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AROUND THE QUADSIN LUMINE TUOFRONTIERS: Professor Darcy Kelley and her colleagues in the “Frontiers of Science” course have won a $500,000 award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institution (HHMI) to improve undergraduate science education. The award is a renewal of Kelley’s 2002 Howard Hughes Professorship grant, which supported development of the new Core Curriculum course. Frontiers of Science reveals how scientists approach and analyze questions and emphasizes common threads across scientific disciplines. It is designed to increase interest in science by teaching the most interesting, state-of-the-art material first rather than requiring students to take specialized preparatory courses before gaining access to current research. Support from HHMI will be used to disseminate globally the educational materials and teaching strategies developed for Frontiers. Working with Columbia’s Digital Knowledge Ventures, Kelley and other faculty will develop online resources, including lectures (videos and podcasts), problem sets, suggested experiments, teaching instruction and background readings, in addition to an online textbook written by Professor David Helfand. “The battle for science can’t be won by teaching Frontiers of Science at Columbia alone,” says Kelley. “We can contribute by providing other science educators with tools that they can use, that they can adapt, that they can build on.” GUGGENHEIMS: Three Columbia professorsare among 187 academics who received 2006 research grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Professor of economics Alessandra Casella will study storable votes; Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science Michael W. Doyle will study ethics, politics and the law of preventative self-defense; and Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature James Shapiro ’77 will study the Shakespeare authorship controversy. BANCROFT: The Rise of American Democracy by Sean Wilentz ’72, a chronicle of political and social changes from the American Revolution to the Civil War, was one of three winners of the 2006 Bancroft Prize for history, awarded annually by the University. Wilentz is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and director of the program in American studies at Princeton.
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