Awards & Milestones

Columbia faculty, students, and staff are on the cutting edge of advancements in all fields and their work is thus justly awarded and recognized.

Below, find recent accomplishments and milestones as well as bi-monthly lists of recent awards.

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Recent Awards & Milestones

David Dinkins, New York City’s 106th mayor and now a professor at Columbia University, celebrates his 90th birthday July 10 with a celebration at G

Sarah Cole and Fredrick Harris were appointed divisional deans in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 

Alice Kessler-Harris set about amplifying the historical record of women through new methods of research.

Columbia University has joined 67 of the nation’s most respected colleges and universities in an alliance to substantially expand the number of tal

It isn’t just the important scientific research and art produced and exhibited at Columbia University’s new Manhattanville campus that will

Columbia has committed to investing more than $150 million in new benefits and services for our community through agreements with the West H

Last year, J. Thomas Vaughan joined Columbia as director of Magnetic Resonance Research, a new University-wide position.

Columbia University chemist Xiaoyang Zhu has been named a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

When faced with planning the next phase of construction on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus, Marcelo Velez sometimes flips open his laptop a

Columbia University and Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith are pleased to announce that A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: A Radical Fairy Realne