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Center for Complex Materials wins $17.4 million grant

Center for Complex Materials wins $17.4 million grant

The Princeton Center for Complex Materials, which in the decade since its inception has established itself as one of the foremost centers for materials science research, was awarded a six-year, $17.4-million grant from the National Science Foundation last October.PCCM, the fifth-largest center of its kind, was founded through an NSF grant in 1994 and has twice since successfully renewed the funding."Not only do we have fantastic faculty, but we also have fantastic students," said Ravindra Bhatt, director of PCCM.

NEWS | 04/17/2003

Kim '05, Lloyd '06 win presidencies in runoff

Several incumbent class government officers lost their posts in this spring's elections as the USG reported a strong voter turnout among sophomores and freshmen.The outcomes of the runoff elections for USG social chair, junior class president, sophomore class president and vice-president were released by the USG yesterday.In the races for president of the sophomore and junior classes, both incumbents lost.

NEWS | 04/17/2003

WWS graduate students share experiences working overseas

The Center of International Studies Undergraduate Fellows Program sponsored the International Career Forum yesterday, bringing together graduate students in the Woodrow Wilson School to speak to undergraduates.About a dozen Wilson School graduate students shared career insights at the forum, including five panelists who were selected to represent a wide range of international backgrounds, such as the Peace Corps, the Foreign Service, Doctors Without Borders and numerous other nongovernmental organizations."It was a chance to put undergraduates in touch with graduate students on campus," Career Forum chair Richelle Blanchard '04 said.

NEWS | 04/17/2003

Third Eye Blind to perform next Friday in Dillon Gym

Third Eye Blind will be getting their "punk asses off the street" and into Dillon Gym Friday April 25 for the USG's spring concert, just before seniors end their "semi-charmed kind of life" here and "graduate."Doors will open at 9 p.m.

NEWS | 04/17/2003

Athletics officials reveal moratorium reform ideas

Although the meeting that could lead to league-wide reform of the seven-week athletic moratorium remains months away, athletics officials have come to a loose consensus on the changes they will propose later this academic year.Gary Walters '67, the University's athletic director, said that officials have reached a broad framework for compromise that, as its centerpiece, would restrict practice to four days a week between the traditional and nontraditional seasons.

NEWS | 04/16/2003

Princeton-licensed apparel extends to risqué underwear

This week, the University Store made showing Tiger spirit a little more cheeky.Thong underwear in orange, black, light blue and gray is now displayed among other, less invasive women's fashion items such as sweatshirts, lycra workout wear and Clinique makeup.Virginia France, the U-Store marketing director, said the new intimates have been selling very well in all colors, especially orange.

NEWS | 04/16/2003

Perelman explains proof to famous math mystery

Nobel Laureate John Nash GS '50 sat in the fifth row of Taplin Auditorium yesterday afternoon. Andrew Wiles, the man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem 10 years ago, sat two rows closer.

NEWS | 04/16/2003

Botstein to receive genetics prize

David Botstein, the incoming director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrated Genomics, has been named winner of the 2003 Genetics Prize by the Peter Gruber Foundation.

NEWS | 04/16/2003

Honor Code votes tallied; one amendment adopted

The undergraduate student body registered strong support for three of the four changes to the Honor Code proposed by class senator Jonathan Chavkin '05 in student referenda this weekend, but the USG announced yesterday that only one garnered the 75 percent necessary to pass.

NEWS | 04/15/2003

War panel addresses idealism, imperialism, rebuilding Iraq

Last night a capacity crowd gathered in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall to hear a panel with professors Cornel West GS '80, Jeffrey Herbst and Abdellah Hammoudi and lecturer Erica Cosgrove talk about the impact of the war in Iraq.The discussion sponsored by the Global Issues Forum quickly took an antiwar tone when West led off the ten minute panelist speeches.West spoke about the idealistic underpinnings of American imperialism.

NEWS | 04/15/2003

Hart calls for return to civic virtue in government

"The classic qualities of the republic are very much needed in 21st century America because of the revolutionary age we live in," said presidential candidate and former senator Gary Hart, D-Colo., yesterday in a lecture entitled "Restoration of the Republic" in Dodds Auditorium.As people begin to lose control of their political lives because of what Hart called the "global and information revolution," more local and personal community governments will be necessary, he said.Thomas Jefferson, who first developed the idea of community government, felt that the founders "left something out," as they struggled to create a large-scale republic and a federation of states, Hart said.Of the three major components of classic republican government ? civic virtue, popular sovereignty and resistance to corruption ? the last two are absent from current politics, Hart said.Civic virtue, he said, is now a quaint term, rarely used by the government.

NEWS | 04/15/2003

Café will bring coffee and company closer to E-Quad

Situated far away from the cluster of coffee shops near Palmer Square and Witherspoon Street, the Engineering Quadrangle will soon bring good coffee a little closer to home.E-Quad administrators say initial planning is underway to build a caf

NEWS | 04/15/2003

Scientists move closer to unraveling SARS

Not since the advent of antibiotics has an outbreak of disease given rise to so much international concern.

NEWS | 04/15/2003

Residential Advisers could take on new alcohol responsibilities

Residential advisers may see their role in preventing alcohol abuse expanded next year and could be obliged to report alcohol violations to residential college masters, according to a copy of proposed changes obtained by The Daily Princetonian.Currently, the Adviser Manual, published by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, requires advisers to discourage heavy drinking among their advisees.

NEWS | 04/15/2003

Q&A: Amy Gutmann

Amy Gutmann, the University's provost, recently published a new book titled "Identity in Democracy." Before assuming her position as provost in fall 2001, Gutmann was a professor in the politics department.

NEWS | 04/14/2003

Students frustrated with campus housing options

Many rising juniors found themselves without a room Friday when upperclass room draw ended ? but not more than usual, said Adam Rockman, undergraduate housing coordinator.Rockman said the University will probably have campus housing for all interested undergraduates.

NEWS | 04/14/2003

Three awarded A. Scott Berg '71 English research scholarships

Three students won an English department prize yesterday offering them each a $3,500 stipend for summer research.The A.

NEWS | 04/14/2003

Results of Honor Code vote delayed

Because of glitches in the registrar's verification process, results of the four referenda on the Honor Code were still not available last night, USG officials said.But USG president Pettus Randall '04 said results should be certified and released sometime today.

NEWS | 04/14/2003

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