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Shirley M. Tilghman Thomas L. Friedman Undergraduate Commencement Honorary Degree Recipient Undergraduate Commencement Honorary Degree Recipient Shirley M. Tilghman assumed From 1993-2000, Dr. Tilghman Thomas L. Friedman was born in In January 1989, Mr. Friedman office as Princeton University’s chaired Princeton’s Council on Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 20, accepted a new assignment in 19th President on June 15, 2001. Science and Technology, which 1953. After finishing high school in Washington, D.C., as the Times’ Chief An exceptional teacher and world- encourages the teaching of science Minneapolis, he attended Brandeis Diplomatic Correspondent. For the renowned scholar and leader in the and technology to students outside University, where he graduated Summa next four years he traveled some field of molecular biology, she served the sciences, and in 1996, she Cum Laude in 1975 with a B.A. in 500,000 miles covering Secretary of on the Princeton faculty for 15 years received Princeton’s President’s Mediterranean Studies. During his State James A. Baker and the end of before being named President. Award for Distinguished Teaching. undergraduate years, he spent the cold war. In November 1992, Mr. She initiated the Princeton semesters abroad at the Hebrew Friedman shifted to domestic politics Dr. Tilghman, a native of Canada, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, a University of Jerusalem and the and was appointed Chief White received her Honors B.Sc. in program across all the science and American University in Cairo. After House correspondent. He covered Chemistry from Queen’s University engineering disciplines that brings completing his B.A., Mr. Friedman the transition and first year of the in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968. After postdoctoral students to Princeton attended St. Antony’s College, Oxford Clinton Administration. In January two years of secondary school 9 each year to gain experience in both University, on a Marshall Scholarship. 1994, Mr. Friedman shifted again, 10 teaching in Sierra Leone, West research and teaching. In 1978, he received a M.A. in Modern this time to economics and became Africa, she obtained her Ph.D. in Middle East Studies from Oxford and the Times’ International Economics Biochemistry from Temple University In 2002, Dr. Tilghman was one of immediately thereafter joined the Correspondent, covering the nexus in Philadelphia. five winners of theL’Oréal-UNESCO London Bureau of United Press between foreign policy and trade policy. Award for Women in Science. In International (UPI). Mr. Friedman During postdoctoral studies at the the following year, she received the spent a year in London doing general In January 1995, Mr. Friedman became National Institutes of Health, she Lifetime Achievement Award from the assignment reporting before being The New York Times Foreign Affairs For his coverage of the Middle East, made a number of groundbreaking Society for Developmental Biology, dispatched to Beirut as a UPI Columnist. In 1998, Mr. Friedman Mr. Friedman was awarded the discoveries while participating in and in 2007, she was awarded the correspondent. wrote the text to accompany Micha 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international cloning the first mammalian gene Genetics Society of America Medal for Bar-Am’s photographs for the book, reporting (from Lebanon) and the and then continued to make scientific outstanding contributions to her field. He lived in Beirut from June 1979 to Israel: A Photobiography, published 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international breakthroughs as an independent May 1981, when he was hired by The by Simon and Schuster. His book, reporting (from Israel). He was investigator at the Institute for Cancer Dr. Tilghman is a member of the New York Times and brought back The Lexus and the Olive Tree: awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Research in Philadelphia. American Philosophical Society, the to New York. From May 1981 to April Understanding Globalization, issued Distinguished Commentary for “his National Academy of Sciences, the 1982, Mr. Friedman worked as a by Farrar Straus and Giroux (FSG) in clarity of vision…in commenting on Dr. Tilghman came to Princeton Institute of Medicine, and the Royal general assignment financial reporter 1999, won the Overseas Press Club the worldwide impact of the terrorist in 1986 as the Howard A. Prior Society of London. She chairs the for The New York Times, based in New Award for best nonfiction book on threat.” In 2004, he was awarded Professor of the Life Sciences. Two Association of American Universities; York. He specialized in OPEC and oil- foreign policy in 2000. It has been the Overseas Press Club Award years later, she also joined the she serves as a trustee of the Carnegie related news. In April 1982, he was published in 27 foreign languages. In for lifetime achievement and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as Endowment for International Peace assigned by The New York Times to 2002 FSG published Longitudes and honorary title, Order of the British an Investigator. In 1998, she took and the King Abdullah University of be its Beirut Bureau Chief, a post he Attitudes: Exploring the World After Empire (OBE), by Queen Elizabeth II. on additional responsibilities as the Science and Technology and as a took up six weeks before the Israeli September 11. In April 2005, FSG Founding Director of Princeton’s Director of Google, Inc. invasion. launched his book, The World is Flat: Mr. Friedman lives in Bethesda, multi-disciplinary Lewis-Sigler A Brief History of the 21st Century, Maryland, with his wife, Ann, and Institute for Integrative Genomics. In June 1984, Mr. Friedman was which received the inaugural Financial their two daughters. He is a member transferred to Jerusalem, where he Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Board of Trustees of Brandeis A member of the National Research served as the Times’ Israel Bureau of the Year Award in November 2005. University and, since 2005, the Board Council’s committee that set the Chief until February 1988, when A revised and expanded edition was of the Pulitzer Prizes. He served blueprint for the U.S. effort in the he was awarded a Guggenheim reissued in hardback in April 2006 as a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard Human Genome Project, Dr. Tilghman Foundation Fellowship to write a book and in paperback in 2007. Mr. University in 2000 and 2005 and was also one of the founding members about his reflections on the Middle Friedman’s most current work was has been awarded Honorary Degrees of the National Advisory Council of East. In June 1989, he published From released by FSG in September 2008, from Brandeis University, Macalester the Human Genome Project for the Beirut to Jerusalem, which was on The Hot, Flat, and Crowded Why We Need College, Haverford University, the National Institutes of Health. New York Times bestseller list for a Green Revolution – And How It Can University of Minnesota, Williams nearly 12 months and won the 1989 College, Washington University in St. She is renowned for her pioneering Renew America. National Book Award for non-fiction Louis, and Hebrew Union College. research in mammalian developmental and the 1989 Overseas Press Club genetics, for her national leadership Award for the Best Book on Foreign on behalf of women in science, and Policy. From Beirut to Jerusalem has for promoting efforts to make the been published in more than 20 early careers of young scientists as languages, including Japanese and meaningful and productive as possible. Chinese and is now used as a basic textbook on the Middle East in many high schools and universities..