[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 84 (Monday, June 18, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S6373]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              CONGRATULATING SHIRLEY M. CALDWELL TILGHMAN

 Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. President, I rise today to congratulate 
Shirley Tilghman on becoming the 19th President of Princeton 
University. Dr. Tilghman comes to this revered post eminently 
qualified, having previously served as an exceptional teacher and a 
world renowned scholar.
  Dr. Tilghman has been a valuable member of the Princeton faculty for 
many years. Arriving at Princeton in 1986, she served as the Howard A. 
Prior Professor of the Life Sciences. She has also served as the chair 
of Princeton's Council on Science and Technology from 1993 through 
2000, and in 1998 undertook the responsibilities of founding director 
for Princeton's multi-disciplinary Lewis-Sigler Institute for 
Integrative Genomics. The founding of the Lewis-Sigler Institute grew 
out of Dr. Tilgman's role as one of the architects of the national 
effort to map the human genome.
  Harold R. McAlindon once said, ``Do not follow where the path may 
lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.'' I am 
confident that based on Dr. Tilghman's wealth of experience and 
interests, she will continue in this spirit as she guides Princeton 
University. I wish her all the best.

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