The CAA’s new podcast, The Low Down, launched in January. Given that 33% of Americans have listened to a podcast, the new series allows the CAA to easily capture content from events, alumni experts, and enter into popular topics discussed in the mainstream.
Current episodes include: Professor James Shapiro on Shakespeare and Professor Richard Bulliet and Dr. Nina Ansary ’89BC, ’91GSAS, ’09GSAS,’13GSAS, author of Jewels of Allah: The Untold Story of Women in Iran.
Volunteer participation and input will be vital to our campaign success.
Trustees Jonathan Lavine ’88CC and Lisa Carnoy ’89CC have generously agreed to chair a Campaign Executive Committee to be a true working group, starting right away in the current quiet (or planning phase) of the campaign.
The Committee will meet to discuss important strategic issues, learn more about the University Big Ideas, strategize on how members can be partners in advancing key priorities, and identify significant donors and prospects.
The Committee will begin meeting in the coming months. We will keep you apprised of its progress.
Members include:
Lisa Carnoy, Co-Chair
Division Executive, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Jonathan Lavine, Co-Chair
Managing Director, Bain Capital
Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Sankaty Advisors
Roy Vagelos, M.D., Co-Chair
Chairman, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Retired Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc.
Armen A. Avanessians
Global Head, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Andrew F. Barth
Chairman, Capital Guardian Trust Company
Director, Capital Group International, Inc.
Kenneth A. Forde, M.D.
Chair, Health Science Committee of the Trustees, Columbia University
Keith Goggin
Partner, Integral Derivatives
Ann F. Kaplan
Partner, Circle Wealth Management
Mark E. Kingdon
President, Kingdon Capital Management
Brian Krisberg
Partner, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
Philip L. Milstein
Principal, Ogden CAP Properties, LLC
Jack Rowe, M.D.
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Jonathan D. Schiller
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Richard E. Witten
Senior Managing Director, The Orienta Group
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Professor Alexander Tzagoloff was born in Moscow, but his family left Russia when he was still a child. He soon found a welcome home for himself and his family at Columbia.
Now, at age 78, Professor Tzagoloff is paving the way for the next generation of Columbia scientists while honoring the University’s distinguished past in biology. He recently established the Graduate Travel Fund with a $150,000 gift to the Department of Biological Sciences.
Tzagoloff himself was inspired by a high school teacher to study biology. After graduating from Columbia College in 1959 and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1962, he returned to his alma mater in 1977 as a professor.
He has fond memories of his years as a Columbia student, but regrets that he did not have the opportunity as a graduate student to attend professional conferences that serve as forums for the exchange and generation of ideas.
“That was a time of limited financial support of scientific research, and funds for student attendance at scientific meetings simply did not exist,” he said.
Professor Tzagoloff’s gift to the Department will help cover travel expenses for graduate students who wish to attend such conferences.
Tzagoloff says that his nearly four decades on the faculty of the Department “have been exceedingly rewarding to me scientifically, and hopefully also to the many students I have had contact with as a teacher and supervisor.”
The Department of Biological Sciences was established in 1966 when the Departments of Zoology and Botany merged. Tzagoloff made his gift in memory of Professor Cyrus Levinthal, a visionary scientist and dedicated educator who brought with him from MIT the emerging field of molecular biology, and played a crucial role in building the new department.
“I feel privileged to honor the memory of a legendary biologist and Columbian with whom I had a warm, personal, and scientifically nourishing relationship,” Tzagoloff said.
Tzagoloff currently serves as the Alan H. Kempner Chair in Biological Sciences. The chair was established by the wife and children of Alan H. Kempner, a 1917 College graduate, in honor of his 70th birthday and 50th reunion.
Tzagoloff established his own legacy through studies of the genetics and biogenesis of mitochondria, the power plant of cells. In 2010, his work earned him the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for lifetime contributions in the field of genetics from the Genetics Society of America. Morgan laid the foundations of modern genetics during the more than twenty years that he worked in Columbia’s Zoology department.
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Learn about precision medicine from faculty members who are leading the charge: Tom Maniatis, David Goldstein, and Wendy Chung.
Tom Maniatis Gives An Overview
Tom Maniatis, chair of the department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at CUMC and director of Columbia’s Precision Medicine Initiative, appeared in this video from Time.
David Goldstein on Genetic Diagnosis
David Goldstein, director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine, shares a story of challenging case: a toddler who had trouble walking, arm weakness, and vision problems successfully treated after advanced genetic testing revealed a surprise cause. Watch the video.
Wendy Chung on Clinical Genetics
Wendy Chung, Herbert Irving associate professor of pediatrics, discusses her genetic research and how it is changing the treatment of disease in this Q&A.
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Center for Science and Society
Featuring speakers from the fields of science, medicine, and the humanities.
Speakers:
David Goldstein, Professor of Genetics and Development and Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University
Johnathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University
Respondents:
Rachel Adams, Professor of English and American Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University
Ronald Bayer, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Yaniv Erlich, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
Gil Eyal, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Columbia University
Kathyrn Tabb, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Moderator:
Alondra Nelson, Dean of Social Science and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Columbia University.
February 18 5:15pm | Low Memorial Library
Cybersecurity experts from Columbia weigh in after recent terrorist attacks reignite the issue of government access to personal information.
Seismic signals should be bigger and indicate a similarity to earlier blasts, said scientists from Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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