Columbia faculty, students, and staff are on the cutting edge of advancements in all fields and their work is fittingly awarded and recognized. Below, find the most recent accomplishments and milestones as well as monthly lists of recent awards.
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Recent Awards & Milestones
As an undergraduate at Purdue University, Brad Garton majored in pharmacy because “growing up in the Midwest, being a musician wasn’t a legi
Physics professor Brian Cole is renowned for Accelerated Physics, his two-semester course for first-year students that covers the usual intr
Great teachers are passionate about the classroom, as evidenced by the 11 faculty members honored this year with Lenfest Distinguished Teaching Awa
Li Feng brings his background as an archaeologist and historian of early China to bear on his teaching, at both the undergraduate and gradua
For Souleymane Bachir Diagne, a professor of French and philosophy, teaching is about finding the right balance in the classroom.
A number of years ago, a student reviewing a class taught by Dorothea von Mücke summed up how the professor of Germanic Languages and Litera
Whether she’s teaching an advanced graduate seminar or a beginning undergraduate class, Carol Rovane wants her students to start thinking li
Columbia University and Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith are pleased to announce that Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1,
WHO SHE IS: Assistant Director for Residential Services, Columbia University Facilities.
Albert Thompson and Carlos Muñoz lived on the same block of West 116th Street and knew each other at Columbia College, overlapping for one year.