3 Princeton seniors named USAToday College Academic All-Stars

<p>one first-teamer and two-second teamers, giving princeton more students on the top two "teams" than any other college or university in the country. here are their profiles:</p>

<p>Tianhui Li, Princeton University</p>

<p>Age: 21
Hometown: Portland, Ore.
Major: Computer science
GPA: 3.88, graduating in June
Career goal: Professor</p>

<p>Accomplishments: His efforts to bridge the gap between pure science and practical applications include math research on webpage-ranking algorithms, which led him to a proof exposing a loophole in Google’s algorithm; his findings were presented at the Computer Science Affiliates Conference; research on measures of risk of financial investments; wrote software converting mathematical proofs to computer code to help make programs more reliable; co-chair, Undergraduate Research Symposium Steering Committee; math tutor to computer science majors, underclassmen and disadvantaged high school students; research on wave-driven plasmas at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Marshall Scholar.</p>

<p>Tamara Broderick, Princeton University. Home: Bay Village, Ohio. Major: Mathematics. Published several research papers, did classified research for the National Security Agency and revived the Princeton Mathematics Club, encouraging collaboration among mathematicians. </p>

<p>Eric Weyl, Princeton University. Home: Los Altos Hills, Calif. Major: Economics. Researched the effects of competition and antitrust policies on "two-sided markets."</p>

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<p>Congratulations to the students from Pton. We can hope that all of the students profiled will have significant accomplishments beyond their undergraduate studies. </p>

<p>Q. Is the U of Alabama one institution with separate campuses?</p>

<p>The U of Alabama is now one campus. Several years ago it was split into UAH (huntsville, al), UAB (birmingham,al) and UA (tuscaloosa,al). They are now separate campuses with separate administrations, funding, sports, etc.</p>