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The Daily Princetonian

Deans appointed for engineering and graduate schools, other positions filled

In the last three months, President Tilghman has filled four key administrative positions, completing what has been a year of transition.As students prepared to take final exams last spring, the University administration reached the final stages of its search for a new dean of the graduate and engineering schools.The search for a Graduate School dean ended officially on June 20 when the appointment of longtime chemical engineering professor William Russel was announced.

NEWS | 09/10/2002

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Robertsons allege misuse of Wilson School endowment

The family that donated what has become approximately $550 million to support the Wilson School is continuing with litigation against the University, and so far there has been no attempt to mediate the dispute.The family members of the Robertson Foundation ? endowed in 1961 through a $35 million gift by Charles Robertson '26 and his wife Marie Robertson ? are displeased with the direction of the Wilson School and the financial management of the foundation's assets.

NEWS | 09/10/2002

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Whitman '77 makes $30 million donation

A $30 million gift by Meg Whitman '77 toward the construction of the sixth residential college will enable the University to expand its undergraduate enrollment by 500 students and institute a new four-year college program.The donation, which comes during Whitman's 25th reunion year, was announced in February and will support just less than one-third of the $90 to 100 million project.

NEWS | 07/14/2002

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Impractical? Perhaps, but the liberal arts curriculum is illuminating

If you thought you came to college to learn something practical, forget it. Princeton is one of the last bastions of the high-minded, esoteric and abstruse ? the liberal arts education.Come September, when you arrive at this small liberal arts university in central New Jersey, it will be time to begin your new life as an A.B., a candidate for Princeton's Bachelor of Arts degree.Ignore your calculator-toting roommates when they casually mention their course load of "Electromagnetic Field Theory and Optics" or "Mechanics of Solids and Fluids," ad nauseam.

NEWS | 07/14/2002

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Even God rested on the seventh day, but you will not, or so it may seem

Never in the course of human events have so few caused so many so much pain.The nicely embossed brochures the University sends you tell all about the fascinating activities and extracurricular programs available at Princeton.They leave out one important fact, however: Unless your name happens to be Houdini, you will be hard-pressed to sample even a few of them.If you have any intention at all of getting something resembling an education for your $120,000, you are going to be very busy for the next four years with your work alone.Never fear, however, because there are a variety of tactics available for dealing with course chagrin, paper paralysis and homework hysteria.There is, of course, the most obvious and initially painless option: sloth.

NEWS | 07/14/2002

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Wisdom wielders

Princeton boasts a large and high-powered faculty worthy of its reputation as one of the best in the nation.These famous scholars, unlike their research-oriented counterparts at other Ivy League schools, often teach undergraduate courses ? maybe even yours. Nobel PrizesIn the past few years, Princeton has consistently produced Nobel Prize winners in various departments.Electrical Engineering professor Daniel Tsui won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999 for his discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect.Molecular biology professor Eric Wieschaus shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1995 with two other researchers for their work on fruit fly genetics.In 1994, senior research mathematician John Nash shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with two research teammates for their work on game theory.Creative writing professor Toni Morrison, physics professor Joseph Taylor and researcher Russell Hulse, who works at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, all won Nobels in 1993.Morrison, who also won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Beloved," coordinates the Princeton Atelier, a program that gives undergraduates the chance to collaborate with famous professionals in the creative world such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Physics professor Val Fitch won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1980 for his discoveries about high-energy subatomic particles.

NEWS | 07/14/2002