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Overcoming competition, four professors take home Guggenheims

Overcoming competition, four professors take home Guggenheims

Four University professors won prestigious Guggenheim fellowships Friday, providing them with one-year stipends to research topics ranging from Jane Austen to Gregorian chant.Politics professor Jennifer Hochschild, music professor Peter Jeffery, English professor Claudia Johnson and comparative literature professor April Alliston were among 182 winners selected from a pool of 2,982 applicants.The awards, known as John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellows, were announced publicly in the New York Times yesterday.Hochschild said yesterday she will use the fellowship to finish her book "Madison's Constitution and Identity Politics." She said James Madison, who graduated from Princeton in 1771, designed the Constitution with "small and fluid factions that focus on economic interests" in mind.However, "politics has recently become more about identity politics," she said, referring to the tendency of politicians to categorize voters based on ethnicity or religious affiliation.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

All departments offer opportunities for majors, but how do small programs measure up to their larger counterparts?

Louis Turgel '01 could not make up his mind.It was spring of his sophomore year, and it was time to choose."It was a last-minute decision between Slavic or political economy," he said in an e-mail about his struggle to pick a major.Turgel chose Slavic languages and literature.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

Small department has big advantages for concentrators

When my roommate turned in her junior paper last year, she submitted it to the politics department office.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

Economics degree will pay dividends later in life

Majoring in economics was not my first choice ? it was close to being my last. I had always disliked economics even though I had never taken a course in it before.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

Spies expresses faculty, trustee concerns over Wythes report at USG meeting

Vice President for Finance and Administration Richard Spies GS '72 said at last night's USG senate meeting that faculty and trustees are concerned about strains on academics and student life that may result from the 500-student increase proposed by the Wythes committee.Spies ? who sported jeans, a plaid shirt and sneakers instead of his habitual, more formal garb ? said professors at a recent faculty committee meeting said they shared students' concerns about how a larger student body might negatively impact academic life at the University."It was very clear the faculty were nervous about this," Spies said.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

Students present plans for future technological businesses in contest

The 13 teams of University students that competed Saturday in the Second Annual Business Plan Contest represent the latest additions to a rapidly developing world of high-technology entrepreneurship.The contest offered University students the opportunity to present business ideas to a panel of experienced venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in exchange for valuable advice and, for some, prize money, according to contest director Geraldine Alias '00.Brancusi Technologies, Inc. ? the winning entry created by Dirk Balfanz GS and Wenjia Fang GS ? is developing a software program to coordinate wireless transactions and purchases."Our software is enabling technology that will allow for engineering development in the wireless space," she said, adding that the prize carried a $5,000 award.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

CIT increases information access on campus with two computer kiosks

As part of a larger initiative to provide students with increased access to computers, CIT recently placed computer kiosks in the student center hyphen and in the CIT building at 87 Prospect Ave."It is part of an overall project to increase the ubiquitous nature of computing on campus," CIT director Steven Sather said.Sather said the computers in the kiosks only access campus e-mail and University Internet addresses.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

TEAK fellowship gives high school students a glimpse of what's to come

Before last Friday, 13-year-old Cathy He knew little about college life. But by the time she boarded the 3:30 p.m.

NEWS | 04/09/2000

A life devoted to crossing borders, in more ways than one

John Santos's youth, spent alternately in San Antonio and Mexico, was a far cry from life at Oxford.

NEWS | 04/06/2000

Bolger '03 swims toward Goodwill Games

It can happen to anyone. Swim out too far, and what was to be a few minutes of recreation in the refreshing Atlantic Ocean becomes an eye-burning, soul-draining trip through a liquid Sahara.

NEWS | 04/06/2000

Student alleges unidentified man exposed himself to her on towpath

Public Safety issued a campus crime alert yesterday reporting an incident of alleged lewdness near the towpath adjacent to the Delaware-Raritan canal, according to Public Safety Lt.

NEWS | 04/06/2000

U-Store proposes expansion to new campus center

The Frist Campus Center may offer students another perk beside the Beverage Lab ? a satellite U-Store, according to U-Store president Jim Sykes.University officials are negotiating with the U-Store about opening a smaller version of the existing facility amid the collection of other shops and student agency offices already planned for the new building, Sykes said.

NEWS | 04/06/2000

New course designation distinguishes dance from other theater classes

The Program in Theater and Dance recently opted to distinguish between theater and dance classes by adding a new code ? DAN ? to designate dance classes.

NEWS | 04/06/2000

In Character

Minus the pink bodysuit and hairnet he donned as Jesus Quintana in the 1998 hit film "The Big Lebowski," John Turturro is thoughtful and self-composed.Turturro arrived at Princeton yesterday clad conservatively in a black sweater and white button-down shirt, hardly looking like a man who can bring to life violent gangsters and wildly crude bowlers.

NEWS | 04/06/2000

Taking after my father

I fear I have my father's disease.My father recently was diagnosed with adult-onset diabetes, which means that he'll drip blood into a glucose counter every morning until he dies.

NEWS | 04/05/2000

Heading home: Cahoon leaves men's hockey for UMass-Amherst

After resurrecting an ailing Princeton men's hockey program, head coach Don Cahoon announced yesterday that he now will seek to turn around another squad ? leaving the Tigers after nine years to take the helm of the University of Massachusetts men's hockey team.Cahoon's winding hockey journey began in Massachusetts as a player and coach for Boston University.

NEWS | 04/05/2000

Between chaos and tyranny: A journalist defends human rights

It pains Michael Ignatieff to see human rights under siege from multiple directions.And the earnest journalist ? whose angular face grows animated when he speaks of his cherished principles of freedom and individual liberty ? is determined to defend them using history as his weapon.The intellectual crusader ? whose studious mannerisms belie a fierce passion for human rights ? addressed a wide range of issues pertaining to the subject in McCosh 50 yesterday and in an exclusive interview following the talk.

NEWS | 04/05/2000

Davis scholarships offer new source of aid to foreign students

Foreign students at the University will soon have access to another source of much-needed financial aid, according to Director of Communications Justin Harmon '78.The Davis World College Scholars program ? sponsored by Shelby Davis '58 and his family ? will provide funds to foreign students attending Princeton who are graduates of any one of the United World Colleges, a group of 10 preparatory schools located in Asia, Europe and North America.The scholarships ? which will be available for the upcoming academic year ? will help cover tuition and other expenses, Harmon said.According to Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid Don Betterton, the scholarships will function like other University sources of aid in that they will be awarded based on family need.

NEWS | 04/05/2000

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