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
00:00 - Expansion of the Assembly, Dinkins running 1st term
00:41 - Anecdote about Percy Sutton, SEEK Program and Public Service
02:01 - From borough president to running for Mayor
03:52 - Running for Mayor and being the underdog
05:51 - Crime decreasing and the myth of \"crime ridden Dinkins era\"
07:12 - \"The End of Dinkins, political career ruined\" to becoming City Clerk for 10 years
09:27 - Encouraging students to have an interest in public policy
09:56 - Elected officials rise to the occasion, congress needs a blueprint
10:29 - Writing…
When the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation was established at Columbia and Stanford in 2012, part of its $30 million endowment was earmarked for what founder Helen Gurley Brown called “Magic Grants.”
Saskia Sassen, the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, has won the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for social science for her contribution to urban sociology and to the analysis of the social, economic and political dimensions of globalization, according to the prize jury.
Six Columbia professors have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities and the arts in one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies.
Mark Cane, an expert on the El Niño climate pattern, and Terry Plank, an authority on explosive volcanoes—both scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory--have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Several Columbia professors, in disciplines ranging from dance to history to psychiatry, were awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships for 2013
Columbia University will confer seven honorary degrees and recognize the recipient of its University Medal for Excellence at commencement exercises on Wednesday, May 22. The recipients are:
The many ways of categorizing Williams’ work, which straddles the lines between journalism, political science, memoir and the law, were a frequent theme at a daylong symposium March 1 devoted to her scholarship.
Columbia University Libraries awarded the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History to two works: Dan O’Brien’s "The Body of an American" and Robert Schenkkan's "All the Way."
Continuing their family’s multigenerational connection to Columbia and support of its leadership in medicine, Philip (CC ‘71) and Cheryl Milstein (Barnard ‘82) have made a $20 million commitment to Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).
Columbia University announced today that two acclaimed works will be awarded the 2013 Bancroft Prize: a gripping and eloquent history of the human impact on the ocean, and a persuasively argued history of the idea that conflict among nations can be regulated by law.