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AROUND THE QUADSIN LUMINE TUOGREAT TEACHERS: Andrew Delbanco, Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and director of the American Studies Program at Columbia College, and Dr. Shree K. Nayar, T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science and head of the Automated Vision Environment at SEAS, will receive the 2006 Great Teacher Awards at a dinner in Low Rotunda on October 19. The awards are given annually by the Society of Columbia Graduates. Delbanco received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. After teaching there for four years, he came to Columbia in 1985. A member of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Delbanco has taken on the responsibility of directing Columbia’s growing American Studies program, revising the undergraduate curriculum and developing the programmatic aspect of American Studies. Earlier this year, he hosted a well-attended conference on Liberalism and Religion, and he twice has been recognized by students as a recipient of the Lionel Trilling Award, given each year to a faculty member in recognition of a recently published book. He was honored for The Puritan Ordeal and Melville: His World and Work. Nayar received his bachelor’s degree from the Birla Institute of Technology in Ranchi, India and his master’s from North Carolina State. Shortly after receiving his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineeering in 1990 from Carnegie Mellon, he came to Columbia as an assistant professor in computer science. Nayar is an expert in the computational science of vision. His research focuses on three areas: the creation of cameras that produce new forms of visual information; the modeling of the interaction of light with materials; and the design of algorithms that recognize objects from images. For further information on the Great Teacher Awards dinner, contact Michael Garrett ’66 at: 718-499-9408 or e-mail: michaelgarrett@earthlink.net. PROMETHEUS: Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, has been chosen as the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize in recognition of a lifetime contribution to expanding the frontiers of research in philosophy and science. The honor is granted by the American Philosophical Association and Prometheus Books. In addition to receiving $10,000, Kitcher is designated Prometheus Laureate and will deliver a lecture at an APA divisional meeting. The prize also includes a contract with Prometheus Books for a book that incorporates ideas developed in the lecture. TRANSITIONSANDERER: Paul Anderer, the de Bary/Class of ’41 Professor of Asian Humanities, has been appointed the first vice provost for international relations at Columbia effective July 1. Anderer is tasked with bringing greater attention and oversight to the international connections and programs that already exist at Columbia, clarifying procedures for structuring new global research and education programs, exercising leadership for the increase of foundation, gift and grant support for Columbia’s international agenda and working closely with President Lee C. Bollinger, the deans and Provost Alan Brinkley to articulate Columbia’s global mission. Anderer joined the Columbia faculty in 1980 and regularly teaches Asian Humanities. He has served as acting dean of GSAS and on numerous University committees. ALUMNI OFFICE: Beth Bogner ’06 TC and Marilyn Hernandez joined the alumni office this summer. Bogner, assistant director, alumni affairs – young alumni, earned her B.A. in Spanish area studies from Kenyon College and then was a senior regional account coordinator for the customer service department of an educational travel company. She also served as program coordinator at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Bogner has a master’s in international education development from TC. Hernandez, a development officer, joined Columbia from New York’s Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Prior to that, she worked in marketing and promotion for ABC Television. Hernandez holds a B.S. in communications from Boston College and an M.A. from NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education.
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