AROUND THE QUADS
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Around the Quads

• Inauguration, Homecoming Set for October 3-5 • Joel Klein Named NYC Schools Chancellor • Rupp to Receive Hamilton Medal on November 14 • Advising System Enhanced, Upgraded • Campus Bulletins • Alumni Bulletins • Transitions • In Lumine Tuo • In Memoriam • Koplinka Receives President's Cup, Dean's Circle Luncheon, Hot Dog Days of Summer, and Corrections

INVESTING: N.P. “Narv” Narvekar, formerly managing director of the Office of Investments at Penn, became vice president for investments at Columbia on July 8. Narvekar is responsible for managing the University’s $4.3 billion endowment, which has earned an average annual investment return during the past decade of 13.4 percent. Narvekar succeeds Bruce M. Dresner, who served Columbia as vice president for investments since 1990, and who left to join the Quellos Group, LLC.

ATHLETICS: Thad Dohrn is the new associate director of athletics for external affairs and communication, succeeding Al Langer, who resigned to enter private business. Dohrn had worked in the athletics department at Iowa State, his alma mater, since 1993, serving for the past five years as assistant director of marketing and liaison for the ISU Letterwinners Club.