Awards & Milestones

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

More than 80 researchers across the state will devise scientific techniques and tools with the goal of making AI systems more trustworthy.

CUP, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost, is pleased to announce that Love, Money, Duty: Stories of Care in Our Times by Rachel Adams, a Columbia Professor of English and Comparative Literature, is the winner. 

Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.

Woodford receives Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Robert E. Hall of Stanford University, for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization.

A proposed new approach could reduce the complexity of fusion power plants, researchers say.

The prestigious prize recognized Zuker for revolutionizing understanding of the sense of taste.

The Department of Health and Human Services’s award aims to accelerate innovation supporting living kidney donors and patients.

Natalie Fardian-Melamed was recognized for discovering and engineering ultra-sensitive, light-based nanosensors.

From medicine to writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.

The Columbia music professor’s new work will be played by the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center and in Europe.

From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards over the summer.