Schwarzman Scholars, Marshall Scholar, Forbes 30 Under 30, and More Milestones for Columbians
From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.
Columbia News produces a biweekly newsletter (subscribe here!) and article series featuring a roundup of awards and milestones that Columbia faculty, staff, and students have received in recent days. In this edition, you’ll find awards and milestones from December 1 to December 15, 2022.
Have an award or milestone you’d like to have featured in the newsletter or article online? Please send an email to [email protected]. Note that we’ll be running this series every other week.
You can take a look at past accomplishments on our Awards & Milestones page. And you can subscribe to receive the newsletter in your inbox.
Columbia News produces a biweekly newsletter (subscribe here!) and article series featuring a roundup of awards and milestones that Columbia faculty, staff, and students have received in recent days. In this edition, you’ll find awards and milestones from December 1 to December 15, 2022.
Have an award or milestone you’d like to have featured in the newsletter or article online? Please send an email to [email protected]. Note that we’ll be running this series every other week.
You can take a look at past accomplishments on our Awards & Milestones page. And you can subscribe to receive the newsletter in your inbox.
FACULTY
SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Larry Abbott, William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience, won the Gruber Foundation's 2022 Neuroscience Prize.
Brooke Aggarwal, assistant professor of medical sciences; Elaine Fleck, associate professor of medicine; Nisha B. Jhalani, assistant professor of medicine; and Elaine Wan, Esther Aboodi Associate Professor of Cardiology, were elected to the New York Academy of Medicine. Fellows are top practitioners, academics, and policymakers in their fields and are elected by their peers.
Elena Aprile, Centennial Professor of Physics, has been awarded the Julius Wess Award 2022 of the KIT Center Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics (KCETA) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The award recognizes Aprile’s many years of pioneering scientific achievements in the field of the search for dark matter, in particular the development of highly sensitive detectors.
Amit Arora, adjunct associate professor of industrial engineering and operations research, won the AI Summit’s Solutions Implementor, AI Innovator of the Year award for 2022.
Ruth Masterson Creber, professor of nursing, received the Protégé Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (FNINR). She was also selected to receive the Research Article of the Year Award from the American Heart Association’s Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing (CVSN).
Maureen George, professor of nursing and assistant dean of scholarship and research, was appointed to a term as a permanent member of the Interdisciplinary Clinical Care in Specialty Care Settings (ICSC) Study Section by the National Institutes of Health.
Erika Rosenzweig, professor of pediatrics, was named a member of the American Pediatric Society.
ENGINEERING
Shih-Fu Chang, dean of Columbia Engineering; Elizabeth Hillman, Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at the Zuckerman Institute and professor of biomedical engineering and radiology; and Jeannette Wing, executive vice president for research at Columbia University and professor of computer science, were elected to the National Academy of Inventors. The academy recognized the researchers for their “highly prolific spirit of innovation.”
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Sarah Haley, associate professor of history, has been named a 2022 Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. Launched in 2020, the Freedom Scholar awards exemplify a commitment to scholarship benefitting movements led by Black and Indigenous people, migrants and queer people, poor people, and people of color.
STUDENTS
Thiago Arzua, postdoctoral research scientist in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; Briana Chen, postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry; and Emma Xu, PhD candidate at Columbia Engineering, were named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2023. Check out the list for more Columbia connections, including alumni!
Chris Chin, executive MPH student, was awarded the Asha Saxena Prize for Entrepreneurship for his app to automate peer-support phone calls for people in recovery from substance use disorders.
Cameron Clarke (VPS’24) was a recipient of the Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarship, given to outstanding students entering their third year of medical school.
Four undergraduate students and two alumni were named Schwarzman Scholars in the Class of 2024. They will pursue a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University with a core curriculum focused on leadership, global affairs, and China: David Chen (GS’23), Alison Kahn (BC’21), Kewen Kong (CC’23), Rory Madigan (CC'20), Vish Rao (SEAS’23), and Charlie Wallace (CC’23).
Yashika Sharma, a PhD student at the Graduate School of Nursing, was inducted as a student member of the The New York Academy of Medicine.
School of the Arts Film student Hongwei Wu has been awarded full production funding for her short film, FISHTANK, from Through Her Lens: The Tribeca and Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program.
Julia Zhao (SEAS'23) has been named a 2023 Rhodes Scholar for China. China names four Rhodes Scholars each year, and this is the second time that Columbia has had a Rhodes China Scholar.
ALUMNI
Cyril Gilman (CC’22) was awarded a 2023 Marshall Scholarship. As a Marshall Scholar, Cy plans to pursue an MA in Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London and an MA in Human Rights at Birkbeck, University of London.