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university BulletinVolume 102, Number 5 June 17, 2013 Christopher L. Eisgruber named 20th president of Princeton University

hristopher L. Eisgruber, Princeton’s provost for the past nine years, has been named the C University’s 20th president, effective July 1. He succeeds Shirley M. Tilghman, who last fall announced her intention to step down at the end of this academic year after completing 12 years in office. Eisgruber was appointed April 21 at a special meeting of the University’s Board of Trustees on the unanimous and enthusiastic recommendation of a 17-member search committee following a six-month search. The search committee included nine trustees, four faculty members, three students, and a member of the staff; it was chaired by Kathryn Hall, the chair of the board. At a media conference following his appointment, Eisgruber said it will be an honor to lead the Uni- versity that has shaped his life ever since he was a Princeton freshman 34 years ago. “Over the years, I have developed a heartfelt appre- ciation for the characteristics that make [Princeton] Applewhite Denise by Photo special,” Eisgruber said in the Faculty Room at Nassau President Shirley M. Tilghman (left) and chair of the Board of Trustees Kathryn Hall (right) listen to Provost and President-elect Hall, surrounded by portraits of University presi- Christopher L. Eisgruber (center) address questions at a media conference in the Faculty Room of Nassau Hall. dents and other important figures from the school’s past. “Most importantly, this University aims like no other to be simultaneously a great research university Chicago. After clerking for U.S. Court of Appeals provost in 2004 and in that capacity has been the and the world’s best liberal arts college and we insist Judge Patrick Higginbotham and U.S. Supreme University’s second-ranking official and its chief on, what I consider to be, the audacious belief that Court Justice John Paul Stevens, he taught at New academic and budgetary officer. these two things are not simply two equally desirable York University School of Law for 11 years. A renowned constitutional scholar, whose most goals, but rather two complementary parts of a single He joined the Princeton faculty in 2001 as the recent books examined the Supreme Court appoint- ideal.” director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs ments process and religious freedom and the A member of the Princeton undergraduate Class of and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public constitution, he is also a gifted teacher who has con- 1983, Eisgruber majored in physics, spent two years Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public tinued to teach as provost. This past fall, he taught a at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and and International Affairs and the University Center then received his law degree from the University of for Human Values. He was named Princeton’s 11th Continued on page 9

At Commencement, Tilghman celebrates the Princeton experience, urges graduates to lead lives of service

K a r i n D i e n s t For more on the 2013 Commencement ceremony and related events n her final Commencement address — including stories, speech texts, social media coverage, photos and video — June 4 as president of Princeton visit http://bit.ly/13PUC. I University, Shirley M. Tilghman reflected on the Princeton experience academic year. She will be succeeded Whether a “dancer who studied and urged graduates to lead lives of by Provost Christopher L. Eisgruber, physics” or an “accredited civil engi- purpose and service. who will become Princeton’s 20th neer inspired by green technology” or After serving at the helm of the president on July 1. “a chemist resolved to cure cancer,” all University since 2001, Tilghman will Tilghman, who received an honorary Princeton students have absorbed the return to the faculty at the end of this doctoral degree during the ceremony, value of learning, Tilghman said. said that she, like the graduating “Your education has not so much students, has been thinking about what given you all the answers as it has she has learned and what she will “take taught you to ask the right questions,” away from this remarkable University.” she said. “It has given you a thirst Speaking to a crowd of approxi- for free inquiry and the nimbleness mately 10,000 students and guests of mind to cut through complexity to assembled on the sun-dappled front the insights within. It has given you a lawn of Nassau Hall, Tilghman powerful voice to make your case and addressed the new Princeton gradu- the intellectual confidence to change

ates after conferring their degrees. your mind. And it has exposed you Applewhite Denise by Photo “You are the beneficiaries of that most to the staggering breadth and rich- Celebrating the new graduates of Princeton distinctive of American inventions — a ness of your own and other societies University, President Shirley M. Tilghman modern liberal arts education — and around the world. It is the best presides over the University’s 266th you leave here knowing far more about preparation I can imagine for the rest Commencement held June 4 on the front the world in general, and your chosen of your life.” lawn of Nassau Hall. discipline in particular, than when you arrived,” she said. Continued on page 6

What’s David S. Lee named Princeton provost 2 Eisgruber asks freshmen to read Appiah book 4 inside? Thirty-two faculty transfer to emeritus status 10 Princeton 2 university Bulletin June 17, 2013 David S. Lee named provost of Princeton Spotlight

in 2007 as a member of the Depart- scholarly achievements, their dedica- Da n i e l Day ment of Economics and the Woodrow tion to Princeton and its mission, as avid S. Lee, professor of econom- Wilson School of Public and Interna- well as their service to the nation. ics and public affairs and the tional Affairs. “In my discussions with President- D director of the Industrial Rela- “When I returned to Princeton as a elect Eisgruber, it became clear to me tions Section at Princeton University, faculty member, I had little else on my that serving as provost would be a will become provost effective July 1. mind except research, teaching and wonderful opportunity to pay forward Lee’s appointment was announced advising,” Lee said. “After a series of all that which has been given to me, by June 5 by Christopher L. Eisgruber, conversations with President-elect Eis- working with an outstanding adminis- who has been provost since 2004 and gruber about the role of the provost at trative team to ultimately help attract will become the 20th president of the Princeton in the context of the broader a world-class faculty and student body, University on July 1. mission of the University, I came to and then to support them in achieving “I am delighted that David Lee has realize that serving in this role would their fullest potential.” agreed to serve as Princeton’s next be a fantastic way in which to serve Before he joined the Princeton fac- provost,” President- Princeton, and I am very excited to ulty, Lee was a professor of economics elect Eisgruber said. take on the challenge.” at Columbia University from 2006-07, “He is an outstand- Lee has been director since 2009 of an associate professor at the Univer- ing scholar whose the Industrial Relations Section, an sity of California-Berkeley in 2006, an experiences as both a academic unit that promotes research assistant professor at UC-Berkeley from student and a faculty and training in labor economics. The 2000-06, and an assistant professor member at Princeton section supports the collection of at Harvard from 1999-2000. He was a

have given him a deep library materials and data for indus- faculty research fellow for the National Applewhite Denise by Photo appreciation for the trial relations and labor economics Bureau of Economic Research from Lee defining values of this research, and it brings in scholars from 1999 to 2008, and has been a research Name: Kathleen “Kate” Braunstein around the world to present their find- associate for the bureau since 2009. University. Position: Budget analyst in the bud- ings and exchange ideas with faculty Lee is married to Christina Lee, also “I have had the opportunity to get office in the Office of Finance and graduate students. a Princeton Ph.D. and an associate collaborate with Dave on several occa- and Treasury. Serving as the main Lee’s own research interests are research scholar in the Department of sions during my own time as provost, contact for more than 100 academic primarily in the areas of labor econom- Spanish and Portuguese Languages and he has invariably impressed and administrative departments’ ics and econometrics. He has examined and Cultures. They have a daughter me with his good judgment, his budget needs, and calculating and income inequality in the United States, and a newborn son. administrative skill and his generous distributing their budgets. Working particularly the role of the minimum Lee said in taking up his new duties collegiality. He will be a superb pro- on the Chart of Accounts mapping wage, and has worked on develop- he will first focus on learning as much vost. I look forward to working closely and Reporting Advisory Committee ing quasi-experimental methods for as he can about the University as a with him in the years to come.” for Princeton Prime, the University’s analyzing aspects of the labor market whole and on understanding “the As provost, Lee will be the Universi- new financial management infra- ranging from the impacts of unions, inner workings of how the administra- ty’s chief academic and chief budgetary structure system launching in July and job training and unemployment tion helps make this University be as officer, responsible for long-range plan- 2014. ning and for the coordination of the insurance programs. He has published successful as it has been.” administrative and support functions in many journals in his field. “I then look forward in the com- Quote: “I came from a corporate envi- of the University with its academic “Princeton is a special place where I ing years to being part of a team that ronment, and I find the University purposes. have been given so much, starting with successfully implements and completes environment so much more laid back Lee, who has a bachelor’s degree in when I came here for my Ph.D.,” he said. the larger initiatives that have already and relaxing. It’s a collaborative effort, economics from Harvard University “Ever since returning to Princeton as been put in motion, as well as making and we’re all trying to get things done. and a master’s and Ph.D. in economics a faculty member, I have been con- Chris’ vision for Princeton a reality,” It’s much more family friendly. The from Princeton, joined the University tinually inspired by my colleagues’ he said. part I like most about my job is that I interact with people all across the Uni- versity — in academic departments, in administration and in the finance office. It’s an exciting time to work in the finance office. Prime will make the life of everyone involved in financial Graduate School admits 1,208 students managing so much easier.” Other interests: Reading and exercis- ing, including training for a three-day, M ic h a e l Ca dde l l master’s and doctoral levels.” students 447, or 37 percent, are women 60-mile fundraising walk this fall. The 5,999 international students and 761, or 63 percent, are men. Inter- rinceton University’s Graduate Planning trips to relax with family who applied made up 54 percent of the national students were admitted from and friends. Spending time with her School admitted 1,208 of the applicant pool, while the 5,180 U.S. 59 countries, with the largest number 11,179 students who applied for husband, two sons and new puppy, and P citizens and permanent residents made of students expected from, in order, going to her sons’ activities — base- the 2013-14 academic year, with the up 46 percent of the pool. China, Canada, Korea and India. ball, soccer and karate. school’s international reputation and The 10.8 percent overall admis- The school’s efforts to recruit and generous financial aid program attract- sion rate for this year is similar to last retain U.S. students from histori- ing students from across the globe. year’s figure of 10.2 percent. This year cally underrepresented backgrounds “This marks the third consecutive the number of students who accepted continue to be very successful, year that the number of applications the school’s offer of admission by the Jackson-Weaver said. The Princeton The standard 12-month doctoral fel- from international students exceeded April 15 postmark deadline was 569, Summer Undergraduate Research lowship will increase to $28,600 from the number of applications from U.S. or 47 percent. Experience (PSURE), an eight-week the current stipend of $27,640. This citizens and permanent residents,” said Among the total applicants, 1,264 program for prospective students who represents a 3.5 percent increase, up Karen Jackson-Weaver, the Graduate were American minorities, including express serious interest in pursuing from a 3.2 percent increase last year. School’s associate dean of academic 650 Asian Americans, 396 Hispan- doctoral degrees, consistently gener- “The full funding for doctoral stu- affairs and diversity. “We are pleased ics, 214 African Americans and four ates high-quality applicants, she said. dents at Princeton’s Graduate School that the Graduate School is consis- Native Americans. Of the total num- Some of the students who participated attracts exceptionally talented and tently attracting outstanding students ber of minority students, 187 received in PSURE in recent years are cur- outstanding candidates who also have from all over the world for study at the offers of admission. Of the admitted rently enrolled in the Graduate School. excellent opportunities to teach and win outside fellowships,” Jackson- Weaver said. Princeton The Princeton University Bulletin (© 2013 The Trustees of Princeton University) is published bimonthly from October through university Bulletin June to coincide with the academic year. The Bulletin is published by the Office of Communications, 22 Chambers St., Suite 201, Princeton, NJ 08542. A total of 5 issues will be published between October 2012 and June 2013. A publication www.princeton.edu/bulletin schedule can be found at www.princeton.edu/bulletin or by calling 609-258-3601. 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WuDunn, of New York, is an entrepre- neur, best-selling author and Pulitzer Eight named to Princeton Board of Trustees Prize-winning journalist from her time as a foreign correspondent for Us h m a Pat e l the Second Circuit since 2010 and is Class of 1982 25th Reunion leadership The New York Times. She is a senior an adjunct professor at Fordham Uni- team. managing director at Mid-Market rinceton University has named versity School of Law. He previously Matharu, of New Orleans, graduated Securities, a boutique banking com- eight new members to its Board served as judge of the U.S. District this year with a degree in molecular biol- pany, working with entrepreneurs P of Trustees, effective July 1. Court for the Southern District of New ogy and certificates in neuroscience and in new media, media technology The new trustees are: Katherine York, co-founder of a law firm, as assis- global health and health policy. He was and social enterprise; she is also the Brittain Bradley, who was elected by tant U.S. attorney and clerk for a U.S. co-founder of the Sikhs of Princeton and founder and president of TripleEdge, a the board to serve for eight years as District Court judge. Chin graduated Princeton Bhangra student organiza- social investing consultancy. WuDunn charter trustee; Denny Chin, Arminio from Princeton in 1975 with a degree tions; a residential college adviser holds a bachelor’s degree from Cor- Fraga and Margarita Rosa, who in psychology and received his J.D. in Forbes College; volunteer junior nell University, where she served as a were elected by the board to serve for from Fordham. He is an active partici- member of the Princeton First Aid and trustee, and she also has an MBA from four years as term trustees; Victoria pant of Princeton’s Asian American Rescue Squad; and a member of the Harvard Business School and an MPA Bjorklund, Steven Leach and Sheryl Alumni Association and Alumni Pace Council on Civic Values, Cap and in 1988 from the Wilson School. She WuDunn, who were elected by alumni Schools Committee. Chin was the Gown eating club and freshman crew served on the Wilson School’s advisory to serve four years as alumni trustees; recipient of the 2011 Woodrow Wil- team. After graduation, Matharu will council from 2001 to 2009. and Kanwal Matharu, who was elected son Award, bestowed annually upon attend the University of Texas Medi- Completing their terms as trustees by the junior, senior and two youngest an undergraduate alumnus or alumna cal School at Houston and plans to on June 30 are Elizabeth Dilday, Wil- alumni classes to serve four years as whose career embodies the call to duty practice medicine. liam Fung, Julia Haller Gottsch, Peter young alumni trustee. in Wilson’s famous speech, “Princeton Rosa, of New York, is the executive Lewis, David Offensend and George Biographical information about the in the Nation’s Service.” director of Grand St. Settlement, Will. new trustees follows: Fraga, of Rio de Janiero, is the a nonprofit organization providing The Board of Trustees is respon- Bjorklund, of Plandome, N.Y., is of co-founding partner of Gávea Investi- essential programs and services to sible for the overall direction of the counsel to the law firm Simpson mentos, a leading asset management more than 10,000 low-income residents University. It approves the operating Thacher & Bartlett, where she spent firm in Brazil. He also chairs the board of the Lower East Side in Manhattan and capital budgets, supervises the 30 years as an associate and partner of directors of Brazil’s securities, and Bushwick, Brooklyn. After earn- investment of the University’s endow- practicing nonprofit law. She also commodities and futures exchange, ing her bachelor’s degree in history at ment and oversees campus real estate teaches on nonprofit law at Harvard BM&FBOVESPA. After earning his Princeton in 1974, Rosa received a law and long-range physical planning. Law School. After graduating from B.A. and M.A. in economics at Pon- degree from Harvard Law School. She The trustees also exercise review and Princeton in 1973 with an independent tifícia Universidade Católica do Rio is a board member of Princeton Alum- oversight of changes in major policies, concentration in medieval studies, de Janeiro, Fraga received a Ph.D. in niCorps and the Association of Latino such as those involving admission and Bjorklund earned a Ph.D. in medieval economics at Princeton in 1985. He is a Princeton Alumni. financial aid. studies at Yale University and a law member of Princeton’s Global Leader- degree at Columbia Law School. She is ship Committee, the Bendheim Center a member of Princeton’s Gift Planning for Finance Advisory Council and the Advisory Committee and has served on Griswold Center for Economic Policy a capital campaign committee. Studies; he is also a board member of Bradley, of Washington, D.C., is the the Princeton Club of Brazil. The Uni- co-founder and president of the City- versity awarded him the 2013 James More news on the Web Bridge Foundation, a philanthropic Madison Medal, presented annually to group helping to build a citywide sys- an alumnus or alumna of the Graduate Visit the News at Princeton Web page at www.princeton.edu/main/news for tem of high-performing public schools School who has had a distinguished recent stories, such as: in Washington, D.C. Among her many career, advanced the cause of graduate civic activities, she is a board member education or achieved an outstanding • Princeton professors Scott Burnham and Peter Schäfer have received the of the University of the District of record of public service. University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Columbia. A 1986 Princeton graduate Leach, of Baltimore, is the Paul K. Humanities. with a degree in the Woodrow Wilson Neumann Professor in Pancreatic School of Public and International Cancer Research; professor of surgery, • Princeton’s Council for International Teaching and Research has selected two Affairs, Bradley previously served oncology and cell biology; and vice faculty proposals to create global networks. Leonard Wantchekon will coordi- as a term trustee from 2008 to 2012 chair for academic affairs at Johns nate the Empirical Political Economy Research Network, and Maria DiBattista and chaired the committee on public Hopkins University’s McKusick- will manage the International Network for Comparative Humanities. affairs. She has also volunteered with Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. the Alumni Schools Committee; the He is both a cancer surgeon and a • Two Princeton research projects — a new tool for visualizing drug therapy in the Wilson School’s 75th anniversary researcher studying the pancreatic brain and a method for aiding the search for planets outside our solar system celebration; and the Aspire campaign’s cancer genome. Leach graduated from — have been selected to receive grants from the University’s Eric and Wendy regional steering committee, special Princeton in 1982 with a degree in Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund. gifts committee and Annual Giving biology, and he earned his M.D. from class leadership participation efforts. Emory University. Over the years, • The University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa gave its annual awards for excellence Chin, of New York, has been a federal he has volunteered with Princeton’s in undergraduate teaching to John Burgess, the John N. Woodhull Professor judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Alumni Schools Committee and the of Philosophy; Robert Sedgewick, the William O. Baker *39 Professor in Com- puter Science; and Kevin Wayne, the Phillip Y. Goldman ’86 Senior Lecturer in Computer Science.

• The Graduate School has presented the annual Teaching Awards to five Employee retirements graduate students in recognition of their outstanding abilities as teachers: Alfredo Garcia of the sociology department, Jon Husson of the geosciences department, Danielle Meinrath of the classics department, Amelia Worsley of The following is an updated list of 30 years; in the Woodrow Wilson the English department, and Lu Xia of the operations research and financial University employee retirements. School of Public and International engineering department. Effective March 1: in Building Ser- Affairs, department office support • Four Princeton University faculty members have been named recipients of vices, assistant director Edward King, member Kety McCoach, after 15 years; in the Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and after 17 years. PPPL, chief financial officer for busi- Learning and were honored during the Graduate School’s Hooding ceremony: Effective April 1: in the Princeton ness operations Edward Winkler, after 24 Alison Gammie, a senior lecturer in molecular biology; Michael McAlpine, an Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), years. assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; Gideon Rosen, mechanic Alan Bara, after 33 years; in Effective June 1: in the carpenter the Stuart Professor of Philosophy; and Viviana Zelizer, the Lloyd Cotsen ’50 molecular biology, professional special- shop, carpenter Julius Fowler, after 43 Professor of Sociology. ist Joseph Goodhouse, after 23 years; years; in PPPL, executive assistant in ecology and evolutionary biology, to the director Barbara Sobel, after 35 • The University honored four exceptional New Jersey secondary school teachers academic support staff member Terry years; in the Wilson School, depart- at its 2013 Commencement: Medha Jayant Kirtane, Ridgewood High School, Guthrie, after 16 years; in financial ment office support member Barbara Ridgewood; John McAllen, Point Pleasant Borough High School, Point Pleas- services, nonresident tax compliance Zelt, after 19 years. ant; Robert O'Boyle, Hopewell Valley Central High School, Pennington; and specialist Diana Miles, after 30 years; in Effective July 1: in athletics, manager Deane Stepansky, Nutley High School, Nutley. PPPL, technical assistant Allen Patter- of intercollegiate programming Adlay son, after 45 years; in communications, Bugg, after 23 years; in the Wilson • Fourteen members of Princeton’s Class of 2013, eight graduate students and visual design strategist Megan Peterson, School, senior research scholar Harold three recent alumni were awarded Fulbright grants in the spring to study or after 23 years; in Hellenic studies, Feiveson, after 45 years; in physics, teach abroad for the 2013-14 academic year. events assistant Cynthia Schoeneck, after senior professional specialist Changguo 36 years. Lu, after 23 years; in health services, • Three Princeton students, seniors Amy Ousterhout and Aman Sinha and first- Effective May 1: in the Office of the mental health clinician Susan Packer, year graduate student in physics Daniel Strouse, were among 15 recipients of Dean of the Graduate School, manager after 35 years; in health services, assis- this year’s Hertz Fellowship for graduate studies in the sciences. of graduate student financial support tant director of administration Janis Judith Farquer, after 20 years; in the Runkle, after 11 years; in East Asian • In May, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection recognized library, special collections assistant studies, department office support staff the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as the top facility in the state for Chung-Li Kang, after 21 years; in PPPL, member Hue Kim Su, after 33 years. environmental stewardship. The lab was first among more than 750 facilities. technical associate Ronnie Koon, after Effective Aug. 1: in the library, spe- 28 years; in support services, software cial collections assistant Virginia Lacey, • Graphic designer Danielle Aubert and percussionist/composer Jason Treuting support consultant Gail Martinetti, after after 46 years. will come to Princeton in the fall to begin two years of teaching and collabora- tion as the first Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts. Princeton 4 university Bulletin June 17, 2013

be involved in the conversation about Eisgruber invites Class of 2017 to join honor. I am confident that they will be able to advance that conversation.” Appiah’s other books include “Exper- him in reading Appiah book iments in Ethics,” “The Ethics of Identity,” and “Cosmopolitanism: Eth- ics in a World of Strangers,” which has M ic h a e l Ho t c h k i s s ing freshmen marched together to enter of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wil- been ranslated into more than a dozen Princeton through FitzRandolph Gate. son School and the University Center languages. With Henry Louis Gates Jr., rovost and President-elect Chris- “This year, we will add a new activ- for Human Values. “I hope that you’ll he edited “Africana: The Encyclopedia topher L. Eisgruber has given ity to complement the Pre-rade: the find his book as engaging as I did — of the African and African American Pmembers of Princeton’s Class of Princeton Pre-read. The Pre-read will and that you will both learn from and Experience.” He has also published 2017 their first assignment. revolve around a book to be read by all argue with the views that Professor three novels and is the co-author with Eisgruber, who will become presi- members of your class and many others in Appiah presents.” his mother of an annotated collection of dent of the University July 1, has asked the Princeton community. Together, the Alumni are also encouraged to read proverbs from Ashanti, Ghana. incoming freshmen to read the book Pre-rade and the Pre-read symbolize the the book and engage in the conversation, Freshman will have opportunities “The Honor Code: How Moral Revolu- rich blend of residential and scholarly life among themselves and with students. to discuss “The Honor Code” with tions Happen” by Princeton professor that all of us at Princeton hope will char- Appiah, who has taught at Princeton Eisgruber in residential colleges and Kwame Anthony Appiah as part of an acterize your time at this University.” since 2002, is an internationally renowned elsewhere on campus during the next introduction to the intellectual life of By July 1, each member of the class moral and political philosopher. He has academic year. Among the questions the University. will receive Eisgruber’s letter along published widely in philosophy and in Eisgruber asked the Class of 2017 to “The introduction takes the form of with a copy of the book by Appiah, African and African American literary consider: “What does honor mean something that is brand new, but that Princeton’s Laurance S. Rockefeller and cultural studies. within our own society? What honor — like much of what you will encoun- Professor of Philosophy and the Univer- Appiah said he was thrilled to learn practices do you and your peers par- ter at Princeton — builds on older and sity Center for Human Values. of his book’s selection. ticipate in? To what extent are those beloved traditions,” Eisgruber writes “[Appiah] describes how older “One of my hopes for my books is not practices healthy ones?” in a letter to memberes of the Class conceptions of honorable behavior — just that they will be read, but that they “My favorite books are ones that of 2017. “During your first week on like the idea that people should fight will generate a conversation about their provoke me both to question my own campus, you will take part in a joy- duels to avenge insults — suddenly die subject matter that moves our under- assumptions about the world and to dis- ous ceremony called the Pre-rade. The out, and he raises important questions standing forward,” he said. “Having a agree from time to time with the author,” Pre-rade originated in 2004, when the about the meaning of honor in our own Princeton class read and think about Eisgruber writes. “I like books that make University Student Government revived time,” writes Eisgruber, who is also ‘The Honor Code’ will mean that a lot of bold arguments and ignite conversations. a tradition according to which incom- the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor really bright, engaged young people will ‘The Honor Code’ is no exception.”

Board approves 19 appointments to Princeton faculty

he Princeton University Board of Jason Lieb, in molecular biology and joined the faculty on June 1, and his research interests lie in macroeco- Trustees has approved the appoint- the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integra- area of specialization is neuroscience. nomics, and he is an economist at the T ments of 19 faculty members, tive Genomics, will join the faculty July Buschman came to Princeton from Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. A including four full professors, one 1, 2013, and will serve as director of MIT, where he was a postdoctoral Yale graduate, Oberfield received his associate professor, and 14 assistant the institute. His research focuses on fellow and had been a postdoctoral master’s and doctoral degrees at the professors. investigating how information is coded associate. He received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago. Professor — Charles Barber, in art and and used in genomes, specifically tar- MIT and his bachelor’s degree from the M’hamed Oualdi, in Near Eastern stud- archaeology, will join the faculty on geting areas that regulate chromosomal California Institute of Technology. ies and history, will join the faculty July 1, 2013, from the University of functions such as transcription, DNA Brad Carrow, in chemistry, will join the on Sept. 1, 2013. A specialist in North Notre Dame, where he has been a replication and repair, recombination, faculty on July 1, 2013. His research is African history and Mediterranean faculty member since 1996. He pre- and chromosome segregation. based in the fields of synthetic organic history, Oualdi is an assistant profes- viously taught at the University of Lieb will come to Princeton from the and organometallic chemistry, and he is sor at the National Institute of Oriental Illinois-Urbana-Champaign and was University of North Carolina-Chapel a member of the faculty at the Univer- Languages and Civilizations at the a postdoctoral fellow at the Warburg Hill, where he has taught since 2002 sity of Tokyo. Carrow earned his Ph.D. University of Paris. He previously Institute in London. and where he is director of the Caro- at the University of Illinois-Urbana- was a postdoctoral fellow at the Euro- Barber’s area of specialty is Early lina Center for Genome Sciences. He Champaign and his bachelor’s degree pean University Institute in Florence, Christian and Byzantine art, and his was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Missouri University of Science and Italy, and he received his master’s and publications have focused on theories at Stanford, received his Ph.D. at the Technology. doctoral degrees at Université Paris of the image in Byzantium. His other University of California-Berkeley, and Kathryn Chenoweth, in French and 1-Panthéon Sorbonne. teaching and research interests include earned his bachelor’s degree at UNC- Italian, will join the faculty on Sept. Benoit Pausader, in mathematics, will medieval art, Greek and Russion icons, Chapel Hill. 1, 2013. A specialist in Renaissance join the faculty on July 1, 2013. Paus- and iconoclasm. Barber holds bachelor’s Associate professor — Dara Strolovitch, French studies, she will come to ader, who specializes in analysis, is a and doctoral degrees from the Cour- in gender and sexuality studies, will Princeton from Washington and Lee research associate at Centre National tauld Institute of Art at the University join the faculty July 1, 2013, from the University where she is an assistant de la Recherche Scientifique. Pausader of London. University of Minnesota, where she has professor. Chenoweth earned her Ph.D. previously taught at Princeton, New Bradin Cormack, in English, will join taught since 2001. Her areas of spe- at Brown University and her bachelor’s York University and Brown. He earned the faculty on July 1, 2013. His research cialty are political science and gender degree at Wesleyan University. his Ph.D. at the University of Cergy- focuses on Shakespeare and English and sexuality studies, and her scholar- Joel Lande, in German, will join the Pontoise and his master’s degree at the Renaissance poetry and drama, par- ship focuses on interest group politics faculty on July 1, 2014. Lande stud- University of Lyon. ticularly the intersection of law and and the intersection of race, gender and ies 18th- and 19th-century European Sabine Petry, in molecular biology, literature. class with policymaking. literature, and he is a lecturer in the will join the faculty on Sept. 1, 2013. Cormack comes to Princeton from Strolovitch received her master’s and Council of the Humanities and German, A specialist in structural biology and the University of Chicago, where he doctoral degrees from Yale. She earned and a Cone-Haarlow-Cotsen Postdoc- biochemistry, she is a postdoctoral fel- has taught since 2000. He received his her bachelor’s degree at Vassar College. toral Fellow in the Society of Fellows. low at the University of California-San bachelor’s degrees in English, classics, A graduate of Columbia University, he Francisco. Petry received her bachelor’s biology and chemistry from the Uni- Assistant professor — The following received his Ph.D. from the University and master’s degrees from Johann versity of Alberta, a master’s degree appointments are for three-year terms, of Chicago. Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frank- in medieval and Renaissance studies except where noted: Adam Levine, in mathematics, will join furt, Germany, and her Ph.D. from from the University of Cambridge, and Amir Ahmadi, in operations research the faculty on July 1, 2013. A specialist MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology his Ph.D. in English from Stanford and financial engineering, will join the in topology, Levine is a postdoctoral at Cambridge. University. faculty on Sept. 1, 2014. His research fellow at Brandeis University. After Alexander Ploss, in molecular biology, Regina Kunzel, in history and gender focuses on mathematical programming, receiving his bachelor’s degree at Har- will join the faculty on July 1, 2013, and and sexuality studies, will join the fac- and he is a fellow at the IBM Watson vard, he received his master’s degrees his research is focused on immunology ulty July 1, 2013, as the Doris Stevens Research Center. He was previously a and Ph.D. from Columbia. and virology. He is a research assistant Professor in Women’s Studies. She is postdoctoral fellow at the Massachu- Eduardo Morales, in economics and the professor at Rockefeller University. a professor at the University of Min- setts Institute of Technology, where he Woodrow Wilson School of Public After earning his bachelor’s and nesota, and she previously taught at also received his Ph.D. and master’s and International Affairs, will join the master’s degrees at the University of Williams College. Kunzel, a Stanford degree. He is a graduate of the Univer- faculty on July 1, 2013. An assistant Tübingen in Germany, he received his graduate, received her Ph.D. at Yale sity of Maryland. professor at Columbia, he specializes in Ph.D. from Cornell University. University. Waseem Bakr, in physics, will join the international trade, econometrics and Jennifer Rampling, in history, has been Kunzel’s research interests are in the faculty on Sept. 1, 2013. His specialty is international organizations. Morales appointed for a term of three and a half field of history of gender and sexuality. atomic, optical and molecular physics. previously served as an associate years beginning Feb. 1, 2014. She spe- Her publications include books on the Bakr is a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, research scholar at Princeton, received cializes in the history of science, and she history of prisons and American sexual- and he also earned his bachelor’s and his Ph.D. from Harvard and his bach- is a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge, ity, and a social and cultural history master’s degree there. He earned his elor’s degree from Universidad Carlos where she earned her Ph.D. Rampling of out-of-wedlock pregnancy and its Ph.D. at Harvard University. III de Madrid. earned an LL.B. Law at the University relationship to social work in the first Timothy Buschman, in psychology and Ezra Oberfield, in economics, will of Hull and a master’s degree at the half of the 20th century. the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, join the faculty on Sept. 1, 2013. His University of London. Princeton June 17, 2013 university Bulletin 5 Freshmen dig into challenges facing urban education

M ic h a e l Ho t c h k i s s impact on classroom practice, and and teacher at Foundation’s middle concentrating in the Wilson School trends in school discipline. school offered her views on life as a and pursuing a certificate in Spanish ust past 7:15 on a recent Thursday “This is such a crisis moment in new teacher at a charter school, while and teacher certification at Teacher morning at Foundation Collegiate urban education, and so much is hap- a teacher at an urban public school in Prep, said Kratsios’ visit and the class J Academy in Trenton, N.J., students pening so fast,” Nolan said. “It’s an Seattle weighed in via Skype. visit to Foundation reinforced concerns trickled in through a side door and interesting time for young people to “This class has humanized many of about the sustainability of the teachers’ filed down the stairs to the basement of get involved in urban education, but it the realities of teachers’ experiences workload. the charter high school. is important to get beyond the rhetoric in urban schools and confirmed my “I realized how incredibly difficult On the landing, principal Nicole Fal- of reform and examine the research. As belief that we should not view the act and time-consuming being a teacher coner greeted each of the school’s 130 an ethnographer, I also think that an of supporting teachers as necessarily in at Foundation must be,” Liu said. students by name with a firm hand- ‘on the ground’ perspective is essential conflict with supporting students,” said “Although I am positive that teach- shake, touching base with a question to good policy. Teachers have been Audrey Berdahl-Baldwin, a freshman Photo by Denise Applewhite Denise by Photo Foundation Collegiate Academy principal Nicole Falconer, right, discusses the challenges of urban education with Nolan and members of the freshman seminar during a visit to the Trenton, N.J., charter school.

ing at Foundation is very rewarding, I or a word of encouragement before the blamed for many of today’s problems, from St. Paul, Minn. She is consider- am concerned about whether teachers students removed their coats, straight- but they really have the greatest ing concentrating in the Woodrow at Foundation and other ‘no excuses’ ened their blue and white uniforms insights into which policies support Wilson School of Public and Interna- charter schools will find their jobs and began their day. their practice and which ones under- tional Affairs and pursuing teacher sustainable.” For Princeton University students mine it.” certification in the Program in Teacher Falconer, the principal, told the enrolled in the freshman seminar “The Preparation. She also participates in students that the school’s leaders Dreamkeepers: Education Reform Diverse backgrounds and goals Teacher Prep’s urban specialization, recognize the challenges teachers face. and the Urban Teaching Experience,” The class brings together 12 which is designed to support students They have responded by giving the that morning ritual opened a visit to Princeton freshmen with a range of with interests in urban teaching or teachers half a day on Fridays as plan- a school that exemplifies some of the experiences and future plans linked broader interests in urban education. ning time and by revisiting the school’s promises and challenges of urban edu- to urban education. Some attended “Giving phenomenal teachers the pay practices. cation reform efforts that are central to urban schools while others are active opportunity to engage and care about the class. in education reform efforts or have vol- their students can provide the space for Putting research to work The freshman seminar, taught unteered in urban schools. Their goals personal, humanizing and transforma- Another aspect of Nolan’s class is a by Kathleen Nolan, a lecturer and include careers in urban teaching and tive education that can create positive project that about half of the students program associate in Princeton’s education policy. effects throughout our society,” have undertaken through the Univer- Program in Teacher Preparation, is Nolan, who came to Princeton Berdahl-Baldwin said. sity’s Community-Based Learning designed to help students develop in 2011, began her career teach- At Foundation, the students saw Initiative, which helps students engage an understanding of the social and ing English as a second language to firsthand a “no excuses” school where in research with a community partner. political context of urban education students in a Bronx high school. She classes run from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. They are working with Hedgepeth- and examine trends in urban educa- later earned her master’s degree and during an extended school year. Stu- Williams, a K-8 public school in tion reform — all while focusing on Ph.D. from the City University of New dents and teachers alike are constantly Trenton that administrators hope to the experience of the urban teacher. York. Her areas of interest include evaluated and classes are small and restructure so it serves students more Urban schools are defined both by urban school reform, social contexts of intense. Expectations for behavior and effectively. The Princeton students are their geography and their demograph- urban education and school discipline. achievement are high. Atop each of researching other schools that have ics, with urban schools overall having She wrote the 2011 book “Police in their assignments students write: “I undertaken similar efforts and will higher than average rates of poverty, the Hallways: Discipline in an Urban am college bound!” produce a report for the school at the immigrant students, English lan- High School.” “I was really impressed by the com- end of the semester. guage learners and students of color. To keep up with the rapid evolu- munity dynamic of the school, which “Hedgepeth-Williams was the Many urban schools also struggle tion of education issues, the Princeton created a sense of family among all school at the center of the 1944 with low performance. freshmen explore education policy by of the members of the institution,” Hedgepeth-Williams versus the Board Topics in the class include the engaging the latest research, news Berdahl-Baldwin said. “I appreciated of Education, Trenton, N.J., case in impact of poverty and inequality on articles and blogs, as well as ethnog- how the school was working to create which the New Jersey Supreme Court student achievement, the growth of raphies that offer vivid pictures of life opportunities and set clear, consis- ruled against racial segregation,” charter schools, teacher performance inside schools. They also hear directly tent and high expectations for their Nolan said. “This case was cited as pay, standardized testing and its from teachers — a Princeton alumna students in the context of a close-knit precedent in the landmark 1954 Brown community.” case. So it’s an exciting opportunity for Foundation also reflects the chal- the students to partner with a school lenges of the charter-school movement. with great historical significance. If Kaity Kratsios, the 2007 Princeton they can provide some support for the Employee obituaries alumna who teaches at Foundation’s school as it’s restructured, that’s a very middle school, told the Princeton special thing.” students during her visit to the class “Coming into the class, I only had that she often gets to work at 6:45 a.m. limited knowledge of the key educa- The following is an updated list of February: Willie Figgins, 78 (1976- and doesn’t leave until after 5:30 p.m. tion reform policies being implemented University employee obituaries. 2011, Public Safety). She also works half a day on Sunday in the coming years,” said Aaron Yin, March: June Balint, 73 (1986-2013, Current employees to prepare for the coming week. The a freshman from Little Rock, Ark., East Asian studies); Dorothy Doolan, 86 March: Lenest Josil, 65 (1995-2013, Princeton students peppered her who is considering majoring in the (1956-1984). Dining Services). with questions on life-work balance, Wilson School. “Knowing more about April: Barbara Delanoy, 89 (1968-1990, May: David Milius, 56 (1992-2013, classroom management and teacher each side of the argument for an issue ecology and evolutionary biology); chemical and biological engineering; evaluations. has made it hard for me to take a side Chester Kucemba, 93 (1976-1986, Daniel Mola, 48 (1987-2013, support “It’s been a very interesting expe- easily, but it is the complexity that PPPL); Gerald Silvester, 84 (1974-1991, services). rience and it’s definitely the most this class has helped generate regard- utility plant). difficult job I’ve ever done in my life,” ing various education issues, political Retired employees May: Donald Altenburger, 77 (1976- Kratsios said. views and motives that I most appreci- January: Donald Harnsberger, 85 1999, art museum). Jennifer Liu, a freshman from ate,” he said. (1980-1992, Princeton Plasma Physics Pennington, N.J., who is considering Laboratory). Princeton 6 university Bulletin June 17, 2013

Pomp and circumstance Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Pro- isn’t something you can farm out to the Commencement Tilghman shared the podium with fessor in the Humanities Emeritus at experts. You must, in some way, play Continued from page 1 two Princeton seniors: valedicto- Princeton; and Sakena Yacoobi, execu- your part.” rian Aman Sinha, a mechanical and tive director of the Afghan Institute of Five graduate students were honored aerospace engineering major from Learning. for excellence in teaching at the Asso- The Princeton experience extends Ivyland, Pa.; and salutatorian Amelia As part of its annual Commencement ciation of Princeton Alumni’s Tribute far beyond the classroom, Tilghman Bensch-Schaus, a classics major from ceremony, Princeton honored excellence to Teaching Reception June 1. An said, emphasizing how much students Swarthmore, Pa. in teaching. Four Princeton faculty afternoon thunderstorm disrupted the learn by being members of a “close-knit Sinha told his classmates that all their members received President’s Awards Hooding ceremony for advanced degree community living and working and experiences at Princeton “will collec- for Distinguished Teaching and four candidates on June 3, moving the playing on this beautiful and cherished tively help us in some inchoate way” outstanding secondary school teachers students indoors to Whig Hall, where campus.” and that while they have learned many from across New Jersey were recog- they received their hoods. The keynote Quoting Nobel laureate and Prince- lessons, there are many more to come. nized for their work. speaker was author and entrepreneur ton emerita professor Toni Morrison’s “Learning how to embody not just Princeton students received numer- Sheryl WuDunn, a 1988 graduate address at the University’s 250th intelligence but also virtue, for exam- ous honors over the last few days of the alumna. anniversary celebration in 1996, Tilgh- ple, or learning how to chase not just academic year. At the Baccalaureate service June 1, man said that Princeton’s “ ... strength success but happiness: many of these On June 3, seniors were recognized Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Board of is knowing what its founders knew, that lessons we will have to teach ourselves, at Class Day ceremonies, where the Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve service to the individual, to the govern- and some we will only learn after we keynote speaker was editor of The New and former chair of the econom- ment, to the world requires unwavering walk out FitzRandolph Gate,” he said. Yorker David Remnick, a member of the ics department at Princeton, offered commitment to intellectual freedom, Bensch-Schaus delivered the saluta- Class of 1981. He exhorted the gradu- suggestions and observations for the [and] a fierce commitment to virtues tory address in Latin. This Princeton ating class to meet the “demands, the graduating students. He said: “What- already being debased by apathy: virtues tradition dates to the first Commence- responsibilities, that freedom asks of ever life may have in store for you, each such as integrity and honor and fair play ment in 1748, when the entire ceremony you.” He said: “But you came here not of you has a grand, lifelong project, and and courage.” was conducted in Latin. The Latin Salu- merely to set out on a trade or profes- that is the development of yourself as a “The key word here is ‘service,’” tatory, Princeton’s oldest student honor, sion, but to exercise the freedom of human being.” Tilghman said, stressing that “with the began as a formal address but today your minds. You’re needed in the larger Webcasts of Princeton graduation privilege of a liberal arts education . . . often contains humorous tributes and a world — and not merely to shop and events are available on the University’s comes an obligation to pursue a life that fond farewell to Princeton campus life. take up space. The stakes are huge. WebMedia site, www.princeton.edu/ is larger than you, to be in the service of Bensch-Schaus thanked Tilghman for The project of building a free society webmedia. this and all nations.” tending to her “final flock” and honored In asking the graduates to “affir- the gathered professors and parents. matively make a choice to serve,” In closing, she said: “Once we entered Tilghman quoted another speaker at these very gates as sheep, but now we By the numbers Princeton — Amazon founder and will emerge from these same gates CEO Jeff Bezos, a member of the Class as men and women unafraid of hun- of 1986, who gave an address at Bac- gry wolves and fierce storms; we will The University awarded degrees to 1,261 undergraduates in the Class of 2013, calaureate in 2010. Tilghman said emerge as tigers of Princeton.” five from other classes and 892 graduate students at its 266th Commencement. that among his questions offered as a The University awarded degrees to “touchstone to guide those choices” 1,261 undergraduates in the Class of Those students receiving degrees from the Class of 2013 included: were: 2013, five from other classes and 892 • 625 men “Will inertia be your guide, or will graduate students at its 266th Com- • 636 women you follow your passions?” mencement. • 1,024 bachelor of arts “Will you choose a life of ease, or a In a surprise announcement not • 237 bachelor of science in engineering life of service and adventure?” printed in the day’s program, Tilghman “Will you wilt under criticism, or will was recognized for her leadership as A total of 583 undergraduates, or 46.0 percent of the class, received honors, you follow your convictions?” president and was conferred an honor- including: “Will you be clever at the expense of ary doctoral degree by Kathryn Hall, • 127 highest others, or will you be kind?” chair of the Board of Trustees. Tilgh- • 194 high In closing, Tilghman gave her tradi- man received a standing ovation when • 262 honors tional send-off one last time: “As you the degree was given. The University pass proudly through the FitzRandolph also conferred honorary degrees upon Graduate students receiving degrees: Gate today, as citizens of this and many five individuals for their contribu- • 319 doctor of philosophy other nations, I hope you will carry for- tions to architecture, literature, the • 399 master of arts ward the spirit of Princeton and make humanities, human rights, medicine • 68 master in public affairs use of the education you have acquired and science: Francis Collins, director • 25 master of science in engineering here. of the National Institutes of Health; • 24 master of architecture “And, as I have instructed graduates Lorraine Daston, executive director of • 20 master in public policy for the last 12 years, I fully expect you the Max Planck Institute for the His- • 31 master in finance to do as you have done at Princeton — tory of Science, Berlin; Frank Gehry, • 4 master of fine arts to aim high and be bold!” world-renowned design architect; Toni • 2 master of arts in Near Eastern studies

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TOP CENTER: Douglas Clark, chief marshal for University convocations, places an academic hood on Tilghman as she receives her honorary doctoral degree from Princeton. (Photo by Denise Applewhite)

SECOND ROW LEFT: Senior Amelia Bensch-Schaus, a classics major from Swarthmore, Pa., delivers the Latin Salutatory, the University’s oldest student honor. (Photo by David Kelly Crow)

SECOND ROW CENTER: Booyeon Julia Han receives a congratulatory kiss from her parents Sokbom Han (left) and Jungmi Han (right). (Photo by David Kelly Crow)

SECOND ROW RIGHT: Valedictorian Aman Sinha, a mechanical and aerospace engineering major from Ivyland, Pa., reminds graduating students that there is much to learn after leaving Princeton, such as “how to chase not just success but happiness.” (Photo by Denise Applewhite)

THIRD ROW: Graduates stream through FitzRandolph Gate after the Commencement ceremony, jubilant and full of anticipation for the future. (Photo by John Jameson)

LAST ROW LEFT: Honorary doctoral degree recipients gather with Tilghman in the Faculty Room: (front) Toni Morrison and (from left): Frank Gehry, Lorraine Daston, Sakena Yacoobi and Francis Collins. Tilghman also received an honorary degree from the University. (Photo by Denise Applewhite)

LAST ROW UPPER RIGHT: Tilghman joins faculty members who were recognized with President’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching: (from left) Deborah Nord, Andrew Houck, Yelena Baraz and David Spergel. (Photo by Denise Applewhite)

LAST ROW LOWER RIGHT: Christopher Campisano (left), director of Princeton’s Program in Teacher Preparation, and Tilghman gather with the outstanding New Jersey secondary school teachers who were honored at Commencement: (from left) Robert O’Boyle, Medha Jayant Kirtane, John McAllen and Deane Stepansky. (Photo by Denise Applewhite) Princeton June 17, 2013 university Bulletin 7 Princeton 8 university Bulletin June 17, 2013 Valedictorian Sinha finds inspiration in questions of balance

Jo h n Su l l i va n aircraft and explaining how the flow of In pursuing his engineering degree, as Abdeljawad said that as he juggled air affected their flight. His father, who well as certificates in applied and com- the tasks for organizing the sympo- rogramming a robot to perform received his master’s degree in mechan- putational mathematics and applications sium, he learned that Sinha, in charge like a plate spinner at a circus, ical and aerospace engineering from of computing, he received 14 A+ grades of designing graphics, shirts and P making all the tiny adjustments Princeton in 1982, sparked his son’s before his final semester. He won the posters for the event, was someone who needed to balance a thin stick per- interest in solving problems. Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence would jump in to solve a problem at fectly upright, is associated with what “I was always the kid who would take twice as well as the George B. Wood any time. engineers call the inverted pendulum things apart when I was little,” Sinha Legacy Sophomore Prize. A member “I recall working late one night and problem. For most students, the tricky said with a smile. of Phi Beta Kappa, he is the recipient asking Aman for a modification on one balancing act can be quite a challenge. The swirls and twists of air in his of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship of the designs. A few minutes after For Princeton senior Aman Sinha, it father’s photos fascinated Sinha and and shared the Class of 1939 Princeton my email contact with him, Aman was an inspiration. stuck with him when he arrived at Scholar Award. responded with ‘Done’ in the body of “You can push the pendulum, and it Princeton. After graduation, Sinha will study the email. I looked at the time and it swings back as the computer compen- In the summer of his freshman year, information engineering at the University was 2:45 a.m.,” he said. “Since then, sates,” he said. “It almost seems like the he joined an experimental team analyz- of Cambridge on a Churchill Scholarship. I started referring to Aman as ‘the computer is alive.” ing flows in a pipe in Alexander Smits’ In 2014, he plans to pursue a doctorate in completion machine’ whenever I saw The intricate merger of motion and laboratory. Smits, the Eugene Higgins electrical engineering at Stanford Univer- him around campus.” reaction needed to balance the teeter- Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace sity on a Hertz Fellowship. ing pendulum brought to bear Sinha’s Engineering, called Sinha “the most Sinha also has been a club fencer, Seeking ‘a more intelligent way’ to deal every enthusiasm for engineering and promising undergraduate I have seen played alto sax with the musical group with data mathematics. That desire to tackle in my 31 years at Princeton in terms of Princeton Tarana and participated in A theme in Sinha’s work is data. As difficult problems, to uncover the most creativity and deep physical insight.” the student group Princeton Autono- he points out, society is flooded with so elegant solution, has helped propel him Smits said that Sinha helped per- mous Vehicle Engineering. much data that it overwhelms attempts to the top of his class. A mechanical and form difficult analyses that linked the John Subosits, a senior and a to make use of it all. aerospace engineering major from Ivy- findings to theoretical work being friend of Sinha’s since high school, “I remember reading an article by land, Pa., Sinha is the valedictorian of performed by scientists at the California has worked with him on a number of [Google executive and Princeton alum- Princeton’s Class of 2013, and he gave Institute of Technology. The findings projects, most recently on the design nus] Eric Schmidt that said something an address at the University’s Com- were presented at a meeting of the of a high-performance aircraft called along the lines of the amount of data we mencement on Tuesday, June 4. American Physical Society and pub- a Reno Racer. Subosits, a mechanical generate in two days is the same amount “The motions you go created between the dawn of through to design the civilization and 2003,” Sinha solution gave me the said. “If we can harness the insight of how everything data, regardless of what we fit together,” Sinha said. are looking at, we can be so “It was a general approach much more efficient.” to attacking any problem Technologists have lately — here is how we step coined the buzzword “big back and look at a prob- data” to refer to this flood of lem regardless of where it information and techniques came from.” for making sense of it. Clarence Rowley, a pro- Sinha plans to direct his fessor of mechanical and future work at the inter- aerospace engineering, section of two scientific said that Sinha has a great approaches: control systems, ability to work through which deal with input and complex problems and feedback; and machine arrive at spare, forceful learning, which involves solutions. Although he has making decisions based moved on to more difficult on data. In his thesis, he work, the pendulum prob- examined a current system lem was an early example. for analyzing how groups of “It is a case where there individuals come to common is a fairly involved amount decisions. Then he proposed of math that you have to do an improvement that allows to arrive at a solution,” said individuals in a group to Rowley. “But when you adjust their decision based work through it, and see upon what other, trusted Photo by Denise Applewhite Denise by Photo it actually work, it’s great. members of the group It’s really exciting to see choose. it pan out. I think it really “Aman’s ideas are very Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Clarence Rowley, left, and Sinha demonstrate a low-tech version of the resonated with Aman.” exciting, his work is highly inverted pendulum experiment, a classic engineering problem that Rowley says “is like balancing a ruler on your hand.” For Underlying Sinha’s elegant and insightful, Sinha, the “pendulum problem” challenged and inspired his passion for engineering and mathematics. friendly and easygoing and his results are clearly manner — he describes promising,” Leonard said. the complicated math of control systems lished in the scholarly journal Physics of and aerospace engineering major who “If he were to continue to pursue these as “really cool” — is a formidable intel- Fluids in 2011. will pursue a graduate degree at Stan- ideas, his work would likely advance lect. Sinha’s senior thesis adviser, Naomi “These techniques are highly sophis- ford next year, said Sinha is incredibly the field.” Leonard, recalled that he managed to ticated, but Aman had no trouble intelligent but self-effacing. Although his thesis work is not solve every problem set in her course on absorbing their complexities and imple- “I remember in junior year a mutual directly related to questions of “big modern control theory on a single sheet of menting them with confidence,” Smits friend asked him if he was going to be data,” the underlying concept of how paper. And when it came time to present said. valedictorian and he denied it,” Sub- complex decisions are made drives his thesis to Leonard’s research group, Sinha continued his engineering osits said. “When they announced the toward the same goal. Sinha sketched numerous equations and work over the next two summers dur- valedictorian, I think it came as more of “What I am interested in looking at pictures on the board and spoke for nearly ing internships organized through the a surprise to him than to me.” is: Regardless of the environment or an hour — all from memory. Office of Career Services. Between his Last year, Sinha served as chair- the application domain, what are some “The material that Aman presented sophomore and junior years, he wrote man of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering ways we can intelligently process or on the board covered dozens of pages a program that allowed researchers at honor society. He also was one of the learn from data that we receive or that from his thesis work and was so care- Merck to use a computer to quickly co-organizers of the Princeton Research we generate?” Sinha said. “How do we fully explained,” said Leonard, the evaluate large numbers of CT scans Symposium, a student-organized event deal with this data in a more intelligent Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechani- from pre-clinical drug trials. The fol- that celebrates scientific work from way?” cal and Aerospace Engineering. “This lowing year, he developed a program around the area. Another organizer, Take medical diagnosis, for example. kind of presentation without detailed that allowed Microsoft’s Bing search graduate student Fadi Abdeljawad, At first glance, Sinha noted, it seems a notes is more typical of an accomplished engine to identify the device a user knew Sinha from a mechanical and simple match between symptoms and graduate student.” was operating and tailor search results aerospace engineering course in which disease. But as the data behind a condi- Throughout his Princeton career, accordingly. Abdeljawad worked as an assistant in tion becomes more and more complex, Sinha has enthusiastically tackled dif- “He essentially had to get the plug-in instruction. the correct answer becomes elusive. ficult engineering problems, both in the and the service implementation finished “One thing that struck me when I “If I have a book on my shelf that has classroom and beyond. He worked with in two weeks,” said Dragos Barac, graded the problem sets for that class all the answers, everything is easy,” faculty members in their labs, pursued a principal development manager at was that for all 12 problem sets, Aman Sinha said. “But if I have to walk into summer internships at Merck and Microsoft. “Aman is smart and gets aced every single one of them, but still the Library of Congress, there is no way Microsoft, and collaborated with fellow things done. He picks the right solution, managed to write up the most detailed I can efficiently find an answer if my students on design projects. ensures it is pragmatic and doable, and solutions to every problem set using method is to look through every book sets about prototyping.” only one sheet of paper,” he said. “For starting with the letter A. Now you From campus to internships at Merck and that specific class, the average student say, reorder all the books depending on Microsoft A ‘completion machine’ report was roughly 15-20 pages for what you think is the best. The son of an aerospace engineer, At Princeton, Sinha's academic every problem set.” “But what do you mean by ‘the best’? Sinha remembers his father, Neeraj, accomplishments have been impressive. That’s where it gets interesting.” bringing home photos of rockets and Princeton June 17, 2013 university Bulletin 9

encourage comments and suggestions and held open Eisgruber forums and other in-person meetings with under- Continued from page 1 graduates, graduate students, faculty members, staff members, alumni leaders and members of the local Princeton community. It conducted more than 100 freshman seminar on the Supreme Court and constitu- sourcing interviews with members of the campus com- tional democracy. munity and with leaders and thoughtful observers of “Chris Eisgruber has all of the qualities we were higher education throughout the country. It held eight looking for in Princeton’s next president,” said Hall. in-person meetings and three full-committee confer- “He has keen intelligence and excellent judgment; he ence calls between October and April, and carefully cares passionately about teaching and research of the considered a number of both internal and external highest quality; he is deeply committed to principles candidates. of excellence, equity and integrity; and he is devoted “We were impressed with the broad range of people, to Princeton. both on campus and off campus, who not only spoke “He has played a central role in many of the key very highly of Chris, but told us how fortunate we initiatives of recent years, some of which he now will would be to have him as our president, and who were be responsible for bringing to fruition,” Hall said. confident that as our president he would be an excep- “He is well prepared to provide strong leadership as tionally effective national leader for higher education Princeton makes important decisions in areas rang- and research,” Hall said. “Again and again, people ing from online learning to globalization to increasing described him to us as principled, passionate and the diversity of our campus community, as well as in prepared.” Applewhite Denise by Photo addressing challenges and pursuing opportunities that Search committee member Miguel Centeno, chair of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (right) offers congratulations to we cannot foresee. As valuable as this preparation is, the Department of Sociology, said, “From the start, we Eisgruber on his appointment as Princeton’s 20th president. the principal reason we selected Chris was because of heard that Chris would be a very strong choice, and the personal qualities that make us confident that he this was confirmed and supported with compelling will lead Princeton with vision, imagination, courage evidence month after month, comment after comment, cum laude at the University of Chicago School of Law, and conviction. meeting after meeting.” where he served as editor-in-chief of the law review. In “In the course of our search, we heard from observ- Committee member Gideon Rosen *92, profes- addition to directing Princeton’s Program in Law and ers throughout the country that Chris is already sor of philosophy and chair of the Council of the Public Affairs from 2001 to 2004, he served for a year recognized as a leading voice within the higher educa- Humanities, said: “Chris Eisgruber understands, in as acting director of the Program in Ethics and Public tion community, and we will look to him to play a his bones, the academic and intellectual values of the Affairs. leadership role on the national and international level University, the importance of the liberal arts, and the As provost, he has been the general deputy to on topics ranging from education in the liberal arts centrality to our mission of the pursuit of knowledge the president and has chaired the Academic Plan- and support for basic research to academic integrity for its own sake. We were moved by the broad and ning Group (which oversees long-range academic and college access and affordability,” Hall added. deep admiration for Chris around the University planning), the Priorities Committee (which makes “Princeton has been blessed with an extraordinary and around the country. He has a clear conception recommendations regarding the University’s operating group of recent presidents, and we look to Chris both of the challenges we face and a compelling vision of budget), and the executive committee of the Council to build on their legacy and to make his own distinc- what it will take for Princeton to adapt to the new of the Princeton University Community. Before his tive contributions.” century while retaining its distinctive character. He appointment as provost, he served as a faculty repre- Tilghman said: “I strongly endorse the judgment of is an eloquent voice for the idea of the liberal arts sentative on the Alumni Council Executive Committee the search committee that there is no one better quali- university, and in particular for the idea of an open, and taught in the Alumni Studies program, and as fied than Chris Eisgruber to serve as Princeton’s 20th diverse community that integrates teaching, scholar- provost he has met frequently with alumni groups on president. For nine years, I have had an opportunity to ship and the arts at the highest levels. We have great campus and around the world. witness firsthand the breadth and depth of his under- confidence in his leadership, and we look forward to Eisgruber currently serves as vice chair of the board standing of this university and his deep commitment working with him.” of trustees of Princeton University Press and chair to its core values. I have been impressed by his ability Catherine Ettman ’13, one of the undergradu- of its executive committee; a member of the board of to frame issues in creative and thoughtful ways, to ate members of the committee, said: “I was very trustees of Educational Testing Service; and a mem- draw on the ideas of others in developing consensus, impressed with Chris’s commitment to improving ber of the academic advisory board of Coursera, an and to be both compassionate and decisive in carrying the student experience on campus. I found him to be educational technology company providing opportu- out his many responsibilities. In settings both large thoughtful and open-minded in thinking about issues nities for online learning. (Princeton was one of the and small, I have seen his eloquence, his warmth, his that may affect students, ranging from mental health first universities to offer courses through Coursera.) integrity, his commitment to excellence, his wide- and well-being to career decisions and how to lead He also served recently as a member of the American ranging intellectual curiosity, his sense of humor, and meaningful lives.” Council on Education Task Force on Institutional his deep devotion to the well-being of our faculty and Chad Maisel, the graduate student representative Accreditation. our students.” on the committee, said: “Chris cares deeply about His wife, Lori A. Martin, is a securities litigator Eisgruber said: “As an undergraduate, faculty graduate education and recognizes the invaluable with the firm of WilmerHale, and they have a 14-year- member and provost, I have developed a heartfelt role of graduate students and graduate alumni in old son, Danny, who is a freshman at Princeton High appreciation for Princeton’s distinctive mission as a the Princeton community. Chris impressed us with School. great research university with an unmatched com- his deep understanding of the opportunities and In addition to Hall, the trustee members of the search mitment to liberal arts education. I feel especially challenges facing Princeton and higher education. I committee included vice chair Brent Henry ’69, and fortunate to succeed Shirley Tilghman, whose won- couldn’t be happier with our selection.” John Diekman ’65, Laura Forese ’83, Joshua Gre- derful leadership has made this university more The staff representative to the committee, Deputy han ’10, Randall Kennedy ’77, Robert Murley ’72, vibrant, energetic and inclusive than ever. Yet one Dean of the College Clayton Marsh ’85, said: “Chris’s Nancy Peretsman ’76 and James Yeh ’87. The faculty of Princeton’s most attractive characteristics is its knowledge of the inner workings of this university members were Miguel Centeno (sociology), Lyman drive not only to sustain past successes but also to and his keen understanding of the most pressing Page (physics), Gideon Rosen *92 (philosophy) and build new strengths in response to changing needs issues facing higher education — he has taught a Howard Stone (mechanical and aerospace engineer- and opportunities. I look forward to carrying out the freshman seminar on the public mission of universi- ing). The undergraduate student representatives initiatives that are already under way, while also col- ties like Princeton — will be crucial strengths as we were Catherine Ettman ’13 and Jeffrey Morrell ’13; laborating with the trustees and the wider Princeton enter a period of flux and change in higher education. the graduate student representative was Chad Maisel community to address the challenges and possibilities Princeton will have a tested, wise captain at the helm GS (Woodrow Wilson School); and the staff repre- that lie ahead.” as we head into choppy waters.” sentative was Clayton Marsh ’85, deputy dean of the The search committee that recommended Eis- A native of Oregon, Eisgruber graduated from college. gruber’s appointment received more than 320 Princeton magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and Staff support was provided by Robert Durkee ’69, submissions to a website that it established to then earned an M.Litt. in politics at Oxford and a J.D. vice president and secretary of the University. Photo by Denise Applewhite Denise by Photo Eisgruber (right) meets with members of the University and local community on Alexander Beach just days after his selection as Princeton’s 20th president was announced. Princeton 10 university Bulletin June 17, 2013 Thirty-two faculty members transfer to emeritus status

hirty-two Princeton University Embassy, 1871-1873, Volume 1,” com- Princeton. He served as a member of rior temporal cortex of faculty members were transferred piled by Kume Kunitake, in 2002. Princeton’s professional research staff the brain, analyzing T to emeritus status in recent action Collcutt joined the Princeton faculty for 10 years before joining the faculty their visual functions by the Board of Trustees. All are in 1975, served as chair of the East in 1981. In addition to mentoring more as they relate to per- effective July 1, 2013, except where Asian studies department for three than 50 students, Dryer served as ception and learning. noted. years and was director of the East undergraduate departmental repre- After receiving his Leonard Babby, a professor of Slavic Asian studies program for nearly 20 sentative from 1984 to 1987 and as B.A. from Harvard, years, strengthening the intensive associate dean of academic affairs for Gross studied ethol- languages and literatures, has pub- Gross lished widely in the field of generative study of Chinese and Japanese. He the School of Engineering and Applied ogy at Cambridge linguistics and is a renowned scholar received his bachelor's degree from Science from 1987 to 1990. on a Fulbright of Slavic languages the University of Cambridge and his Thomas Espenshade’s wide-ranging Scholarship before earning his Ph.D. and morphosyntactic doctoral degree from Harvard. career as a professor of sociology and in psychology there. He was a post- theory. He was one John Conway, the John Von Neumann faculty associate in the Office of Popu- doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts of the first linguists Professor in Applied and Computa- lation Research (OPR) has covered Institute of Technology and faculty to apply generative tional Mathematics and professor of families and household economics, member at Harvard prior to joining grammar to Slavic mathematics, has made significant contemporary immigration flows, Princeton's faculty in 1970. Among languages, seeking contributions in the fields of group the development of his many honors, Gross is a fellow of out the general laws theory, number theory, algebra, geo- mathematical models, the American Psychological Associa- and rules that gov- Babby metric topology, theoretical physics, and the sociology of tion, the American Association for the erned their structure. combinatorial game education and affir- Advancement of Science, the National In his 60 scholarly articles and five theory and geometry mative action. His Academy of Sciences and the Ameri- monographs, he has tackled such over the last 50 years. publications include can Academy of Arts and Sciences. subjects as a two-tiered theory of argu- In addition to dozens 150 articles and 13 András Hámori, the Cleveland E. ment structure, impersonal sentences of articles and books, books and mono- Dodge Professor of Near Eastern and negative existential sentences. his accomplishments graphs including the Studies, is one of the foremost schol- Espenshade After spending 20 years at Cornell include inventing prize-winning book ars of classical Arabic literature. University, Babby came to Princeton a new system of “No Longer Separate, His scholarship combines linguistic in 1991, where he has served as the numbers, the surreal Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite expertise with literary criticism, as Conway head of the Slavic languages and litera- numbers, and, with College Admission and Campus Life.” in his pioneering 1974 text, “On the tures department’s Ph.D. Program in Princeton Professor of Espenshade earned his B.A. from Art of Medieval Arabic Literature.” Slavic and Theoretical Linguistics and Mathematics Emeritus Simon Kochen, The College of Wooster, his mas- Hámori has written as director of the Program in Linguis- proving the Free Will Theorem, which ter’s degree at Yale University, and about a range of top- tics. He had also served as an assistant stated that elementary particles can his Ph.D. from Princeton. He taught ics, from the Arabic professor at Princeton in 1970-71. freely choose their spins in experi- at Bowdoin College, Florida State background of some Babby earned his B.A. in Russian ments, consistent with physical law. University and Brown University and Hebrew poems from language and literature from Brooklyn Conway’s numerous honors include worked at The Urban Institute and medieval Spain to the College, and his Ph.D. from Harvard the London Mathematical Society’s U.S. Immigration and Naturalization “Thousand and One University. Berwick Prize and Pólya Prize, North- Service before joining Princeton in Nights,” and from Mark Cohen, the Khedouri A. Zilkha western University’s Nemmers Prize 1988. In addition to mentoring many the concepts of shame Hámori Professor of Jewish Civilization in in Mathematics, and the American cohorts of students and postdocs, and prudence in an the Near East and professor of Near Mathematical Society’s Leroy P. Steele Espenshade has served as the depart- eighth-century mirror Eastern studies, is a distinguished Prize for Mathematical Exposition. mental representative and chair of the for princes to modern jihadist poetry. historian of Jews in Conway is a fellow of the Royal Society sociology department, as well as the Hámori earned his A.B. at Princeton the medieval Islamic of London and the American Academy director of graduate studies of OPR. and his Ph.D. from Harvard, and he world. His published of Arts and Sciences. He received his Jacques Fresco, the Damon B. Pfei- began teaching at Princeton in 1967. work includes stud- B.A. and Ph.D. from Cambridge, and ffer Professor in the Life Sciences and He served as chair of the Department ies of Muslim-Jewish he came to Princeton in 1986. professor of molecular biology, is a of Near Eastern Studies from 1997 to relations, Jewish Edward Cox, the Edwin Grant Conk- pioneer in the biochemistry of nucleic 2005. social and economic lin Professor of Biology and professor acids, and since his faculty appoint- Marie-Hélène Huet, the M. Taylor history, the structure of molecular biology, has made seminal ment in 1960 he has Pyne Professor of French and Italian, and functioning of the contributions in four major areas of helped develop the has taught and researched a number Cohen Jewish community, biology: the genetics and population field at Princeton. of topics throughout her career, with the Cairo Geniza, consequences of error rate control Fresco’s research a focus on 18th- and 19th-century and Jewish law and society, as well as during DNA replication in microbial has spanned several French thought and literature. Her a translation and edition of the auto- populations, the areas of DNA and publication topics include Jules Verne, biography of a famous 17th-century genesis of large-scale RNA biochemistry, the French Revolution, the monstrous Venetian rabbi. In addition to publish- spatial patterns in including tRNA in French Enlightenment writings ing scores of articles and books, Cohen simple developmental structure and fold- Fresco and the culture of disaster. Huet’s established and has led the Princeton systems, the develop- ing, gene repair for many honors include a Guggenheim Geniza Project, an online database of ment of new ways to sickle cell anemia, Fellowship and being awarded the transcriptions of documents used by study single molecules mechanisms of spontaneous mutation title of Officier dans scholars worldwide. in microfabricated and developing a rationale for the evo- l’Ordre des Palmes Cohen, who began teaching at Cox environments, and lution of the genetic code. His research Académiques by the Princeton in 1973, has also promoted the analysis of single has been reported in many published French government understanding between Jews and molecular events in living bacterial papers, meeting abstracts, book chap- for her contributions Muslims in public talks and op-ed cells in real time. ters and patents. to culture and the pieces. After receiving his A.B. from Cox joined the Princeton faculty in After Fresco earned his bachelor’s, arts. Brandeis University and M.A. from 1967, and served in several administra- master’s and doctoral degrees from Huet joined the tive posts, including as associate dean New York University, he worked as a Princeton faculty in Columbia University, he received his Huet M.H.L. and Ph.D. from the Jewish of the college from 1972 to 1977 and fellow at the Sloan-Kettering Insti- 1999, after teaching Theological Seminary. as chair of the Department of Biology tute, as an instructor in biochemistry at the University of Martin Collcutt, a professor of East from 1977 to 1987. He received his and pharmacology at NYU School of California-Berkeley, Amherst Col- Asian studies and history, developed B.Sc. from the University of Brit- Medicine, and then as a senior fellow lege, the University of Virginia and his interest in Japan after college, ish Columbia and his Ph.D. from the at Harvard and the MRC Laboratory University of Michigan. She earned when he took a position teaching Eng- University of Pennsylvania, followed of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, her doctorate from the University of lish in Japan, which led to learning by training as a postdoctoral fellow at England. First in 1965 and then from Bordeaux. (Photo by David Dobkin) Japanese, meeting his wife, and tutor- Stanford University. 1974 to 1980, he served as chair of Morton Kostin, a professor of chemical ing the then-crown prince in English. Frederick Dryer, a professor of mechan- Princeton’s biochemical sciences and biological engineering, has been Since that time, he has focused his ical and aerospace engineering, has department, which later evolved into interested in a wide range of fields in research and teaching focused his research in the field of the Department of Molecular Biol- science and engineering throughout on elements of Japa- energy conversion, with particular ogy. Fresco has remained active in his career, publishing refereed articles nese history, religion interest in the chemistry of combustion research and teaching throughout his in reaction kinetics, quantum tun- and culture, includ- and the chemical kinetics of fuels and 53 years at Princeton — he taughtthis neling, the Fokker-Planck equation, ing Zen Buddhism, other materials. His work on ignition spring and just published a paper on Kramers’ theory of the arts in medieval and combustion has his current research, which he intends chemical kinetics, Japan, the aristocratic contributed to fire to continue to pursue during his reaction engineering, and warrior culture safety-related issues, retirement. kinetics and diffu- of the Heian and and for three decades Charles Gross, a professor of psychol- sion of multienzyme Collcut Kamakura periods, he has collaborated ogy and the Princeton Neuroscience systems, membrane and Japan’s relations with NASA on Institute, has contributed foundational diffusion, dissipative with China and the West. Collcutt’s experiments related to work to the field of cognitive neurosci- effects in quantum principal publications include “Five isolated droplet burn- ence. He has specialized in studying theory, transport Kostin Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic ing in low-gravity the primate visual system and has phenomena and Institution in Medieval Japan” in 1981; environments. Dryer revolutionized scientists’ understand- chemical reaction in catalytic reactors, “Cultural Atlas of Japan” with Marius Dryer received ing of sensory processing and pattern anomalous osmosis, the Nernst-Planck Jansen and Isao Kamakura in 1988; his B.A. from Rensselaer Polytech- recognition. Throughout his career, and the translation of “The Iwakura nic Institute and his Ph.D. from Gross has studied neurons in the infe- Continued on page 11 Princeton June 17, 2013 university Bulletin 11

Chiara Nappi, a his career. One of his key publications spent a year providing social services Emeritus professor of physics, is “Hadrian’s Villa and Its Legacy,” in Oregon through AmeriCorps, then Continued from page 10 has made impor- which he co-authored with his for- known as Volunteers in Service to tant contributions mer Smith College colleague William America, or VISTA. He then com- to a broad range of MacDonald, and which won multiple pleted his Ph.D. in American history problems in modern prizes including the Book of the Year at Yale. He taught at the University equation, Monte Carlo methods, the particle theory. She Award from the American Institute of Wisconsin-Madison before coming has contributed to of Architects. Pinto’s other research to Princeton in 1980. At the Univer- Boltzmann equation, hot-atom chemis- Nappi try, variational methods and numerical mathematical physics, interests include 18th-century architec- sity, Rodgers was chair of the history analysis. More recently, Kostin has string theory, models ture in Rome, the prints of Giovanni department from 1988 to 1995 and used this background to extend of baryons in quantum chromodynam- Battista Piranesi and 1997-98, directed the Shelby Cullom the range of phenomena covered by ics, quantum black hole physics, and the image of Rome in Davis Center for Historical Stud- transition state theory. This has been supersymmetric phenomenology. art and literature. ies from 2008 to 2012 and won the successful, and in many cases he has Nappi has been a member of the Pinto earned his President’s Award for Distinguished obtained excellent to very good agree- Princeton theoretical physics commu- B.A. and Ph.D. at Teaching and Howard T. Behrman ment with experiment. The advantages nity for more than 30 years. She was a Harvard, and he Award for Distinguished Achievement of this new approach are that it is more member of the Institute for Advanced joined the Princeton in the Humanities. comprehensive, more accurate and Study from 1980 to 1983 and 1988 to faculty in 1988 after Gilbert Rozman, the Musgrave Pro- more rigorous than the well-known 1999, and at Princeton was a senior Pinto teaching at Smith fessor of Sociology, has spanned the traditional equations of transition state research physicist from 1983 to 1988 for a dozen years. At fields of sociology, regional studies and theory. His retirement and the excel- and has been a professor since 2001. Princeton, he served multiple stints as international relations in his stud- lent facilities of the University will From 1999 to 2001, she was a pro- director of graduate studies and as act- ies of China, Japan, enable him to devote full time to this fessor at the University of Southern ing chair; he also was associate chair Korea and Russia. exciting and enjoyable research. California. In addition to serving from 1992 to 1999. His research covers Kostin received his bachelor’s as director of graduate studies and Albert Raboteau, the Henry W. Put- the topics of pre- degree from The Cooper Union for the departmental representative for under- nam Professor of Religion, is one of the modern urbanization Advancement of Science and Art and graduates, Nappi has promoted science foremost scholars of African American and modernization in his Ph.D. from Harvard. At Princeton, in a variety of venues, including writ- religious history. His first book, “Slave Russia and East Asia, he served as a research associate, post- ing in English and Italian publications Religion: The ‘Invis- these societies’ per- doctoral fellow and visiting lecturer about science education, serving on the ible Institution’ in the ceptions of each other, Rozman before joining the faculty in 1964. board of the Princeton school system, Antebellum South,” regionalism in Asia Heath Lowry, the Ataturk Professor of and founding a summer school that reshaped historians’ and national identity Ottoman and Modern Turkish Stud- aims to motivate women and minori- understanding of studies. Rozman’s work has won him ies and professor of ties to persevere in advanced studies black religious history numerous grants and honors. Near Eastern studies, in theoretical physics. She earned her and religious life, Rozman spent his junior year of is a renowned scholar undergraduate and doctoral degrees at showing how black college at Princeton studying Russian who has researched the University of Naples. Christians reimagined Raboteau and Chinese in the University’s Criti- the entire chronologi- Susan Naquin, a professor of history their faith to make it cal Languages Program. He earned his cal scope of Ottoman and East Asian studies, is an eminent give meaning to their own experience of bachelor’s degree at Carleton College and modern Turkish historian of late imperial China. Her slavery rather than accept the perspec- and his Ph.D. from Princeton. Rozman history. He has writ- studies of sectarian religion using tive of their oppressors. has long been a proponent of interna- ten dozens of articles Qing dynasty archives led to her first Raboteau earned a bachelor’s degree tionalization efforts at the University, and books covering Lowry two books, “Millenarian Rebellion in from Loyola Marymount University, serving on the Council on Regional institutional, urban, China” and “The Wang Lun Uprising a master’s in English from Berkeley, Studies and chairing the Faculty Com- cultural, economic, architectural and of 1774.” Naquin’s “Peking: Temples took graduate courses in theology from mittee on International Experience in diplomatic histories of the region. and City Life, 1400-1900” used deep Marquette University, and his Ph.D. Undergraduate Education. They include “Trabzon Şehrinin empirical research and analysis to show from Yale. He came to Princeton in Peter Schäfer, the Ronald O. Perel- İslamlaşma ve Türkleşmesi, 1461-1583” how the religious institutions of China’s 1982 after teaching at Yale and Berke- man Professor of Jewish Studies (“The Islamization and Turkification capital facilitated the city’s vibrant cul- ley. Raboteau has served in numerous and professor of religion, is a leading of Trabzon, 1461-1583”), now in its tural, social and economic life during administrative posts, including chair scholar of rabbinic Judaism and early fifth edition. the Ming and Qing periods. of the religion department and dean of Jewish mysticism. His scholarship Prior to coming to Princeton in Naquin received her bachelor’s the Graduate School. shaped the way hekhalot manuscripts 1993, Lowry helped found the history degree from Stanford and her Ph.D. François Rigolot, the Meredith were compared and edited, and it department at Bosphoros University in from Yale. She taught Howland Pyne Professor of French offered an alternate narrative to their Istanbul, was a senior research asso- at UPenn before Literature, is a prolific scholar of interpretation. Schäfer’s work with ciate at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks joining the Princeton Renaissance literature, with more than rabbinic thought has Research Library and Collection, and faculty in 1993. She 200 articles and book chapters to his covered comparative directed the Institute of Turkish Stud- served as chair of the name, along with work on editions of ies. He received his B.A. from Portland East Asian studies nine monographs and the Talmud and the State University and his Ph.D. from the department from 2001 nine edited volumes. relationship between University of California-Los Angeles. to 2005 and 2007- Many of his publica- rabbinic thought 08, and received the tions have examined and Christianity. Richard Miles, the Robert Porter Pat- Naquin terson Professor of Mechanical and Graduate Mentor- the great writers of He also has worked Aerospace Engineering, is an expert in ing Award in 2009. 16th-century France, to make important hypersonics and advanced laser diag- Naquin’s other honors include the and have investigated Schäfer manuscripts available nostics, and his research has spanned Award for Scholarly Distinction from rhetoric, stylistics and online. a range of topics including the use of the American Historical Association, Rigolot poetics. Among Rigo- Schäfer studied at the University of lasers, electron beams, microwaves, and fellowships from the Guggenheim lot’s many honors are Bonn and Hebrew University before morphing materials, Foundation, Fulbright-Hays Program, a P.O. Kristeller Lifetime Achievement earning his Ph.D. at the University and magnetic devices Woodrow Wilson International Center Award from the Renaissance Society of Freiburg and his habilitation at the to observe, control, for Scholars, and American Council of of America, the Chevalier dans l’Ordre University of Frankfurt. He taught at accelerate, extract Learned Societies. National du Mérite from the French the University of Tübingen, University power, and precon- Edward Nelson, a professor of mathe- government, a Guggenheim Fellowship of Cologne and Free University of Ber- dition gas flows for matics, has contributed to a number of and a National Endowment for the lin before joining the Princeton faculty supersonic and hyper- fields of mathematics, including proba- Humanities fellowship. in 1998. Schäfer has been the director sonic fluid dynamics, bility, logic, foundations, mathematical Rigolot studied at the École des of the Program in Judaic Studies since physics and analysis. In 1995, he won Hautes Etudes Commerciales before 2005. Miles diagnostics, and pro- pulsion applications. the Steele Prize for earning his M.A. in economics from José Scheinkman, the Theodore A. He invented a variety research of semi- Northwestern and his Ph.D. in French Wells ’29 Professor of Economics, of diagnostics, including nonlinear nal importance for from the University of Wisconsin-Mad- will transfer to emeritus status on optical methods to write and follow his contributions to ison. He taught at Wisconsin, Michigan Sept. 1, 2013. Over his career, he has lines and patterns for the measurement constructive quantum and Middlebury College before joining contributed to a number of areas of of turbulence, and he has been a leader field theory. Nelson is the Princeton faculty in 1974. economics, including mathematical in the field of plasma interactions in also a member of the Daniel Rodgers, the Henry Charles methods, theories of competition and air, including the use of magnetohy- American Academy of Lea Professor of History, is a industrial organiza- drodynamic forces to control boundary Arts and Sciences and Nelson renowned historian of American tion, macroeconomics, layers and extract power. His recent the National Academy cultural and intellectual life. In his social interactions, work involves imaging the dynamics of of Sciences. prize-winning books, asset-price bubbles, high-speed flows and using lasers and Nelson studied at the Liceo Scien- he has tackled the financial time series, radar for standoff detection of trace tifico Giovanni Verga in Rome before subjects of work and friction in finan- contaminants in air. He expects to earning his Ph.D. at the University of ethic in the era of cial markets. continue this research as an emeritus Chicago. Prior to his appointment to high industrialism, Scheinkman professor and senior research scientist. the Princeton faculty in 1959, he spent key words in Ameri- received his B.A. Scheinkman Miles earned his bachelor’s and three years as a member of the Insti- can politics, social from the Undersi- doctoral degrees from Stanford. He tute for Advanced Study. politics during the dade Federal do Rio joined the Princeton faculty in 1972 John Pinto, the Howard Crosby Butler Progressive Era, and Rodgers de Janeiro, his M.A. from the Insti- and served as chair of the Program Memorial Professor of the History of the fracture of major tuto Nacional de Matemática Pura in Engineering Physics from 1980 to Architecture and professor of art and intellectual trends and e Aplicada, and his Ph.D. from the 1996. He is a member of the National archaeology, has focused on archi- identities in modern times. University of Rochester. After teaching Academy of Engineering. tecture, urbanism and landscape in After earning his bachelor’s degree Italy, especially Rome, throughout in engineering from Brown, Rodgers Continued on page 12 Princeton 12 university Bulletin June 17, 2013 Faculty briefs

The following faculty personnel Associate professor (with continuing Aerospace Engineering. York University, effective Aug. 1, 2013. changes were recently approved by tenure) — Susana Draper, comparative • Yueh Lin Loo, the Theodora D. ’78 • Liora Halperin, assistant professor the Board of Trustees. literature; Chika Okeke-Agulu, art and and William H. Walton III ’74 Profes- in Near Eastern studies, to accept a archaeology and African American sor in Engineering. position at the University of Colorado- Promotions studies; Bhavani Raman, history; Joshua • Robert Schapire, the David M. Siegel Boulder, effective Sept. 1, 2013. These promotions are effective July Shaevitz, physics and the Lewis-Sigler ’83 Professor in Computer Science. • Amy Lerman, assistant professor of 1, 2013. The faculty members and their Institute for Integrative Genomics. • Paul Seymour, the Henry Burchard politics and public affairs, to accept a departments, by the academic rank to Fine Professor of Mathematics. position at the University of California- which they are being promoted, are: Assistant professor — Tasho Statev Kaletha, mathematics; Luc Nguyen, math- • James Sturm, the Stephen R. Forrest Berkeley, effective July 1, 2013. Professor — Craig Arnold, mechanical ematics. Professor in Electrical Engineering. • Andriy Norets, assistant professor in and aerospace engineering; Matthew economics, to accept a position at the Botvinick, psychology and the Princeton Endowed professorships Resignations University of Illinois, effective Sept. 1, Neuroscience Institute; Christina Imai, Seven faculty members have been The following faculty members have 2013. politics and Woodrow Wilson School named to endowed professorships, submitted their resignations: • Devah Pager, professor of sociology of Public and International Affairs; effective July 1, 2013, except where • Daniela Campello Da Costa Ribeiro, and public affairs, to accept a position Sara-Jane Leslie, philosophy; Pedro Meira noted. They are: assistant professor of politics and at Harvard University, effective Sept. Monteiro, Spanish and Portuguese • Sun-Yung Alice Chang, the Henry Bur- international affairs, to accept a posi- 1, 2013. languages and cultures; Tali Mendelberg, chard Fine Professor of Mathematics, tion at the Getulio Vargas Foundation • Micah Warren, assistant professor in politics; Kenneth Norman, psychol- Eugene Higgins Professor of Math- in Brazil, effective July 1, 2013. mathematics, to accept a position at the ogy and the Princeton Neuroscience ematics, effective Feb. 1, 2014. • Mariana Candido, assistant professor University of Oregon, effective Sept. Institute; Amit Singer, mathematics and • Alexandru Ionescu, the Thomas D. of history, to accept a position at the 1, 2013. applied and computational mathemat- Jones Professor of Mathematical University of Kansas, effective Sept. 1, • Anna Zayaruzny, assistant professor ics; Susan Wheeler, creative writing and Physics. 2013. in music, to accept a position at Yale Lewis Center for the Arts. • Yiguang Ju, the Robert Porter Pat- • Christiane Frey, assistant professor in University, effective July 1, 2013. terson Professor of Mechanical and German, to accept a position at New

Socolow earned his B.A. and Ph.D. tion of the text was published in 2010 Von Hippel earned his bachelor’s Emeritus from Harvard. He joined the Princeton by World Scientific. degree at MIT and his Ph.D. at Oxford, Continued from page 11 faculty in 1971 after teaching at Yale Vanmarcke received his bachelor’s where he was a Rhodes Scholar. After and working as a postdoctoral fellow degree from the University of Leuven holding positions at the University of at Berkeley and the European Center in Belgium, his master’s degree from Chicago, Cornell, Argonne National for Nuclear Research in Geneva. At the University of Delaware, and his Laboratory and Stanford, he came to at the University of Chicago, he came Princeton, he has led the Carbon Ph.D. from MIT. He taught at MIT Princeton in 1974. In 1975, von Hippel to Princeton in 1999, where he joined Mitigation Initiative with Pacala, until he joined the Princeton faculty in co-founded what is now Princeton’s Pro- the economics department and helped and he helped launch the Center for 1985. His honors include the Ameri- gram on Science and Global Security. build up Princeton's newly established Environmental Studies, the Princeton can Society of Civil Engineers’ 2012 Andrew Wiles, the James S. McDon- Bendheim Center for Finance. In Environmental Institute, and the Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal for dis- nell Distinguished University addition, Scheinkman has worked as Program in Science, Technology and tinguished achievement in safety and Professor of Mathematics, transferred a practitioner in finance in the United Environmental Policy. Socolow is a reliability studies and being named a to emeritus status Sept. 1, 2012. He States and in public affairs in Brazil. fellow of the American Physical Society distinguished member of the society, received widespread acclaim for his Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Bert G. and the American Association for the and election to the Royal Academy of proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Advancement of Science. Arts and Sciences of Belgium. which had been unsolved for more Politics and International Affairs in Zoltán Soos, a professor of chemistry, Maurizio Viroli, a professor of politics, than three centuries, in a 1995 paper the Woodrow Wilson School of Public has conducted research at the inter- is a scholar of political theory and the titled “Modular Elliptic Curves and International Affairs, will transfer section of chemistry and physics for history of political and Fermat’s Last Theorem” in the to emeritus status on Sept. 1, 2013. nearly half a century. His research thought. His books Annals of Mathematics. In doing While serving as dean of the Wilson has focused on organic molecular have focused on Jean so, Wiles brought School from 2002 to 2011, she grew the solids, ion radical and charge transfer Jacques Rousseau, fundamental new faculty, especially in salts, neutral-ionic phase transitions, Niccolò Macchia- techniques into international relations; electronic excitations of conjugated velli, the language number theory, and expanded the Mas- polymers, triplet spin excitons and of politics, national- he has made many ter in Public Policy one-dimentional spin ism, and religion and other contributions program and estab- systems. Some of Viroli politics, and he has to number theory lished the joint Ph.D. these areas have seen also studied classi- through his research program; and created numerous applica- cal republicanism, constitutionalism, and his advising of numerous centers tions with the rise classical rhetoric, citizenship and civic graduate students at Wiles and the Scholars in of electronic devices education. Princeton. Wiles also Slaughter the Nation’s Service over the last three Viroli joined the Princeton faculty in chaired the mathematics department Initiative. A scholar of decades. Soos has 1987. He studied at the University of from 2005 to 2009. international relations and international Soos had a large network Bologna and received his Ph.D. from Wiles received his undergraduate law, Slaughter also served for two years of collaborators, from the European University Institute in degree at Oxford and his Ph.D. at Cam- as the director for policy planning for his graduate students to Princeton Florence. In addition to his visiting bridge. He joined the Princeton faculty the U.S. State Department. colleagues, and from Sandia National positions at other universities, he has in 1982, and after his transfer to emeri- After receiving her A.B. from Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., served as an adviser to the president tus status he became the Royal Society Princeton in 1980, Slaughter earned to the University of Parma in Italy of the Italian Republic and is director Research Professor at Oxford. Wiles’ her M.Phil. and D.Phil. in interna- and the Indian Institute of Science in of a Master in Civic Education pro- many awards include the Shaw Prize tional relations from the University of Bangalore, India. gram in Asti, Italy. Viroli currently and being knighted as Sir Andrew Oxford and a J.D. from Harvard Law Prior to coming to Princeton in has a faculty position at the University Wiles by the Queen of England. School. She taught at the University 1966, Soos was a National Science of Italian Switzerland, and he will Michael Wood, the Charles Barnwell of Chicago Law School and Harvard Foundation postdoctoral fellow at take on a position at the University of Straut Class of 1923 Professor of Eng- before joining the Princeton faculty Stanford. He earned his bachelor’s Texas-Austin in spring 2014. lish and Comparative Literature, is a in 2002. Slaughter will become the degree in chemistry and physics at Frank von Hippel, a professor of public prominent literary and cultural critic president of the New America Foun- Harvard, and he earned his Ph.D. at and international affairs in the Wil- with a column in the London Review dation in the fall. the California Institute of Technology. son School, is a nuclear physicist and of Books and a long list of publications Robert Socolow, a professor of Erik Vanmarcke, a professor of civil an expert on nuclear to his name. His interests include film mechanical and aerospace engineer- and environmental engineering, has arms control and studies, postcolonialism and literary ing, is known for his interdisciplinary explored a wide range of research proliferation policy. criticism, and he is an expert on the work on energy and the environment. interests in engineering throughout Early in his career, he modern novel in English, French, Ger- His 1971 book “Patient Earth,” with his career, including random fields researched elementary man and Spanish. his Yale colleague John Harte, was one and random media; risk assessment particle physics theory. After earning his bachelor’s and of the first books to combine the sci- and management against earthquakes, He then developed doctoral degrees at Cambridge, Wood ence and social issues wind and other haz- an interest in public took his first teach- involved in climate, ards; energy density policy and has worked ing position there. energy, water and land fluctuations in the on proposals related to von Hippel He traveled as a use issues. Socolow is early universe; and the elimination of the freelance writer and also well-known for the formation of the production and use of plutonium and taught at Columbia his 2004 article in cosmic structure. One highly enriched uranium. Von Hip- and the University of Science, with Princ- of his most important pel lent technical support to Mikhail Exeter before coming eton’s Frederick D. contributions was his Gorbachev’s initiatives to achieve a to Princeton in 1995. Petrie Professor in 1983 book “Random Comprehensive Test Ban and arms He chaired the Gauss Ecology and Evo- Socolow Fields: Analysis and Vanmarcke reductions treaties, worked in the Wood Seminars in Criticism lutionary Biology, Synthesis,” an intro- White House Office of Science and from 1995 to 2001 Stephen Pacala, on climate change duction to random field theory across Technology Policy, and co-founded the and the English department from 1998 mitigation via stabilization wedges. disciplines; the second expanded edi- International Panel of Fissile Materials. to 2004.