described caring manner.” initiatives, including creating with “Connor’s independent work is Diemand-Yauman’s contributions to President Tilghman a task force on among the upper echelon of theses their classes as “insightful, sensitive Continued on page 7 A broader palette Steward pictures museum that ‘sets the standard’

Je n n i f e r Gr e e n s t e i n Al t m a n n “We have one of the greatest but perhaps lesser known art collections n a warm Thursday night in Sep- in the nation,” he said. “We have an tember, crowds of students, staff exceptional opportunity to make the O and community members filled museum an essential part of the lives of the Princeton University Art Museum. our students and broader community.” There were Indian samosas and Steward, a specialist in 18th- and Bruce M. White chocolate-covered strawberries to 19th-century European art and snack on, lattes made to order and culture, came to Princeton from the several of the University’s a cappella University of Michigan, where he groups on hand to croon soul- served for 11 years as director of the ful melodies while visitors roamed Museum of Art and a faculty mem- through the museum’s galleries. In all ber. Before that he was chief curator 2,400 people visited the museum that at the Berkeley Art Museum at the evening to celebrate the new extended University of California. At Princeton, Andrea Kane hours on Thursdays, delighting Steward is a lecturer with the rank of James Steward, the new director of professor in the Department of Art and the museum. Archaeology, an Old Dominion Faculty “It was unparalleled in the history of Fellow of the Council of the Humani- this museum,” Steward said. His next ties and co-chair of the Campus Art ABOVE: James Steward, director of the challenge, he said, is “making sure Commission, which oversees public art Princeton University Art Museum, is focused they come back.” at the University. on enhancing its visibility. TOP RIGHT: One of Steward, who took over as head of “James Steward arrived at a chal- the treasures often on view at the museum the museum last April, is embracing lenging time, in the midst of a is Charles Willson Peale’s iconic portrait a host of strategies to enhance the budgetary crunch, but he has been of George Washington. BELOW RIGHT: museum’s visibility and accessibility tremendously creative about designing The museum’s first Late Thursday event in — not just on and around campus, but September drew some 2,400 visitors. Frank Wojciechowski within wider art circles. Continued on page 6

What’s New South to accommodate arts programs 2 Evergreen beauty Three faculty transfer to emeritus status 3 of campus gardens thrives year round 8 inside? RNC Chair Michael Steele to speak 4 Princeton 2 university Bulletin February 15, 2010

The renovation and move will put the arts facilities in close proxim- Spotlight New South to be renovated ity to the proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood on the western edge of the campus. The neighborhood for inclusion of arts programs would be the home of the Lewis Center administrative offices as well as the Ru t h St e v e n s as it is with human resources training requisite new teaching, rehearsal rooms and a conference room. and performance spaces. New public ew South, the location of admin- Transportation and Parking Ser- plazas and improved traffic circulation istrative offices over the past vices will remain on the A level, and would complement these new facilities N 40 years, will be renovated in will be joined by the cashier’s office. and a new New Jersey Transit Dinky 2010 to also become the home of some Media Services and Mail Services will station. The University currently is academic functions associated with the remain on the B level. seeking zoning approvals and funding Lewis Center for the Arts. The University is working with to move ahead with the project. Scheduled to begin this month, the James Bradberry Architects of Bryn Lewis Center programs will con- project will include the relocation of Mawr, Pa., on the project. The firm tinue to occupy the space vacated by the Program in Creative Writing from has completed other projects at Prince- the Program in Creative Writing at 185 Nassau St. to New South as well ton, most recently improvements on the 185 Nassau St., which will remain an as the creation of facilities for the pro- 100 level of the Frist Campus Center, active creative and performing arts grams in theater and dance. The space as well as an addition and renovations building with facilities including the was made available when Princeton’s at Ivy Club on Prospect Avenue. Hagan Dance Studio, the Matthews finance and treasury operations moved Crider said the plan is to reuse much Acting Studio, the Stewart Theater from New South to 701 Carnegie Cen- of the furniture in the building to sup- and the Lucas Gallery. ter in fall 2009. port sustainability efforts. New South, built in 1965, was Denise Applewhite designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, who went on to design Name: Willow Dressel. the Walker Art Center in Min- Position: Assistant engineering librarian. neapolis, the Dallas Museum Answering reference questions and edu- of Art and the IBM corporate cating patrons in using the resources at headquarters in Manhattan. One the Engineering Library as well as the of the University’s first high- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory rise buildings, it has two stories Library, where she spends part of each below ground and seven above. week. Writing the blog for the Engi- The modern structure, made of neering Library at . Creating guides to library was open on the first floor except resources on various topics. for the main entrance. The space was enclosed in 1982 and turned Quote: “I like it when I get questions that into additional offices. are challenging. I help with the library The first floor open design component of one of the freshman writ- originally had high ceilings, ing seminars, so I get to interact directly which make the area well-suited with incoming freshmen. They come up to the acting, dance and warmup with lots of fun stuff to research.” stations that will be constructed, Other interests: Taking bicycle rides according to Jean Crider, project along the Delaware and Raritan Canal manager in the Office of Design towpath with her husband, David. Cro- and Construction. The first-floor cheting and knitting. Reading fiction. This architect’s rendering shows the renovated first-floor lobby that will provide a larger and more lobby also will be renovated to To suggest a colleague as a future “Spotlight,” attractive entrance to New South. provide a larger and more attrac- e-mail . tive entrance to the building. The Program in Creative Writing will occupy the sixth floor. The space will include offices, three classrooms and a library. Between the beginning of construc- Board approves two new faculty appointments tion and fall 2010, several other moves will take place in the building. The avid Bell, who most recently Know It,” “The Cult of the Nation in Fueglistaler, who studies climate Office of Human Resources will relo- served as dean of the faculty of France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680- dynamics, will come to Princeton from cate from the first floor to the second Dthe Krieger School of Arts and 1800” and “Lawyers and Citizens: the University of Cambridge, where he and third floors, with the reception Sciences and the Andrew W. Mellon The Making of a Political Elite in Old has been an advanced research fellow area stationed on the second floor. The Professor in the Humanities at Johns Regime France.” He also writes fre- since 2007. He holds a master’s degree TigerCard Office will move from the A Hopkins University, has been named a quently for general-interest publications from Universität Zürich and a Ph.D. level to the third floor, which also will professor of history at Princeton. including The New Republic. from the Swiss science institute ETH contain swing space for staff members The Board of Trustees recently Bell has earned fellowships from the Zürich, where he was a postdoctoral from the Office of Information Technol- approved Bell’s appointment, which American Council for Learned Soci- fellow and senior scientist. He also was a ogy who need temporary offices while was effective Feb. 1, 2010, along with eties, the John Simon Guggenheim postdoctoral fellow and research associ- on campus from 701 Carnegie Center. the appointment of Stephen Fueg- Memorial Foundation, the National ate at the University of Washington. The Office of Research and Project listaler as an assistant professor of Endowment for the Humanities and the Administration and the Office of Tech- geosciences for a term of three and one Woodrow Wilson International Center nology Licensing will remain where half years, effective March 1, 2010. for Scholars, among many honors. they are, but will be relocating some Bell, a graduate of Harvard University, Bell became a faculty member Faculty members personnel on the fourth floor. earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1991. at Johns Hopkins in 1996 and was On the fifth floor, the housing depart- A historian of early modern France, he appointed dean of the faculty of the submit resignations ment will take up residence, moving has written the award-winning books Krieger School in 2007. He previ- he following faculty members have from its current space in the MacMillan “The First Total War: Napoleon’s ously spent five years on the faculty T submitted their resignations: Building. 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mental Institute. He is now a faculty member at Rutgers University in the Three faculty transfer to emeritus status Department of Chemistry and Chemi- cal Biology, the Waksman Institute of hree faculty members were trans- ence Foundation Director’s Award for Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist,” Microbiology and the Department of ferred to emeritus status in recent Distinguished Teaching Scholars. He with Maria Garlock, a colleague in civil Biochemistry and Microbiology. T action by the Board of Trustees. was elected to the National Academy and environmental engineering. Dismukes’ They are: David P. Billington, the of Engineering in 1986 and is a fellow He received honorary doctorates in research inter- Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engi- of the American Academy of Arts and humane letters from Union College, ests focus on neering and professor of civil and Sciences. His books include “The Art in science from Grinnell College and biological and environmental engineering, effective of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy”; in engineering from the University of chemical methods Feb. 1, 2010; Charles Dismukes, profes- “Power, Speed and Form: Engineers and Notre Dame. for renewable sor of chemistry, effective Aug. 1, 2009; the Making of the 20th Century,” with Dismukes, who joined the Princeton solar-based fuel and James Wei, professor of chemical his son, David P. Billington Jr.; “Big faculty in 1978, was an affiliated fac- production, photo- engineering, effective Feb. 1, 2010. Dams of the New Deal Era: A Conflu- ulty member in the Princeton Institute synthesis, metals Billington joined the Princeton faculty ence of Engineering and Politics,” with for the Science and Technology of in biological sys- in 1960. His courses combining the Donald C. Jackson; and “Félix Candela: Materials and the Princeton Environ- tems and tools study of engineering with an explora- for investigating tion of aesthetic Dismukes these systems. His and social values published works — including More news on the Web describe the biology and chemistry of “Structures oxygen production in natural photo- and the Urban Visit the News at Princeton Web page at for other synthetic systems, the synthesis and Environment” recent stories, including the following: characterization of bioinspired catalysts and “Engi- for renewable energy production, and neering in the • Power-generating rubber films developed by Princeton engineers could harness natural the use of microorganisms as cell facto- Modern World” body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones and ries for the production of biofuels from — have been other electronic devices. The mate- renewable sources. He is the principal some of the most rial, composed of ceramic nanoribbons investigator of BioSolarH2, a multi- popular among embedded onto silicone rubber sheets, institutional research center focusing on engineering and Billington generates electricity when flexed and is microbial hydrogen. He has served as non-engineering highly efficient at converting mechanical an adviser to the National Academy of students for decades. energy to electrical energy. Shoes made Sciences, the Royal Society and fed- Billington earned his BSE from of the material may one day harvest the eral agencies on solar-based renewable Princeton in 1950 and then spent pounding of walking and running to power energy conversion. the following two years in Belgium mobile electrical devices. Placed against Dismukes has received fellowships on a Fulbright Fellowship, studying the lungs, sheets of the material could and awards from organizations world- postwar engineering innovations. use breathing motions to power pace- wide, including the Alfred P. Sloan Upon returning to the United States, makers, obviating the current need for Foundation, the Japan Society for the he worked as a structural designer of surgical replacement of the batteries that Promotion of Science, the National bridges and buildings for Roberts & power the devices. Research Council, the Australian Schaefer Co. in New York from 1952 Academy of Sciences and the Chinese to 1960. His research at Princeton has • A major hurdle in the ambitious Frank Wojciechowski Academy of Sci- focused on the engineering of large quest to design and construct a radi- Postdoctoral researcher Yi Qi holds a piece ences. A graduate structures, including the design and cally new kind of quantum computer has of silicone rubber imprinted with super-thin of the Lowell rehabilitation of bridges, thin shell been finding a way to manipulate the material that generates electricity when flexed. Technological concrete structures, tall buildings and single electrons that very likely will con- Institute (now concrete dams, often with an empha- stitute the new machines' processing the University of sis on the intersection of efficiency components or “qubits.” Princeton physicist Jason Petta has discovered how to do just that Massachusetts- and beauty in structural design and — demonstrating a method that alters the properties of a lone electron without disturbing Lowell), he holds the transformative influence engi- the trillions of electrons in its immediate surroundings. The feat is essential to the develop- a Ph.D. from the neers have had on American society. ment of future varieties of superfast computers with near-limitless capacities for data. University of He served as director of Princeton’s Wisconsin. Program on Architecture and Engi- • Just as the heartbeats of today’s electronic devices depend on the ability to switch Wei, who is neering from 1990 to 2008 and was the flow of electricity in semiconductors on and off with lightning speed, the viability of now the Pome- Wei named the first Gordon Y.S. Wu Pro- the “spintronic” devices of the future — technologies that manipulate both the flow and roy and Betty Perry Smith Professor fessor of Engineering in 1996. magnetic “spin” of electrons — will require similarly precise control over semiconductor in Engineering Emeritus and profes- Billington has earned numerous magnetism. A team of Princeton scientists led by physicist Ali Yazdani has confirmed some sor of chemical engineering emeritus, honors for his scholarship and teaching, long-held predictions and provided new insights into how semiconductors can be turned served as dean of the School of including three Engineering Council into magnets, which could lead to the production of smaller and more energy-efficient Engineering and Applied Science for awards, the President’s Distinguished computers. 11 years. He has been credited with Teaching Award and the National Sci- Continued on page 8

Staff retirements

Effective Jan. 1: in the plasma phys- years; in the Office of the President, ary biology, administrative assistant Phyllis Rodill, after 23 years; in psychol- ics lab, technical associate Lawrence department office support staff mem- Ranveig Jakobsen, after 21 years; in ogy, department office support staff Guttadora, after 27 years; in the util- ber Judith Cabral, after 22 years; in the the Woodrow Wilson School, direc- member Maida Rosengarten, after 23 ity plant, utility plant engineer Paul library, reprographics specialist/ tor of computing services Ellen Kemp, years; in the library, special collections Kaminaris, after 31 years; in the plasma duplicating equipment Richard Cole, after 26 years; in operations research assistant Radha Sankar, after 30 years; physics lab, engineering associate after 34 years; in maintenance, and financial engineering, depart- in community and regional affairs, Anthony Langella, after 10 years; in pay- grounds manager James Consolloy, after ment office support staff member administrative assistant Blanche Scioli, rolls, payables and taxation, accounts 20 years; in the Office of the Vice Zoya Kramer, after 28 years; in phys- after 21 years; in psychology, academic payable manager Richard Olexa, after President for Finance and Treasurer, ics, department office support staff support staff member Vera Sohl, after 30 years; in admission, department assistant to the treasurer for special member Laurel Lerner, after 27 years; in 25 years; in the library, senior bib- office support staff member Margaret projects Elisabeth Dahlen, after 22 years; the Woodrow Wilson School, academic liographic specialist Andros Thomson, Partridge, after 23 years; in facilities in public safety, security supervi- support staff member Edna Lloyd, after after 31 years; in facilities finance and finance and administrative services, sor Ramnarine Doobraj, after 37 years; 32 years; in physics, lecture demon- administration services, storekeeper department office support staff mem- in ecology and evolutionary biology, stration specialist Frederick Loeser, after Peter Walter, after 18 years; in the ber Marlene Raboteau, after 16 years; academic support staff member Mona 42 years; in Dining Services, produc- library, senior bibliographic special- in geosciences, academic support staff Fazio, after 21 years; in the Office of tion manager Charles Manning, after 31 ist Chyongfei Wang, after 25 years; in member Susan Taxson, after 11 years; in the Vice President and Senior Adviser years; in mechanical and aerospace physics, storeroom attendant John Wash- the Office of Information Technology to the President, executive assistant engineering, business manager Sharon ington, after 24 years; in community administration and finance, assistant Evelyn Groom, after 16 years; in phys- Matarese, after 42 years; in research and regional affairs, department office to the director Saletta Van Fleet, after ics, senior technical support staff and project administration, senior support staff member Susan Weinkopff, 33 years; in the library, library office member William Groom, after 29 years; grant and contract administrator Kathy after 25 years; in physics, webmaster assistant Kui Wang, after 12 years; in in ecology and evolutionary biology, Niebo, after 21 years; in mathemat- Eva Zeisky, after 24 years. geosciences, faculty assistant Roseann finance/grants manager Mary Guimond, ics, data management support staff Wurst, after 21 years. after 28 years; in classics, department member Eileen Olszewski, after 34 years; Effective Feb. 1: in East Asian stud- manager Ronnie Hanley, after 25 years; in physics, department office support Correction ies, department manager Kathleen Amon, in research and project administration, staff member Katherine Patterson, after after 21 years; in the Office of the Reg- senior grant and contract administra- 42 years; in electrical engineering, istrar, administrative assistant Maryann tor Geter Hicks Jr., after 26 years; in application delivery manager Jay Plett, Due to an error in a report supplied to Arnold, after 25 years; in laboratory the Office of the University Architect, after 21 years; in civil and environ- the Bulletin, Lawrence Bentley’s title was animal resources, animal caretaker University Architect Jon Hlafter, after 41 mental engineering, academic support incorrect in a listing of employee retire- Sylvanus Ashamole, after 10 years; in years; in industrial relations, admin- staff member Kathryn Posnett, after 34 ments in the Dec. 14, 2009, issue. His physics, department office support istrative assistant Joyce Howell, after years; in housing, housing contract/ title was senior mechanic in the lock- staff member Patricia Barwick, after 22 20 years; in ecology and evolution- information technology coordinator smith shop, not site protection mechanic. Princeton 4 university Bulletin February 15, 2010

Lecture: “The Song Inside of What They Said to Me: On Performing America.” Anna Deavere Smith 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 nassau McCosh 50 notes Smith upcoming Lecture: “Beyond the Books: A Conversation With Professor Cornel West About His Faith” 4:30 p.m. Feb. 16 McCosh 10 Concert: “Tale-Telling” Composers’ Ensemble 8 p.m. Feb. 16 Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall The Lewis Center for the Lecture: “Reflections on the Arts will present its 2010 Spring Evolution of Morality” Christine Korsgaard, Dance Festival Friday through Sunday, Harvard University Feb. 19-21, at the Berlind Theatre. This 4:30 p.m. Feb. 18 year’s dance festival marks internationally 101 McCormick Hall renowned choreographer Susan Lecture: “The Hippocampus and Marshall’s first season at Princeton as Memory” director of the Program in Dance. The Lynn Nadel, University of Arizona 12:30 p.m. Feb. 26 concert features more than 50 students 0-S-6 Green Hall from a range of academic departments Concert: “Phases” performing in new student work, three Triple 8 Dance Company world premieres by guests and faculty, 8 p.m. Feb 26-27 Twyla Tharp’s historic “The Fugue” and Frist Campus Center theater Mark Morris’ signature “Polka” from Concert: “Stolen Moments: The “Grand Duo.” At right, senior Katrina Music of Oliver Nelson” University Concert Jazz Ensemble Wong performs “Grand Duo.” 8 p.m. Feb. 27 Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall Online: More information For more, visit Valerie Ford

include actor Republican Party head Steele to hold dialogue with Glaude and social activist Harry Michael Steele, chair of the Republi- such as his vision 4:30 p.m. As RNC chair, Steele has focused on can National Committee for the nation, his actively engaging Americans in their Belafonte, Feb. 22 Bishop (RNC), will participate understand- McCosh 50 local communities and empowering in a conversation with ing of race state and local Republican organiza- T.D. Jakes Eddie Glaude, chair in the 21st and envi- tions to do the same. A self-described Glaude of Princeton’s Center century, “Lincoln Republican,” he was elected ronmental for African American the complex intersection of lieutenant governor of Maryland in justice advo- Studies, at 4:30 p.m. race and poverty, and the role 2003, becoming the first African cate Majora Monday, Feb. 22, in of partisanship in Washington. American elected to statewide office. Carter. McCosh 50. “Whether one agrees with The event is the latest in an ongo- Steele was elected Steele Michael Steele or not, his ing effort by the Center for African the first African chairmanship of the RNC is his- American Studies to convene conversa- Online: More information American leader of the toric, and his voice is shaping the tions with noted public figures across www.princeton.edu/ Republican Party in January course of our nation in these challeng- a wide range of issues. Recent speak- 2009. The discussion will cover topics ing times,” Glaude said. ers brought to campus by the center africanamericanstudies/

friendship. In “The Conservative Blogger, author Soul” (2006), Sullivan argues that ‘Uncreative writing’ is lecture topic the Republican Party has abandoned its roots Sullivan to speak by capitulating “Uncreative Writing: Unoriginal ror: The Selected to religious Genius in the Age of the Internet” Andy Warhol Andrew Sullivan, the “Daily Dish” fundamen- is the title of a talk by poet Kenneth Interviews.” blogger and a senior editor at The talists and Goldsmith scheduled for 5 p.m. Mon- His book Atlantic, will present a lecture on “The urges a day, Feb. 15, of critical Politics of Homosexuality” at 8 p.m. return to in the Stewart 5 p.m. essays, titled Thursday, Feb. 18, in McCosh 50. a form Theater, 185 Feb. 15 “Uncreative Sullivan is a well-known conser- of con- Nassau St. Stewart Theater, Writing,” is vative voice in servatism In his 185 Nassau St. forthcoming Sullivan Goldsmith American politics. based on lecture, Gold- from Columbia A Catholic who 8 p.m. individual smith will University Press. advocates civil Feb. 18 freedom, consti- argue that writing needs to redefine Publishers Weekly marriage rights McCosh 50 tutional protections itself to adapt to a new environment has described his writing for homosexual and a respect for the limits in which an unprecedented amount of as “some of the most exhaustive couples, he is the of human reason. text is digitally available. and beautiful collage work yet produced author of “Virtually Normal: An The talk is designated as a Stafford Goldsmith is the 2009-10 Anschutz in poetry.” Goldsmith is a lecturer in Argument About Homosexuality” Little Lecture sponsored by the Uni- Distinguished Fellow in the Program English at the University of Pennsyl- (1995), which became one of the versity Public Lecture Series. in American Studies, which is spon- vania, where he is a senior editor of best-selling volumes on gay rights. soring the lecture. He is teaching an PennSound, an online poetry archive. His second book, “Love Undetect- undergraduate seminar on “Uncreative able: Notes on Friendship, Sex and Writing” this spring. Survival” (1998), examined the Online: More information Goldsmith has published 10 books of Online: More information AIDS epidemic and the virtue of lectures.princeton.edu poetry and edited “I’ll Be Your Mir- www.princeton.edu/ams/events Princeton February 15, 2010 university Bulletin 5

Calendarlinks Feb. 15–28 For broader listings of campus public events: Public Events Calendar Alumni Day features Information about submitting events lectures, awards also is available at the website above. Information on tickets is available at and family events the website below: University Ticketing Alumni and 258-9220 parents of 9:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. current under- Feb. 20 graduates will Various locations For listings by selected University converge on sponsors: campus for a Art Museum day of lectures, award ceremonies and other events Saturday, Feb. 20. 258-3788 Highlights of the annual Alumni Day and Athletics Parents’ Program, coordinated by the Office of the Alumni Association, include: 258-3568 • A lecture at 9:15 a.m. by U.S. Army Gen. Center for African American Studies ist. Petraeus, who earned his master’s in 258-4270 public affairs and a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Frist Campus Center Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1985 and 1987, respec- 258-1766 tively, oversees the wars in Lewis Center for the Arts Iraq and Afghanistan 258-1500 as commander of The Princeton University Art Museum Library the U.S. Central is hosting a Feb. 25-28 exhibition produced by Artistic Command. He 258-3181 will provide Realization Technologies (A.R.T.), showcasing paintings by an “Update artists with physical disabilities. A.R.T. utilizes innovative From the techniques to help individuals express their creativity despite USCENTCOM physical restrictions. Titled “A New Way of Seeing,” the Commander” in Richardson Audi- Petraeus exhibition will include torium, Alexander works such as “X-Plosion” Online: More information Hall. by Raphael Garcia. www.artrealization.org • An address at 10:30

a.m. by Jim Leach, the Woodrow Wilson Courtesyof McCarter Theatre Center Award recipient. Leach, a member of Prince- Grammy-nominated violinist Regina ton’s class of 1964, was a longtime U.S. Carter is among the performers in the congressman and now chairs the National “Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour” at Endowment for the Humanities. He will 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, at the speak in Richardson Auditorium on “Civility McCarter Theatre Center. For tickets, in a Fractured Society.” visit . • A 12:15 p.m. Alumni Association luncheon and awards ceremony in Jadwin Gymnasium. McCarter Theatre • A 3 p.m. service of remembrance in the 258-2787 University Chapel to honor deceased Princeton Music Department alumni, students and University faculty and staff members. 258-4241 • A 5:30 p.m. reception in Procter Hall of Office of Information Technology the Graduate College with Petraeus hosted by the Association of Princeton Graduate 258-2949 Alumni and the Wilson School. Public Lecture Series The Alumni Day and Parents’ Program 258-3686 is not open to the general public. Faculty, President’s Lecture Series staff and students are invited to attend the and service of remembrance. Registration 258-6100 is required. Princeton Institute for International and During the day, a variety of presentations Regional Studies are planned, ranging from retiring engineer- 258-4851 ing professor David Billington’s recollections Richardson Auditorium of 50 years of teaching at Princeton to University provost and legal scholar Christo- 258-5000 pher Eisgruber speaking on “How to Pick a School of Architecture Supreme Court Justice.” For a complete schedule and registration 258 -3741 information, visit or call the Office of the Alumni Association at 258-4554 258-1900. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Registrants must bring event con- 258-2943 firmation forms and identification For additional events sponsored by specific for admittance departments, programs and offices: to events at University “A to Z” search page Richardson Auditorium and The 20th anniversary of the end of Leach For audience members needing Jadwin Gymna- apartheid in South Africa and Nelson Mandela’s release sium and for other assistance: Alumni Day program- from prison is the focus of an exhibition through Feb. 28 at Office of Disability Services ming. Seating will be on the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, 258-8840 a first-come, first-served basis. No backpacks, 58 Prospect Ave. Titled “A Personal Account of Cape Town large bags or umbrellas will be allowed in in 1990,” the exhibition features photographs and newspapers To offer submissions for “Nassau notes,” Richardson. Bag check will be available in use the online form: Maclean House. Photography and audio from the private collection of Hugh Price, a lecturer in the Princeton 6 university Bulletin February 15, 2010 Steward Continued from page 1 new initiatives that will bring excit- ing exhibitions and more visitors to the museum,” said Princeton Provost Christopher Eisgruber. Steward believes that, because it is based at a university, the museum can — and must — take more risks. “We don’t have to simply show contemporary artists taken up by the marketplace,” he said. “We can be more issues-driven, cross-disciplinary and global in our reach. I expect us to set the standard, to be audacious and to develop new approaches to installa- tion and interpretation.” The museum is embarking on an effort to transform the way it arranges and displays its collec- tions; to involve more faculty and prominent figures in the art world; and to partner with the broader arts community, including international partnerships. Steward would like to double the museum’s number of visi- tors in the next few years. Mixing things up The museum’s diverse and ency- clopedic collections comprise 72,000 objects, reaching from ancient civiliza- tions to contemporary art, housed at McCormick Hall on campus. Its art of the ancient Americas — frequently assessed as the best such collection in the United States — has thousands Denise Applewhite of exceptional objects not currently The museum’s Medieval, Byzantine and Islamic galleries, closed for several years for renovations, will reopen this month with new interpretive on display that will be rotated more tools that will greatly expand the museum’s approach to explaining objects. Here, Steward surveyed the galleries’ reconstruction. actively through the galleries in the coming years, Steward said. The museum’s collection of Chinese scroll tures installed in silos,” Steward said. opportunities for collaborations with a displayed with a work of art to listen paintings is one of the richest in North “We’re going to mix things up visually wide range of museums and galleries, to music of the period or an interview America, with works dating from a good deal.” he said. with the artist. many centuries, some very fragile. The In the 19th-century European Hal Foster, Princeton’s Townsend New interpretive tools will debut University’s Charles Willson Peale galleries, for example, paintings and Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art this month in the Medieval, Byzan- portrait of George Washington — photographs from the same period will and Archaeology, said. “James has tine and Islamic galleries, which will known as the Princeton portrait — is be shown together, so “you would be terrific range — he’s interested in all reopen after being closed for several one of the iconic images of American able to see, side by side, works made kinds of fields in art history. He has years amid structural renovations in art and is often on view at the art by artists working in the same culture good ideas to reach out not only to the building. museum. at the same moment, though their the local community but also to the Another way that Steward is enhanc- The museum’s 27,000 fine art pho- visual purposes and strategies might extended art world in New York and ing the museum’s accessibility is by tographs make it one of the leading be quite different.” Philadelphia. I’m very excited for the creating an online database of every repositories for photography in the Such mixed-media approaches across possibilities.” object in the collections. When the world, Steward said. Another treasure all the galleries would create a kind The museum plans to make a multiyear project is complete, anyone of museum-wide substantial investment in a variety of will be able to search the collections “intervention” new interpretive tools that will greatly online — enhancing research access as and make “anti- expand its approach to explaining well as the collections’ visibility. chronological objects beyond the square of infor- Steward also will add year-round We don’t have to simply show juxtapositions mation about each piece mounted on programming, beginning this sum- to discover new the wall. New tools — both low-tech mer with a groundbreaking exhibition contemporary artists taken up resonances and and high-tech — would allow more called “Starburst” that looks at color ‘‘ bring out points of comparison of objects, offer multiple photography from the 1970s. In the by the marketplace. We can cultural contact,” he meanings of a single object or address past exhibitions only changed during be more issues-driven, cross- said. “We wouldn’t how a piece illuminates the evolu- the academic year. be unique among tion of an artist’s style or reflects a “I want there to be something com- disciplinary and global in our museums in doing period’s cultural values. For example, pelling in our temporary exhibition so, but it would be a museum visitor with a cell phone reach. I expect us to set the unusual, especially may be able to dial a phone number Continued on page 7 to do so with the standard, to be audacious and kind of scholarly to develop new approaches to ‘brain trust’ on which we can draw By the numbers installation and interpretation. by involving the faculty.” • Number of pieces in the museum’s collections: 72,000. —James Steward Steward also plans ’’ to bring prominent • Number of fine art photographs in the collection: 27,000. art world figures to • Square footage of the galleries: 29,000. is the personal archive of photographer the museum as artists-in-residence or Minor White, which was donated to guest curators, which will enrich exhibi- • Average number of exhibitions featured annually: 12. the museum in 1976. The collection tions and foster opportunities for faculty • Pieces loaned annually to other museums: 100. has 10,000 pieces and includes works and students. New curatorial partner- by many of the most important pho- ships are already in the works with the • Projected number of visitors from July 2009 to June 2010: 108,000. tographers of the first half of the 20th Victoria and Albert Museum in London • Number of schoolchildren who visit yearly: 8,500. century. and the Menil Collection in Houston for To bring heightened visibility to the future exhibitions on English Renais- • Visits by Princeton University students annually for precepts: 3,600. museum’s assets, Steward is planning sance art and the art of Kurt Schwitters. • Docents who volunteer to give tours, teach children and more frequent rotation of objects and The first international artist-in-residence greet visitors: 90. more exposure of its photography, cre- will come to Princeton in the coming ating two galleries that regularly will academic year, possibly in relation to a • Visitors to the museum’s website at be devoted to the medium. He looks fall exhibition on contested landscapes each month: 10,000. forward to incorporating photography around the world. • Recipients of the museum’s biweekly e-newsletter, which is archived extensively throughout exhibitions, “One of the museum’s great advan- at : 2,000. an illustration of his interdisciplinary tages is our location,” Steward said. approach. Princeton’s proximity to New York and • Fans on the museum’s Facebook page at : 795. sculpture, prints and drawings, or not of it” — is an asset for attracting indeed for works from specific cul- top artists and scholars, and it offers Princeton February 15, 2010 university Bulletin 7

administrators. He organized the USG (or a situation to be improved, or a Committee and the Council of the Pyne into working groups that collaborated problem to be solved); he has proposed Princeton University Community. Continued from page 1 successfully with faculty and adminis- responses/proposals/solutions; he has And he has been president and per- trators to bring about change. been a real collaborator, willing to formance director of the Nassoons a “He is not what I would term a ‘radi- listen and incorporate in his efforts cappella group and an actor with the Those characteristics have been vital cal’ political force, demanding instant substantive or strategic advice about Princeton University Players. to his efforts outside of the classroom. change or insisting that the University how best to accomplish his objectives. As the Princeton mentor-manager of In 2007, he and classmate Jenni act immediately on a particular issue,” In the process, he has in fact accom- Batiq, Diemand-Yauman has tutored Newbury co-founded Princeton said Michael Litchman, lecturer in plished important things that redound by webcam students from South Korea Disability Awareness, a group that psychology, in supporting his can- to the clear benefit of the undergradu- who were interested in attending organizes annual large-scale events didacy for the award. “Rather, he ate student body. universities in the United States. He to bring disabled children and their successfully works within the system, “To my mind, that’s real leader- also spent a summer in Seoul acting families to campus. They have trained and what he accomplishes is radical in ship: responsive to student needs; in and writing skits for Korean PBS. hundreds of student volunteers to that the entire undergraduate student clearheaded in identifying problems Last summer, he volunteered with the work one-on-one with the children body benefits.” susceptible to constructive action; Global Literacy Project as a teacher at while their parents engage with Down With the grading policy, his work imaginative and creative in fashion- a farm school in Randfontein, South syndrome-related exhibitors. The resulted in the creation of an online ing proposals for change; willing to Africa. following year, he organized the Own vehicle on the Career Services website partner with administrators to realize Next year, he hopes to volunteer with What You Think Campaign against through which a student can request his goals,” she added. the Global Literacy Project in St. Vin- online gossip and anonymous char- that an explanatory booklet and cover Diemand-Yauman also has led cent and the Grenadines. After that, acter assassination. The campaign letter on the policy from Dean of the initiatives addressing the Univer- he intends to accept an offer to write spread to 10 other campuses and was College Nancy Malkiel be sent to sity’s alcohol policy and New Jersey’s and act on his own children’s English featured in national media, including an employer, internship program or alcohol legislation. He founded educational show on Korean PBS. ABC-TV’s “20/20,” PBS’s “Frontline” graduate or professional program. The the compact fluorescent light bulb “I feel humbled and extremely and Glamour magazine. USG also sent a clarifying letter to the exchange program in 2007, which is honored to be receiving this distinc- As the leader of Princeton’s 5,000 faculty about the policy in the fall. now an annual event sponsored by tion and am indebted to everyone who undergraduates, Diemand-Yauman In an interview with The Daily Greening Princeton and has distrib- has so selflessly helped and guided me began his USG presidential term by Princetonian about Diemand-Yauman’s uted some 3,500 energy-efficient light along the way,” Diemand-Yauman said. working to improve the group’s rela- record as USG president, Malkiel bulbs to the campus community. He “This is as much their award as it is tions with the student body and with said, “[Connor] has identified a need has served on the University’s Honor mine.”

Steward Continued from page 6 galleries no matter what time of year a visitor comes to us,” he said. Embracing the community One of Steward’s first priorities has been reaching out broadly to the University community, particularly to students. His first step was to keep the doors open until 10 p.m. every Thursday, launching the new hours in September with a night of live music, free food and beverages from 20 Princeton eateries. Subsequent Thursday nights have featured film screenings, musical performances and free food and coffee. Other changes already under way or being planned share the goal of the Thursday night events: boost the museum’s openness and public prominence while updating its approach. He also has created a 12-member student advisory board to plan events geared to students and to advise the museum on how it can play a bigger role in students’ lives. Frank Wojciechowski “One of my goals is to serve every Free food and beverages at some Late Thursday events draw people who may have never visited the museum before. “We have one of the student here,” Steward said. “We want greatest but perhaps lesser known art collections in the nation,” Steward said. “We have an exceptional opportunity to make the museum an to create a sense that the museum is a essential part of the lives of our students and broader community.” place for everyone — not just an art or art history student, but an engineer or dynamic, imaginative force on cam- panel on the treatment of indigenous hopes to expand an existing program a student in the life sciences.” pus, attuned to ideas and colleagues in art and a family day held on the plaza that brings Trenton schoolchildren to The museum now has a student out- many disciplines.” adjacent to the Princeton Public the museum multiple times during a reach coordinator, Princeton alumna “I want to find the connective tissue Library. Concerts jointly organized single year. Elizabeth Lemoine, who has recruited between art and chemistry, or art and with the Princeton Symphony “Our work with third-graders in 160 student volunteers to raise aware- genomics, or art and civil engineer- Orchestra and the Princeton Singers the Trenton public schools — each of ness about the museum and provide ing,” Steward said. “There’s been a are planned for the spring. whom comes to us seven times a year information at its events. She also rich history of faculty serving as cura- Such partnerships and others cur- — offers exposure to children burst- organizes poetry readings, concerts, tors of exhibits, particularly with art rently being explored with a range of ing with creativity who might not scavenger hunts and behind-the-scenes and archaeology, but I’d like to open international museums, universities otherwise come into contact with mas- tours for students. it up, to expand the museum’s intel- and research centers mean the museum terpieces of world art, and we’d love to “We’re really using the space in a lectual reach and ultimately create can enrich its programming even in replicate that program for other school whole new way,” said Lemoine, a mem- opportunities for every Princeton stu- the current challenging fiscal environ- districts,” he said. “But first we’d have ber of the class of 2009 who majored dent to discover the enriching power ment, Steward said. to find the funding.” in comparative literature and earned a of art and become lifelong patrons of And he is reaching out to a variety The museum has boosted its out- certificate in visual arts. “The museum the arts.” of other audiences beyond the Univer- reach to the public with the recent is becoming a bigger part of students’ In addition, Steward is work- sity and immediate neighbors. Each launch of an electronic newsletter as lives.” ing to strengthen ties between the year about 100,000 people visit the well as a Facebook page, where some Steward also is interested in museum and local arts groups. This museum, which charges no entrance 800 current fans read posts about new engaging faculty members. Johanna fall the museum launched a collab- fee. He said he would like to double exhibitions, participate in identify- Seasonwein, who serves as the Mel- orative project with the Princeton the number of visitors in the next few the-art contests, blog about issues lon Curatorial Fellow for Academic Arts Council on art from the Bering years, noting that with 14 million resi- in the wider art world and specu- Programs, funded by the Andrew Strait. The museum’s exhibition, dents within a 45-mile radius and an late about the new public art to be W. Mellon Foundation, helps faculty “Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient estimated 750,000 annual visitors to installed in front of the museum later members develop courses using the Ivories of Bering Strait,” focused on the Princeton campus, even that goal this year. museum’s collections. Workshops for ancient carvings made by hunters might be conservative. Steward himself often writes Face- faculty — to acquaint them with how on the American and Russian sides “We want the museum to matter book updates for the museum’s fans, to make better use of the museum’s of the Strait, while the Arts Council to a broader public, whether that is reporting on his visits to art exhibi- resources in their classrooms — also showed work from contemporary people living in the region or visitors tions in Europe and commenting on are planned. Native Alaskan artists about the to the community for whom this could recent art critiques in newspapers. Carol Rigolot, executive director Alaskan landscape. The exhibitions become a destination,” he said. “We want to be meaningful and of the Council of the Humanities, had compatible opening dates and a Events targeting young profession- available to a wide set of audiences — describes Steward as “a wonderfully joint marketing strategy, as well as a als are in the works, and Steward every way we can,” Steward said. Princeton 8 university Bulletin February 15, 2010 Evergreen beauty of campus gardens thrives year round

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he winter season brings a sub- dued beauty to Princeton’s T campus. As the fall foliage fades, Princeton’s evergreens take on a more prominent role in coloring the landscape and adding vitality to the grounds. According to Jim Consolloy, who retired Feb. 1 after nearly 21 years as grounds manager, some of the University’s most well-traveled spaces are spectacular in winter as well as summer. • Along the north side of the Univer- sity Chapel near Firestone Library, a bench commemorates Beatrix Farrand, who served as the University’s first consulting landscaping architect from 1915 to 1943. The bench’s inscription reads, “Her love of beauty and order is everywhere visible in what she planted for our delight.” The first stanza of Henry Wotton’s poem “The Character Brian Wilson of a Happy Life” is carved into the Prospect Garden stone at the foot of the bench. Three types of evergreens — American holly and Nellie Stevens holly trees, as well as spreading English yew shrubs — serve as a backdrop. • Tucked away at the northeast corner of the chapel, the Hibben Garden features several examples of winter foliage. The garden honors John G. Sept. 11 memorial Hibben, who was Princeton’s president garden from 1912 to 1932, during the cha- pel’s construction. A sculpture marks the center of the garden’s red gravel, cross-shaped paths, and a limestone bench bears the inscription, “Come ye yourselves apart into a lonely place and rest a while.” The foliage includes Eng- lish boxwood, Japanese little leaf holly and rhododendron trees, with sweetbox shrubs as ground cover. • Prospect Garden maintains its beauty through the winter months. More than 30 species of conifers (some evergreens and some decidu- ous) exist on the property. Among the trees that line the front walkway are American elms; Carolina, Japanese and Canadian hemlock; Adcock’s and Norway spruces; Blue Atlas cedar; and a dawn redwood that is nearly 125 feet high. Some of the pines, spruce and hemlock trees enclosing the garden University Chapel behind Prospect House are more than near Firestone Library 150 years old. The plantings include boxwood hedges and symmetrical arborvitae trees, with approximately 8,000 flower bulbs underground waiting to bloom in the spring and summer. • The Sept. 11 memorial garden, on the west side of Chancellor Green and East Pyne Hall, was dedicated in 2003 to the 13 Princeton alumni who died in the terrorist attacks. On the blue- stone pavers, 13 bronze stars laid in a circle bear the alumni’s names and class years, and a bronze bell by artist Toshiko Takaezu marks the entrance to the garden. Three evergreen trees — a towering Kashmir (deodar) cedar, a fernleaf cypress and a Rein’s dwarf incense cedar — complement the little leaf holly hedges and heavenly bamboo Sept. 11 memorial garden with red berries.

working for 15 years for Mobil Oil seminars. His research has focused Chemical Society. He is a member of Emeriti Research, he joined the faculty at the on chemical kinetics, catalysis, the the National Academy of Engineering University of Delaware from 1971 conversion of raw materials to useful and the American Academy of Arts Continued from page 3 to 1977. He was department head products and fuels, and chemotherapy and Sciences. He was president of the of chemical engineering at MIT of cancer. He has served on a number American Institute of Chemical Engi- transforming the role of the dean of from 1977 until 1991, when he was of government panels as an expert neers and served as editor-in-chief of Princeton’s engineering school, secur- appointed dean of Princeton’s engi- on the environmental impact of the Advances in Chemical Engineering, a ing resources to grow the school and neering school. When Wei stepped chemical industry. journal devoted to informing a general broadening the vision for engineering down as dean in 2002, President Wei’s awards and honors include the audience of major developments taking at the University. Tilghman lauded him for bringing a Founder’s Award, Warren K. Lewis place in the field. He is the author of Wei is a graduate of the Georgia “new level of excellence” to engineer- Award and Professional Progress the books “The Structure of Chemical Institute of Technology and earned ing at Princeton. Since then, he has Award from the American Institute of Processing Industries” and “Product his doctorate from the Massachu- continued teaching classes on chemi- Chemical Engineers and the Petroleum Engineering: Molecular Structure and setts Institute of Technology. After cal reaction engineering and freshman Chemistry Award from the American Properties.”