Dr. William G. Bowen, president of Princeton University from 1972-88, will deliver the inaugural MacVicar Day lecture on Friday, Feb. 6. In a New Day. The lecture, hosted by the MacVicar Fellows and sponsored by President Charles Vest, Provost Joel Moses and Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education Rosalind Williams, is scheduled for 3-5pm in the Bartos Theater of the Media Laboratory.
Admission is free and the public is invited.
The event concludes with a reception. Dr. Bowen, a graduate of Denison University, received the PhD from Princeton in 1958, after which he joined the faculty in the Department of Economics. He served as provost from 1967-72 before assuming the presidency. He has written or co-authored 15 books, including Ever the Teacher in 1987. The 1998 MacVicar Fellows will be announced earlier in the day at a luncheon hosted by President Vest.