Columbia Launches the Distinguished Fellows Program
The program, which will welcome its first cohort in Fall 2027, will support accomplished leaders seeking to pivot from successful careers to meaningful next chapters of their lives.
In Credit to the Nation, Rebecca Kobrin chronicles East European Jewish immigrants who came to New York and, by lending to fellow Jews, became a crucial part of the city’s history.
Professor Göran Ekström tracks incidents like landslides and glacier collapse using tools once used only to monitor earthquakes.
This year’s new faculty include path-breaking mathematicians, political scientists, biologists, anthropologists, scholars of language and culture, and many others.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Synthesis Center for Organismal Resilience will leverage real-world data and innovative AI techniques to improve understanding of how plants and animals build resilience in dynamic environments.
The Columbia music professor’s new work will be played by the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center and in Europe.
Professor Duncan Menge is the new chair of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. In his spare time, he plays guitar in the department band.
The prestigious award, given by the American Philosophical Society, was in recognition of her book The Deformation.
The program, which will welcome its first cohort in Fall 2027, will support accomplished leaders seeking to pivot from successful careers to meaningful next chapters of their lives.