Melinda Miller

Associate Director, The Center for Science and Society

Melinda Miller is the Associate Director of the Center for Science and Society and Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program, where she oversees the development and administration of the Center and its research clusters, Scholars, grant programs, activities, and events. Melinda received a Ph.D. in life sciences (neuroscience concentration) from The Rockefeller University and a BS in neural science and psychology from New York University. Her research examined individual differences in the brain and behavior in response to stress, which she studied in both animal models and human populations. Prior to joining Columbia University in 2015, she worked as a senior program manager at the New York Academy of Sciences, where she helped to develop, organize, and raise funds for scientific conferences and cross-disciplinary public events.

Email: [email protected]

Tel: (212) 854-7211

Darwin Eng

Business Manager, The Center for Science and Society

Darwin Eng is the Business Manager for the Center for Science and Society, where he is responsible for maintaining the Center’s finances and budgets, and serves as the primary HR point of contact. Darwin received his MA in English, and BA in English and Anthropology, both from CUNY Queens College. His research centered on the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in Asian American literature—in particular, the development of queer Asian American female identities in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats. Prior to joining the Center, he was Operations Manager at Global Risk Advisors, a consultancy firm focusing on cybersecurity and military and law enforcement training.

Email: [email protected]

Tel: (212) 853-1612

Roshana Nabi

Project Manager, The Center for Science and Society

Roshana Nabi is the Center for Science and Society’s Project Manager, responsible for supporting the Center’s research clusters, events, development, and outreach. Roshana has worked with non-profit organizations in both New York City and Geneva, Switzerland that promote corporate social responsibility, youth education and civic participation, and refugee resettlement. She has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Email: [email protected]

Jozef Sulik

Project Manager, Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, The Center for Science and Society

Jozef Sulik is the Project Manager for the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at the Center for Science and Society. Jozef provides administrative support and guidance to the Presidental Scholars, while also organizing the program’s event and seed grants. Over the past decade, Jozef has worked in higher education as well as talent management in the UK and the US. Previously, Jozef worked in the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at Harvard College, helping students navigate the University’s landscape of research and fellowships. He also worked as a talent agent in the UK, managing careers of news anchors, journalists, reporters, historians, economists, and other television and radio personalities.

Email: [email protected]

Tel: (212) 854-0666

Caroline Surman

Project Assistant, The Center for Science and Society

Caroline Surman is the Project Assistant with the Center for Science and Society and the Making and Knowing Project. She assists in planning events and programming – fulfilling her love of organization. She studied Anthropology with a minor in Environmental Science at Barnard College. She explored the ecological and social effects of New York City brownfield development for the Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation and completed her thesis on the role and goals of interfaith organizations in post-9/11 America. Caroline has conducted ethnographic research in Denmark, Sweden, and Turkey. Previously, she worked for Bank Street School for Children and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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Center for Science and Society Cluster Administrators

Skye C. Cleary

Associate Director, The Center for New Narratives in Philosophy, The Center for Science and Society

Skye C. Cleary is the Associate Director of the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy where she is responsible for programming and administrative support. She teaches at Barnard College’s Athena Center for Leadership Studies, Columbia University School of Professional Studies, and the City College of New York. She also is the Lead Editor of the Blog of the American Philosophical Association, the author of Existentialism and Romantic Love (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and she writes for The Paris Review, TED-Ed, Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon, Business Insider, and others. She received her Ph.D. and MBA from Macquarie University in Australia.

Email: [email protected]

Naomi Rosenkranz

Project Manager, The Making and Knowing Project, The Center for Science and Society

Naomi Rosenkranz joined the Making and Knowing Project in August 2015 as the Project Manager. She serves as the main administrative liaison, supports the historical reconstruction research, oversees the Project’s chemical laboratory, and maintains the digital collaboration systems. Naomi studied physics at Barnard College with minors in mathematics and Latin American/Iberian studies. She served as the inaugural Science Resident in Conservation with Columbia’s Ancient Ink Lab, identifying and characterizing ancient carbon-based inks. She continued her investigation of inks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, working with the departments of Scientific Research and Paper Conservation to examine medieval iron-tannate black inks through recipe reconstructions and spectral analysis of museum objects.

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Former Staff

Deborah Coen, Director of Research Clusters and Curriculum

Joseph Fisher, Administrative Fellow

Kelly Lew, Administrative Assistant

Claire Sabel, Project Manager

Hiba Seager, Administrative Assistant

Sedef Tinaztepe, Administrative Fellow