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March 1, 2001 NEWS BRIEFS Hot gift, hot major A $2 million gift will support one of the fastest-growing majors in the College. Steven F. Goldstone (C’67), retired chairman of Nabisco Group Holdings, the New Jersey-based packaged foods giant, made the donation to create the Steven Goldstone Fund for Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) to support endowed teaching fellowships, lectures, conferences, major student research projects and additional teaching assistants. PPE, created in 1992, is now the 10th-most popular major in the College. Better fingerprints An unannounced visit by the U.S. Secret Service to a professor of organic chemistry led to the invention of a better way to dust for fingerprints. The collaboration between Class of 1970 Professor of Chemistry Madeleine M. Joullié and the feds proved rocky at times. “Often we were speaking entirely different languages,” Joullié said. “I’d go to law-enforcement conferences where nobody else understood me and I didn’t understand anybody else.” But somehow Joullié and her collaborators came up with indanediones, which combines low cost with ease of use and a brighter fingerprint image, a sure shot improvement for the 1950s-era compound used by most law enforcement agencies the world over. Newest Fox prof The newest Fox Leadership Professor is none other than President Judith Rodin (CW’66), effective March 1. Rodin, the first woman president of an Ivy League university, has been a leader throughout her career, said Samuel H. Preston, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, in announcing the appointment Feb. 14. Rodin joins Political Science Professor John J. DiIulio Jr. and Psychology Professor Martin E.P. Seligman in filling the three Fox Professorships. Rodin also will become interim director of the Fox Leadership Program while the current director, DiIulio, is on leave to head President Bush’s new Office for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (see “Interview.”).