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
Columbia University has been awarded a five-year, $3.7 million federal grant for a five-year program to implement the Summer Public Health Scholars Program, a partnership among Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, College of Dental Medicine, School of Nursing and the Mailman School of Public Health.
Columbia University will award the 2011 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young for their work on the molecular basis of circadian rhythms, the first demonstration of a molecular mechanism for behavior.
An investigative reporter whose work has revealed how secret profit schemes cheated the families of fallen U.S. soldiers, sickened or killed patients and cost taxpayers billions of dollars is the recipient of the 2011John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced today. David Evans, senior writer for Bloomberg Markets magazine, was selected in recognition of his tenacious reporting over two decades on stories that expose wrongdoing and bring about reform.
2011 Chancellor Award Winner David Evans
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When T.D. Lee was hired by Columbia as an assistant professor in 1953, he joined what was arguably one of the greatest physics departments ever assembled. And in short order, the 26-year-old theoretical physicist became a legend himself.
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism has announced the 2011 winners of the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Sixty years ago, when neurology department professor Harry Grundfest was doing groundbreaking research at the College of Physicians and Surgeons that attracted the likes of future Nobel laureate Eric Kandel to Columbia, he designed a workspace at the medical center that was intended to promote maximum contact among his postdoctoral students.
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Jae Woo Lee knows what it is like to feel confused in class. He spoke almost no English when he immigrated to Flushing, Queens from Korea at age 18. At Bayside High School, “I could see what was on the board in math and science classes,” recalls Lee, who is now working toward a Ph.D. in computer science at Columbia. “But for three months I couldn’t really understand what people were saying.”
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When Jason Gorman began his graduate work at Columbia, he thought he was in over his head. Just six years later, Gorman, who receives his doctorate this month in biological sciences, has been singled out by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as one of the field’s most outstanding graduate students.
Two Columbia professors have been named members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program professors and alumni have occupied a premiere place in recent issues of The New Yorker, which have featured short stories by Fiction professors Donald Antrim, Sam Lipsyte, and Ben Marcus; essays by Fiction Professor Gary Shteyngart, and Fiction alumna Kiran Desai (’99SOA); and a feature article by Fiction alumna and Adjunct Professor Rivka Galchen (’06SOA).