For art museum, a new leader

Princeton taps Univ. of Michigan museum director

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

James Steward, named in January as the new director of the Princeton University Art Museum, brings a proven record in fundraising, facility renovation and expansion, and outreach to students — areas on which Princeton must focus as it moves forward, according...Read more

A sobering view from Nassau Hall

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

With a 25 percent drop projected for 2008–09, Princeton’s endowment may need more than a decade of steady gains to return to its June 2008 value of $16.3 billion, according to Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83. Fewer resources will mean significant changes in...Read more

A Dumpster-based lifestyle

Sachs scholar Barnard ’09 researches ‘freegan’ movement

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

Alex Barnard ’09 came to Princeton planning to major in the Woodrow Wilson School and get into politics. Instead, he chose sociology and got into Dumpsters.   Barnard, this year’s winner of the Daniel M. Sachs ’60 Scholarship, roots through trash by choice,...Read more

Taking measure of the Himalayas

BREAKING GROUND - Geosciences

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

  When two tectonic plates collide, the earth’s crust deforms. The ground buckles and mountains rise. The process varies greatly, depending on the force of the plates and the layers of rock involved, and the changes are not limited to the place where the...Read more

Lecture Circuit

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a lecture on “Global Trends and National Security” Feb. 5 in McCosh 10. Mullen met earlier with Princeton’s ROTC cadets.Read more

In the News

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

A portrait of FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA ’85 was added to the wall of the Tap Room in the Nassau Inn Feb. 4, joining 35 other portraits of celebrated Princeton alumni. Obama, an honors scoiology major, became the second woman thus honored, after Brooke Shields...Read more

In memoriam

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

WALTER J. KAUZMANN *40, the David B. Jones Professor Emeritus of Chemistry who was known for his research in protein structure and stability, died Jan. 27 in Montgomery Township, N.J., at the age of 92. He taught at Princeton from 1946 through 1983, serving...Read more