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Princeton Alumni Weekly (I.S.S.N 00paw0404_CoverNOBOX_00paw0707_Cov74 3/21/12 1:32 PM Page 1 Princeton T Alumni T Weekly April 4, 2012 The year of Alan T uring *3 8 Women’s hoops in NCAA tourney A Plan B for Ph.D.s Professor Dan Kurtzer Web exclusives and breaking news @ paw.princeton.edu John Constable Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum on view through June 10 Exhibition organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London John Constable, British, 1776–1837: Salisbury Cathedral from the South West, ca. 1820, detail. Oil on canvas, later lined. The V i c t o r i a and Albert Museum (319-1888). © V i c t o r i a and Albert Museum / V & A images. Princeton and the Gothic Revival 1870 1930 on view through June 24 Cram and Ferguson, architects, Boston, fl. 1915–1941: proposed interior of University Chapel, undated, detail. Watercolor on wove paper. Princeton University Campus Collections (PP363). Free and open to the public 609.258.3788 Tuesday–Saturday 10 a.m.–5 p.m. artmuseum.princeton.edu Thursday 10 a.m.–10 p.m., Sunday 1–5 p.m. 01paw0404_TOCrev1_01paw0512_TOC 3/19/12 6:51 PM Page 1 John von Neumann with Princeton MANIAC in 1952, page 28. Alumni Weekly ALAN An editorially independent magazine ARCHIVES by alumni for alumni since 1900 RICHARDS CENTER, PHOTOGRAPHER; APRIL 4, 2012 VOLUME 112 NUMBER 10 INSTITUTE FOR President’s Page 2 FROM ADVANCED THE Inbox 5 SHELBY STUDY, From the Editor 6 WHITE PRINCETON, AND A Moment With 11 LEON NJ, LEVY Civil-rights leader and visiting USA professor Bob Moses Campus Notebook 12 Plan B for Ph.D.s • Daniel Ellsberg Is an Israel-Palestine peace deal still possible? 24 speaks on campus • University halts Princeton professor Daniel Kurtzer has served as ambassador to both new HEI investments • Bridge-year Israel and Egypt. He’s an optimist — but a realist, too. program grows • Update on graduate- By Griff Witte ’00 alumni relations • Naacho dance troupe celebrates anniversary • FYI: Daybreak of the digital age 28 Findings • FACULTY BOOKSHELF: Democracy works • FROM PRINCETON’S VAULT: A Tiger Alan Turing *38 lay down one day and imagined the computer. ON THE CAMPUS: on the Titanic • Grad This spring, the world celebrates that accomplishment and all that student is spoken-word poet • Students followed. mount mental-health activities • More By W. Barksdale Maynard ’88 Sports 20 Women’s basketball in NCAAs • EXTRA POINT: From Princeton to fighting on the ice • Sports shorts What’s n ew @ PAW ONLINE Perspective 23 The race to a top college starts early FIRST GENERATION Gregg By Tamara Sorell ’81 Read about Princeton’s Lange ’70’s early history of computing, Alumni Scene 34 Rally ’Round including Professor Alonzo Jay Famiglietti *92 tracks a vital the Cannon Church ’24 *27. resource: water • STARTING OUT: Sam Finding parallels in Dean Gulland ’10 • TIGER PROFILE: Moshe Mathey 1912 and Jay Pritsker *05 creates video journal for WATER WATCH Sherrerd ’52, two modest scientists • READING ROOM: David Treuer See Jay Famiglietti *92 explain trustees who helped UNIVERSITY Princeton flourish. ’92 writes about life on Indian reserva- / how satellites track under- tions • New releases ground aquifers. ANDERSON Class Notes 37 A. SCHAEFER DANIEL NAACHO AT 10 Memorials 57 BEVERLY View videos from the Indian Princeton Exchange 61 ARCHIVES; dance troupe’s first decade. UNIVERSITY Final Scene 64 WOJCIECHOWSKI; FRANK Try our PDF version of ON THE COVER: Woodrow Wilson School professor and former PRINCETON SPRING SPORTS IRVINE; ambassador Daniel Kurtzer. Photography by Peter Murphy. TOP: Kevin Whitaker ’13 covers this issue — and share FROM the latest headlines from your feedback — at CALIFORNIA, PHOTOS, OF Tiger teams. paw.princeton.edu THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Classrooms Without Borders f I were a student at Princeton, there is nothing I would language instruction, field trips to other communities and sites rather do in the summer of my freshman or sophomore of national significance, and the knowledge one accrues from year than enroll in a Global Seminar. These once-in-a-life- simply living in a different country, we have an educational ad- time opportunities lie at the heart of our commitment to venture that is at once immersive, intensive, and transformative. Igive every undergraduate a chance to weave an international ex- As one participant put it, “I think that this course profoundly perience into his or her education. In a rapidly shrinking world, affected both my personal and academic development, and I am Princeton’s goal is to “produce globally competent citizens” who so glad to have taken it.” have the substantive knowledge, cultural sensitivity, linguistic These sentiments have been echoed by students and faculty skills, and practical savoir faire to thrive in societies that differ alike as seminars have multiplied, spreading outward from from their own. And while there are many ways of developing Vietnam to encompass 16 countries on four continents — from these strengths, Global Seminars are designed to do so in an Germany to Brazil; from Ghana to China. To date, more exceptionally holistic fashion. than 300 Princetonians have taken a Global Seminar, enrich- Sponsored and subsidized by the Princeton Institute for ing their summers without impinging on their time on cam- International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), these six-week, pus — a concern that, in the past, has deterred some members credit-bearing summer courses enable members of our faculty of our student body from studying abroad. And in a couple of and small groups of freshmen and sophomores to explore a months, 75 additional students will probe a host of fascinating topic of mutual interest in situ, be it Irish theater in Ireland, questions in the places that gave rise to them. Indian art and architecture in India, or Zen Buddhism in Japan. Some will accompany Assistant Professor of Spanish and Princeton’s first Global Seminar in the summer of 2007 was Portuguese Languages and Cultures Bruno Carvalho to Rio de conceived by former diplomat and PIIRS Advisory Council Janeiro, where they will examine different representations of member Desaix Anderson ’58, whose 35-year Foreign Service this celebrated city and competing visions for its future at the career culminated in the re-opening of the American embassy in intersection of disparate cultural and modernizing forces. An- Vietnam in 1995. Under his deft direction, 14 students traveled other group, led by Michael Cadden and Timothy Vasen, who to Hanoi to study the “origins, implications, and consequences” head the Lewis Center for the Arts and our Program in Theater, of the Vietnam War and, more broadly, America’s place in the respectively, will travel to Athens to study, observe, and perform world today. the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. Students are promised “a total immersion in the vibrant, chaotic, contradictory, very old and very new world of Greek theater,” GILSON something that not even the most creative Princeton-based course could replicate. ERIKA Still another seminar, taught by Professor of East Asian Stud- ies David Leheny, will examine the challenges confronting Japan in the wake of last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, as well as the effect of this disaster on Japanese self-understanding in the context of the country’s postwar narrative. And a conti- nent away, Professor Şükrü Hanioğlu, who chairs our Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Senior Lecturer in Turkish Erika Gilson will join forces to introduce our students to 16 centuries of Byzantine and Ottoman history in Istanbul, noting that, ulti- mately, the city “itself becomes the classroom.” Finally, Professor of History Jan Gross will hold a seminar One of the highlights of the 2010 Global Seminar, “Islam, Empire, and in Kraków that explores the life of Poland’s Jews before, dur- Modernity: Turkey from the Caliphs to the 21st Century,” was a week in Cairo, where students visited the Muhammad Ali Mosque. ing, and after the Holocaust. Students will live in the city’s old Jewish quarter and, among other field trips, visit the Auschwitz As with later seminars, Desaix’s was designed to introduce concentration camp, which played its own terrible part in the participants to points of view unlikely to be heard as fully, if at destruction of Poland’s Jewish population, formerly the second all, at Princeton. Accordingly, half the daily lectures were given largest in the world. by resident scholars and other representatives of Vietnamese It is not surprising that three times as many students apply to society, ranging from a former general to a prominent writer. participate in a Global Seminar as can be accommodated, and we This seminar also established a pattern for subsequent offerings are therefore seeking to endow and expand this program. I look by including a handful of local students in its activities, thus forward to the day when there is room for all in what Dean of creating opportunities for cross-cultural exchanges, and by in- the College Valerie Smith has rightly called “one of the high- corporating small-scale public service projects. In Vietnam, our lights of the Princeton undergraduate experience.” students helped schoolchildren improve their English-language skills, widened a rural road, and scraped and painted a build- ing serving those adversely affected by the use of Agent Orange in the Vietnam War. When to these activities are added daily THE ALUMNI WEEKLY PROVIDES THESE PAGES TO THE PRESIDENT The Possibilities are Endless “The unique experience of living in the Graduate College as a first-year graduate student allowed me to make lifelong friends from distinct academic backgrounds. I have learned a tremendous amount from my conversations with these very interesting people.” DARREN PAIS GS MANGALORE, INDIA / KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT A graduate student in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Darren’s research lies at the intersection of two fields – evolutionary biology and multi-agent cooperative control.
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