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
A group of diverse Columbians join other scholars, artists, scientists and leaders in the public, nonprofit and private sectors.
Adrienne Minh-Châu Lê, the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, is writing a dissertation on the Vietnamese Buddhist anti-war movement.
Four Columbia and two Barnard professors have been awarded the prestigious fellowships.
Seniors Amar Bhardwaj and Young Joon Kim are among 46 American college students from across the country selected this year for the award.
The Nobel laureate is spending the fall semester as the Alliance Visiting Professor at Sciences Po.
For a half century, Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia, has been a beloved teacher, public historian and author renowned for his encyclopedic knowledge of New York City.
The University congratulates Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, on this prestigious recognition, as well as two alumni recipients.
The Columbia-Harlem Small Business Development Center (SBDC) celebrated its 10th year anniversary supporting entrepreneurship in Harlem at the Lenfest Center for the Arts on July 26.
Hundreds gathered at Columbia University for the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes award luncheon.
Mabel O. Wilson and Mario Gooden are honored for their work exploring the African diaspora.
Years before Alex Halliday joined Columbia’s Earth Institute as its director, he was changing the field of geochemistry. During the early 1990s, he saw the potential of a new kind of mass spectrometer for studying small isotopic variations in elements that were difficult to ionize and measure.
Brian Metzger, an associate professor of astrophysics, has won a 2019 Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize for pioneering predictions of the electromagnetic signal from a neutron star merger, and for leadership in the emerging field of multi-messenger astronomy.