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Alumni returning to campus or Reunions 5

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John Pardon, whose achievements in mathematics and Chinese have driven his ascent to the top o Princetons class o 2011, will

deliver the valedictory address at Commencement on May 31. Pardons accomplishments include publishing research in the top

academic journal in mathematics and being part o Princetons winning team in an international Chinese-language debate.

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As a high school student, John Pardon wasengaged in one o his avorite pastimes read-ing math papers online when he came upon

a problem crated by amed Russian mathematicianMikhail Gromov that had conounded scholars in theeld or more than two decades.

Over the years Pardon would return to grapplewith Gromovs problem, which concerns an area omath known as knot theory. This all, as a Prince-ton senior, he unraveled the solution that eluded somany others, and will see his results published in theAnnals o Mathematics, the top journal in the eld.

This rare achievement exemplies the intellectualcuriosity and scholarly accomplishments that havecarried Pardon to the top o Princetons class o 2011

as its valedictorian. Pardon, a mathematics majorrom Chapel Hill, N.C., will deliver the valedictoryaddress at the Universitys Commencement ceremonyTuesday, May 31.

The son o Duke University mathematician WilliamPardon, he scored his rst perect math SAT score inmiddle school and began taking advanced courseworkrom an early age, including classes at Duke while stil lin high school. Ater his sophomore year at Princetonhe took only graduate courses in the mathematicsdepartment, with the exception o one high-levelundergraduate course.

Pardon, whose quiet demeanor balances his highlevels o motivation and sel-direction, said he ndsinspiration in solving challenging math problems.

Doing research is much more o a creative processthan, say, doing a calcu lation, he said. I youreworking on good problems, its very intellectually

stimulating to gure out why something is trueinstead o just calculating that its true.

Finding and conquering challengesPardons desire to conquer intellectual challenges

drove his eorts to solve the problem presented byGromov in knot theory, which is a branch o topol-ogy, the study o the properties o space and shapes.Gromovs problem, established in 1983, involves thedistortion o a particular class o knots called torusknots.

I read a lot o math online thats how Ive cometo learn about most o the problems that Ive workedon, Pardon said. I rst saw this problem in highschool and spent some time thinking about it hereand there. About a year ago last spring, I thought I

Pardon breaks ground on path to becoming valedictorian

ruth stEvEns

While Princeton undergraduatesexpress high levels o satisactionwith social and residential lie, a

working group o students, aculty andsta is recommending several changesto enhance this essential element o the

campus experience.In a report issued May 2, the Work-

ing Group on Campus Social andResidential Lie states: The basicmessage is clear: Overall levels osatisaction are high (and generallyhigher than at other institutions) andwhere there is dissatisaction, in large

Working group recommends changesto enhance social and residential lie

had a very nice idea about how to solve it. I startedwriting it up and two weeks later realized it wascompletely wrong.

However, in his spare time last summer whileworking as a math researcher or the U.S. Depart-ment o Deense, he continued to think about theproblem until he came up with a new direction

toward a solution.This all he wrote a drat o a paper on the subject

and shared it with Princeton mathematician DavidGabai, who suggested Pardon submit the paper tothe Annals o Mathematics. It is scheduled or publi-cation in the journals July issue.

A lot o very ta lented mathematicians would loveto have solved this problem, said Gabai, the Hughes-Rogers Proessor o Mathematics. With someproblems, people make some progress and its clearthere is a direction to go. But with this one, no onereally had any idea how to get started.

This is a true gem o mathematics that connectsgeometry, topology and some analytic arguments.I can imagine that in the uture, because its so

elegant, people will remember this as a special pieceo work, Gabai said. Part o what is so impressiveis that he ound this problem on his own and recog-nized it as something he had a chance o doing.

Pardon has amassed other impressive researchachievements, having published several papers as anundergraduate and presented talks at Princeton and

other institutions.At a dinner in December, Princeton mathematician

Jnos Kollr told Pardon about a dicult topologyproblem he had been discussing with colleagues. Aweek later, Pardon emailed Kollr with a solution.

We have been working together since, and he pro-duced several improvements and went much urtherthan I originally hoped or, said Kollr, the DonnerProessor o Science, who added that working withPardon elt like working with a postdoc.

For his senior thesis, Pardon produced advances inknot theory, building upon work done by Princetonalumnus Jacob Rasmussen, now a mathematician atthe University o Cambridge. Pardons thesis adviser,

measure it does not correlate with anyspecic demographic actor or livingarrangement. In other words, whilewe ound areas or improvement, wedid not discover any denable groupthat is not having a meaningul andrewarding social lie at Princeton.

The 13-member group, appointed by

President Tilghman in September 2010,however discovered ater meeting with17 ocus groups and receiving almost300 comments on its website that therewere some needs that could be bettermet, areas that could be improved andconcerns that could be addressed. Its keyrecommendations include:

Students should be prohibited romaliating with a raternity or sororityor engaging in any orm o rush at anytime during the reshman year, or romconducting or having responsibility orany orm o rush in which reshmenparticipate. The penalty or violatingthese prohibitions should be severe

enough to encourage widespreadcompliance, which probably means aminimum penalty o suspension.

The University should signicantlyincrease its commitment to enorcepolicies that prohibit serious ormso hazing wherever it occurs, and theUniversity should become even more

vigilant in imposing highly consequen-tial disciplinary penalties on studentsound to have engaged in hazing thatseriously threatened the health andwell-being o any student.

The working group concurs withthe widespread and strongly held viewacross a broad range o campus con-stituencies that it would be desirable toreinstate a campus pub that would beopen to all undergraduates, graduatestudents, aculty and sta and help tomodel the responsible use o alcohol.

The group also recommends severalinitiatives regarding both larger-

and smaller-scale events on campus,building relationships across classes,enhancing lie in the residentialcolleges, expanding the roles o resi-dential college advisers and OutdoorAction/Community Action groups,

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Name: Kathleen Fischer

Position: Department manager in theDepartment o Slavic Languages andLiteratures. Providing administrativesupport to the department chair anddirector o studies. Approving andreconciling budgets and expenditures.Assisting in the hiring o aculty andvisiting sta. Providing technicalsupport. Organizing honorariums,housing and travel or visiting lectur-ers. Coordinating events includingconerences, poetry readings andconcerts.

Quote: I began at Princeton in 1998as an assistant to the associate deanso the aculty in Nassau Hall. Fromthere I went on to become the programmanager in Near Eastern studies, and

or the past eight years I have been inmy current role. Being at Princetonhas impacted my lie is so many posi-tive ways. I was married in ProspectGarden. I bought my home througha Princeton-sponsored program. Ilearned how to Zumba in Dillon Gym.I also get to be around some o themost interesting people in the worldevery single day.

Other interests: Animal rescue, outdooractivities, and rock and roll.

Clayton Marsh, University counselsince 2002, has been nameddeputy dean o the college at

Princeton, eective July 1. Marsh willsucceed Peter Quimby, who is leavingPrinceton to become the head o theGovernors Academy in Massachusetts.

Clayton is passionate about under-graduate education and is widely

considered to be anoutstanding teacherat Princeton, saidValerie Smith, whowill become dean othe college July 1.His capacious intel-lect, commitment toteaching and wide-ranging knowledge

o Princeton will serve him well in hisnew position.

Smith, Princetons Woodrow WilsonProessor o Literature and a proes-sor o English and Arican Americanstudies, noted that Marsh emerged

as the clear leader in the search, andhis appointment was enthusiasticallyendorsed by many senior aculty mem-bers and administrators.

I am delighted that Clayton Marshhas agreed to serve as deputy deano the college, said President Tilgh-man. His long association with ourUniversity as a member o the classo 1985, as a University counsel, andas a dynamic teacher in our reshmanseminar and American studies pro-grams has given him a breadth operspective and a depth o institutionalknowledge that will greatly benetboth our undergraduates and his col-leagues in West College.

Princeton Provost Christopher

Eisgruber said, During his years atPrinceton, Clayton has worked col-laboratively and successully withmany aculty members, and he hasdemonstrated genuine enthusiasm orundergraduate teaching. He is uniquelysuited to his new role and I look or-ward to having him as a colleague inthe academic administration.

Marsh will direct a number o aca-demic programs and initiatives, andadvise undergraduates interested in

Marsh selected as deputy dean o the college

By the numbers

United Way ocials and Univer-sity volunteers gathered April 25 inthe Faculty Room o Nassau Hall toacknowledge the $190,323 raised orthe United Way in this years campusdrive.

The campaign raised $167,299 incontributions rom aculty, sta andretirees $120,344 rom the maincampus, $39,494 rom the PrincetonPlasma Physics Laboratory and$7,461 rom retirees.

The University matched gifts with 15cents on the dollar or every payrolldeduction contribution and 10 centson the dollar or all other gits, ora total University contribution o$23,024.

All donations will be distributed toUnited Way programs in MercerCounty or employees home commu-nities, or to other health and humanservices agencies that were desig-nated by individual donors.

pursuing independent concentrations.Primarily, he will work closely withSmith on all matters relating to thedesign and content o the undergradu-ate curriculum. As the secretary to theFaculty Committee on the Course oStudy and as a member o the Council

on Science and Technology, he willadvise and support individual acultymembers, academic departments andcerticate programs in their eorts tocreate new courses and programs, andalso will participate in the developmento proposals and the administration ounds or curricular innovation.

In conjunction with a acultyexecutive committee, Marsh will shapeand oversee the reshman seminarprogram. He will have supervisoryresponsibility or the Princeton Writ-ing Program, the Program in TeacherPreparation, the McGraw Centeror Teaching and Learning, and theCommunity-Based Learning Initiative,while also serving as the Universitys

aculty athletics representative to theNCAA and the accreditation liaisonocer to the Middle States Associa-tion o Colleges and Schools.

I am honored to be joining Val andher colleagues in West College andthrilled to have this opportunity to

participate in shaping the academicjourney o our undergraduates, Marshsaid. I look orward to workingclosely with our aculty and admin-istrators in their ongoing eorts toensure that Princeton continues to bea place that changes lives through the

power o its teaching, the vitality oits curriculum and the quality o itsprograms or academic support.

A 1985 graduate o Princeton with abachelors degree in English with highhonors, Marsh earned a masters degreein English rom Stanord University in1986, a Ph.D. in English and compara-tive literature rom Columbia Universityin 1995, and a J.D. rom the Universityo Michigan Law School in 1997.

As University counsel, Marsh hasadvised and represented the Universityin a broad range o legal and adminis-trative matters, especially in the areaso sponsored research and intellectualproperty. His counsel and advocacyor Princeton have been instrumental

to the advancement o many researchinitiatives and scientic collaborationsand, last November, he was closelyinvolved in the winning trial deense othe Universitys patent that Eli Lilly &

Marsh

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memorial service or ElisabethDahlen, a senior administrator atPrinceton or more than 20 years,

is scheduled or 2 p.m. Friday, June 3,in the University Chapel. She died ocancer on March 29 at age 64.

Dahlen worked in the Oce oInormation Technology rom 1987until 2004, when she was nameddirector o the Universitys Tiger-Card oce. She became assistant tothe treasurer or special projects inthe Oce o Finance and Treasuryin 2007, a position she held until herretirement in 2010.

Memorial service planned or Dahlen

A ull obituary appears on the Oceo Inormation Technologys website at.

Memorial contributions may bemade to the Elisabeth and F. AnthonyDahlen, Jr. Fund, which benetsgraduate students o Princetonsgeosciences department. Memo-rial contributions may be made withchecks payable to the Trustees oPrinceton University and sent to theDepartment o Geosciences, 113 GuyotHall, Princeton University, Princeton,NJ, 08544.

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From let:

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Ofce o Community and

Regional Aairs; Audry

Rosenbloom o the Ofce

o Human Resources; Jodi

Inverso o the United Way;

and Jennier Jones, Susan

Murphy-LaMarche and

Rosemarie Fuchs-Smith o

the Princeton Plasma Physics

Laboratory.

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Visit the News at Princeton Web page at

or other recent stories, including the ollowing:

The aculty o the Woodrow Wilson School o Public and International Aairs

have approved a plan to restructure the schools undergraduate program ollow-

ing a yearlong committee review led by Princeton President Emeritus Harold T.Shapiro and Wilson School Associate Dean Nolan McCar ty. The plan includes

ending the selective admissions process or the undergraduate major and open-

ing the major to all students who meet prerequisite requirements. The revisedprogram will go into eect or students enrolling this all as the class o 2015.

Over the next year, senior Lisa Tom will combine her two academic passions

at Princeton anthropology and creat ive writing by transorming feldworkinto fction. As the 2011 winner o Princetons Martin Dale Fellowship, she will

immerse hersel in the community o Chinese Americans living in her nativeBaltimore to write a collection o short s tories or a novel about that immigrantcommunity.

Princeton seniors Alissa Escarce and La Steinacker each have been awarded

the Universitys Henry Richardson Labouisse 26 Prize, which will allow themto devote a year o service and research related to migrant workers right s and

gender-based violence, respectively. The Labouisse ellowship provides $25,000

to each recipient to support research in developing countries by graduatingseniors who intend to pursue a career devoted to problems o development and

modernization.

Princeton seniors Justine Drennan and Sukrit Silas have been awarded Gates

Cambridge Scholarships, which give outstanding students rom outside theUnited Kingdom an opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University

o Cambridge. Drennan and Silas are among 90 winners o the Gates CambridgeScholarships rom around the world.

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TOP: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (let) speaks

about her rise rom her humble beginnings to the highest court

in the land April 29 during the She Roars: Celebrating Women at

Princeton conerence. In a conversation with President Tilghman in

Jadwin Gymnasium, Sotomayor relayed personal anecdotes about

her decision to attend Princeton and some o the highs and lows o

legal practice, going through the confrmation process and sitting

on the bench. BOTTOM: U.S. Secretary o Education Arne Duncanspeaks April 20 in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, stressing

that U.S. schools must get better aster than ever beore. To read

more about both events, visit .

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Martin Mbugua, who has more than 17years o experience in journalism andhigher education communications, hasbeen named University spokespersonat Princeton.

Mbugua (pronounced BOO-gwah)joined the Oce o Communicationssta on May 2. He will coordinateoutreach to local, national and interna-tional news media or coverage o theUniversity, manage media inquiriesand advise the campus community onmedia relations matters, in addition toserving as Princetons primary spokes-person.

Martin brings with him deep exper-tise working in media in this countryand abroad, said Director o News andEditorial Services Cass Cliatt. Build-ing on an accomplished career as anewspaper reporter in Kenya and NewYork City, he developed a proven trackrecord in higher education or e ectivestrategic communications, cultivat-ing strong relationships and creativeproblem-solving. Martins contributionswill be a true asset to the Universitycommunity.

For the past year, Mbugua served ascommunications and marketing man-ager or the Murphy Institute at theCity University o New York, where hedeveloped and managed a new com-munications and marketing strategy tosupport growth in enrollment, iden-tiy and reach new target groups, andenhance the national visibility o theinstitute.

From 2004 to 2010 he held theposition o senior news editor or theUniversity o Delaware, where he wasa media spokesperson and was part o

the news planning and management

team or UDaily, an online universitynews site serving 20,000 students anda large external community. Whilethere, Mbugua received the rst-placeaward in the marketing campaigncategory o the 2010 Delaware PressAssociation communications contest

or the website othe Delaware Envi-ronmental Instituteand a related portaldesigned or studentsin kindergartenthrough high school.

Mbugua was a stawriter or the NewYork Daily Newsrom 1998 to 2004,

where he managed crime and NewYork City Police Department newsreporting and covered a wide rangeo breaking news. While at the DailyNews, he was part o a reporting teamnominated or a Pulitzer Prize in thebreaking news category in recognitiono superior rst-day reporting o theterrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, andthe events that ollowed.

He also served as a reelance U.S.correspondent or the Daily Nation andthe Standard newspapers in Nairobi,Kenya, rom 1994 to 2006, coveringnews about Kenyans and their dias-pora.

Mbugua holds a master o businessadministration rom the Universityo Delaware and a master o arts ingovernment, politics and internationalrelations rom St. Johns University,where he also earned a bachelor oscience in journalism.

He succeeds Cliatt, who directed

media relations until assuming over-

Graduate School applications riseamid strong international interest

sight o the Universitys daily newsoperations and the spokespersonposition in March 2010, and EmilyAronson, who has been serving as

spokesperson until she could assumethe newly created position o campuslie writer and special projects assis-tant in the Oce o Communications.

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rincetons Graduate Schooladmitted 1,197 o the 11,689

applicants who applied or the2011-12 academic year, with stronginterest rom international students,the schools global reputation and itsrobust nancial aid program con-tributing to a continued increase inapplications.

This year saw a 5 percent increasein the number o students applyingor masters and doctoral programs extending a trend o rising applicationtotals in recent years and markedthe rst time in the Graduate Schoolshistory that international applicantsexceeded U.S. applicants. The 5,936international students made up nearly51 percent o the applicant pool, whilethe 5,753 U.S. citizens and permanent

residents made up 49 percent o thepool.The Graduate School continues to

be open to literally every applicant inthe world, and our programs attracta global pool o masters and doctoralcandidates, said David Redman, theGraduate Schools associate dean oracademic aairs. In addition to ourinternational base o applicants, wewill continue our eorts to recruit adiverse group o students rom aroundthe United States.

The 10.2 percent overall admissionrate or this year is similar to last year,when 1,193 students were admittedrom a pool o 11,124 applicants. Thisyear the number o admitted students

who accepted the schools oer oadmission by the April 15 postmarkdeadline was 623, or 52 percent, com-pared with last years yield at this timeo almost 54 percent.

For the second year in a row, theDepartment o Chemistry receivedmarked interest and acceptances romdoctoral applicants, with the new Frick

Chemistry Laboratory and expansiono the departments aculty attractingstellar students, Redman said.

The one new graduate programthis year is the introduction o a jointdoctoral degree in demography andsocial policy in the Program in Popula-tion Studies starting in the 2011-12academic year.

Next year also will see a modestincrease in the Universitys graduatestipend, with a standard 12-monthdoctoral ellowship o $26,784, up3 percent rom this years standardstipend o $26,000.

Princetons Graduate School haslong set the standard or ull undingor doctoral students, Redman said.

Our students also teach and winoutside ellowships, but the base sup-port that we oer doctoral candidatesis signicant and very attractive toapplicants.

Among the total applicants, 1,425were American minorities, including824 Asian Americans, 372 Hispanics,219 Arican Americans and 10 NativeAmericans. O the total number ominority students, 198 received oerso admission. This is the second yearthat gures or the collection o raceand ethnicity have ollowed new ed-eral guidelines allowing applicants toidentiy themselves in more than onerace or ethnic category. The new sel-identication option means gures or

American minority groups or the pasttwo years cannot be exactly comparedto applicant data rom previous years.

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University curriculum evolves with aculty and student interestsushmA PAtEl

From gender to jazz to extrater-restrial lie, a slate o new and revisedacademic oerings available to Prince-ton students starting this year refectsthe continued evolution o the Univer-

sitys curriculum.As o Feb. 1, the Program in theStudy o Women and Gender haschanged its name to the Program inGender and Sexuality Studies to signiythe changing ocus o scholarship in theeld. In addition, the 2010-11 academicyear marked the start o our inter-disciplinary undergraduate certicateprograms which al low students tosupplement their work in their depart-mental concentrations with ocusedstudy in another area in inormationtechnology and society, jazz studies,planets and lie, and values and publiclie. Since 2001-02, the University hasadded 11 interdisciplinary programs,renamed two departments and our

programs, and split one program intotwo separate ones.With regard to graduate study dur-

ing this period, the University hasmade changes to its oerings at alllevels doctoral, master, joint anddual degrees. The University also hasadded our graduate interdepartmentalprograms (which do not grant degreesbut allow students to supplement theirwork in their doctoral programs withconcentrated study in another area),discontinued our interdepartmental pro-grams, added two graduate certicates(which recognize special expertise) andrenamed two doctoral programs.

These changes refect the evolutiono the disciplines and the research

interests o Princetons aculty mem-bers. As aculty come to the Universityand explore new research areas, andas new knowledge is discovered, thedepartments and programs adapt inturn. The new degrees and programsprovide students with the opportunityto learn rom proessors at the cuttingedge o research and knowledge, andgive students more options in selectingtheir areas o academic ocus.

Establishing new programs allowsstudents to benet rom the intellectualstrengths and interdisciplinary ties oour aculty, said Deputy Dean o theCollege Peter Quimby. They provide away to represent these research interestsin the undergraduate curriculum, so

that students can pursue well organized,concentrated studies in those areas.The creation o interdisciplinary and

interdepartmental programs ormallyrecognizes and organizes work thatalready is being done in academicsettings, and it helps create new intel-lectual communities, Quimby said. Nonew aculty members are hired whencerticate programs are created, butthe programs are a refection o thedesire o the aculty to work acrossdepartmental boundaries.

Take, or example, the Program inTranslation and Intercultural Com-

munication, he said, reerring to anundergraduate certicate programestablished in 2007. Faculty membersand students certainly were doing every-thing rom translating works rom onelanguage to another, to guring out howto communicate across cultural bound-

aries. But the new program emphasizesthe commonalities in these experiences that, or example, people rom theLewis Center or the Arts and compara-tive literature and physics were thinkingabout these kinds o issues together.

Programs advance interdisciplinary workThe our new certicate programs

give shape to the interdisciplinary workalready being done at the University,and students have shown strong interestin the programs. While the jazz studiesprogram has not begun ormally accept-ing students, the three other programsestablished this academic year haveadmitted an average o 15 students.

The Program in Inormation

Technology and Society marries thetechnological and societal concernsinvolved in developing and deploy-ing technology, said Sharad Malik,the programs acting director and theGeorge Van Ness Lothrop Proessorin Engineering. Proessors in engi-neering, history, sociology and theWoodrow Wilson School o Public andInternational Aairs created the pro-grams core course Technology andSociety last year to provide a commonoundation or students.

Technology does not develop in avacuum; by virtue o its applied nature,it is shaped by the needs and desires oindividuals and the societies in whichthey live, Malik said. We expect this

program to attract engineering studentswho have an interest in the societalapplication o their work, as well ashumanities and social science studentsinterested in seeking a technology edu-cation component that will help themunderstand and deal with technology intheir lives and careers.

Computer science major JennierKing was among the rst studentsto apply or the certicate. When thePrinceton senior looks around at hereld she doesnt see a niche specialty;she sees one o the most powerulinfuences in society today, rom theinstant communication o Facebookand Twitter to the complexities ocomputer-driven nancial markets.

Coming rom the perspective o aCS major, the certicate really under-scores how interdisciplinary computerscience is, and has to be, in our societytoday, King said.

A growing interest in jazz romstudents led to the creation o theProgram in Jazz Studies, directed byAnthony D.J. Branker, the AnthonyH.P. Lee 79 Senior Lecturer in JazzStudies. The program oers a wide-ranging exploration o jazz, romtheory, composition and perormanceto history and cultural context, alongwith a requirement that students

develop an educational lecture ordemonstration to be presented bya student-led jazz group at a localelementary or middle school.

I wanted to develop a program thatwas indicative o our commitment to

jazz education, Branker said. It is my

hope that the Program in Jazz Studieswill provide our students with a wealtho artistic and intellectual experiencesdesigned to develop their understandingand appreciation o the stylistic and cul-tural diversity that is inherent in jazz.

The Program in Planets and Liedraws upon astronomy, chemistry,geosciences, biology, engineering andplanetary science, said program direc-tor Adam Burrows, an astrophysicalsciences proessor.

The studies o the origin o lie inthe astronomical and planetary con-texts have emerged recently not onlyto become scientically credible, butintellectually ascinating, Burrowssaid. The certicate program wascreated in response to strong studentinterest in the associated undamentalquestions and to tap the excitementamong the numerous Princeton aculty

engaged in cutting-edge research onorigin-o-lie issues.

In the case o the Program in Valuesand Public Lie, aculty members whostudied moral and political philoso-phy wanted to gather the resourcesspread across departments, such asaculty, courses and research grants.The program also makes the resourceso the University Center or HumanValues, which sponsors the program,more accessible to undergraduates, andit provides inormal learning oppor-tunities, or example by organizingdiscussions this year with practitionersrom the World Bank and HumanRights Watch, said program directorMelissa Lane.

The program oers ocused path-ways through the curriculum that willenable undergraduates to supplementwork in their major departments witha systematic and coherent values-oriented component, said Lane, alsoa proessor o politics. The certicatehas attracted considerable undergradu-ate interest in its rst academic year with [students] interests ocusedon topics as diverse as bioethics, ethicsand economics, constitutionalism, andreligion and society.

Programs refect evolving societal issuesAmong other new programs, the

University also has added an under-graduate certicate Program in Global

Health and Health Policy that allows

students to study patterns o diseaseacross societies, as well as the role ointerventions in health improvementsand the various social actors thatshape public health. In addition, a newcerticate in Latino studies allowsstudents to ocus on the transormation

and consolidation o Latinos as a pan-ethnic group; sustainable energy helpsstudents understand energy resourcesand changes in the global climate; andurban studies prompts undergraduatesto explore metropolitan regions and thecultural, political and economic evolu-tions in their landscapes (see sidebar).

Changes in research interests drivechanges at the graduate level as well,said Graduate School Associate Deanor Academic Aairs David Redman.

The goal, he said, is to accommo-date new research areas o aculty andnew research areas that students wantto be instructed in. The challengeis both to continue to oer standardcourses that aculty teach in their spe-cialty, but also to have fexibility to addcourses as peoples research interestschange or as new disciplines emerge,Redman said.

For example, most recently the Uni-versity has added a doctoral Programin Quantitative and ComputationalBiology, an innovative, multidisci-plinary eld that refects modernbiologys growing reliance on the morequantitative sciences and computation.And students can now pursue a Ph.D.in neuroscience without a correspond-ing degree in biology or psychology,refecting the growing prominence othe eld and Princetons investment inpathbreaking research with the orma-tion o the Princeton NeuroscienceInstitute.

Meanwhile, departmental namechanges have refected shits in ocusin the respective departments. The

Department o Chemical Engineeringis now the Department o Chemicaland Biological Engineering, based onthe growing intersections o biol-ogy and engineering, as a third othe departments aculty ocus onquestions related to biology in theirresearch; and the Department o Ger-manic Languages and Literatures isnow the Department o German, witha broader ocus including media stud-ies, the visual arts and modern culturalstudies generally.

The Program in Gender and Sexual-ity Studies, which oers both graduateand undergraduate certicates, soughtits name change due to developments

For nearly 40 years, the Program in Theater and Dance put on elaborate productions such as

the 2007 world premiere production o Boris Godunov, which included 13 student actors,

with Andy Brown (center, in white) playing Boris Godunov, and 12 student dancers. In 2009

the program became two separate entities to reect the growing student interest in dance.

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lewhite

Contemporary European politics

and society

Dance (ormerly part o the

Program in Theater and Dance)

Global health and health policy

Inormation technology and

society

Jazz studies

Latino studies

New undergraduate certifcateprograms, 2001-02 through 2010-11

Planets and lie

South Asian studies

Sustainable energy

Theater (ormerly part o the

Program in Theater and Dance)

Translation and intercultural

communication

Urban studies

Values and public lie

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NASSAUnotes April 18-May 15For broader listings ocampus public events:

PUBLIC EVENTS CALENDAR

Inormation on tickets is available at

the website below:

UNIVERSITY TICKETING

(609) 258-9220

CALENDARlinks

For listings by selected University sponsors:

Art Museum

(609) 258-3788

Athletics

(609) 258-3568

Center or Arican American Studies

(609) 258-4270

Council o the Humanities

(609) 258-4717

Frist Campus Center

(609) 258-1766

Lewis Center or the Arts

(609) 258-1500

Library

(609) 258-3181

McCarter Theatre

(609) 258-2787

Music Department

(609) 258-4241

Ofce o Inormation Technology

(609) 258-2949

Public Lecture Series

Presidents Lecture Series

(609) 258-6100

Princeton Institute or International and

Regional Studies

(609) 258-4851

Princeton University Concerts

(609) 258-2800

Richardson Auditorium

(609) 258-5000

School o Architecture

(609) 258-3741

School o Engineering and Applied Science

(609) 258-4554

Woodrow Wilson School o Public and

International Aairs

(609) 258-2943

For additional events sponsored by

specifc departments, programs and

ofces:

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For audience members needing

assistance:

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(609) 258-8840

To oer submissions or Nassau notes,

use the online orm:

Cofrc: law, lbrty ad Vrtu10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. May 16; 9:15 to

5:15 p.m. May 17

Lewis Library, Room 120

Cocrt: Tokyo Strg Quartt8 p.m. May 19

Alexander Hall, Richardson Auditorium

lctur: What Do W Ma by

ladscap Chs ladscapPatg? (Ad Why Do W Study it?)Jerome Silbergeld

3 p.m. May 27

McCormick Hall, Room 106

UPcoming Alumni to return or ReunionsM

ore than 20,000 Princetonalumni, amily members andriends are expected on cam-

pus Thursday through Sunday, May26-29, or Reunions activities.

Highlights will include: the P-rade throughout campus

beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday; alumni-faculty forums and depart-

ment open houses during the dayFriday and Saturday; the Battle of the Alumni Bands

rom 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Friday on theFrist Campus Center South Lawn; performances by student groups

including Quipre!, the PrincetonUniversity Players, Theatre Intime andTriangle Club on Thursday, Fridayand Saturday evenings; receptions and student/alumni arch

sings on Friday and Saturday eve-nings; and the University Orchestras lawn con-

cert at 8 p.m. Saturday on Finney andCampbell elds, ollowed by reworksat 9:15 p.m.

All alumni and University represen-tatives again will be required to havewristbands to participate in Reunionsactivities in the major reunion head-quarters courtyards. Wristbands arenot required or attending lectures or

perormances, watching the P-rade, orattending the concert and reworks,all o which are open to alumni, riendsand the campus community.

The single ee or wristbands tocover Thursday-Saturday evenings is$30 per person. Inormation regardingwristband registration was emailed toaculty and sta members on May 5.Payment is by credit card only. Start-ing Thursday, May 26, the single eewill increase to $40 per person.

Faculty and sta members and theirguests must pick up their wristbandsin person in the parlor o Maclean

House (enter at the ront o the house)at the ollowing times: between 1 and5 p.m. Wednesday, May 25; between1 and 5 p.m. and 7 and 11 p.m. Thurs-day, May 26; and between 7 and 11p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 27-28.A University ID card and valid driv-ers license with photo will be requiredor pickup.

Attendees can access the Reunionsschedule and other key content viasmartphone on the Reunions Mobilewebsite at . For more inormation onReunions activities, visit or call (609) 258-1900.

Several University activities orundergraduate and graduatedegree candidates and their ami-

lies are planned or Sunday throughTuesday, May 29-31: The Baccalaureate service will take

place at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 29, in theUniversity Chapel. Guests must beseated by 1:30 p.m. The speaker willbe Michael Bloomberg, mayor o NewYork City.

The Pan-African Graduation willbe held at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, May 29,in Richardson Auditorium, AlexanderHall. The Latino Graduation is set for

6 p.m. Sunday, May 29, on the FristCampus Center South Lawn. The Class Day ceremony for seniors

is set or 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 30,on Cannon Green. The speaker will be

Commencement activities set

actress Brooke Shields, a 1987 Prince-ton alumna. The Hooding ceremony for

advanced degree candidates will beginat 5 p.m. Monday, May 30, at Prince-ton Stadium. President Tilghman andGraduate School Dean William Russelwill preside. The Universitys 264th Commence-

ment ceremony is slated or 11 a.m.Tuesday, May 31, on the lawn in ronto Nassau Hall. Guests must be seatedby 10:15 a.m. President Tilghman willpreside and address the graduates.

More inormation about the events,including simulcast and webcastdetails, as well as parking instructionsor members o the University com-munity and guests, will be availableon the Princeton home page at .

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The Department o Music is hosting a

ree memorial concert or Milton Babbitt,

Princetons William Shubael Conant

Proessor o Music Emeritus, at 2 p.m.

Sunday, June 5, in Richardson Auditorium

o Alexander Hall. The concert will eature

Babbitts compositions and will beollowed by a reception. Babbitt died

Jan. 29 at age 94; a ull obituary can

be ound at .

Inside the Box, an exhibition o photography,

mixed media and other works by multiple

artists, will be on view rom May 23 through

Aug. 19 in the Bernstein Gallery o Robertson

Hall. Many o the artists have made site-specifc

works that directly relate to the architecture

in the Bernstein Gallery playing with the

geometry and scale o the box-like exhibition

spaces including this piece, My Way, by

Marsha Levin-Rojer. For more inormation, visit

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ValedictorianContinued rom page 1

Veronica Shi, the Latin salutatorian or Princetons class o

2011, has immersed hersel in the study o classics since her

introduction to Latin and Greek as a reshman. Proessor o

Classics Joshua Katz noted that Shi is widely regarded as a

phenomenon by proessors and peers alike.

JEnnifEr GrEEnstEin AltmAnn

Princeton senior Veronica Shi is the daughter otwo physics proessors, and she grew up listen-ing to them extol the importance o studying

science and math. But Shi harbored a dierent pas-sion: She loved literature.

Ive always loved to read, said Shi, who in highschool was especially ond o 19th-century Americanand British writers.

Once she arrived at Princeton, the aspiring Englishmajor ound hersel drawn not to Emily Dickinsonand Jane Austen, but to Homer and Virgil. Thoughshe knew no Latin or Greek when she arrived at theUniversity, Shi immersed hersel in both subjects andbecame an exceptional student o classics.

Shis success as a classics major led to her beingnamed salutatorian or the class o 2011. She will con-tinue the Princeton tradition o delivering a speech inLatin at Commencement on Tuesday, May 31.

Shi learned Latin and Greek her reshman year,taking intensive courses that squeeze a years wortho language instruction into 12 weeks. During thesummer ater her reshman year, she studied one-on-one with Denis Feeney, the Giger Proessor o Latin

and a proessor o classics, so that she could enroll ina 300-level course on Virgils Aeneid the ollowingsemester. Feeney was astonished by her perormancein the class, awarding her the rst A+ he had evergiven in a 200- or 300-level Latin course.

Her ngertip eel or how good Latinists dothings would be commendable in a graduate stu-dent; in a sophomore who had known no Latin eightmonths beore the course, it was, quite simply, utterlystaggering, Feeney said.

Shi went on to impress her proessors with heraccomplishments in several challenging graduateseminars in classics and with her 207-page the-sis, which traces how Greek and Latin epic poetrybecame a political genre. It was a stunning per-ormance, by some distance the best thesis I haveadvised or read, Feeney said.

A phenomenon in the classroomA native o West Covina, Cali., Shi stands seventh

in the senior class ater seven terms, and has won anumber o academic prizes. She won the 2011 DanielM. Sachs Class o 1960 Scholarship, one o the high-est honors given to Princeton undergraduates. Shealso twice received the Shapiro Prize or AcademicExcellence, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and in2010 was, along with this years valedictorian, JohnPardon, the co-winner o the Class o 1939 PrincetonScholar Award, given to the undergraduate who, atthe end o the junior year, has achieved the highest

Salutatorian brings Latin to lie as something really beautiul

Proessor o Mathematics Zoltn Szab, describedthe project as a very original piece o work.

Seeking a well-rounded experiencePlanning rom the outset to major in mathematics,

Pardon chose to attend Princeton because he sought awell-rounded liberal arts education rather than ocus-ing solely on technical coursework. Ater studyingSpanish in high school, he decided to try a new lan-guage and selected Chinese, which became his secondmajor academic pursuit during his Princeton years.

The reason I chose Chinese is the writing systemis the hardest o all the possible options I had, hesaid. From my rst class, I realized that the Chineselanguage program here is one o the best in the world Im very lucky to have chosen it.

Pardon attended the Princeton in Beijing languageimmersion program in the summer ater his resh-man year and completed advanced coursework inChinese on campus. Chih-ping Chou, a proessor oEast Asian studies who oversees Princetons Chineselanguage program, noted that Pardon is one o ewstudents he has encountered who mastered Chinesein our years o study.

In the all o his junior year, Pardon was selectedor the team that would represent Princeton in theInternational Varsity Debate, a biennial competi-tion organized by China Central Television andSingapores Media Corp. Pardon teamed with seniorMichael Medeiros and junior Jesse Mudrick to winthe non-native-speaking section o the debate, whichwas held in Singapore in November and broadcastacross the Chinese-speaking world.

I was pretty nervous, perhaps less because I wasspeaking Chinese than because I was on TV, Pardonsaid.

Chou said Pardons perormance was highlyeloquent and animated, with a great sense o humorand wit. Chou, the teams coach, added that Pardonused several expressions rom Conucius Analectsand several other classical Chinese texts, many owhich are normally only used among highly educatednative Chinese speakers.

Pardon has received numerous accolades or hisacademic achievements. In 2010 he and VeronicaShi, this years salutatorian, shared the Class o 1939Princeton Scholar Award, which is given annually tothe undergraduate who, at the end o the junior year,has achieved the highest academic standing or allpreceding college work at the University. He twicewon the Universitys Shapiro Prize or AcademicExcellence, received prizes or outstanding achieve-ment within Princetons mathematics department andwas elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 2010.

Pardon also won a 2010 Barry M. GoldwaterScholarship, a national award recognizing out-standing potential in math, natural sciences orengineering. He earned a prestigious National Sci-ence Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship tosupport his graduate studies at Stanord Universitybeginning this all.

Excelling beyond the classroomWhile Pardon said he appreciated the reedom he was

given to take rigorous courses at all levels at Princeton,he also ound time to enjoy lie outside the classroom.

A key to his Princeton experience was choosingwhat activities are important to me and putting a loto eort into them, he said. There were so manythings I could do, ranging rom math research tointeresting classes to playing the cello.

Pardon, who has played cello since he was 6, hasbeen a our-year member o the Princeton UniversitySinonia student orchestra and twice won Sinoniasannual concerto competition.

John has always been my right-hand man literally, having sat at the ront o Sinonias cellosection to my right since his reshman year, saidRuth Ochs, the Sinonia conductor and a lecturerin the Department o Music. Early on I discoveredhow lucky I was to have his ongoing dedication toSinonia. He is a quiet yet thoroughly respectedleader in Sinonia. Admired by all or his techni-cal prowess, he always is a team player. He uses histalents on behal o the music and Sinonias inter-pretation o it.

Noting that Pardon has continued to takeprivate cello lessons throughout his Princetonyears, Ochs added, He has marched through rep-ertoire that you also hear rom cellists studying atmusic conservatories.

Pardon has engaged in several other extracurricu-lar pursuits in addition to music. His experience inthe Outdoor Action reshman orientation programinspired him to serve as a leader or an orientation tripto the Green Mountains in Vermont prior to his junioryear. He has been a member o the student JugglingClub, which includes a number o other math students.Pardon also chose to live in Butler College or all ouryears at Princeton, saying he enjoyed the riendly sur-roundings o the residential college.

As he looks ahead to graduate school, Pardon saidhe has not yet decided on a specic area o concentra-tion within math and that a career in academia is apossibility. His main goal is to continue to pursueintellectual challenges and ollow the independentpath he has charted thus ar.

The reedom to do your own sel-directed

research is hard to come by, he said.

academic standing or all preceding college work atthe University.

Proessor o Classics Joshua Katz said Shi iswidely regarded as a phenomenon by proessors andpeers alike. He noted her tenacity and organiza-tional skills; her unusual ability to ocus on detailswhile also having grand ideas about the big picture;

and above all, the speed with which she learns really learns languages. He also praised herfuency about anything rom the manuscript tradi-tion o Virgil to the grave problems with collegeaccreditation, and rom the Hieroglyphic Luvianwriting system to the joys o Chopin.

Shi also has been active at Princeton outside theclassroom. She is a student member o the FacultyCommittee on the Course o Study, as well as amember o the Undergraduate Student GovernmentsAcademics Committee and the Behrman Undergrad-uate Society o Fellows. Last all she served as one otwo undergraduate students on the search committeeor the new dean o the college. She also has served asa peer adviser in Butler and Mathey colleges.

Next year, Shi will use her Sachs Scholarship topursue a masters degree in Greek and Latin lan-guages and literature at Worcester College at the

University o Oxord. She plans to pursue an aca-demic career o teaching and, in addition, carve outa role as an advocate on behal o classics and thehumanities in American higher education.

It was a course at the Woodrow Wilson School oPublic and International Aairs on higher educationpolicy, taught by Associate Proessor o Psychol-ogy and Public AairsDaniel Oppenheimer, thatprompted Shi to consider the role o promoting thestudy o classics.

It got me thinking about the larger question oarticulating the importance o the humanities, Shisaid. I came to eel that being a responsible scholaro the classics involves knowing how to express to thepublic at large why this discipline, even though seem-ingly very raried, is worth studying and makingaccessible to a wider audience.

For Shi, part o the potency o classics is its

endurance.Homer is almost 3,000 years old, and even today,

we can still read and appreciate his poetry in theoriginal language, Shi said. This ability to bridge ahuge divide o culture and time is what really makesclassics magical.

Shi worked to bring that magic to the Princetoncommunity earlier this year when she crated alibretto in classical Latin or an original opera cre-ated by students called Nero Artiex. Watching thestudents onstage singing an entire opera in Latin wasremarkable, Shi said.

I hoped it would be a powerul argument orthe idea that Latin isnt a dead language, she said.Bringing the language to lie and letting peoplehear it shows that its not mysterious and arcane, butsomething really beautiul.

The same may be said o the salutatorian speech onwhich Shi is working. I hope to have un with it and

do something dierent, she said. What Im plan-ning will be a treat to those who know Latin.

Among those at Commencement listening to thespeech will be Shis parents, who were initiallyless than thrilled with her choice to study classics.But many conversations about her studies and abirthday present to her mother o Marcus AureliusMeditations, which Shi had read during her resh-man year in a course on humanistic studies wonthem over.

They were actually humanists at heart, Shi said.

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CurriculumContinued rom page 4

in the eld. In the 1990s, said programdirector Jill Dolan, scholars began tomake more distinctions between genderand sex, while also examining a broaderrange o gender and sexual identities.

The name change to gender and

sexuality studies allows the programto refect the ever-evolving ocus o thisdynamic eld, said Dolan, Prince-tons Annan Proessor o English andproessor o theater. As an intellectualproject thats attuned to the socialmovements rom which it springs,gender and sexuality studies here atPrinceton will continue to honor itshistory in womens studies throughour courses, our programming andour scholarship, while broadening ourscope to include gender and sexualitywrit large.

Founded in 1981 mainly as anundergraduate program, it was initiallycalled the Program in Womens Stud-ies, renamed the Program in the Study

o Women and Gender in 1999, andexpanded in 2006 to oer a graduatecourse o study and graduate certicate.The recent name change continues itsevolution. The program a lso is growingin size, with its aculty roster, com-prised o an executive committee andassociated aculty, growing rom 29 in2008-09 to 44 in 2010-11, adding pro-essors rom the philosophy, economicsand molecular biology departments.

The number o courses oeredby the program or cross-listed withanother program has grown rom 19 to30 in the same period, with additions

such as Women in Politics, Mediaand Contemporary U.S., Inequality:Class, Race and Gender and Genderand Development in the Americas.

In addition to gender and sexualitystudies, the University has recognizednew graduate-level interdepartmen-tal programs over the last decade inhealth and health policy (which alsooers a certicate), quantitative andcomputational biology and renaissance

studies. Social policy has become anactive and attractive joint Ph.D. pro-gram involving the Wilson School, theProgram in Population Studies and thedepartments o politics, sociology andpsychology. This spring, the Centeror Arican American Studies addeda graduate certicate through theirinterdepartmental program. Theseadditions have allowed students toconcentrate their doctoral studies inareas where a core community o schol-ars has arisen to support the studentswork.

Departments and programs continueto make curricular changes regardingcourses also. Some social science andnatural science departments recently

have created methodology courses orcore courses to ll gaps in the curricu-lum. In the general area o proessionaldevelopment, the University hasintroduced writing courses or scienceand engineering students and eth-ics courses or natural science, socialscience and engineering students.And with aculty members assistance,students are able to suggest and initi-ate courses, such as recent courses inpublic education reorm and environ-mental entrepreneurship.

Finding ways to deepen intellectualconnections among aculty members

The new Program in Inormation Technology and Society takes a broad look at the issues

involved with developing and deploying technology. Proessor o History Michael Gordin

(above) teaches Technology and Society, a oundational course created by proessors in

engineering and the social sciences.

FrankWojciech

owski

and engage students will continue tobe a driving orce in developing newacademic programs, Quimby noted.

Certicate programs come aboutbecause aculty members are workingin an area where they see interdis-

ciplinary connections that would beengaging to students, he said. Theywork with our oce to make thosethings come to lie.

Steven Schultz contributed to thisstory.

Princetons Council or Interna-tional Teaching and Researchhas selected two aculty propos-

als one ocused on hydrology andood security, and another on analyticphilosophy to receive unding orthe creation o new global researchinitiatives.

The projects will be supported bythe Princeton Global CollaborativeNetwork Fund (ormerly the GlobalCollaborative Research Fund), whichacilitates international scholarly

networks that enable Princeton toengage with centers o learningworldwide. The two new researchnetworks will begin in all 2011. Thegrants total $450,000 over a three-year period.

New Global Collaborative Network Fund projects selected

The newly selected projects and theircoordinating aculty members are:

Coupling Hydrological Forecasts and Food

Security in Sub-Saharan Arica and China

(Kelly Caylor, Justin Shefeld and Eric Wood,

civil and environmental engineering). Thisinitiative will bring together universityscholars, nongovernmental research-ers and government scientists romthe United States, Arica, China andEurope to explore issues related to howood security is aected by rainallvariability and by human- or climate-

induced land and water degradation.The goals o the project are to identiypotential hydrological orecast modelsto be incorporated into operationaldecision-making in sub-Saharan Aricaand China; to develop core research

Two earn endowed

proessorships

Two aculty members have beennamed to endowed proessor-ships, eective July 1, 2011. They

are: Harold James, the Claude and Lore

Kelly Proessor in European Studies. Cecilia Rouse, the Lawrence and

Shirley Katzman and Lewis and AnnaErnst Proessor in the Economics o

Education.

The ollowing aculty members havesubmitted their resignations:

Eective Feb. 1, 2011:Lian-TaoWang, assistant proessor o physics, to

accept a position at the University oChicago.Eective July 1, 2011: Boaz Barak, asso-

ciate proessor o computer science, toaccept a position at Microsot Research;

Taryn Dinkelman , assistant proessor oeconomics and public aairs, to accept aposition at Dartmouth College; MelissaHarris-Perry, associate proessor o poli-tics and Arican American studies, toaccept a position at Tulane University;and David Stern, proessor o ecology andevolutionary biology, to accept a posi-tion at Janelia Farm Research Campus.

Eective Sept. 1, 2011: AlexandredAspremont, associate proessor ooperations research and nancialengineering, to accept a position at

the European Research Council; and

Faculty members submit resignations

Joseph Fowler, assistant proessor ophysics, to accept a position at theUniversity o Colorado-Boulder.

sites across these two regions; and toestablish a network o policy experts,practitioners and science experts tostudy uture patterns and trajectorieso ood security within the developingworld through the year 2050.

Cooperative Research Network in Analytic

Philosophy (Daniel Garber, philosophy). Thisproject aims to establish a joint instituteo Princeton, the Australian NationalUniversity, the University o Oxordand the Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris orresearch in analytic philosophy, incor-

porating areas such as epistemology,metaphysics and value theory. The ini-tiative will include exchanges o acultyand students, joint research seminarsand projects, conerences, and lectures.The network is modeled ater a partner-

ship between Princetons Departmento Mathematics and institutions inChina, Germany, the United Kingdom,Israel and Russia that was supportedby the rst round o Global Collabora-tive Network Fund grants announcedin 2009.

The Global Collaborative NetworkFund, now in its third year, allocatesgrants to sustain collaborative initia-tives o signicant global scholarshipand to promote career development oscholars at all stages with the pur-pose o enhancing Princeton scholarsparticipation in global research. Theund is part o a series o interna-tional initiatives outlined by PresidentTilghman and Provost ChristopherEisgruber in all 2007.

For more inormation about the newgrants, visit .

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The school continues its recruitmentand retention eorts aimed at U.S.students rom minority and under-

represented backgrounds, Redmansaid. The Princeton Summer Under-graduate Research Experience, aneight-week program or prospectivestudents who express serious inter-est in pursuing doctoral degrees, hasbecome particularly successul ingenerating high-quality applicants, hesaid. Some recent participants wereadmitted to Princeton graduate pro-grams this year.

Among all admitted students 460,or 38 percent, are women and 737, or62 percent, are men. International stu-dents were admitted rom 56 countries,with the largest number o studentsexpected rom, in order, China, India,Canada, Korea, Singapore and the

United Kingdom.

Academic elds admitting the high-est proportion o their applicants werethe natural sciences and mathematicswith 14 percent admitted, ollowed bythe Woodrow Wilson School o Publicand International Aairs with 13percent admitted. The percentage oadmitted applicants or other elds was

11 percent or engineering, 8 percentor the humanities, 7 percent or socialsciences and 7 percent or the School oArchitecture.

The average Graduate RecordExamination (GRE) scores or admit-ted students were 589 out o 800 onthe verbal section, 719 out o 800 onthe quantitative section and 4.2 out o6 on the analytical writing section.

The Graduate School expects 2,300degree students in their rst veyears o study to make up the totalenrollment or the all. An additionalestimated 316 students are expectedto be in Dissertation CompletingEnrollment status held by studentscompleting the dissertation portion o

their degree requirement.

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Social lieContinued rom page 1

... while Princetonis frst and oremost

an academicinstitution, it alsocares deeply about

developing each

students non-academic interests

and talents andpreparing students

to live healthy,productive and

meaningul livesthat include

opportunities orleadership and

service to others.

and revamping aspects o reshmanorientation and Princeton Preview.

The working group was asked toput orward its judgments and sug-gestions and to stimulate lively andinormed conversation about on-

campus social and residential lie,the report concludes. The next stepsdepend on those students, acultyand sta who have responsibilitiesin these areas. It is now or them todecide which o the ideas and recom-mendations in this report ought to bepursued, by whom and at what pace.The members o the working groupwould be delighted to participate inthis ongoing conversation in any waysthey can be helpul.

Following up on previous workTilghman appointed the working

group ollowing a period o signicantchange in campus lie. A new our-yearresidential college system had been

implemented, creating new living anddining options or juniors, seniors andgraduate students. The Frist Cam-pus Center was celebrating its 10thanniversary; the Fields Center orEquality and Cultural Understandinghad moved into spacious new quarters;and Campus Club a ormer eatingclub had reopened as a gatheringplace or all undergraduate and gradu-ate students.

A separate student-aculty-sta-alumni task orce had spent theprevious year examining relationshipsbetween the University and the eat-ing clubs, organizations ounded andoperated by students and alumni thator more than a hundred years have

played an integral role in undergradu-ate lie at Princeton. In May 2010 thattask orce issued a report making 25recommendations to improve the rela-tionships and the experiences studentshave in the clubs. In addition, the taskorce identied several issues relatedto undergraduate on-campus socialand residential lie that ell outside oits charge, but that it thought meritedcareul review by a similarly consti-tuted group o students, aculty andsta.

Tilghman asked the new group toaddress the issues identied by theEating Club Task Force and, spe-cically, to accomplish two tasks:review the Universitys goals regard-ing undergraduate on-campus socialand residential lie; and answer ourquestions: How can undergraduatesocial and residential lie be enhancedand improved on campus? How canthe University enrich the social and

residential experience in the residen-tial colleges? What is and should bethe role o raternities and sororitiesat Princeton? Is it desirable, and i so,easible to reintroduce a campus pub?

The working group included veundergraduates, two aculty mem-bers (one o them a residential collegemaster) and six members o the sta,including two directors o student liein the residential colleges and, as co-chairs, Vice President or Campus LieCynthia Cherrey and Vice Presidentand Secretary Robert Durkee.

In addition to meeting with ocusgroups and creating a website, thegroup examined data about the socialand residential experience o Prince-

ton undergraduates, and it met withan outside expert on raternities andsororities. It also established an ali-ated committee under the leadershipo Amy Campbell, director o campuslie initiatives in the Oce o the VicePresident or Campus Lie, to examinein detail the issues related to reinstate-ment o a campus pub.

Identiying goals and themesThe groups report provides a brie

history o social and residential lie atPrinceton, as well as a snapshot o thedata the group considered in makingits recommendations.

In reviewing the Universitys goalsregarding undergraduate on-campus

social and residential lie, the reportstates: In its undergraduate admis-sion process, Princeton Universitylooks careully at two sets o charac-teristics. One set ocuses on academicqualications and capacities, whilethe other encompasses extracurricularactivities, leadership potential and abroad range o personal qualities. Bothsets o characteristics are importantbecause while Princeton is rst andoremost an academic institution, italso cares deeply about developing

each students non-academic interestsand talents and preparing students tolive healthy, productive and meaning-ul lives that include opportunities orleadership and service to others.

The residential experience and cam-pus social lie, the report concludes,are intended to develop core valuesand build the skills needed to cre-ate a sense o community and mutualrespect, a sense o responsibility or

themselves and others, an empathyor those rom dierent backgroundsand a capacity to be rereshed, osterriendships and live a balanced lie.

Throughout the report, students andalumni who submitted comments to thegroups website are quoted. I thinkthe goals or social and residential lieshould be about creating opportunitiesor meaningul interaction, to preparestudents or lie beyond the University,and also to provide a social networkthat ensures that they have support andguidance and the strength o commu-nity, one wrote. I also think that theremust be an expectation o responsible,thoughtul, engaged participation orall campus community members in the

social lie o the campus.The working group identies three

recurring themes that emerged in itswork: an intense desire by enteringstudents to get to know older under-graduates in order to benet rom theirexperience; the importance o relievingstress and building r iendships throughunstructured socializing; and the callor a broader sense o community.

RecommendationsIn recommending the changes

regarding raternities and sororities,the report states, The working groupexpresses its concern that becauseo the nature o the selection processand the cost, raternities and sorori-

ties exacerbate the divide on campusbetween students o means and stu-dents with limited resources. It alsoexpresses its concern that behaviorwithin some o the Greek organiza-tions is demeaning, dangerous andincompatible with Princetons values.

The proposal to prohibit rst-yearstudents rom aliating with theseorganizations grew out o a concernthat membership in reshman yearnarrows students social circles beorethey gain a ull sense o the opportuni-ties Princeton has to oer or experiencethe ull diversity o backgrounds andinterests among their ellow students,the report states. This concern isheightened by the pipeline relationship

that exists between some o the Greekorganizations and some o the eatingclubs, which has the eect o trackingstudents very early in their Princetoncareers.

This recommendation, as well asthe one on enorcing hazing policies,also emerged rom a concern about thedangerous use o alcohol, according tothe report.

The particular circumstances oGreek lie at Princeton accentuate thisconcern, the report states, because(a) rush takes place in reshman yearwhen students may be more insecureand less capable o resisting peer pres-sure than they will be in later years;(b) students may be more susceptible

to peer pressure i they believe admis-sion to a raternity or sorority will alsoget them into the eating club o theirchoice; and (c) the lack o a signicant

junior and senior presence in raterni-ties and sororities at Princeton meansthat most pledging and hazing isconducted by sophomores, in contrastto the junior and senior leadership thatmore typically exists on campuses withully developed Greek systems.

The group is not proposing a pro-hibition beyond reshman year, but isrecommending the University continuewith its policy o not ocially recog-nizing raternities and sororities. Thismeans the organizations cannot useUniversity resources or acilities. The

group also recommends that the Uni-versity be more vigilant in challengingthe national raternities and sororitiesthat use Princetons name on theirwebsites.

While the working group endorsesthe widely supported reinstatement oa campus pub, it states that the nextstep o nding a place or it was moredicult. In the end, it acknowledgesthe advantages o building a new acil-ity, but recommends as more easibleconverting one o two spaces on cam-pus: the downsta irs Tap Room atProspect House; or the downstairs ca

area at Chancellor Green.The working group believes the

benets that would accrue rom reinstat-ing a pub, especially in helping to createa more responsible culture on campusregarding alcohol, justiy the investmento time and resources to develop a planor one o these two locations, and seekthe approvals and unding necessary togo orward, the report states.

The working group also recom-mends a variety o changes to addressthe recurring themes that suraced.

They include adding one or two bigsignature events each year to attractall our undergraduate classes, such asconcerts with headliner talent, all-student dances, or an annual Princeton

birthday party with music, dancingand a special cake. It also recom-mends smaller-scale events intendedto increase bonding within each o theclasses and among the classes. In addi-tion, the report calls or more events inthe residential colleges that are openonly to college members, open to thoseoutside the college and planned bystudents, as well as greater outreach to

juniors and seniors.The working group also suggests

that Outdoor Action and CommunityAction groups get together on occasionthroughout reshman year to shareexperiences and seek guidance romthe upperclass students who lead thesepre-orientation programs.

The report asks whether residentialcollege advisers and dormitory assis-tants in the upperclass dorms shouldplay more o a role in building a senseo community in those dorms.

In addition, the report recommendsmaking a greater eort during orienta-tion to bring reshmen together withupperclass students who can sharetheir insights and experiences. And itsuggests creating more time or bond-ing and un at both orientation andPrinceton Preview, the annual hostingprogram or admitted students andtheir amilies.

www.princeton.edu/reports/2011/campuslieOnline: Fu rport

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Marsh also has held a variety oUniversity-wide appointments, includ-ing serving as: one o seven trustees othe Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund,the oundation supporting the Pro-gram in Hellenic Studies; chair o theNCAA Certication Steering Commit-tee that conducted a comprehensivesel-study o Princeton athletics in2007-08; and a member o the Eat-

ing Club Task Force. He is a ellow oMathey College.

Appointed a lecturer in Englishin 2003, Marsh has taught resh-man seminars on sel-invention andimposture in American literature, aswell as an upper-level American stud-ies seminar on American trials andliterature. His research has ocused onmid-19th-century American literatureand culture.

Prior to joining the administration,Marsh practiced commercial litiga-tion at Sullivan & Cromwell, where hewas a member o the team represent-ing Microsot Corp. in a number ohigh-prole antitrust lawsuits, and atCravath, Swaine & Moore, where he

was a member o the team representing

Time Warner Inc. in its merger withAOL. For seven years he was a acultymember in the English department atthe Lawrenceville School, where healso served as a resident housemasterand coached ootball and wrestling.

The Board o Trustees has approved

the promotions o eight acultymembers, all eective July 1, 2011.

The aculty members and theirdepartments, by the academic rank towhich they are being promoted, are:

Proessor Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo ,chemical and biological engineering;Nicole Shelton, psychology; and StanislavShvartsman, chemical and biologicalengineering and the Lewis-SiglerInstitute or Integrative Genomics.

Associate proessor (with continu-ing tenure) Gran Blix, French andItalian; Maria Garlock, civil and envi-ronmental engineering; Mikko Haataja,mechanical and aerospace engineering;Grigore Pop-Eleches, politics and inter-national aairs; andAnatoly Spitkovsky,

astrophysical sciences.

Board approves

eight promotions

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