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Management Moves
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics,Lewis Thomas Lab, Princeton 08544. James Broach, associatedirector. 609-258-3601; fax, 609-258-1301.James Broach, new associate director of the genomics institute, willoversee the institute’s operations until a new director is chosen tosucceed Shirley M. Tilghman. Tilghman will become the university’s19th president in June but will remain as the official director untilthe search is completed.Eric F. Wieschaus, a molecular biologyprofessor and the winner of the 1995 Nobel prize for research ongenetic control of embryonic development, will chair the committee.The institute’s new building is expected to finished by 2002. Broachhas degrees from Yale and the University of California at Berkeley andhas been a member of the Princeton faculty since 1984.The institute is a multi-disciplinary center that does research ondynamic properties of biological systems using integratedcomputational and experimental approaches.Mercer County Community College, 1200 OldTrenton Road, Box B, Trenton 08690. Robert R. Rose, president.609-586-4800; fax, 609-587-4666. Home page: www.mccc.eduYet another Canadian has been named president of a Princeton areacollege. Just as Shirley Tilghman takes over at Princeton University,Mercer County Community College names Robert R. Rose as its newpresident. A graduate of the University of Alberta, he has a master’sdegree from the University of Oregon and a PhD in community collegeleadership from the University of Texas at Austin. He had beenacademic dean at a community college in Minnesota, vice president ofGalveston College in Texas, and president of Massasoit CommunityCollege in Massachusetts. Coauthor of “Shared Vision: TransformationalLeadership in American Community Colleges,” he is known as a skillfulfundraiser and catalyst for change.Top Of PageOut of BusinessWorld PCS, 29 Emmons Drive, Building G-30,Princeton08540. Steve Lam.World PCS has closed its 10-person 4,000-foot office at PrincetonCommerce Center. PCS was founded by the World Communications Group,a Hazlet firm that sold wireless voice and Internet accessinfrastructureequipment systems to China and other developing countries (U.S. 1,August 11, 1999). Steve Lam was in charge of the Princeton office,but the company president was located in Atlanta.PCS stands for Personal Communications Services and is a secondgenerationdigital technology suitable for college campuses or third worldcountries.Called wireless local loop, it is used for the “last mile”or “local loop,” because it links the major telephonecompany’sbase station to the home. But wireless PCS phones could range onlyone-half mile from a transmitter or base station, as opposed tocellularphones with a very wide range and signals that can be transmittedby towers up to 3 miles apart.Business Week Online reports a “rash of bankruptcies” amongsimilar local multipoint distribution system (LMDS) companies, inpart because “getting a clean line of site from transmitters hasproved problematic in cities.” The magazine points to the trendto the more powerful fixed wireless technology, MultichannelMultipointDistribution System (MMDS), which offers inexpensive Internet andphone service within a 30-square-mile radius of a powerfulcellular-transmissiontower.Anicom Inc. (ANIC), 1 Broadway Road, Suite 1,Cranbury08512. 609-409-2832; fax, 609-409-4380. Home page:www.anicom.netThis company went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is closing down,both here at this 40-person warehouse, and at its headquarters inRosemont, Illinois (near Chicago). The reported reason for thebankruptcywas an SEC investigation into stock fraud. It billed itself asdistributionsolution for voice, video, datapower and security systems.Top Of PageDeathsGeorge J. Ivers, 78, on May 8. He was a designer at Lenoxand Cybis and wrote “Escape Into Danger” about his World War IIexperiences.Cynthia A. Chrisner, 64, on May 27. She was a pastor atWindsor United Methodist Church.Osman Giovanni Castro, 30, on May 29. He was assistantservice manager at Z&W Mazda on Route 206.Joseph B. Richardson Sr., 57, on May 29. He owned CadillacJoe Service Center and had worked at Colonial Cadillac.Previous StoryNext StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
