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Around the QuadsTRANSITIONSRESEARCH: David Hirsh has been named to the new position of executive v.p. for research, reporting to President Lee C. Bollinger. Hirsh has been at Columbia since 1990 as the Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Professor and chair of the department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at P&S. A distinguished molecular biologist working in the fields of molecular genetics of development and nucleic acid structure and function, his research has focused on gene expression in early development and the processing and maturation of messenger RNA. More recently, he has sought to define the molecular basis of the inflammatory response. Bollinger also announced that Senior Executive V.P. President Robert Kasdin would assume full responsibility for matters involving University finances, and changed Susan Feagin’s title to executive v.p. for development and alumni relations. FUND: Haley Taylor joined the fund-raising staff of the Alumni Office in July. A graduate of Providence College, Taylor previously worked on Harvard’s annual fund campaign. She also created a database for the Harvard College Fund and updated it to include fund events held nationally as well as internationally. In addition, Susan Appel has been promoted to associate director of the Columbia College Fund, and Erica Wylens has moved to a major gifts position with UDAR. KELLEY: African-American studies scholar Robin D.G. Kelley has joined Columbia as a full professor in the anthropology department. His teaching and research interests include African diaspora, urban studies, working class radicalism and cultural history. He will help guide programs for Columbia’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies. Kelley had served as chair of NYU’s history department since 2002 and was a professor of history and African studies since 1994. He taught at Columbia in 1996 as a distinguished visiting professor and served as Louis Armstrong Professor of Jazz Studies in 2000–01. He has a Ph.D. in United States history and an M.A. in African history from UCLA, and a B.A. in history from Cal State-Long Beach. REDLENER: The University has hired Dr. Irwin Redlener to head a new policy center on disaster preparedness. Redlener, former president of Montefiore Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital, is an accomplished fund raiser; a prominent voice on a number of health issues, including bioterrorism; and an adviser to many elected officials, including Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). Redlener will hold the titles of associate dean at the Mailman School of Public Health, founding director of the school’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness and professor of pediatrics at P&S. He will continue to serve as president of the Children’s Health Fund, a nonprofit group based in Manhattan, and says he envisions a number of projects run jointly by the fund and Columbia. The Children’s Health Fund spends more than $4 million a year, most of it private donations, on health care for poor children. PITAC: President George W. Bush
has nominated Judith L. Klavans, director of the
University’s Center of Research on Information
Access, to the President’s Information and
Technology Advisory Committee. Klavans is one of
25 nominees to PITAC, representing leading IT experts
in industry and academia who will provide the President
with expert, independent advice on advanced information
technologies and national IT infrastructure such
as high performance computing, large-scale networking
and high assurance software and systems design.
In accepting the President’s nomination, Klavans
said, “This is a valuable opportunity to represent
Columbia University and participate in the role
of language processing in national security on setting
the national IT agenda. I believe this is a first
for Columbia and also the first time that language
processing has been recognized as a core technology
for the President and Congress.”
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