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
WHO SHE IS: Assistant Director for Residential Services, Columbia University Facilities.
YEARS AT COLUMBIA: 19
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. Now their names jointly grace a new Columbia initiative for future generations of local students.
NY, NY. (Nov. 12, 2014) – Columbia University has been awarded a grant from the Amgen Foundation that will provide hands-on laboratory experience to undergraduate students through the Amgen Scholars Program. This marks the 9th year that Columbia University will participate in the program, which aims to inspire the next generation of innovators by providing undergraduates with hands-on summer research opportunities at many of the world’s premier education institutions.
With the parting of a leopard-print curtain and the flash of cameras, the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation officially opened Sept. 16 in its new space in the Journalism School’s Pulitzer Hall.
While Columbia has long revered Prof. Wm. Theodore de Bary (CC’41, GSAS’53) as one of its own, America now regards him as a national treasure.
Columbia University celebrates the opening of The Startup Lab. President Lee C. Bollinger thanks the Dean of Columbia College James Valentini, the Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business Glenn Hubbard, the Dean of Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science Mary Boyce, the Dean of SIPA Merit Janow, as well as the head of Columbia Entrepreneurship Richard Witten for coming together and establishing a unique partnership to open the Lab. Forty five teams of recent Columbia graduates will begin working there in the nearest future.
Thomas Jessell, PhD, the Claire Tow Professor of Motor Neuron Disorders in the Departments of Neuroscience and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University, is the recipient of the 2014 Neuroscience Prize of The Gruber Foundation.
The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation has awarded its 2014-2015 “Magic Grants” to eight teams of students, faculty, alumni and post-docs from Columbia and Stanford Universities.
Three Columbia professors have been named members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Election to NAS, in recognition of "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research," is considered one of the highest honors a scientist or engineer can receive.
Nobel Laureate Richard Axel, MD, University Professor, has been elected to the Royal Society as a foreign member.
Laurence Abbott, PhD, the William Bloor Professor of Neuroscience, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.