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AROUND THE QUADS
CAMPUS NEWS
FACULTY DIVERSITY: Under the Diversity Hiring Initiative in the Arts and Sciences, Columbia has successfully recruited nine women and minority scholars to join the faculty this year, and offers have been extended to several more. This represents the start of a three-year program, led by Professor Jean Howard, vice provost for diversity initiatives, to add 15 to 20 faculty members to Arts and Sciences. In addition, Columbia hosted a meeting of academic administrators involved in diversity efforts from Brown, Harvard, MIT, NYU, Princeton and Yale on June 16. NEW SCIENCE BUILDING: Construction on the Northwest Corner Science Building at 120th Street and Broadway is scheduled to begin by summer 2007 and be completed in 2010. The building, designed by architect José Rafael Moneo, will sit on top of Dodge Fitness Center and be connected to Chandler, which houses the chemistry department, and Pupin, home to the physics and astronomy departments. The new building will significantly increase space available on the Morningside campus, including new research laboratories, teaching space and a consolidated science library.
IN LUMINE TUO
ELECTED: Faculty excellence was acknowledged again this year with the announcement of electees to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Among the eight Columbia professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their contributions to scholarship and research are Laurence F. Abbott, professor of physiology and cellular biophysics; Kenneth T. Jackson, the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History; and James L. Manley, the Judith Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences. Ann McDermott, professor of chemistry, and Stephen Goff, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, were among 72 members elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their achievements in original research. SHAKESPEARE: James Shapiro ’77, the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature, has won the $55,000 Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain’s most lucrative nonfiction book prize, for 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. VENICE: David Rosand, the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, was elected foreign member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Originally conceived by Napoleonic decree “to collect discoveries, and to perfect the arts and sciences,” the Institute was formally established in 1802 as an intellectual center of the new Italian Republic. Rosand was honored for his contributions to the study of Venetian art and culture. SOCIOLOGY: Herbert J. Gans, the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, received the American Sociological Association’s Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, which honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to the profession of sociology and whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to the advancement of the discipline. Diane Vaughan, professor of sociology, received the ASA’s Award for Public Understanding of Sociology, given annually to a person who has made exemplary contributions to advance the public understanding of sociology, sociological research and scholarship among the general public.
ROAR LION ROAR
ALL-IVY: Congratulations to the following spring sports All-Ivy honorees: Maiya Chard-Yaron ’06 (softball, first team), Mark Clemente ’08 (men’s tennis, singles, first team), Angela Hendry ’08 (women’s tennis, singles, second team), Milena Kachar ’07 (women’s tennis, singles, first team), Kacy Krisman ’07 (softball, second team), Kim Krisman ’07 (softball, honorable mention), Jimmy Moore ’06 and Marty Moore ’07 men’s tennis, doubles, second team), Dan Neczypor ’08 (baseball, first team), Lacie Nelson ’07 (softball, honorable mention), Hilary Parsons ’06 (softball, honorable mention), Henry Perkins ’08 (baseball, second team), Craig Rodwogin ’07 (baseball, honorable mention) and Valerie Smith ’09 (softball, honorable mention). SCHOLAR-ATHLETE: Four-time All-American fencer Emma Baratta ’07 was named to the CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America women’s first team and was one of 58 winter sports athletes to earn an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. Baratta finished her four years with a cumulative record of 152–13, including a 49–2 record in Ivy competition, and graduated summa cum laude with a 3.9 GPA. ROWING: Columbia’s lightweight crew missed a bronze medal by little more than one-half second and finished fourth in the National Lightweight Championship, held in conjunction with the I.R.A. Regatta on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J. on June 3. Cornell won the race by eight-hundredths of a second over Harvard, with Princeton third. GOLF: Columbia made up three strokes on the second day of the men’s Ivy League Golf Championships on April 23 but fell one stroke shy of Princeton, 895–896, in Vernon, N.J. Chris Condello ’08 tied for second in the individual competition. First-year coach Rich Mueller received the Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year award from the Golf Coaches Association of America, and Condello was honored as one of 15 All-Region golfers. STEEPLECHASE: Lisa Stublic ’06rana 10:18.67, three seconds shy of her personal best, to finish 10th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships on June 7 in Sacramento, Calif. Stublic finished one place shy of earning All-America status, an honor she achieved earlier this year in cross country. Erison Hurthault ’07 finished 17th in the 400 meters after winning the event at the IC4A/ECAC Championships on May 15 at Princeton. NO-HITTER: Maiya Chard-Yaron ’06 pitched the second no-hitter in Columbia’s seven-year softball history, beating Fairfield 3–0 in the second game of an April 2 doubleheader. She faced the minimum 21 batters in the seven-inning game; although she allowed two walks, the baserunners were eliminated on a double play and a failed stolen base attempt. In 2001, Laura Grant ’04 tossed a five-inning perfect game against Bucknell, Columbia’s only other no-hitter. It wasn’t a first for Chard-Yaron, however. Playing for Israel in the 2005 European Softball Championships, Chard-Yaron tossed a perfect game against Hungary. ARCHERY: Although Stephanie Miller ’07 dropped out of the competition due to illness, the Lions finished fourth in the team competition at the U.S. Intercollegiate Archery Championships in May in Los Angeles. Xiao Hui Chin ’06 finished sixth and Amanda McDermott ’09E placed ninth in the compound division, and Sara Mancini ’09 finished seventh and Robin Liang ’08 was 10th in the recurve division. One month later, Miller was the highest finisher for the U.S. team at the Turkey Grand Prix, placing 13th. NFL EUROPE: Jeff Otis ’05 quarterbacked the Frankfurt Galaxy to a 22–7 victory over the Amsterdam Admirals in World Bowl XIV in Dusseldorf, Germany, on May 27, giving Frankfurt its fourth NFL Europe title. Otis, Columbia’s No. 2 career passer in completions (429) and yardage (4,666), completed 48 of 91 passes for 560 yards and four touchdowns in the NFL Europe season.
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