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AnnouncementsKatherine Allen Jae Woo Lee Tyler BickfordThe University’s 2011 PresidentialTeaching Award was presented tothree graduate students at this year’sConvocation. Awardees were Ph.D.students KATHERINE ALLEN, Earthand Environmental Sciences, and JAEWOO LEE, Computer Science; andPh.D. graduate TYLER BICKFORD,Music. The Award was also presentedto faculty members RICHARD KORBof Germanic Languages and JILL S.SHAPIRO of Ecology, Evolution, andEnvironmental Biology. The PresidentialTeaching Award is given annuallyto current Columbia studentsand faculty who have had a significantinfluence on the intellectual developmentof students at the University.JAMES MANLEY, Julian ClarenceLevi Professor of Life Sciences andformer chair of the Department ofBiological Sciences, has been nameda member of the National Academyof Sciences. His research focuses onunderstanding the mechanism andregulation of gene expression andhow these processes become deregulatedby disease.Professors MAXWELL E. GOTTES-MAN, Biochemistry and MolecularBiophysics; MARK MAZOWER, History;JAMES SHAPIRO, English andComparative Literature; and SHOU-WU ZHANG, Mathematics, wereelected to the American Academy ofArts and Sciences and will be inductedat a ceremony in Cambridge,Massachusetts in October 2011.Cellular, Molecular, and BiophysicalStudies Ph.D. student EL-ADDAVID AMIR was awarded theHoward Hughes Medical Institute InternationalStudent Research Fellowshipin recognition of his exceptionalacademic achievements in science.The fellowship supports internationalstudents for years three through fiveof the Ph.D. program.Thirty doctoral students receivedthe National Science Foundation’sGraduate Research Fellowship thisfall term. Among them are DANIELD’ORAZIO, Astronomy; KRISTENLEE, Biomedical Engineering;MICHAEL PERALTA, Chemistry;CATHERINE POMPOSI, Earth andEnvironmental Sciences;ELLIOTT ASH, Economics;KARSTEN GIMRE, Mathematics;and JULIET DAVIDOW, Psychology.The fellowship recognizes outstandinggraduate students in science,technology, engineering, and mathematics.LIA CORRALES and ERIKA HAM-DEN, Ph.D. students in the Departmentof Astronomy, received fellowshipsfrom NASA’s Earth and SpaceScience Program, which supports theresearch training of talented individualsin earth and space sciences.NAOMI ROBBINS, MathematicalStatistics Ph.D. alumna (1971), wasnamed an Associate Fellow of theSociety for Technical Communicationfor having achieved eminence inthe field of technical communicationthrough contributions to the profession,consulting corporations andorganizations on the effective presentationof data for wide audiences.Link back to contents page44 Superscript
Professors IOANNIS MYLONOPOU-LOS, Art History and Archeology, andLIZA KNAPP, Russian Literature,received the 2011 Faculty MentorshipAward. The award is given everyyear by Graduate School of Arts andSciences students to faculty memberswho have gone above and beyondtheir duty to support and guide students.Sociology professor SHAMUS KHANand assistant history professor EVANHAEFELI have been appointed asnew Dorothy and Lewis B. CullmanCenter fellows at the New York PublicLibrary. The Cullman Center offersfellowships to academics, writers, andresearchers whose work will benefitfrom access to the collections at thelibrary.Gordana Vunjak-NovakovicBiomedical Engineering professorGORDANA VUNJAK-NOVAKOVICreceived the BioAccelerate NYC Prizefor her research involving growingbone in a laboratory for the rebuildingof bones in a patient’s head and face.The prize awards critical fundingto researchers so they can completework on healthcare and biomedicalproducts that will be brought tomarket.Ecology, Evolution, and EnvironmentalBiology associate professorMARIA URIARTE was awarded afive-year National Science FoundationLong Term Research in EnvironmentalBiology grant for her work on theimpact of climate change in neotropicalforests.Political Science Ph.D. graduateCYRUS SAMII received the Warren J.Mitofsky Student Paper Award fromthe New York Chapter of the AmericanAssociation for Public OpinionResearch. In the paper “Who wantsto forgive and forget? Transitional justicepreferences in post-war Burundi,”Samii used original survey data tostudy justice preferences during thetransition from conflict to peace.RICHARD BULLIET, Professor ofMiddle Eastern History, has podcasthis courses History of the World to1500 CE and History of the ModernMiddle East on iTunes. All courselectures are available in video formatand are free to the public.Professor KARTIK CHANDRAN,Earth and Environmental Engineering,received a $1.5 million grant fromthe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundationto fund a project developing andimplementing human waste-to-biodieseltechnology in Ghana.Superscript 45Link back to contents page
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