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Recent Awards & Milestones
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).