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university BulletinVolume 99, Number 15 June 14, 2010 Tilghman to graduates: Find common purpose to achieve change
Ru t h St e v e n s Hall, she added, “Politics has never been for the faint of heart, and never n today’s environment of easy access more so than today. Everyone has taken to politically charged sound bites, sides, retreated to his or her respec- I President Tilghman urged graduates tive corner, and tuned into the cable to find common ground with others for networks where they will have their the civil discourse needed to bring about opinions confirmed, or logged into the change. Internet bloggers who reinforce rather “As I think about the world that than challenge those opinions.” you are about to enter, it seems to me Some national leaders are speaking that effecting change has never been out for a different approach, Tilghman harder,” she said June 1 in her annual said, citing former Congressman Jim Commencement address. “We are Leach, a 1964 Princeton alumnus and living in an increasingly polarized now the chair of the National Endow- world, in which discussion and debate ment for the Humanities. Leach has — those critical ingredients for creat- been on a nationwide tour calling for ing fertile ground for change — have civil discourse and expressing the become sharper and far more likely to dangers of polarization in the political result in impasse than in consensus.” sphere. Speaking to the crowd of 7,500 But all too often, Tilghman said, assembled on the front lawn of Nassau people look to the opinion that bolsters Denise Applewhite A group of classmates stands arm in arm as President Tilghman officially confers degrees at the University’s June 1 Commencement ceremony.
their own views — including when it when our challenges seem so big and comes to media sources. “Whether you our politics seem so small, how will tune into Rachel Maddow and Keith you keep our democracy alive and Olbermann on the left or Glenn Beck vibrant; how will you keep it well in and Rush Limbaugh on the right, this century?” or look to Jon Stewart and Stephen Tilghman said, “One aspect of Colbert to simply laugh at it all,” she keeping democracy alive and well is said, “there is little doubt that the seeking common purpose and finding trend of framing national issues in the common ground with one another. language of black and white; either/or; Your Princeton education is intended good guys and bad guys has created to help you develop the character and a downward spiral in the tone of our habits of mind for you to do this. On political discourse.” our campus you have been exposed to Tilghman told the graduates that a rich smorgasbord of ideas, perspec- improving the discourse is crucial to tives and cultures, both inside and the future of this country. She noted outside the classroom. … You were that President Barack Obama, in his asked to acquire learning so that you Commencement address at the Uni- would have the intellectual founda- versity of Michigan earlier this spring,
Denise Applewhite tion to engage with the great ideas asked graduates, “How will you keep Students celebrate after officially being designated as graduates at Commencement, with our democracy going? At a moment some tossing their caps into the air. Continued on page 8
Scientists discover the molecular heart of collective behavior
K i t t a Ma c P h e r s o n A group of scientists seeking the answer to the mystery of collective irds flock. Fish gather in schools. motion has found strong evidence point- Bees swarm. Even amoebae ing to a third possibility — collective B clump together in mystifyingly behavior can arise in cells that initially clever constellations. may not be moving at all, but are prod- Scientists have long wondered ded into action by an external agent such what is happening at the cellular and as a chemical. Research led by Thomas molecular level to bring about this Gregor, an assistant professor of phys- amazing coordination of so many indi- ics at Princeton, and Satoshi Sawai, a vidual animals, insects and organisms former postdoctoral fellow in the labora- into groups. It’s a choreography seen tory of Princeton biologist Edward Cox throughout nature from the large-scale and now at the University of Tokyo, has to the miniscule, with synchronized shown that food-deprived amoebae are movements as precise as the dance prodded into their coordinated clumping lineup of a Broadway musical. by the chemical cyclic adenosine mono- Is there a secret drum major, a leader phosphate (cAMP), effectively changing among the group setting the pace and the parameters of the cell environment. instigating participation? Or is it that The chemical is ubiquitous in nature, Photo illustration: Brian Wilson organisms and cells already are mov- aiding signaling within living cells Research by Thomas Gregor, an assistant professor of physics at Princeton, and others is ing rhythmically but independently and regulating activities like protein shedding light on the molecular basis of collective behavior, seen throughout nature from and then find themselves provoked into birds to fish to amoebae. harmony by an external beat? Continued on page 6
What’s Thirteen faculty transfer to emeritus status 3 Fourth annual ‘Art of Mauzerall pursues dual focus on environment 4 Science’ exhibition on view 7 inside? Anthropologist Rouse aims for social justice 10 Princeton 2 university Bulletin June 14, 2010
ment economics in the economics Spotlight Lewis, economist and former department and graduate courses on economic development policy in the Wilson School. Wilson School dean, dies Lewis’ most recent books include “The World Bank: Its First Half R e b e c c a An d e r s o n demic career and his public service. Century,” published in 1997 and writ- He also had a fascination for India that ten with Devesh Kapur and Richard ohn Lewis, a development inspired his scholarship. Webb; and “India’s Political Economy: economist and former dean of “John Lewis was a fine public policy Governance and Reform,” published in J Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson analyst, always a gentleman, courteous 1995. He also is the author of “Busi- School of Public and International and friendly,” said Henry Bienen, for- ness Conditions Analysis,” “Quiet Affairs, died of natural causes on mer dean of the Wilson School and the Crisis in India: Economic Develop- May 19 at the Stonebridge retirement James S. McDonnell Distinguished ment and American Policy,” “Wanted community in Montgomery, N.J. He Professor of Politics and International in India: A Relevant Radicalism,” and was 89. A public memorial service will Affairs Emeritus. “He led the Wood- “World Bank in Pakistan: A Review of be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 27, at row Wilson School well and made the Relationship 1960-84.” Prospect House. many contributions to the study of “I am terribly sorry to lose John With the India. I will miss him.” Lewis,” said Stanley Katz, lecturer University since Lewis was a strong advocate of with the rank of professor in public and 1969, Lewis American aid to developing countries, international affairs. “He was a man first served a believing that aid was a necessary who was not only gracious, but pro- five-year term element of foreign policy. On several foundly knowledgeable about the role of as dean of the occasions he took leave from the Uni- America and international affairs, and Wilson School versity to advise the U.S. government of course particularly all relations with and continued and international organizations on India and India’s role in the world. He Brian Wilson on the faculty economic aid policies. was a man of great sophistication and Name: John Jameson. as a professor of As dean of the Wilson School, Lewis he was one of the calmest and collected economics and instituted the joint four-year MPA/ and most gentle people I ever knew. I Position: Webmaster in the Office of Communications. Responsible for the Lewis international JD program, which combines the always felt I was in touch with great- affairs until study of law and public affairs. He ness when I dealt with him. I regret development and operations of the transferring to emeritus status in also made concerted efforts to support losing him very much.” core website and strategic University 1991. He was known for his work on racial diversity in the school’s student In lieu of flowers, contributions projects. Building websites for cam- development economics and foreign body. As a faculty member, he taught may be made in Lewis’ memory to pus offices, departments, initiatives, aid, a passion that shaped his aca- undergraduate courses on develop- Pratham, a nongovernmental organi- programs and task forces. Serving as zation that works to provide quality the office’s computer support person education to the underprivileged and as the liaison with the Office of Read the full obituary at
Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics” and “Real Sound Thirteen faculty transfer to emeritus status Synthesis for Interactive Applications” serve as guides for researchers and Je n n i f e r Gr e e n s t e i n Al t m a n n Brown has received numerous companies. From 1971 to 1983, she musicians inside and outside academia. fellowships and awards, including Ful- produced and performed her acclaimed Cook earned bachelor’s degrees from hirteen faculty members were bright and Guggenheim fellowships, a solo repertory internationally. In 1983, the University of Missouri-Kansas transferred to emeritus status Rome Prize from the American Acad- she founded City Conservatory and the university’s T in recent action by the Board of emy in Rome and a Folger Shakespeare Ze’eva Cohen and School of Engineering, and his Ph.D. Trustees. Library Fellowship. Brown earned her Dancers, which from Stanford University. In 2005 They are: Jeanne Altmann, the bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. from the performed her he co-founded the Princeton Laptop Eugene Higgins Professor of Ecology University of California-Berkeley. The group works Orchestra, an experimental group that and Evolutionary Biology; Patricia first woman to receive tenure in the in New York performs music using laptop comput- Fortini Brown, professor of art and Department of Art and Archaeology, and on national ers as “instruments.” He has been archaeology; William Childs, profes- she served as the department’s chair tours through awarded fellowships from the Guggen- sor of art and archaeology; Ze’eva from 1999 to 2005. 1988. She was a heim and MacArthur foundations, Cohen, professor of dance in the Childs has spent 47 years at Prince- founding mem- among others. Lewis Center for the Arts; Perry ton, both as a student and a professor. ber of Dance C´urcˇic´ is a prolific scholar whose Cook, professor of computer science; He earned his Theater Work- work has examined a wide spectrum of ´ Slobodan Curcˇic´, professor of art and bachelor’s shop, where she Cohen topics ranging from the evaluation of archaeology; Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, degree in 1964 worked as a cho- late Roman and early Christian archae- the Emory Ford Professor of Spanish; and Ph.D. in reographer and dancer. Cohen also has ological remains in Cyprus, Greece Avinash Dixit, the John J.F. Sherrerd 1971 from the choreographed works for the Boston and Serbia; the decorative programs of ’52 University Professor of Econom- University, and Ballet, Munich Tanzproject, Batsheva Byzantine-Norman churches in Sicily; ics; Emmet Gowin, professor of visual after a three-year Dance Company, Inbal Dance Theater and urbanism and the architecture arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts; stint teaching at of Israel and the Alvin Ailey Repertory of fortresses, palaces, churches and Janet M. Martin, associate professor of Columbia Univer- Dance Company. Many of her pieces monastic complexes in the Byzantine classics; Anne Treisman, the James S. sity, he joined the focus on cultural, political and social Balkans from late antiquity to the McDonnell Distinguished University Princeton faculty issues, especially regarding women. Ottoman era. Professor of Psychology; Daniel Tsui, in 1974. Cohen earned her dance diploma C´urcˇic´ received his bachelor’s and the Arthur Legrand Doty Professor Childs His research from the Juilliard School, her bach- master’s degrees from the Univer- of Electrical Engineering; and Froma has focused elor’s degree from Fordham University sity of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign Zeitlin, the Ewing Professor of Greek on archaeological and art historical and her master’s degree from New and his Ph.D. Language and Literature. studies in the Levant and Eastern York University. from New York All are effective July 1, 2010, except Mediterranean regions. He has pub- Cook is a seminal figure in com- University. He for the transfers of Altmann, Dixit and lished widely on the arts of Lycia, a puter music who draws on his skills joined Prince- Tsui, which are effective Sept. 1, 2010, region in what is now Turkey. In 1983 in the disparate fields of electrical ton’s faculty in and Cook’s, which is effective Oct. 1, the department began excavations engineering, vocal performance and 1982, serving 2010. under his direction at the small village acoustics. His research is at the heart as chair of the Altmann is of Polis Chrysochous on the north- of several important areas, including Department of known for her west shore of Cyprus. The excavations physical modeling, digital interface Art and Archae- empirical study uncovered spectacular finds, includ- and instrument design, acoustics, ology from of the baboons ing large sections of a 4th-century psychoacoustics and real-time audio 1988 to 1990 of Amboseli city wall and part of what may be an processing. and director of National Park in archaic palace. Cook arrived at Princeton in 1996 the Program in C´urcˇic´ Kenya and for her Childs teaches Greek and ancient and fostered a community of musicians Hellenic Studies introduction of Near Eastern art and archaeology of and researchers from 2006 to 2008. new approaches the Iron and Bronze age. He chaired by collaborating In his most recent book, “Architec- to noninvasive the Department of Art and Archaeol- with faculty from ture in the Balkans From Diocletian field methodol- ogy from 1985 to 1988. the departments to Süleyman the Magnificent,” ´uC r cˇ i c´ ogy. Her work Cohen came to Princeton in 1969 to of music and com- stresses the synthetic aspects, com- Altmann has centered found the University’s dance studies, puter science, as mon roots and parallel strands of on studying female life histories in which began with a single noncredit well as elsewhere architectural developments in the behavioral ecology. She has taught at course, and she has overseen its in the School Balkans, a region still burdened with Princeton since 1998. growth into a thriving certificate of Engineer- political and cultural fragmentation in Altmann received her bachelor’s program. ing and Applied which art commonly has been inter- degree from the University of Alberta An acclaimed dancer and choreogra- Science. His preted from narrow, strictly national in Canada and her Ph.D. from the pher, Cohen has performed throughout books “Music, University of Chicago. Her graduate the world with a number of dance Cook Cognition and Continued on page 5 thesis, published as “Baboon Moth- ers and Infants” in 1980, explores the ecology of motherhood, which has remained a central theme of her work. Altmann has received many scien- tific honors, including election to the More news on the Web National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sci- Visit the News at Princeton Web page at
Us h m a Pa t e l neering, worked in environmental Given its wide-ranging benefits, which can lead to flooding in the short consulting and at the U.S. Environ- methane reduction is a critical issue for term and water shortages in the long o understand why Himalayan mental Protection Agency before scientists and policymakers, Mauzerall term as the glaciers shrink. Mauzer- glaciers are melting, Princeton Pro- joining the University in 1999. Upon said. all’s research group is using models T fessor Denise Mauzerall looks for arriving at Princeton, Mauzerall “In a world with a global population to deduce the sources of black carbon causes as far away as Europe and Africa. became head of the STEP program in projected to increase from almost 7 to arriving in the Himalayas, helping In her research and teaching, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public more than 9 billion people in the next policymakers target potential emis- Mauzerall employs both scientific and and International Affairs, and now 40 years, increasing yields on land sions reductions in the source regions. regulatory perspectives in analyzing directs its doctoral program. She used under current cultivation is critical “We’re able to see that although the effects of air pollution on climate the transition to academia to rethink both for feeding a burgeoning popula- emissions from India and China are change, human health and agricul- her approach to research. tion and preserving some land in its the largest sources of black carbon tural production. She has emerged as “The STEP program is unique natural state to benefit global biodiver- reaching the Himalayan glaciers, a leader in efforts to track the flow of because its faculty members are all sity,” she said. biomass burning in Africa affects the pollution through atmospheric models, Ph.D. scientists but we’re sitting in “By reducing methane you can have Himalayan glaciers, as well as pol- helping to identify where reductions a policy school. We form a bridge benefits for agriculture and health that lution from Europe and the Middle of harmful emissions would have the between the scientific and policy typically are not considered in climate East,” Mauzerall said. largest benefit. communities at a time when technical negotiations as a motivator, and air Mauzerall’s interest in studying the “Our work is trying to inform policy issues are becoming more and more pollution regulators, until recently, have regional effects of emissions has led decisions going forward so people can integral to policy decision-making. It’s not considered reducing methane emis- to collaborations with GFDL scien- be more strategic about regulatory a critical niche — I don’t know of any sions as part of their arsenal of tools to tists, who have developed many of the choices,” said Mauzerall, an associate other place like it,” Mauzerall said. address surface ozone concentrations,” atmospheric models that Mauzerall professor of civil and environmental Mauzerall had worked with atmo- Mauzerall said. “We’re trying to bring uses in her work. Larry Horowitz, a engineering, and public and interna- spheric chemistry models, and aircraft these two communities closer together.” physical scientist at GFDL who has tional affairs. and satellite data, as a graduate stu- Similarly, Mauzerall’s research team known Mauzerall since they were both She has presented her work on air dent and postdoctoral researcher. At has looked at aerosol particles such doctoral students at Harvard Univer- quality and climate change in con- Princeton, she began to look at present as sulfate and black carbon emitted sity, said that Mauzerall’s input often gressional briefings and at numerous and potential consequences of air pol- in China and their impact on human motivates the researchers to conduct conferences in Asia, where much of lution on health and agriculture and health as well as climate. Recent particular studies. her research is focused. She also has policy mechanisms to address them. research in her group, in collaboration “We recently completed a multiyear contributed to the Intergovernmental For instance, Mauzerall’s research with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics effort to develop a coupled chemistry- Panel on Climate Change, which was team has used atmospheric models Laboratory (GFDL) at Princeton’s For- climate model. This new tool will awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in to compute the levels of ground-level restal Campus, found that although the allow us to study the complex interac- 2007 for its efforts to raise awareness ozone, which is known to reduce vast majority of premature deaths from tions between air pollution and the about the causes of man-made climate agricultural yields and have an fine particles emitted in China occur climate,” said Horowitz, who also is change and ways to counteract it. adverse impact on human health. In within China, these particles also have a lecturer in geosciences at the Uni- Her work brings a new approach one study the researchers calculated an impact on health in countries as far versity. “Collaborations between our to examining links between climate surface ozone in East Asia in 1990 and away as Japan and the United States. group at GFDL and Denise’s group change and air pollution, said Prince- projected levels for 2020, and studied Both sulfate and black carbon increase have been very productive in coming ton geoscientist Michael Oppenheimer. the impact on yields, finding modest rates of premature death, but sulfate up with new ideas for research and “Denise is one of the world’s leaders losses in grain production in 1990 but cools the climate while black carbon executing those ideas.” in applying state-of-the-art chemi- predicting substantial losses in 2020. warms it. Therefore, regulatory con- Mauzerall also is strengthening ties cal transport models to important Because methane is a gas that trols on specific future emissions from across the University with her joint questions in the policy arena,” said produces ozone through normal chemi- China will have a substantial impact on appointment in the Wilson School and Oppenheimer, the Albert G. Mil- cal reactions, lowering the amount climate, Mauzerall said. Policymakers engineering, said Michael Celia, chair bank Professor of Geosciences and of methane in the atmosphere would armed with this knowledge can poten- of the civil and environmental engi- International Affairs, and director of reduce surface ozone levels and should tially improve public health and reduce neering department. The department the Program in Science, Technology increase agricultural production and climate change simultaneously. historically has focused on water, and and Environmental Policy (STEP), improve public health globally, Mau- Mauzerall’s research makes use of Mauzerall serves as a senior researcher in which Mauzerall also serves as a zerall said. Her research found that a global chemical transport models to in the department’s increasing work on faculty member. 20 percent reduction in global methane understand how pollutants from a par- atmospheric processes. “There’s a general notion that if emissions would decrease ozone enough ticular location such as a city react in “It’s an area that we’re building you can reduce air pollution and to prevent more than 20,000 premature the atmosphere with other pollutants; within the department, and she brings greenhouse gases together the world deaths a year. Also, because meth- how they move from the city to the the perfect complementary strengths would be better off. Her work provides ane is a greenhouse gas, its reduction suburbs across continents and oceans; to that group,” Celia said. the beef backing up that assertion,” would slow climate change, providing and how they affect human health both Oppenheimer said. “co-benefits” for both climate and air near and far from their origin. From Clearwater to chemistry quality. Mauzerall has found that of For example, because black carbon Mauzerall’s work is guided by Taking a new approach all the existing ways to reduce surface warms the atmosphere and darkens a passion for the environment that Mauzerall, who holds degrees in ozone concentrations, decreasing meth- snow, it contributes significantly to chemistry and environmental engi- ane levels is best for climate. the melting of Himalayan glaciers, Continued on page 6 Princeton June 14, 2010 university Bulletin 5
has written about topics including early intervention programs, health insur- Board approves 15 new faculty appointments ance and health care, public housing, and food and nutrition programs. She is he Board of Trustees has approved Matias Iaryczower in politics, effec- Chirik’s research is at the intersec- the author of “The Invisible Safety Net: the appointments of 15 new faculty tive July 1, 2010; Oleg Itskhoki in tion of the traditional disciplines of Protecting the Nation’s Poor Children T members, including five full pro- economics and international affairs, organic and inorganic chemistry, and Families,” published by Princeton fessors and 10 assistant professors. effective July 1, 2010; Naphtali Meshel focusing on the discovery of energy- University Press, and “Welfare and the The full professors are: Paul Chirik in in religion and Judaic studies, effective efficient chemical transformations. His Well-Being of Children.” chemistry, effective Jan. 1, 2011; Janet July 1, 2010; Choonghong Oh in math- honors include the Blavatnik Award Currie will come to Princeton from Currie in economics and public affairs, ematics, effective July 1, 2010; Xun for Young Scientists from the New Columbia University, where she has effective June 1, 2011; Thomas Muir Pang in politics, effective July 1, 2010; York Academy of Sciences, which been on the faculty since 2006. She in chemistry, effective Oct. 1, 2010; and Nicolas Templier in mathematics, recognizes significant contributions previously taught at the University Stephen Redding in economics and effective July 1, 2010. to interdisciplinary research in the of California-Los Angeles and MIT. international affairs, effective Aug. 1, life sciences, physical sciences and Currie holds bachelor’s and master’s 2010; and Keith Wailoo in history and Full professors engineering, and the Arthur C. Cope degrees from the University of Toronto. public affairs, effective July 1, 2010. Chirik will be the Edwards S. Scholar Award from the American Muir has been named the Van Zandt The assistant professors, each Sanford Professor of Chemistry at Chemical Society, which honors excel- Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor appointed for three-year terms except Princeton. He will arrive from Cor- lence in organic chemistry. in Chemistry at Princeton. He will where noted, are: Lucia Allais in nell University, where he has been Currie, who earned her Ph.D. from arrive from Rockefeller University, architecture, effective July 1, 2011; a faculty member since 2001. Previ- Princeton in 1988, will return to the where he been a faculty member since Clifford Brangwynne in chemical and ously he spent a year as a postdoctoral University as the Henry Putnam 1996. He previously spent three years biological engineering, for a term of fellow at the Massachusetts Insti- Professor of Economics and Public as a researcher at the Scripps Research 3 1/2 years, effective Jan. 1, 2011; tute of Technology after earning his Affairs. Her current research focuses Institute. Muir holds a bachelor’s Mark Brynildsen in chemical and Ph.D. from the California Institute of on socioeconomic differences in child degree and Ph.D. from the University biological engineering, effective Sept. Technology. He is a graduate of Vir- health and on environmental threats to of Edinburgh. 1, 2010; Jacob Dweck in history and ginia Polytechnic Institute and State children’s health from sources such as Judaic studies, effective July 1, 2011; University. toxic pollutants and fast food. She also Continued on page 11
sity of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Middle Ages. She served as editor of enon called the fractional quantum Hall Emeriti the Massachusetts Institute of “Peter the Venerable: Selected Letters” effect, for which he won the Nobel Prize Continued from page 3 Technolog y. and has written a series of articles on with two collaborators. His current The 1977 paper he wrote with the reception and circulation of classi- field of research Columbia University economist Joseph cal literature in medieval Europe and is the electrical perspectives. He is co-editor of “The Stiglitz on monopolistic competition a study on the properties of Twilight of Byzantium” and “Secular became the backbone of advances in text and music thin films and Medieval Architecture in the Balkans, international trade theory, macroeco- of Hildegard of microstructures 1300-1500, and Its Preservation.” nomic theory, economic growth and Bingen. of semiconductors At Princeton, other areas. His book “Investment Martin was and solid-state he organized Under Uncertainty,” written with an officer of the physics. two exhibitions MIT’s Robert Pindyck, is an essen- Women’s Clas- Tsui has a accompanied tial resource for economics graduate sical Caucus, bachelor’s degree by publications, students and business students. Dixit an affiliate of from Augustana “Byzantium at also is the author of “Theory of Inter- the American College and a Princeton” in national Trade,” “The Art of Strategy,” Philological Ph.D. in physics Tsui 1986 and “Archi- “Optimization in Economic Theory” Association that from the Uni- tecture as Icon” and “The Theory of Equilibrium Martin provides support versity of Chicago. He has received the this year. Growth.” to women in clas- Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Díaz-Quiñones Gowin is a renowned photographer sics and promotes the study of women Prize from the American Physical joined the faculty known for intimate portraits of his in antiquity. She served for a decade on Society and the Benjamin Franklin in 1983. He is a family and striking landscapes, many the University’s executive committee of Medal in Physics, the highest honor in Díaz-Quiñones scholar of Latin taken with a large-format camera. the Program in Medieval Studies. physical science in the United States. American cultural and intellectual his- His work is in the collections of the Treisman has made major contri- Zeitlin, who has been on the Prince- tory and Caribbean poetry. Philadelphia butions to the understanding of ton faculty since 1976, has published He has written extensively on the Museum of Art, attention and perception. Her schol- extensively in the field of Greek role of poets and intellectuals in the Metropolitan arship has explored how attention literature, including epics, tragedy and Hispanic-Caribbean society, and on Museum of Art can filter perceptual input, allowing comedy, and prose fiction. Her work the Latin American experience arising and the Museum only potentially relevant information pays special attention to gender and from the history of colonialism. His of Modern Art in to reach consciousness. She also has sexuality, problems of self-identity, work has explored the dilemma felt New York. done groundbreaking work on vision, the role of society and locality, and the by Caribbean intellectuals between Gowin, who anchored by her well-known 1980 dramatic functions of spectacle, visual- a sense of belonging to a Hispanic earned his bach- paper on feature integration theory. ity and performance. common tradition and the threat of elor’s degree from Treisman was awarded the War- Zeitlin is the author of “Under the its dissolution, which forces them to the Richmond ren Medal of Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and revisit the question of the origins of a Professional the Society of Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes” national culture. Gowin Institute and his Experimental and “Playing the Other: Gender and Díaz-Quiñones received his bach- master’s degree Psychologists Society in Classical Greek Literature.” elor’s degree from the Universidad from the Rhode Island School of in 1990, and She also edited and translated “Mor- de Puerto Rico in Río Piedras and Design, has taught at Princeton since last year she tals and Immortals: Collected Essays his Ph.D. from Universidad Cen- 1973. From Princeton, he received the won the Grawe- of Jean-Pierre Vernant” and co-edited tral de Madrid in Spain. He served President’s Award for Distinguished meyer Award two collective volumes, “Nothing to Do as director of the Program in Latin Teaching in 1997 and the Howard T. in Psychology, With Dionysos?: Athenian Drama in Its American Studies for six years. At this Behrman Award for Distinguished which recognizes Social Context” and “Before Sexuality: year’s Commencement, he received a Achievement in the Humanities in outstanding The Construction of Erotic Experience President’s Award for Distinguished 2006. ideas in the in the Ancient Greek World.” Treisman Teaching from the University (see Much of Gowin’s work has centered field. Her work Zeitlin received her bachelor’s story on page 9). on what was nearest to him in prox- has appeared in degree from Radcliffe College and her Dixit is regarded as one of the leading imity, scale and emotional resonance: 29 book chapters and more than 80 Ph.D. from Columbia University. From economists of his his wife, Edith; their sons, Elijah and journal articles. She is a fellow of the 1996 to 2005 she served as director of generation, known Isaac; and Edith’s extended family in Royal Society in London, the Ameri- the Program in Judaic Studies. She for the breadth Danville, Va. His scope widened to can Philosophical Society, the National received fel- of his work. He embrace landscape in the 1970s and Academy of Sciences and the Ameri- lowships from has made seminal an aerial viewpoint during the next can Academy of Arts and Sciences. the National contributions decade. Recently he has recalibrated Treisman joined the Princeton Endowment for to the fields of his attention to still another scale, cre- faculty in 1993. She holds a bach- the Humanities, microeconom- ating minute color studies of the moths elor’s degree from the University of the Guggenheim ics, game theory, of Central and South America. Cambridge and a Ph.D. from the Uni- Foundation public economics, Martin, who joined the faculty in versity of Oxford. and the Ameri- urban econom- 1973, is a scholar of the Latin litera- Tsui is internationally known for his can Council of ics, international ture of the Middle Ages. She received work in experimental condensed mat- Learned Soci- trade, industrial Dixit her bachelor’s degree from Radcliffe ter physics. In 1998 he won the Nobel eties, and was organization, College and her Ph.D. from Harvard Prize in physics for discovering a new elected to the macroeconomics, economic growth and University. form of quantum fluid. American Acad- Zeitlin development, and the law and institu- Her research has explored ancient, He came to Princeton in 1982 after emy of Arts and tions of economic governance. late antique and medieval Latin 14 years at Bell Labs, where he was an Sciences in 2001. In 1995 she received Dixit came to Princeton in 1981 language and literature, and women innovator in the study of two-dimen- Princeton’s Howard T. Behrman after earning bachelor’s degrees from as authors, readers and patrons in sional electron systems. With colleagues Award for Distinguished Achievement Bombay University and the Univer- Greco-Roman antiquity and the Latin at Bell Labs, Tsui discovered a phenom- in the Humanities. Princeton 6 university Bulletin June 14, 2010
said, “To my way of thinking, this is Gregor one of the major advances in the field Continued from page 1 in the past many years.” Learning whether a signal exists to provoke collective motion, he said, is production. John Bonner, Princeton’s similar to knowing what signals are George M. Moffett Professor Emeritus conveyed to cells so that they become of Biology, put the substance on the map specialized units such as hearts and for amoebae in 1967. He showed with kidneys. The current work by Gregor, his collaborators that certain cells are Sawai and others on the paper can lead drawn to cAMP, and provided through to better understanding of what drives a series of experiments one of the clear- groups of cells to perform specific est demonstrations of chemotaxis — the behaviors, Cox said. movement by a cell or organism toward While instances of collective motion a chemical stimulus — ever shown. can be seen throughout nature, Gregor Gregor said his team’s recent favors studying the social amoebae findings could have implications for Dictyostelium. The group behavior collective behavior beyond amoebae, exhibited by these creatures has long such as processes in humans ranging fascinated scientists. As individual from white blood cells that swarm in cells of Dictyostelium divide in two, the lymph nodes to the step-by-step their population doubles in a few development of cells into organs. hours. Once they have consumed all of Writing in a paper published in the their favorite food — all the bacteria May 21 issue of Science, the research- in the vicinity — they will begin to ers were able to measure concentrations gather at a central collection point. So Brian Wilson of the chemical and mark its effects for many come together that the clumped the first time as it arose in single living cells become visible to the naked The work led by Gregor and his collaborators has revealed that food-deprived amoebae — shown cells and clusters of cells in Dictyostel- eye. This accumulation serves as an on the computer screen — are prodded into their coordinated clumping by the chemical cyclic ium, a slime mold. When the amount of alternative survival strategy for the adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), effectively changing the parameters of the cell environment. the chemical surrounding an individual starving cells: Many of the cells end cell reaches a certain critical level, the up turning into spore cells that will wants to discover the basic physical the global properties of populations, scientists found, the cell starts to pulse endure the starvation period. principles that govern the existence rather than focusing on interactions. rhythmically, firing off more chemicals In the experiments reported in Sci- of multicellular life. This can include “It is increasingly clear that cells into the surrounding area that prompt ence, the team used an optical sensor to anything, he said, from the collective within organisms behave collectively,” other cells to pulse, an effect that detect the levels of cAMP in individual behavior of soil-dwelling amoebae to Gregor said. “It is therefore no longer cascades through the population. Ulti- amoeba. The sensor is able to change the development of the human embryo enough to understand how single cells mately, the cells grow in sync with each color between bright blue and yellow after the moment of conception. He behave. Instead, we must identify their other and eventually move together as a for high and low cAMP concentra- believes that experiments that can collective interactions and their signal- massive group. tions, respectively. Using this sensor directly study these complex life pro- ing mechanisms at a systems level.” “This is the first time in biology that in combination with high-powered cesses should become an integral part On the one hand, scientists need to such a mechanism could be shown both microscopes, populations of cells can be of any modern physics curriculum. understand how cooperative properties at the single cell and at the cell popula- individually tracked and their internal Gregor has built state-of-the-art exhibited by groups differ from single- tion level simultaneously,” said Gregor, cAMP concentrations can be monitored microscopes and microfluidics devices, cell characteristics, he explained. On the first author on the paper. Gregor, simultaneously. This system allowed which detect and measure microscopic the other hand, researchers also need who also is a member of Princeton’s the researchers to see for the first time levels of chemicals within cells, both in to know how actions within single cells Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative in real time the onset of the collective cellular colonies and in embryos. His generate communal behavior. Genomics, joined the University faculty behaviors that lead the cell population work is also steeped in the theoretical, “To address this problem, there is a in February 2009 after working with to aggregate, and to link these behav- allowing him to design analytical and critical need to simultaneously observe Sawai at the University of Tokyo. iors directly to the molecular level of the numerical models to test and guide his the behaviors of individual cells, the Cox, the Edwin Grant Conklin cell’s signaling mechanisms. experiments. behavior of the population as a whole, Professor of Biology at Princeton and A biophysicist who earned his Many studies, he said, focus on and to measure the relevant signaling a pioneer in the study of cell signaling, Ph.D. from Princeton in 2005, Gregor either the behavior of single cells or on interactions,” Gregor said.
At Brown University she majored in consulting, research, policymaking and largely due to emissions from China Mauzerall chemistry, then worked as an environ- attending graduate school. In addition would decrease agricultural production to working as a consultant and at the of winter wheat, soybeans and spring Continued from page 4 mental consultant after graduation to better understand how government and EPA, she earned a master’s degree in corn by 30 percent in that country. the private sector could work together environmental engineering at Stanford “Everyone focuses a lot of attention these days on climate change and the was sparked at an early age. She was to address environmental problems. University; received her Ph.D. in atmo- effect on agricultural yields due to inspired by her parents, who delighted “My parents are both scientists and spheric chemistry from Harvard; and warming and precipitation changes, in the natural world and discussed topics they made me realize that understand- served as a postdoctoral fellow and visit- but air pollution is also a big deal. ranging from how plants make oxygen ing how the science worked was critical ing scientist at the National Center for What do you think could be done to the benefits of reusing items rather to figuring out the solution” to environ- Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. about this? Would this worry you if than discarding and replacing them. mental problems, Mauzerall said. But Campus as classroom you lived in China?” she asked her 12 Mauzerall’s parents introduced her her parents “were powerless, as people Now Mauzerall is sharing her inspi- students, launching a discussion. to the folk singer Pete Seeger, who who worked on the research side, ration for environmental studies with Mauzerall often leads classes in which arrived each fall in her hometown of to implement the solutions. I always her Princeton students. This spring students research solutions to envi- Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., on the Clearwater wanted to go beyond doing basic she taught two courses on global envi- ronmental problems. Recent examples sloop, the flagship of an environmental research to figure out how to apply ronmental issues, a freshman seminar include a graduate workshop on climate organization Seeger founded to help science to environmental policymaking and an upper-level course for engineer- mitigation policies for the New Jersey clean up the Hudson River. He would in order to really solve environmental ing and policy students. Environmental Protection Agency, with sing songs such as “Garbage” and problems. I debated whether to con- “I love teaching the undergradu- the students’ recommendations for caps “Sailing Up, Sailing Down” in small tinue in science, go to law school or ates in particular because they’re so on greenhouse gas emissions ultimately concerts in a park by the river. Sitting make a career in Washington, D.C.” eager to learn everything, and they’re being written into state law, and also at his feet, Mauzerall resolved to help For more than a decade after col- very open-minded and extraordinarily an undergraduate task force on sustain- clean up the environment. lege, Mauzerall alternated between capable,” she said. ability on campus, in which the students’ Brooks Barron, a rising senior who research was presented to senior Univer- took the upper-level course, said he sity administrators. valued Mauzerall’s range of knowledge Mauzerall also serves on the Prince- and accessibility. As a Wilson School ton Sustainability Committee, a group major pursuing a certificate in envi- of faculty, staff and students that ronmental studies, Barron benefited works to identify means to improve from the multiple perspectives offered the University’s environmental foot- and critical thinking required by the print. The University is taking steps to course. reduce greenhouse gas emissions and “The class has helped me see and conserve resources such as water, and understand the issues in a deeper and these efforts increase student aware- more complex way,” Barron said. ness, she said. In the freshman seminar, Mauzerall “The more visible environmental and built the students’ science and policy sustainability issues are on campus, the knowledge throughout the semester, more open and receptive to those ideas Courtesy of Denise Mauzerall/Monika Kopacz helping them see the ways in which students will be when they become environmental issues are related. leaders in organizations after graduat- She also incorporated her research ing from Princeton,” Mauzerall said. This image shows the source of black carbon deposits on glaciers in the southeast Tibetan Plateau into class lectures and discussions. In “I think the University initiatives are (marked with a white square). Black carbon warms the atmosphere and increases melting rates one session on air pollution and health, really important and valuable, particu- when deposited on snow. By matching the colors on the image to the scale, researchers can Mauzerall displayed slides showing larly when they are publicized in a way determine the amount of black carbon from a particular region that traveled to the glaciers. that by 2020, ozone concentrations that students can learn from them.” Princeton June 14, 2010 university Bulletin 7 nassaunotes June 14–Sept. 11
For all evening shows and Sunday Summer theater productions planned matinees, tickets are $20 for general admission, $16 for senior citizens and Calendarlinks $12 for students. For Saturday matinees, The Princeton Summer Theater’s Other mainstage performances tickets are $16 for general admission, $14 lineup of productions — ranging from include: for senior citizens and $10 for students. For broader listings of Henry James adaptations to new inter- • “The Turn of the Screw,” an adap- Season tickets are available. campus public events: pretations of children’s classics — will tation of the Henry James classic by Princeton Summer Theater also will run Thursdays through Sundays, June Jeffrey Hatcher, July 1-4 and July present a new Public Events Calendar 17 through Aug. 15, at the Hamilton 8-11. adaptation June 17-Aug. 15 Murray Theater on campus. • “Misalliance” by George Bernard of the classic Hamilton Murray
fact], Princetonians, as you go forth, Commencement see, conquer and imbibe, may you be Continued from page 1 always faithful to the traditions your success is built upon. Remember, though, to make them new and to and pressing issues of the day. … And make them you.” through these encounters, you have The University awarded degrees to had a unique opportunity to hone your 1,166 undergraduates in the class of own perspective on the world.” 2010, nine from other classes and 804 She said Princeton students come graduate students at its 263rd Com- into contact with a variety of view- mencement. It also conferred honorary points, not only through the faculty doctoral degrees upon five individuals and the curriculum, but also through for their contributions to the humani- their classmates, who come from ties, law, medical and scientific research around the globe. and human rights: Drew Gilpin Faust, “The powerful lessons you take a historian and the president of Harvard away from your Princeton education University; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a are learned as often on the playing U.S. Supreme Court justice and trail- fields and performance stages, in din- blazer for women’s rights; Olufunmilayo ing halls, dorm rooms and eating clubs Olopade, a medical researcher who as in the classroom or laboratory,” Denise Applewhite focuses on cancer risk assessment; Albie she said. “It is much harder to throw Emily Sandys, who received a bachelor of arts degree in politics, looks over her diploma with Sachs, a champion of human rights epithets at a group when the group has her parents, Barbara and Peter, at Mathey College. in South Africa; and Edward Taylor, the human face of your friend or class- Princeton’s A. Barton Hepburn Profes- mate. By living and studying together, sor of Organic Chemistry Emeritus. you are able to see beyond difference As it does each year, Princeton to the common humanity that binds us honored excellence in teaching at together.” the Commencement ceremony. Four In conclusion, Tilghman said, “As Princeton faculty members received you walk, skip or run through the President’s Awards for Distinguished FitzRandolph Gates today, as educated Teaching (see story on page 9), and citizens of this and many other nations, four outstanding secondary school I hope you will carry forward the teachers from across New Jersey also spirit of Princeton and all that it has were recognized for their work. sought to teach you — an openness to Other honors for students were the other point of view and the cour- presented over the last few days age to stand up for what you believe, of the academic year. Six graduate all informed by the highest standards students were honored for excellence of integrity and mutual respect. And I in teaching during the Association of expect you will continue to do as you Princeton Graduate Alumni’s Tribute have done at Princeton — to aim high to Teaching Reception on May 29. and be bold!” Advanced degree candidates par- ticipated in the hooding ceremony at Pomp and circumstance McCarter Theatre on May 31. Tilghman shared the podium with Also on May 31, seniors were two Princeton seniors: valedictorian recognized at Class Day ceremonies, David Karp, a mechanical and aero- Brian Wilson where the keynote speaker was Charles space engineering major from Berwyn, This graduate captures his own moment of celebration as he and his classmates exit Gibson, a 1965 Princeton alumnus Pa.; and salutatorian Marguerite Col- FitzRandolph Gates after the ceremony. and former anchor of ABC’s “World son, a history major from News.” In an address that New York City. was at times humorous, Karp told his classmates but mostly earnest, he that they should consider said, “It is old-fashioned, themselves people first but I will tell you there and scholars second. “The are ethical imperatives in scholastic achievements of this life — compassion, our class are well docu- honesty, fairness, trust- mented, and I am certain worthiness, a respect for that the intellectual chal- others. … If you don’t lenges that we as a class possess these basic quali- will take on and solve will ties, no one will know be numerous,” he said. it better than you do “But our time here has yourself. And if you don’t prepared us to handle far admire yourself as a per- more than just academic son, frankly, in the long pursuits, and our talents Denise Applewhite run, you won’t matter.” and passions clearly reflect Honorary degree recipients pictured with President Tilghman (fourth from left) were: (from left): Olufunmilayo Olopade, Drew At the Baccalaureate this. Now that we have all Gilpin Faust, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Edward Taylor and Albie Sachs. service the day before, Jeff Bezos, a 1986 Prince- ton alumnus and founder and chief successfully run the great intellectual honor, began as a serious, formal executive officer of Amazon.com, spoke. gauntlet that is the Princeton under- address, but today it often contains He made an impassioned plea to the grad experience, I hope that all of you humorous tributes, recollections and a graduating seniors to pay close atten- will continue to seek out things that farewell to Princeton campus life. tion to the choices they make in life, as challenge you not just as a lawyer or “At the outset of our freshman year, they will dictate not only success, but a teacher or a hockey player, but as a President Tilghman, you told our happiness: “When you are 80 years person.” class, ‘Past is not prelude,’” Colson old, and in a quiet moment of reflection Colson delivered the salutatory said. “Looking to the past we find narrating only for yourself in the most address in Latin, one of her key areas not inflexible precedents or prerequi- personal version of your life story, the of study. The Princeton tradition dates sites, but opportunities to transform telling that will be the most compact to an era when the entire ceremony the institutions we hold dear and to and meaningful will be a series of was conducted in Latin. The Latin create new traditions to carry us into choices you have made.” Salutatory, Princeton’s oldest student the future. … Eo Ipso [by that very
Denise Applewhite One student keeps her family in mind during Commencement. Commencement By the numbers highlights online For more on the 2010 Commencement ceremony and The University awarded degrees • 960 bachelor of arts • 330 master of arts related events — including to 1,175 undergraduates and 804 • 206 bachelor of science in engineering • 69 master in public affairs stories, speech texts, photos graduate students at its 263rd Com- A total of 497 undergraduates, or • 30 master in finance and a video — visit mencement June 1. The undergraduate 42.6 percent of the class, received hon- • 26 master in architecture degrees included 1,166 to members of ors, including: • 21 master in public policy
E r i c Qu i ñ o n e s poring over his notes, refining the contours of each poem motivated me to reflection on that material. This vision material and generally preparing to write my own in Spanish and English.” and devotion to it are frankly inspiring.” our Princeton faculty members make each lecture a master class,” A colleague in the Program in Latin Sitney is one of the rare faculty members received President’s Awards for wrote one colleague. American Studies, where Díaz- who teach courses in both halves of the F Distinguished Teaching at Com- One former undergraduate student Quiñones is an associated faculty mem- humanities sequence — from anti- mencement ceremonies June 1. who is now a professor at another ber, wrote, “It was tempting to make quity to the Middle Ages, and from the They are: Erhan Çinlar, the Norman university said Çinlar directly inspired anything Arcadio taught a prerequisite Renaissance to 20th century. In Sitney, J. Sollenberger Professor in Engi- her to follow in his footsteps, writing, for my courses. These students have students have been fortunate to find a neering and professor of operations “It is said that the best teachers make a an engagement, an excitement and an model for academic rigor and intellectual research and financial engineering; lasting impact on their students’ lives, appetite that is just remarkable.” honesty, wrote one colleague: “Beneath Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, the Emory L. and it is clear to me that my relation- Sitney, who joined the Princeton the gruff exterior, the refusal to coat Ford Professor of Spanish; P. Adams ship with Professor Çinlar has done faculty in 1980, is one of the world’s strong pills and the blunt judgment of Sitney, professor of visual arts in the just that, altering my trajectory from leading authorities in the history academic skills, they [students] quickly Lewis Center for the Arts; and Jeffrey one that would have landed me on of avant-garde cinema. He also is a found a deeply sympathetic and wise Stout, professor of religion. Wall Street to one that has led me to scholar steeped in the study of classics counselor. I could only wish I had had a The awards were established in 1991 pursue a career as an academic and and comparative literature whose repu- teacher like him at college.” through gifts by Princeton alumni discover my love of research.” tation as a world-class teacher stretches Stout, who holds his Ph.D. from the Lloyd Cotsen of the class of 1950 and Díaz-Quiñones, who has taught at beyond the Program in Visual Arts to University and joined the faculty in John Sherrerd of the class of 1952 to Princeton since 1983, will retire at the inspire students and colleagues across 1975, is an associated faculty member in recognize excellence in undergraduate end of this academic year (see story on campus. “Like the beautiful and chal- the departments of philosophy and poli- and graduate teaching by Princeton page 5). His introductory classes on lenging films he teaches, he has a cult tics, as well as the University Center for faculty members. Each winner receives Latin American literature and poetry following,” one undergraduate alum- Human Values and the Center for the a cash prize of $5,000, and his or her are considered “legendary” by students nus wrote in nominating Sitney for the Study of Religion. His undergraduate department receives $3,000 for the and colleagues. His undergraduate teaching award. and graduate courses include “Religion purchase of new books. and graduate courses have included Sitney’s visual arts courses include in Modern Thought and Film,” “Reli- A committee of faculty, undergradu- “Literature and Memory in Latin “Magic in Avant-Garde Cinema,” “The gion and Ethical Theory,” “Philosophy ate and graduate students and academic America and the Caribbean,” “Modern Image of Greece in European Cinema,” and the Study of Religion” and “Con- administrators selected the winners Hispanic-Caribbean Poetry,” “19th- “Cinema From World War II to the temporary Pragmatism.” from nominations by current students, and 20th-Century Latin American Present” and “Major Filmmakers.” While he is known for his wide- faculty colleagues and alumni. Thought” and “Literature of the Cuban Aspiring filmmakers and cinema schol- ranging research and teaching interests, Çinlar, who joined the Princeton Revolution.” ars are not the only students thankful for Stout is equally renowned for the lively faculty in 1985, is an associated faculty Students and colleagues noted that Sitney’s ability to illuminate the mean- spirit he brings to the classroom and to member in the Department of Math- Díaz-Quiñones’ lectures are a form of ing of abstract or obscure films. One his longtime role as faculty fellow for ematics and the Program in Applied poetry in their own right. “There are undergraduate alumnus who majored the varsity men’s soccer team. Stout has Mathematics. He has been selected by very few professors who can match in mathematics wrote, “When I watch startled students with his solo rendition students and colleagues in the School Arcadio’s remarkable, mesmeric teach- films now, two years after the end of the of “Amazing Grace” in a lecture on Pas- of Engineering and Applied Science ing talents and the profound influence course, I sometimes catch myself think- cal, danced to Marvin Gaye at the end of for several awards honoring excellence he has had on the hundreds of students ing about issues from Professor Sitney’s a lecture on civil religion in America and in teaching. His undergraduate course he has taught,” wrote one colleague. lectures and wishing that I could pause danced in the locker room after a soccer “Probability and Stochastic victory. One colleague noted Systems” is known as one of in his nomination of Stout that the most challenging classes “high points” of his course at the University and a rite on religion and film included of passage for students in his “the Scottish accent he uses department and throughout for his discussion of Hume the engineering school. The [and] his comparison of the course, which also is popular task of the study of religion to among students concentrat- Winnie the Pooh and Piglet’s ing in other sciences and trammel through the snow the humanities, explores the in search of a Woozle. Stout mathematical description of obviously enjoys putting on uncertainty and how to think a show from time to time, about randomness. Çinlar is but … his real concern is to renowned for telling students make the difficult material he in the first lecture, “This class teaches accessible.” will not make you more intel-
Denise Applewhite Stout is a rigorous critic ligent, but will make you feel of his students’ work. One Faculty members recognized with President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching by President Tilghman (right) were more intelligent,” according to former undergraduate wrote (from left): P. Adams Sitney, Jeffrey Stout, Erhan Çinlar and Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones. one colleague who nominated that after turning in a paper, him for the teaching award. “Jeff sent me nine single- Students are drawn to the course Also, a former graduate student wrote, what was in front of me so I could ask spaced pages of comments, longer even by Çinlar’s reputation as a master- “His words follow a deliberate trajec- him a question.” One colleague wrote, than the paper I had sent him. He went ful, dedicated teacher. One colleague tory, a graceful arc that moves with “Generations of Princeton students through every paragraph of my paper, wrote, “Many of these students take not only direction and determination, have taken his courses perhaps with charitably interpreting my arguments, the course not because they have to, but also form and elegance,” and added the idea of introducing a little enjoy- pointing out every hole and missed but for the deep intellectual challenge that, “Complex ideas are rendered ment or entertainment into their course opportunity in my thinking. From it presents.” Students lauded Çinlar’s succinctly, and his listeners absorb and schedules — a little movie-watching, say another professor, it might have been skill in explaining the real-world appreciate them in the moment as part — only to have their eyes opened to the devastating. But Jeff not only criticized relevance of the dense theories covered of a performance of thought.” rich literature and infinite nuance of the my paper, he also called my attention in the course, as he offers insights on As a pioneering figure in the field art of cinema.” to moments when I had started down topics ranging from the current finan- of modern Latin American literary Students and colleagues lauded interesting paths or asked questions cial crisis and wealth inequality to the studies, Díaz-Quiñones seeks to foster Sitney’s intense devotion to his role as which might have led me to a more supply of kidney transplants. “The understanding of the diverse cultures a teacher and mentor who guides his satisfying argument.” essence of Erhan’s genius as a teacher of the Spanish-speaking world in his students with honest, constructive feed- Known as “The Prof” in his role is his capacity for incorporating math- research and teaching. “Arcadio taught back. One current undergraduate wrote as faculty fellow for the soccer team, ematical abstraction into how he sees me that the best teachers assume the that Sitney “certainly welcomes outside Stout frequently meets with team everyday life,” wrote a former student challenge of helping their students opinions and viewpoints to the table. members to discuss social and moral who worked with Çinlar at the under- avoid hollow or stereotyped views of In his comments next to one of the best issues, in addition to dispensing graduate and graduate levels. “This is other cultures and traditions,” wrote paper grades he gave me, he told me academic advice. He has said that not to say he trivializes or oversimpli- one former graduate student. that he absolutely could not agree less writers, teachers and coaches are all fies the material. Rather he sees the Students noted Díaz-Quiñones’ with my conclusive point about a film. in the business of “awakening sleep- concepts of modern pure probability unyielding dedication, citing examples Nevertheless, because I had constructed ers.” Viewing coaches as models for as challenging precisely because they such as returning to campus from a a coherent and persuasive argument, he good teaching, Stout has forged strong are so relevant to understanding the sabbatical to attend a play directed by gave me full points.” friendships with Princeton’s current puzzles of the world around us.” one of his undergraduates, and provid- Sitney has team-taught humanistic men’s soccer coach, Jim Barlow, who Çinlar is able to communicate in the ing graduate students with access to studies courses including “Interdisci- is a former undergraduate student of classroom the passion and precision his private collection of work by Puerto plinary Approaches to Western Culture” Stout’s, and former Princeton coach that characterizes his own research, Rican authors for their research. Stu- and “From Antiquity to the Middle Bob Bradley, who now heads the which stands at the top of his field, dents, in turn, are inspired to tackle the Ages: Literature and the Arts.” Last fall U.S. men’s national soccer team. One colleagues and students noted. His intellectual challenges he sets before he volunteered to do so again — even current graduate student noted that graduate courses include “Probability them. “Growing up, I had read Spanish though he was not scheduled to teach — “Stout is self-conscious about his peda- Theory” and “Markov Processes,” literature in translation, never having after 75 freshmen signed up for a course gogy and seeks to cultivate ever-higher and his 1975 textbook “Introduction the courage to grab an original, but now originally designed for only 30. One levels of excellence in his teaching.” to Stochastic Processes” remains the with the encouragement of Professor colleague wrote, “Sitney has a vision of While coaches may be unlikely sources standard graduate text in its field. “It Díaz-Quiñones, I was reading Cesar undergraduate education in the humani- of inspiration for many academics, the is easy to know the days on which he Vallejo and Xavier Villauruttia,” wrote ties that invites students to saturate student wrote, Stout “turns to these is teaching, as he can be found in the one current undergraduate. “The lec- their lives with demanding works of art figures … precisely because he cares EQuad Café for hours beforehand, tures he presented about the context and and literature and with serious critical so much about his teaching.” Princeton 10 university Bulletin June 14, 2010
AT LEFT: Professor Carolyn Rouse (left) is founding a school in Oshiyie, Ghana, an endeavor that has involved Princeton students, including Ashley Schoettle, whose experience in Ghana inspired her to write a senior thesis this year on foreign aid and its limitations. MIDDLE: The school, shown being built, will open to 30 students in September. Rouse said she hopes the school will address some of the “asymmetries in knowledge and wealth” in the area by providing scholarships to the community’s poorer children. AT RIGHT: Rouse (second from left, wearing backpack) tours Oshiyie, where she has been working since 2006 to learn about the community and establish the nonprofit school. (Rouse/Schoettle photo: Brian Wilson; satellite view of Oshiyie: Courtesy of Princeton’s Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center; Ghana photos: Courtesy of Carolyn Rouse) Targeting inequality Rouse aims for social justice in study of medicine, education
K a r i n Di e n s t Finding a language of patients along with their families ways to address health care disparities, Rouse’s engagement with issues of and medical teams at two children’s such as for patients with sickle cell hen she teaches “Race and inequality and social justice emerged hospitals, was asking questions about disease, can grow out of community- Medicine,” Princeton profes- early on. “Conversations about pain and suffering in order to unearth based health programs that offer W sor Carolyn Rouse invites inequality resonated with me having cultural assumptions about race. long-term disease education and social black students to leave class 10 min- grown up as an African American and “I went into this because somebody support. Such programs might be utes early. She explains that this not having the language to explain said that adolescent boys [with sickle organized through settings such as time would be needed to make up for inequality,” she said. “The only cell disease] were being treated badly; churches and holistic health centers. shorter life expectancy — on average language I was given was that blacks that they were thought to be drug- For Rouse, social empowerment is a blacks live five to six years less than were inferior.” seeking and malingering,” said Rouse. significant step toward social justice. whites in the United States. Rejecting that language, Rouse Her research revealed that even if a Through this startling offer, typi- adopted others. As an undergraduate patient did not have specific complaints Founding a school cally not acted upon by her students, at Swarthmore College she spent a about their individual treatment, staff Rouse’s interest in race and inequal- Rouse initiates a discussion about semester in Kenya and discovered that at hospitals systematically understated ity has taken her into a subfield of racial disparities in health care, a she loved to “film and talk to people,” a sickle cell patient’s pain because anthropology known as applied topic that is just one conduit to her passions that led first to filmmaking they assumed that black patients, who anthropology. Since 2006 she has been core intellectual and personal interest: and then to graduate school in anthro- also are often poor, had different ideas working with the community of Oshi- social inequality. pology at the University of Southern about suffering and were excessively yie, Ghana, to build a school. She also A professor of anthropology and California. looking for painkilling drugs. is conducting research on land rights, African American studies who has “Talking to people” led to Rouse’s In “Unequal Suffering,” Rouse chieftaincy and social inequality in taught at Princeton since 2000, Rouse first book, published in 2004, which writes: “Why does the black body Greater Accra. takes a wide-ranging approach to uses the lens of religion to explore continue to be treated as less capable of The school, Pan African Global studying the production of inequal- a cultural language new to her. In suffering and more capable of causing Academy, will be the first high school ity and why people accept the systems “Engaged Surrender: African Ameri- suffering?” in the immediate vicinity of Oshiyie, that uphold it. She focuses on four can Women and Islam,” she describes “Carolyn has a wonderful ethno- which is on the coast not far from areas that undergird much of society: her fieldwork tracking the lives of graphic sensibility, and her book, Accra, Ghana’s capital. It is sched- medicine, religion, education and several African American women in ‘Uncertain Suffering,’ greatly helps us uled to open this September with two development. Her research has taken Los Angeles who felt empowered by to understand the routine medical and teachers and 30 students. After the her into hospitals, mosques and homes becoming Muslim. social practices that perpetuate health school is established, Rouse hopes to in this country, as well as into vil- Rouse then studied how health disparities,” said João Biehl, a profes- bring Princeton students on board to lage homes and government offices in care is perceived and received across sor of anthropology at Princeton whose help with teaching. Ghana, where she is working to build racial lines in the United States. In own work focuses on medicine and The project is being supported by a school. her book “Uncertain Suffering: Racial culture. the Princeton Environmental Insti- From studying health disorders to Health Care Disparities and Sickle “She truly cares and is deeply tute through the Grand Challenges explore racial differences in how health Cell Disease,” published in 2009, committed to making a difference in Program, which provides funding to care is provided, to addressing a range Rouse examines the delivery of health scholarly and public debates on race faculty teaching and research initia- of social problems by founding a school care services for a group of adolescent and medicine in this country and tives that address problems associated in West Africa, Rouse is shining light patients with sickle cell anemia, a beyond,” added Biehl. with development, energy and health. on the scaffolding of society. lifelong blood disease that primarily For Rouse, the reality of illness too “I’m actually having a good time, Taking a close look at the structures affects blacks and is expensive to treat. often is bundled into “narratives of but it is the hardest project I’ve ever of daily life allows Rouse to expose and Her focus was not on policy, but on suffering” that are used to promote worked on,” said Rouse. challenge cultural assumptions that institutional and cultural discourses a disease in order to garner attention She has spent much of her academic often reinforce inequality. She believes that shape the ways disparities in and funding. leave this year grappling with matters that it is too easy for people to close health care occur and prevail. “For people whose job it is to open such as providing building instruc- their eyes to the world immediately “My problem with the conversation up health care access for sickle cell tions for the school, learning about around them. about racial health care is that we have patients, it is imperative for them to legal issues related to land use and “It would be like living in L.A. and (these) conversations that are built on create a narrative about suffering that solidifying a web of social relationships not seeing the smog,” said Rouse. other conversations that are culturally relieves the patient of responsibility necessary to move the work forward. “When you go to other countries you constructed, for instance about genes for their pain,” said Rouse. “It is only Last in Ghana in February, Rouse will might ask, ‘Why do they put up with and race,” said Rouse. “I don’t know after the patient is no longer perceived return this month to check on progress. this? Why are these people rich and how many times one has to say that the as drug-seeking that responsibility for “My goal was to have a project that those people poor?’ But when you’re in color of one’s skin isn’t determinant of treatment and outcomes falls on the was socially, economically and envi- your own country you have all sorts of one’s genetic makeup.” state.” ronmentally sustainable,” Rouse said. explanations for why Trenton is Tren- Central to her fieldwork, which Rather than resort to such narra- ton and Princeton is Princeton.” included more than 400 interviews tives, Rouse suggests that positive Continued on page 11 Princeton June 14, 2010 university Bulletin 11
a research fellow at the University of Biology and Genetics and the Institute a master’s degree. He earned another Faculty Oxford. He holds a bachelor’s degree for the Physics of Complex Systems in master’s degree from the New Eco- Continued from page 5 and Ph.D. from Oxford. Germany, where he has been a post- nomics School in Moscow and a Ph.D. Wailoo will come to Princeton from doctoral fellow since 2007. from Harvard. Rutgers University, where he has Brynildsen, who also specializes in Meshel is a scholar of the Hebrew Muir investigates the physicochemi- been a faculty member since 2001 bioengineering, will join the Princeton Bible. He will join the Princeton cal basis of protein function in complex and directs the Center for Race and faculty after two years as a postdoc- faculty after receiving his Ph.D. this systems of biomedical interest. By Ethnicity. Wailoo’s work focuses on toral fellow at Boston University. He year from the Hebrew University of combining tools of organic chemistry, health care politics, the ethnic and holds a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Jerusalem, where he also earned his biochemistry and cell biology, his racial relations of medicine, and the and a Ph.D. from UCLA. undergraduate degree. research has led to the development of ways scientifi c and technological Dweck has been a postdoctoral fel- Oh, who has been a postdoctoral fellow new technologies that provide funda- understandings have interacted with low and lecturer at Princeton since at the University of Toronto since 2007, mental insight into how proteins work. politics, society and culture to shape 2008. His research focuses on modern is a graduate of New York University He has received the Blavatnik Award health experiences, disease dispari- Jewish history. He holds a bachelor’s and holds a Ph.D. from the University of for Young Scientists, the Vincent du ties and social responses to disease. degree from Columbia University, a Massachusetts. His research focuses on Vigneaud Award from the Ameri- His books include the award-winning master’s degree from the University of Fourier analysis, probability theory and can Peptide Society for excellence “Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Penn. stochastic processes. in peptide research and Rockefeller Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race Iaryczower, a political scientist, has Pang, a political scientist, will come University’s Distinguished Teaching and Health” and “Drawing Blood: been a faculty member at Caltech since to Princeton after receiving her Ph.D. Award, among other honors. Technology and Disease Identity in 2005. A graduate of Universidad de this year from Washington Univer- Redding is an international trade 20th-Century America.” Buenos Aires in Argentina, he holds a sity. She holds bachelor’s and master’s expert whose research focuses on Prior to Rutgers, Wailoo was a faculty master’s degree from Universidad de degrees from Peking University. foreign direct investment, economic member at the University of North Caro- San Andres and a Ph.D. from UCLA. Templier, who has been a member of geography and productivity growth lina for nine years. A graduate of Yale Itskhoki, who specializes in inter- the Institute for Advanced Study since at the fi rm and industry level. His University, he holds a Ph.D. from the national trade and international 2008, specializes in Fourier analysis, recent work has included research on University of Pennsylvania. At Prince- macroeconomics, has spent the past probability theory and stochastic pro- corporate responses to international ton, he will be the Townsend Martin year as a postdoctoral fellow at Prince- cesses. A graduate of Orsay University, trade, the role of product choice in Professor of History and Public Affairs. ton. He is a graduate of Moscow State he holds a Ph.D. from Montpellier understanding fi rm development and University, from which he also holds University, both in France. industry dynamics, the uneven effects Assistant professors of Indian liberalization and the role Allais, a 1996 graduate of Princeton, played by market access in determin- has been a postdoctoral fellow and a ing economic prosperity. His honors lecturer at the University since 2008. include the Kiel Excellence Award in She specializes in history, theory and Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel criticism of architecture and art. She Board approves four faculty promotions Institute for the World Economy. holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Brangwynne, a bioengineer, is a grad- Redding currently is a faculty he Board of Trustees has Professor — Gary Bass, politics and member at Yale University, where he uate of Carnegie Mellon University and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard. He approved the promotions of four international affairs; Jeremy Kasdin, has taught since 2008, and the London faculty members, all effective mechanical and aerospace engineering. School of Economics, where he has will come to Princeton from the Max T Planck Institute for Molecular Cell July 1, 2010. Associate professor (with continuing ten- taught since 1998. He previously was The faculty members and their ure) — Elizabeth Harman, philosophy and departments, by the academic rank to the University Center for Human Values; which they are being promoted, are: Atsuko Ueda, East Asian studies.
Samuel Grushevsky, assistant professor Faculty members of mathematics, to accept a position at Stony Brook University; Samuel submit resignations Schulhofer-Wohl, assistant profes- Three chosen for endowed professorships sor of economics and public affairs, he following faculty members have to accept a position at the Federal hree faculty members have been • Sun-yung Alice Chang, the Eugene T submitted their resignations: Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Tnamed to endowed professorships, Higgins Professor of Mathematics. Effective July 1, 2010: Pinelopi Effective Aug. 1, 2010: Robert Seiringer, all effective July 1, 2010. They are: • Eric Wood, the Susan Dod Brown Goldberg, professor of economics, to assistant professor of physics, to accept • Manjul Bhargava, the Brandon Fradd, Professor of Civil and Environmental accept a position at Yale University; a position at McGill University. Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics. Engineering.
well as supporting economic growth. “Ada and I have discussed working she wrote her senior thesis on foreign Rouse Her plans include redesigning the together on the health curriculum for aid and its limitations. Continued from page 10 marketplace in order to attract tour- the school and conducting a study of For Amy Moran-Thomas, a doctoral ists and reduce waste. Included in wellness in Oshiyie,” said Rouse. candidate in anthropology, visit- these plans are building a cold storage Ashley Schoettle, who took Rouse’s ing Ghana with Rouse caused her to Noting that it is “so easy to critique facility and a museum with a café that “Race and Medicine” class two years redefi ne her research. She now has development,” she explained that what will generate revenue for the school. ago, went to Ghana to pursue her own expanded her study of how people she can offer as an anthropologist The students will design and run research into the use of mosquito nets deal with the guinea worm, a para- is “the refl exive piece.” By working the museum and café as part of their to protect against malaria. She also sitic infection that is spread through closely with the residents of Oshiyie curriculum, and the storage facility accompanied Rouse on some of her contaminated water, to include other and asking them about their vision for will enable their parents, who mostly interviews and planning meetings for nutritionally related chronic diseases, the community, she is able to assess are fi shermen, to freeze their catch to the school. particularly diabetes. For the sake of the resources they have already. eliminate waste. Schoettle, who graduated this month comparison, she also extended her “There are a lot of Ghanaians who “We are going to present a different with an A.B. from the Woodrow fi eldwork to Belize, where she cur- because of development think that model of development,” Rouse said. Wilson School of Public and Interna- rently is located. what they have is inferior and that they Rouse has created opportunities tional Affairs and a certifi cate in global “The opportunity to study in Ghana have to throw it out,” Rouse said. She for Princeton students to participate health and health policy, said it was with Professor Rouse was instru- emphasizes to the residents of Oshiyie in the project. Next spring, she will invaluable to be guided by an anthro- mental in helping me to better align that because their town is slated as a teach a course, “The Anthropology pologist, especially when she my research framework with people’s tourist destination, its natural beauty of Development,” that will include a realized that the villagers actual experiences of illness, and the holds great value, even as hotels go up studio component for designing the were not inclined to use meaning these concerns have in nearby. marketplace. Designs then will be the mosquito nets she their everyday lives,” Moran- The school, registered as a nonprofi t, shared with a Ghanaian architect who had provided. Thomas said. will play an especially important role already has visited Princeton as part of “Professor Rouse Observing Rouse in Oshiyie, she noted. With a cur- planning for the project. After archi- helped me to real- working on the riculum focusing on materials science, tectural review, Rouse will go over ize how positive school project was agriculture and engineering, it will the designs with the chief of Oshiyie, intent alone is not crucial for another foreground fi nding solutions to local with whom she has been consulting all suffi cient to make Ph.D. candidate in problems, such as water scarcity, poor along, about the best model to adopt. lasting change, anthropology, Gwen drainage, soil erosion and hunger. In addition, four Princeton students but that all of Gordon, who researched Rouse hopes that some of the “asym- — two undergraduates and two gradu- the logistics, the shifting sands of land metries in knowledge and wealth” in ate students — took the opportunity to including laws and rights in Ghana the area can begin to be addressed by visit Ghana with Rouse in the sum- cultural two years ago, and is now providing scholarships to the commu- mer of 2008. Their experiences have affi nities and studying land rights among nity’s poorer children. As the school signifi cantly illuminated their own practices, tribal populations of New grows, it will become necessary to academic and professional pursuits. need to Zealand. charge full tuition for wealthy students Ada Amobi, a member of the class be fully Paying close attention to in order for the school to be fi nancially of 2009 who majored in anthropology, under- the way Rouse worked in the self-sustaining. will be studying medicine at Harvard stood before community, Gordon said she Going forward, Rouse also expects University next year and possibly will implementing especially learned from the “care- that the school will play a role in return to Oshiyie to help Rouse develop programs,” said Schoettle. ful, observant way she moved in the enhancing the culture of Oshiyie, as particular aspects of the project. Building from this experience, world.” Princeton 12 university Bulletin June 14, 2010 Science neighborhood construction progresses this summer
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he University’s science neighborhood along Washington Road will continue to develop amid T a series of construction projects taking place on campus this summer. As the Chemistry building and Streicker Bridge move closer to opening, work also has begun on the Neuroscience and Psychology buildings and on renovations of Jadwin Hall. Anne St. Mauro, assistant vice president for facili- ties-design and construction, and Sean Joyner, deputy director of the Office of Design and Construction, pro- vided an update on these and other summer projects: • Chemistry building: The 265,000-square-foot facil- ity, which will be completed this fall after three years of construction, will be the largest single academic building, excluding Firestone Library, on the University’s campus. The building, located east of Washington Road between Ivy Lane and Faculty Road just south of Jadwin Hall, incorporates sustain- ability elements throughout the facility. The building features laboratory and teaching spaces in one wing and offices in another wing, joined by a large skylit atrium. Summer work will focus on landscaping and final preparations for a six-month move-in period beginning in the fall. Classes are scheduled to be held in the building for the first time in spring 2011. • Streicker Bridge: After two years of construction, the 300-foot pedestrian bridge connecting the two sides of the science neighborhood is expected to open to the public in mid-July. Spanning Washington Road, the bridge will have landings on the east side near the Chemistry building and Jadwin Hall and on the west side near Icahn Laboratory and the planned Neuroscience and Psychology buildings.
• Neuroscience and Psychology buildings: Excavation and Denise Applewhite utility work has begun and will continue throughout Two major elements of the University’s science neighborhood along Washington Road — the new Chemistry building (rear left) the summer at the site of the new Neuroscience and and Streicker Bridge (foreground) — will be completed by this fall. Psychology buildings, south of Icahn Laboratory and west of Washington Road. The two-building complex, which will encompass 248,000 gross square feet, replacing railings, which will leave certain sections by fall. The first-floor lobby also will be renovated will feature state-of-the-art research facilities, meet- of the stadium blocked from access at various times. to provide a larger and more attractive entrance to ing rooms, faculty offices and instructional space. The surface of Weaver Track also will be replaced the building. By late summer, the Program in Cre- The facility will house the Princeton Neuroscience this summer. ative Writing will occupy the sixth floor with offices, Institute, now located in the Thomas and Moffett • Firestone Library: Renovations will take place this three classrooms and a library. The fifth floor will be laboratories, and the Department of Psychology, cur- summer primarily on the library’s lower A, B and C renovated for new offices for the housing department, rently located in Green Hall. Construction is expected levels. Isolated areas on levels A and B will serve as which will move this fall from its current space in the to be completed in 2013. temporary office space for current occupants of level C, MacMillan building. This spring the Office of Human • Jadwin Hall: A series of renovations to Jadwin, where a new Department of Rare Books and Special Resources relocated from the first floor of New South to home of the Department of Physics, will take place Collections (RBSC) storage space will be constructed. the second and third floors, and the TigerCard Office through fall 2013. Work is under way on a new roof- Work on levels A and B will be completed this sum- moved from the A level to the third floor. top mechanical room to house equipment that was mer, while the RBSC area on level C will be completed • Brown Hall: A new archway will be built on the moved from the basement of Jadwin to accommodate by fall 2011. The existing stairway in the northwest south façade of the dormitory building this summer. a new tunnel connecting to the Chemistry building. corner of Firestone, which currently connects the In addition, interior renovations that include rest- Work will begin this summer to replace heating, lower three levels, will be extended to the third floor. room, fire-alarm and heating system upgrades will be ventilating and air conditioning systems and to • New South: Renovations are under way at New South completed by the fall. install new lighting, building controls and windows — which has housed University administrative offices • Smaller projects: Other projects scheduled for this in Jadwin’s bottom two levels. Similar work will be for 40 years — to accommodate some academic func- summer include dormitory fire-alarm upgrades to done in phases throughout the building over the next tions of the Lewis Center for the Arts that currently 1901-Laughlin, Bloomberg, Edwards, Feinberg and three years. Starting this fall, displaced members of reside at 185 Nassau St. The space was made avail- Pyne halls; roofing repairs to 1901-Laughlin, Henry, the physics department will be housed in temporary able when Princeton’s finance and treasury operations Spelman, Wilcox and Wu halls, Dillon Gymnasium, space at 87 Prospect Ave. moved from New South to 701 Carnegie Center in fall Forbes College and McCarter Theatre; landscaping • Princeton Stadium: Work this summer at the sta- 2009. The first floor of New South will be converted to work on Shapiro Walk and the Wilson College court- dium, adjacent to the Chemistry building and Jadwin acting, dance and warmup stations for the programs in yard; and installation of signage at various on- and Hall, will include repainting its steel structure and theater and dance, which are expected to be completed off-campus locations.
Women in Leadership Initiative and also holds a master’s degree in urban C. James Yeh, of Hinsdale, Ill., is Trustees is a past chair of a regional Alumni planning and a J.D. from Yale Uni- senior managing director of Citadel Continued from page 2 Schools Committee. versity. Henry served as an alumni Investment Group, a leading global Josh Grehan, of Prince Albert, Sas- trustee of Princeton from 1969 to financial institution with headquar- katchewan, graduated this year with 1973 and as a charter trustee from ters in Chicago. He earned an A.B. in with certificates in African American an A.B. from the Wilson School. Dedi- 1999 to 2009. A former president of physics with a certificate in engineer- studies, Latin American studies and cated to social justice and community the Alumni Association, he currently ing physics from Princeton in 1987. science in human affairs. He holds an service activities on and off campus, is a member of the advisory council Yeh is a member of the Asian Ameri- M.D. from Harvard Medical School. he was co-president of the student for the Center for African American can Alumni Association of Princeton He is a member of the Association of advocacy group Princeton for Workers Studies, a member of the Associa- and a regional Alumni Schools Com- Black Princeton Alumni. Rights; a volunteer at Springboard, a tion of Black Princeton Alumni, a mittee. He also serves on the Aspire Laura Forese, of Franklin Lakes, N.J., tutoring program run by the Princeton member of a regional committee for campaign steering committee for the is senior vice president, chief operating Public Library; founder of a summer the Princeton Prize in Race Relations Chicago region. officer and chief medical officer of New rowing program for drug-addicted and co-chair of “Connect: A Black The Board of Trustees elected Henry York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill youth aimed at teaching teamwork, Alumni Leadership Initiative” for the to a 10-year term as a charter trustee, Cornell Medical Center. She earned discipline and racial understanding; Aspire campaign. while it elected Allen, Forese, Siebel a BSE in civil engineering with a and a volunteer at an orphanage in Thomas Siebel, of Woodside, Calif., and Yeh for four years as term trust- certificate in engineering and manage- West Africa. A Davis United World is chairman of First Virtual Group, ees. Princeton alumni elected Boyle ment systems from Princeton in 1983. College Scholar, Grehan was awarded a diversified holding company with and Ford to four-year terms as alumni She holds an M.D. and a master of the 2010 Daniel M. Sachs Class of interests in commercial real estate, trustees, and the junior, senior and two public health degree from Columbia 1960 Graduating Scholarship, which agribusiness, global investment man- youngest alumni classes elected Grehan University. Currently a member of he will use to pursue postgraduate agement and philanthropy. He founded to a four-year term as young alumni the leadership council of the School of studies in economic and social history Siebel Systems, a global leader in trustee. All trustees have the same Engineering and Applied Science and at the University of Oxford. application software, in 1993. Siebel power, authority and responsibilities. a member of the New York metro- Brent Henry, of Chestnut Hill, earned B.A., MBA and M.S. degrees Completing their terms as trustees politan region steering committee for Mass., is vice president and general from the University of Illinois-Urbana/ this year were Shelby Davis, Carl Fer- the University’s Aspire fundraising counsel of Partners HealthCare, Champaign. He is a member of Prince- enbach, Charles Gibson, Ellen Harvey, campaign, she also has served on the based in Boston. He earned an A.B. ton’s Annual Giving Parents Fund Dennis Keller, John O’Brien, Mark steering committee of Princeton’s from the Wilson School in 1969. He Committee. Siegler and Brady Walkinshaw.