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Coaches & StaffCoaches & StaffInside This SectionHead Coach Sydney Johnson ....... 30-33Assistant Coach Tony Newsom ..........34Assistant Coach Brian Earl ................35Assistant Coach Scott Greenman ......36Dir. of Basketball Ops. Dan Connelly .......37Support Staff ................................ 38-40Academic Athletic Fellows ........... 41-42

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Sydney Johnson ’97, who as a player was named Ivy League Player of the Year and as a coach helped lead a team to the NCAA Final Four, enters his second season as the Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green ’40 Head Coach of Men’s Basketball at Princeton after being named on April 20, 2007.

“As a player at Princeton, Sydney Johnson was the embodiment of heart, passion, class and dignity,” says Gary Walters ’67, Princeton’s Director of Athletics. “We are delighted that he brings those same qualities back to Princeton as our head men’s basketball coach.”

Johnson, the only three-time captain in Princeton history, was the 1997 Ivy League Player of the Year and a 1996 and 1997 fi rst-team All-Ivy League selection. He has most recently been an assistant coach at Georgetown, where he helped lead the Hoyas to the 2007 Final Four.

Johnson played professional basketball for seven seasons in both Italy and Spain before joining John Thompson III’s coaching staff at George-town in 2004. In his three seasons as an assistant coach at Georgetown, the Hoyas had a 72-30 overall record and advanced to postseason play each season.

The Hoyas won both the BIG EAST tournament and regular-season cham-pionships in 2007 before reaching the program’s fi rst NCAA Final Four since the 1984-85 season. Georgetown fi nished 30-7 overall and won 19 of its last 21 games before falling to Ohio State in the national semifi nals.

Georgetown reached the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in 2006, defeating Northern Iowa and Ohio State before falling to eventual national champion Florida 57-53 in the third round. In Johnson’s fi rst season as an assistant coach, 2004-05, the Hoyas won 19 games and reached the quarterfi nals of the National Invita-tion Tournament.

“Sydney is a star as a person and as a basketball coach,” says Thompson, who also was an assistant coach at Princeton during Johnson’s junior and senior seasons.

“I’m not sure I have enough words to describe how much I learned in three years at Georgetown from Coach Thompson,” says Johnson. “He’s not only a mentor and a role model both on and off the court but a great example of the kind of person I hope

Sydney JohnsonSydney JohnsonHead Coach • Second SeasonHead Coach • Second Season

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Sydney Johnson Year-by-YearSydney Johnson Year-by-YearAs a player at Princeton...Year Record Postseason1993-94 18-8, 11-3 Ivy1994-95 16-10, 10-4 Ivy1995-96 22-7, 12-2 Ivy NCAA Second Round1996-97 24-4, 14-0 Ivy NCAA TournamentTotal 80-29, 47-9 Ivy Two NCAA appearancesAs an assistant coach at Georgetown...2004-05 19-13, 8-8 Big East NIT Quarterfi nals 2005-06 23-10, 10-6 Big East NCAA Sweet 162006-07 30-7, 13-3 Big East NCAA Final FourTotal 72-30, 31-17 Big East 8-3 postseason recordAs a head coach at Princeton...2007-08 6-23, 3-11 Ivy



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to emulate and the kind of person that makes Princeton proud.”At Princeton, Johnson was a four-year starter who is considered one

of the fi nest all-around players in team history. He ranks in the top fi ve at Princeton all-time in steals, assists and three-point shots and is also one of 26 1,000-point scorers in team history.

Johnson was the 1997 Ivy League Player of the Year after leading the Tigers to an undefeated Ivy League season and a 24-4 overall record. Johnson, who averaged 9.3 points and 4.1 rebounds per game as a senior, is the only player to ever win the award while averaging fewer than 10 points per game.

In 1996, Johnson led the Tigers to an Ivy League championship and was a key part of Princeton’s 43-41 upset win over defending national champion UCLA in the fi rst round of the NCAA tournament, hitting three second-half three-pointers in that game and leading the team with 11 points. In the Ivy League playoff game against Penn fi ve days earlier, his three-point shot with 51 seconds left in overtime put the Tigers ahead for good.

The program’s all-time leader in steals with 169, Johnson was a two-time fi rst-team All-Ivy League selection. He fi nished his Princeton career with 1,044 points, now 24th on the team’s all-time list, though he was perhaps better known for his defensive ability than for his of-fensive prowess.

“Sydney was the best defensive player I ever coached at Princeton,” said Northwestern head coach Bill Carmody, who was an assistant coach at Princeton for 14 seasons and then Johnson’s head coach in 1996-97. “He was a tremendous player and a great leader, and he worked as hard

What they’re saying...What they’re saying...

every day as any player I’ve been around.”“I always thought from the very beginning when I recruited him that

he had excellent leadership qualities,” says Naismith Hall of Fame coach Pete Carril, Johnson’s head coach at Princeton for three seasons and a member of the committee that helped select Johnson as head coach.

Johnson, who also ranks fi fth all-time at Princeton in both three-point shots (162) and assists (280), was also a two-time Academic All-Ivy se-lection and the winner of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in 1997.

He also holds the school record with 11 consecutive three-point shots, which included a team record 6-for-6 performance from behind the arc against Columbia on Feb. 28, 1997.

Professionally, Johnson had a fi ne career in Europe after graduat-ing from Princeton with a degree in history in 1997. In 1998, he was a starter for Gorizia Pallacanestro in Italy and helped his team capture the Italian Second Division championship. The following year, he won another league title while playing for Reggio Calabria, and he concluded his playing career in 2004 by winning a league title with Siena.

A native of Towson, Md., outside Baltimore, Johnson attended Towson Catholic High School before spending a postgraduate year at Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia in 1992-93. At Towson Catholic, he was the MVP of the Baltimore Catholic League tournament in 1992.

Johnson’s older brother Stephen also played Division I basketball for the University of California at Berkeley.

He and his wife, Jennifer, have two children, a four-year old son Jalen and a daughter Julia, who was born in February 2007.

The Franklin C. Cappon – Edward G. Green ’40 Basketball Coaching Endowment

The Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green endowment was established May 19, 1984, in memory of Dewey F. Bartlett ’42 and Richard H. Mayo ’42 by gifts from Edward G. Green ’40, Robert H.B. Baldwin ’42 and other friends and supporters of Franklin C. Cappon, head coach of Princeton basketball from 1938 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1961.

Then-University president William G. Bowen said, “The Cappon-Green endowment is an exceptionally valuable gift to Princeton because it recognizes the contributions of coaching and athletics in the development of individual students and in the life of the Uni-versity as a whole.”

The fi rst endowed coaching position to be established for any intercollegiate sport at Princeton, the post has been held by Pete Carril, Bill Carmody, John Thompson, Joe Scott and Sydney Johnson.

“Coach Johnson was always hard on me, clowning with me about my dribbling skills and passing. He was pushing me to get better, and that made me the player I am today. I’m thankful for Coach ‘J’ because he saw something in me that no one else saw.”

Jeff Green, former Georgetown star and current Oklahoma City Thunder

“Coach Johnson is a players’ coach on every level. If I had to think of one word to describe him, it’d be ‘interactive.’ Academ-ics. Basketball. Anything. You could talk to him about anything you wanted, and he’d listen to you and you knew he’d been through it all before you. He was like that here, and I think he’ll instill that feeling in his guys there.”

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“Sydney is a star as a person and as a basketball coach.”John Thompson III, Georgetown head coach and former

Princeton head coach

“Sydney Johnson is a winner, plain and simple. He won as a player at Princeton and he will win as a coach because of his basketball mind and work ethic. His personality and character is genuine and he un-derstands what it takes to compete and win. Sydney is a natural leader and teacher but, more importantly, he is a great human being.”

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Tony Newsom, a New Jersey native, is now in his fi fth season as an assistant coach at Princeton.

“I respect Tony’s feel for the game and appreciate his ease in com-municating with our players, their families and our loyal supporters,” Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson says. “He is a valuable part of the tradition we are currently building.”

Newsom was a member of the coaching staff at Holy Cross from 2001-2004, helping the Crusaders to a 26-5 record, a league title and an NCAA tournament berth in 2002-03 and a Patriot League title and NCAA berth in 2001-02. Holy Cross played close games in the NCAA fi rst round in each of those two seasons against eventual Final Four teams, falling to Marquette by four points in 2003 NCAA tournament and to Kansas by 11 points in the 2002 tourney.

He was promoted to associate head coach at Holy Cross for the 2003-04 season after serving as an assistant coach from 2001-03. While at Holy Cross, Newsom was involved in game preparation, scouting and player development in addition to recruiting and scheduling.

Newsom served as an assistant coach at Rider University from 1997-2001. While with the Broncs, Newsom was responsible for recruiting and player development as well as fi lm exchange and scouting. Rider posted winning seasons three times in his four years as an assistant coach and advanced to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in 1998.

Prior to his tenure at Rider, Newsom was an assistant coach at an-other Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) school, Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y., assisting with all aspects of the Saints’ program. He worked at Siena during the 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons.

A 1993 graduate of Niagara University, Newsom was a four-year per-former for the Purple Eagles men’s basketball team before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Business Commerce. In 1993, his senior season, Niagara earned a bid to the NIT.

A native of Metuchen, N.J., Newsom played prep basketball at J.P. Stevens High School in Edison, N.J., before his graduation in 1989.

Newsom and his wife, Tammy, have a son Tyler and reside in Princ-eton.

Tony NewsomTony NewsomAssistant Coach • Fifth SeasonAssistant Coach • Fifth Season

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Brian Earl, who played in more winning basketball games (95) than any player in Princeton history, is in his second season as an assistant coach at Princeton following a professional basketball career in Europe and the United States and a subsequent career in the corporate world with Sallie Mae.

The 1999 Ivy League Player of the Year and the leading three-point shooter in Ivy League history, Earl helped the Tigers to three NCAA tournament appearances in his four seasons, including trips to the second round in both 1996 and 1998. The Tigers also advanced to the NIT quarterfi nals his senior season.

“As Brian’s teammate at Princeton, I could always tell that he saw the game like a coach,” says Johnson. “I have a great deal of trust and confi dence in Brian’s ability to make an outstanding contribution to the future of Princeton basketball.”

In addition to his team-record 281 three-pointers, the Medford Lakes native ranks fi fth all-time at Princeton with 1,428 career points. He is also seventh in Princeton history with 263 assists and eighth in program history with 140 steals.

Earl also holds school records for games played (116) and games started (113) in a career.

He averaged nearly 15 points per game as a senior to earn Ivy League Player of the Year and fi rst-team All-Ivy honors, helping Princeton to a 22-8 record and NIT victories over George-town and at N.C. State. As a junior, he shot nearly 44 percent from three-point range and averaged 13.1 points per game to help the Tigers to a 27-2 record and a top 10 national ranking.

He averaged better than 12 points per game as a sophomore for the 1996-97 Ivy champions and played in 29 games as a freshman in 1995-96, making 55 three-point shots and averaging better than nine points per game.

After graduating with a degree in economics from Princeton, he played professionally in Germany and England as well as in the USBL and EBA in the United States.

Earl’s brother Dan is an assistant men’s basketball coach at Penn State University.

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Scott Greenman ‘06, a three-year starter at Princeton and a unani-mous fi rst-team All-Ivy selection in 2006, is in his second season as an assistant coach for the Tigers.

Greenman spent the 2006-07 season playing professional basketball in Israel for B’nei Ha’sharon, helping lead his team to a fi nal four fi nish in the Israeli league championship.

The Linwood, N.J., native averaged a team-high 10.8 points per game for Princeton in 2005-06. After returning from injury that limited his play early in the season, he averaged nearly 15 points and fi ve assists per game during the Ivy League season to help lead the Tigers to a 10-4 conference fi nish.

He fi nished his career eighth all-time at Princeton with 139 three-point shots.

Greenman started all 28 games as a junior and averaged 8.6 points per game while making a team-high 52 three-point shots and nearly 40% of his three-point attempts.

He entered the starting lineup as a sophomore and averaged better than eight points and two assists per game in helping Princeton reach the 2004 NCAA tournament. He started every game that season and had a team-high 42 three-pointers.

Greenman earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Princeton in June 2006.

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Dan Connelly, previously the Director of Basketball Operations at Jacksonville University, is in his second season in a similar position with the Princeton men’s basketball program. He began his duties at Princeton in the summer of 2007.

Connelly’s main responsibilities for the Princeton basketball program include on-campus recruiting efforts, fi lm exchange, correspondence, team travel and assisting with the Princeton basketball camps.

During the 2006-07 season, Connelly had similar responsibilities at Jacksonville, where he contributed to one of the best single-season turnarounds in NCAA basketball history. The Dolphins fi nished 15-14 in 2006-07 after winning just one game the season before.

A 2006 graduate of Florida State University, Connelly served as the head manager for the Seminole men’s basketball program for three seasons. He assisted at every team practice and individual workout for four seasons and helped prepare future NBA draft picks Von Wafer and Alexander Johnson while on campus.

He also assisted the team’s video coordinator and the coaching staff with scouting reports and was responsible for many aspects of team travel for the Seminoles. He graduated from FSU with a bachelor’s degree in social science.

Connelly, a Baltimore native, is a 2002 graduate of Towson Catholic High School, also the alma mater of Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson. He was a teammate of NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony for one season.

His brother Tim is an assistant director of player personnel for the NBA’s Washington Wizards.

Scott Greenman Dan ConnellyDan ConnellyDir. of Basketball Ops. • Second SeasonDir. of Basketball Ops. • Second Season

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Third SeasonThird SeasonPrinceton ’07Princeton ’07

Jen ListerAthletic Trainer • Second Season • Pitt ’02

Jen Lister is in her third season work-ing with the Tiger men’s basketball team. She also works with the men’s and wom-en’s cross country and women’s track and fi eld programs at Princeton.

During her time at Princeton, Lister has worked on the Women in Athletic Training tennis tournament for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer foundation and is a member of the Hoops for Hearts program that promotes the use of automated external defi brilators. She has also worked on programs in dynamic pilates, yoga and lateral hip strengthening for the University Health Sciences Web site that have been intergrated into Princeton’s athletic training programs. Lister performs functional and fl exibility screenings with all her teams and served as the NCAA regional championships medical coordinator for this year’s Mid-Atlantic cross country event at Princeton.

Lister spent the four years prior to arriving at Princeton as an as-sistant athletic trainer at the University of Miami, working with women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s track and fi eld and cross country, football and swimming and diving, supervising graduate assistant and under-graduate assistants. She earned a master’s degree in Sports Medicine from Miami in May 2004.

Lister is a 2002 honors graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Movement Science with a specializa-tion in athletic training and served as a student athletic trainer.

A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Lister was also an athletic training intern for the Miami Dolphins in 2004 and for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2001. She is a certifi ed member of the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) as well as an approved clinical instructor.

Tina VanDerMeiren is in her second season at Princeton as an assistant varsity strength and conditioning coach.

She came to Princeton after three and a half years at Stony Brook University as the

Assistant Director of Speed, Strength and Conditioning. During her time at Stony Brook, she was named Assistant Coach of the Year in 2005. Van-DerMeiren was responsible for designing and implementing programs for women’s volleyball, men’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, women’s basketball, women’s lacrosse, and softball. She also volunteered her time as the staff advisor for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and Cody Walk.

Prior to her full-time positions, VanDerMieren served internships at Michigan State, Princeton, Rutgers and Rider. A 2003 graduate of Rutgers with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science, VanDerMieren continued her education with a master’s degree in women’s studies and coaching from Stony Brook University in 2007.

During her undergraduate career as a student-athlete, VanDerMieren was a two-time regional selection in crew while earning a 14th place fi nish at the 2001 NCAA Championship and four top-three fi nishes at the Big East Regatta.

Lawrence Schuler is in his third season as a manager for the Princeton men’s basketball team. He will serve the unique role of a graduate manager after

earning his bachelor’s degree in politics, cum laude, from Princeton in June 2007.

While at Princeton, Schuler not only served as a basketball manager but also hosted a talk/soul/R&B program on WPRB-FM 103.3 in the Saturday night/Sunday morning overnight hours.

A West Orange, N.J., native, he also has spent three years coaching youth basketball leagues and camps.

Schuler also earned certifi cates in fi nance and political economy while at Princeton. He began his graduate education toward a Ph.D in politics at Princeton this academic year.

Jen ListerJen ListerAthletic Trainer Athletic Trainer

Third SeasonThird SeasonPittsburgh ’02Pittsburgh ’02

Tina VanDerMierenTina VanDerMierenStrength & ConditioningStrength & Conditioning

Second SeasonSecond SeasonRutgers ’03Rutgers ’03



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In the world of Princeton athletics, much more than the game goes on at Jadwin Gym when the Tigers In the world of Princeton athletics, much more than the game goes on at Jadwin Gym when the Tigers play. Landis Stankievech ’08 (center) was honored for his Rhodes Scholarship. He and the Princeton hock-play. Landis Stankievech ’08 (center) was honored for his Rhodes Scholarship. He and the Princeton hock-ey team advanced to its fi rst NCAA tournament in 10 years. At left is head hockey coach Guy Gadowsky and ey team advanced to its fi rst NCAA tournament in 10 years. At left is head hockey coach Guy Gadowsky and at right is Princeton athletics director Gary Walters ’67.at right is Princeton athletics director Gary Walters ’67.

Already an intimate environment in college athletics, Jadwin Gym sees the Princeton men’s basketball Already an intimate environment in college athletics, Jadwin Gym sees the Princeton men’s basketball team participate in organized autograph signing sessions throughout the season.team participate in organized autograph signing sessions throughout the season.

Princeton honors its Ivy League champions from across all sports during games at Jadwin Gym.Princeton honors its Ivy League champions from across all sports during games at Jadwin Gym.

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George BoccanfusoGeorge BoccanfusoRetired Supervisor • Buildings & GroundsRetired Supervisor • Buildings & Grounds

Clifton PerryClifton Perry Equipment ManagerEquipment ManagerFifth SeasonFifth SeasonClifton Perry is in his fi fth year

as the head equipment manager at Princeton. Perry either works directly or oversees the equipment needs of all 38 varsity teams at Princeton.

He has been a certifi ed member of the Athletic Equipment Managers Association since 2003. This past spring, Perry was named the Dis-

trict I Athletic Equipment Manager of the Year, and he also serves as

George Boccanfuso began work-ing as part of the grounds crew in 1947 and was promoted to super-visor of grounds and buildings 10 years later. For the next 32 years, Boccanfuso was a central fi gure in the behind-the-scenes success of Princ-eton’s athletic programs.

the District I Assistant Director. Perry has also been a speaker at the national convention.

Perry graduated from Roanoke College in 1992 with a degree in health and physical education. Before arriving at Princeton, he served as an intern equipment manager at the United States Naval Academy. Prior to that, he was an equipment manager, teacher and coach for 11 years in Palm Beach County, Florida.

Perry, who spent three years as a deacon at the First Presbyterian Church in North Palm Beach, and his wife, Jennifer, have a fi ve-year-old daughter Hope.

In 1989 Boccanfuso offi cially retired, but his service to the University continues even today. He still works part-time and helps take care of everything under the roof at Jadwin Gym.

George and Phyllis, his wife of 50 years, reside in Princeton. They have three grown sons, George Jr., Michael and John.

Gary MosleyGary Mosley Equipment ManagerEquipment Manager34th Season34th SeasonGary Mosley in his 34th year at Princeton. In addition to working with men’s basketball, Mosley also works

with the Tiger men’s lacrosse team.Prior to joining the athletic equipment staff, Mosley worked for the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.Mosley was a basketball player at Burlington County Community College and Rancocas Valley High School

in Mt. Holly.

Furman “Spoon” Witherspoon is in his 25th year working in Princeton’s athletic department. “Spoon,” as he is known around Caldwell Fieldhouse, and his wife, Agnes, have been married for 36 years and have four children. Witherspoon is well known for his prowess on the golf course and has won several local tournaments around the Princeton area.

Witherspoon attended Claysburg High School in Claysburg, Pa., and spent two years at West Virginia State College.

Furman WitherspoonFurman WitherspoonEquipment Manager • 25th SeasonEquipment Manager • 25th Season



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Hal FeivesonHal Feiveson Academic-AthleticAcademic-AthleticFellowFellow

Marvin BresslerMarvin Bressler Academic-AthleticAcademic-AthleticFellowFellow When speaking of two of his

favorite Princetonians, retired basketball coach Pete Carril and president Robert Goheen, Marvin Bressler said that they shared “a kind of monumental integrity, enor-mous competence, an overwhelming work ethic and the conviction that character is to be cherished over

talent.” Those are also characteristics that describe Bressler, the model for

the entire Princeton Academic Athletic Fellows program.Bressler joined the Princeton faculty in 1963 and spent 30 years

teaching young men and women sociology and how to think for themselves. He served as the chairman of the department for two decades.

He was chairman of Princeton’s Council on Human Relations and

served on the promotion and tenure Committee of Three. In the early 1970’s he served as chairman of the Commission on the Future of the College, a group that conducted a self-study on Princeton’s undergradu-ate education, which eventually led to the University’s commitment to gender-blind admission. He also served as a consultant on educational policy and other social issues at both the state and national levels.

Bressler received his bachelor’s degree in education from Temple University and his master’s and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. He spent fi ve years as an assistant professor at Penn before joining the faculty at New York University in 1957. An honorary member of two Princeton classes, 1968 and 1982, Bressler retired in 1994 and later received The Alumni Council Award for Service to Princeton.

The Princeton Department of Athletics introduced the Marvin Bressler Award in 1997, a lifetime achievement award given to a friend of the Department in honor of service to Princeton athletics and athletes.

Hal Feiveson’s principal research interests are in the fi elds of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policy. He is a co-director of Princeton’s research Program on Science and Global Security. He has taught nu-merous courses in the Woodrow Wilson School and Environmental Studies Program, WWS undergradu-

ate policy task forces, and graduate workshops relating to nuclear weapons, energy, and national and global environmental issues. He has also taught freshman seminars on intercollegiate athletics, values, and the educational experience for the past several years.

Feiveson’s recent publications relating to nuclear weapons policy discuss the ways in which the nuclear arsenals of the U.S. and the former Soviet Union could be dismantled and “de-alerted” in the aftermath of the Cold War and measures to strengthen the nuclear non-proliferation regime, including a universal ban on the production of weapons-use-able material and on nuclear weapons testing. His research relating to nuclear energy policy has focused on measures, such as a ban on the

reprocessing of nuclear reactor fuel, which could strengthen the separa-tion between nuclear weapons and civilian nuclear energy activities.

Feiveson received a Bachelor of Science degree at the Illinois Insti-tute of Technology, and a Masters degree in theoretical physics from the University of California in Los Angeles. He was a member of the Science Bureau of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1963 to 1967. He then came to Princeton to complete his graduate studies at the Woodrow Wilson School. He received his Ph.D. in 1972 after completing a thesis on “Latent Proliferation”, an analysis of the ways in which nominally civilian nuclear energy technologies can provide a foundation for nuclear weapons programs. He joined the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton in 1974 and served at one time as Director of the School’s undergraduate program.

He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com-mission and Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and served as member of a National Academy of Sciences/ National Research Council Committee on the U.S. fusion program. In 1980, Feiveson was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also has served on the governing board of the Federation of American Scientists. He is the Editor and one of the founders of the international journal, Science & Global Security.

Equipment Manager • 25th Season

THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC-ATHLETIC FELLOWS PROGRAMACADEMIC-ATHLETIC FELLOWS PROGRAM

The Academic-Athletic Fellows are a group of faculty and staff who are committed to strengthening and advancing the student-athlete The Academic-Athletic Fellows are a group of faculty and staff who are committed to strengthening and advancing the student-athlete ideal while reinforcing the educational mission of the University. Although collectively serving as a student-athlete support group, indi-ideal while reinforcing the educational mission of the University. Although collectively serving as a student-athlete support group, indi-vidual fellows form an affi liation with a specifi c team and coach. Their mission is to strengthen and reinforce the ties between a student’s vidual fellows form an affi liation with a specifi c team and coach. Their mission is to strengthen and reinforce the ties between a student’s academic and athletic pursuits and act as a resource for the student-athletes, coaches, academic administrators and faculty. academic and athletic pursuits and act as a resource for the student-athletes, coaches, academic administrators and faculty.

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Marc MelitzMarc Melitz Academic-AthleticAcademic-AthleticFellowFellow

Gene GrossmanGene Grossman Academic-AthleticAcademic-AthleticFellowFellowGene Grossman is the Jacob

Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton Univer-sity, the Director of the International Economics Section and a recent chair of Princeton’s Department of Economics, and the Director of the International Economics Section. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1976 and his

Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. Profes-sor Grossman joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1980 and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Professor Grossman has received numerous professional hon-ors and awards including the Harry G. Johnson Award from the Canadian Economics Association and fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in

1992 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997. Professor Grossman has also served on the Executive Com-mittee of the American Economic Association and the International Economics Association. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and of the Center for Economic Policy Research and serves or has served on the editorial boards of many professional journals.

Professor Grossman has written extensively on international trade. He is well known for his work on the determinants of inter-national competitiveness in dynamic, research-intensive industries. Some of his recent writings examine the political forces that shape modern trade policy. He has also been interested in the determinants of “offshoring” and “outsourcing,” that is, the globalization of supply chains.

Professor Grossman is married to Jean Baldwin Grossman, a Senior Vice President for Research at Public/Private Ventures and a Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The Grossman’s have two daughters, Shari, a junior at Harvard, and Dina, who graduated from The Lawrenceville School in 2007.

Marc Melitz is in his second sea-son as an Academic-Athletic Fellow for the Princeton men’s basketball team. He is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton both in the Department of Economics and in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

His teaching at Princeton cen-ters on graduate and undergradu-

ate international trade courses and intermediate undergraduate microeconomics.

Melitz was previously an associate professor of economics at Princeton and the Peter B. Kenen Visiting Fellow in economics and John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Princeton in 2005-06.

He came to Princeton from Harvard, where he was an assistant and associate professor of economics for fi ve years.

Melitz earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michi-gan in 2000 after earning his master’s degree in Ann Arbor in 1997. The 1989 Haverford College graduate also has an M.S.B.A. in Opera-tions Research from the University of Maryland, which he earned in December of 1992.

He is also a research associate for the National Bureau of Econom-ics Research and a research fellow for the Center For Economic Policy Research and CESifo.

Melitz has also been an associate editor for several economic journals and is the foreign editor for the Review of Economic Studies. He was awarded an NSF Research Grant in 2004 for a study of “International Trade and Macroeconomic Dynamics with Heterogenous Firms.”

The link that the fellows provide between these groups assists in identifying the available resources so that individual student-The link that the fellows provide between these groups assists in identifying the available resources so that individual student-athletes may receive the appropriate counsel and advice to resolve specifi c academic and social issues. Fellows will be dedicated to athletes may receive the appropriate counsel and advice to resolve specifi c academic and social issues. Fellows will be dedicated to achieving a greater harmony between the academic and athletic cultures, thus assuring that the overall educational mission of the achieving a greater harmony between the academic and athletic cultures, thus assuring that the overall educational mission of the University is enhanced.University is enhanced.

The fellows believe that athletic participation is valuable for its own sake — physically, cognitively and socially — and complements The fellows believe that athletic participation is valuable for its own sake — physically, cognitively and socially — and complements the educational purpose, rather than compromising it. Fellows, themselves, are role models who are actively engaged in mentoring the the educational purpose, rather than compromising it. Fellows, themselves, are role models who are actively engaged in mentoring the student-athletes in a diverse array of educational and cultural issues, ensuring that the values-based coaching our undergraduates student-athletes in a diverse array of educational and cultural issues, ensuring that the values-based coaching our undergraduates receive on the fi eld of play is consistently reinforced off it. The integration of mind, body, and spirit is a conceptual ideal that the fellows receive on the fi eld of play is consistently reinforced off it. The integration of mind, body, and spirit is a conceptual ideal that the fellows strive to impart to our student-athletes.strive to impart to our student-athletes.

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