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IN BRIEF
MIKE MULLEN, former chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
will teach an undergraduate
seminar on U.S. military, diplomacy,
and international affairs
as a visiting professor at the
Woodrow Wilson School this
fall. Mullen, a retired admiral,
served four years as the highestranking
U.S. military officer
before retiring in September.
ANNE CASE *83 *88,
professor of economics
and public affairs,
will become interim
dean of the Woodrow
Wilson School July 1,
when Dean Christina
Paxson assumes her new position as
president of Brown University. Case, a
member of the faculty since 1990, is
associate chairwoman of the economics
department and the director of the Wilson
School’s Research Program in
Development Studies.
May 16, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly • paw.princeton.edu
“Salisbury Cathedral from the South
West,” above, is one of 85 paintings, oil
sketches, watercolors, and drawings by
the English landscape painter JOHN
CONSTABLE in a Princeton University Art
Museum exhibition on view through
June 10. The show traces the evolution
of Constable’s painting style, describing
him as the first artist to focus extensively
on painting outdoors.
Computer scientist SANJEEV ARORA will
receive the 2011 Foundation Award in
the Computing Sciences from the Association
for Computing Machinery
PRINCETON
CORKSCREW
WINE SHOP
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(ACM) and Infosys Foundation.
The award, which includes a
$175,000 prize, recognizes computing
innovations by young scientists.
Arora’s research has made
it easier to crack previously
unsolvable computing problems,
the ACM said.
IN MEMORIAM RICHARD OKADA, professor
of East Asian studies, died
April 4 in Monmouth Junction,
N.J. He was 66 and had served on
the faculty since 1985. Okada was an
authority on The Tale of Genji, an 11thcentury
Japanese work that is sometimes
called the first modern novel,
and he also studied modern Japanese
culture. Professor Benjamin Elman,
chairman of the East Asian studies
department, said Okada was “one of the
forerunners of applying
contemporary literary
theory to the
study of Japanese literature.”
Okada received
a graduate mentoring
award in 2008.
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JOHN CONSTABLE, BRITISH, 1776–1837: SALISBURY CATHEDRAL FROM THE SOUTH WEST, CA. 1820. OIL ON CANVAS,
25.1 X 30.2 CM. THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. © VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM / V&A IMAGES.
PHOTOS: JOHN ROEMER/COURTESY WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL (CASE); BRIAN WILSON/OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS (OKADA)