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Disney's Frozen, written and co-directed by Columbia Film alumna Jennifer Lee ('05), won two Academy Awards—Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. Frozen has garnered widespread critical acclaim since its release in November 2013. It has received an overwhelming number of awards and nominations, including the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature and the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature. Lee's success at creating complex characters was also recognized by Variety, which named her one of the \"10 Screenwriters to Watch\" for 2013. In a recent interview with Popsugar, Lee…
Two years ago when an earthquake struck the Washington, D.C. area, Robert Mark got a call from the master mason at the Washington National Cathedral. “The building is falling around me!” he said.
Columbia University and Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith are pleased to announce that Dominique Morisseau’s "Detroit ‘67" is the 2014 winner of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History.
Three Columbia faculty members have been named research fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which awards two-year, $50,000 grants to support the work of exceptional early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars.
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger has appointed Nicholas Lemann, professor of journalism and dean emeritus of Columbia Journalism School, to direct "Columbia Global Reports" — a new, University-based publication dedicated to the production of sustained, original reporting and analysis on under-reported global issues for audiences that extend beyond the academy.
In his new book, "Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama," Professor Stephen Sestanovich’s argues that since World War II, policy makers have repeatedly miscalculated, quarreled with allies and underestimated their foes.
In 1754 the original King’s College charter declared one of its missions to be teaching “everything useful for the comfort, the convenience and elegance of life.” It’s a goal that seems especially noteworthy as the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science celebrates its sesquicentennial by highlighting the ways it has fulfilled that mission in the past, its present day record of innovation and its plans for future growth.
The Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute has named David M. Greenberg as its first executive director. The Zuckerman Institute was established in 2012 with a $200 million gift from New York philanthropist and business leader Mortimer B. Zuckerman. The Institute will bring together 1,000 scientists at the Jerome L. Greene Science Center, the first building of the Manhattanville campus.
Five Columbia faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.
Dennis Tenen, an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia, has an unusual background for a humanities scholar.