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Jerome L. Greene Science Center Will Be Interdisciplinary Hub
A rendering of the future Jerome L. Greene Science Center as seen from West 129th Street and Broadway. On the right is a depiction of the science center as seen from a plaza on the Manhattanville campus.Now rising on the onetime site of parking lots and warehouses in Manhattanville is the University’s effort to recreate that kind of collaborative space in the Jerome L. Greene Science Building—not just for a single department, but for a wide range of disciplines related to neuroscience.
Charter Founder Is Named Education Commissioner
John B. King Jr., who credits teachers for helping him surmount an isolated childhood as an orphan in Brooklyn and who ran celebrated charter schools in New York and Massachusetts, was named Monday as the state’s next education commissioner, with a unanimous vote of the Board of Regents.
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Malcolm X scholar Manning Marable dies at 60
NEW YORK – Manning Marable, an influential historian of the black experience in the United States and the author of a forthcoming biography of Malcolm X, died Friday in New York. He was 60.
His wife, Leith Mullings, said Marable died from complications of pneumonia at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She said he had suffered for 24 years from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease, and had undergone a double lung transplant in July.
BAC Founder Garland E. Wood Memorial Service
Garland (“Gar”) E. Wood, an innovator in the municipal bonds market, passed away at his home in Weston, Connecticut on Monday, November 15, after a long illness. He was 66. Mr. Wood rose through the ranks at Goldman Sachs over a two-decade career, becoming the first black partner at the firm and one of the first in the financial services industry.
New dean of Barnard College announced, and it’s Avis Hinkson, BC ’84
Avis Hinkson, BC ’84, will step in as dean of Barnard in February, replacing Dorothy Denburg Hinkson spent the last six years at UC Berkeley as director of the Office of Undergraduate Advising, and before that, she worked at Mills College. From President Debora Spar’s email to the community:
Alumni Spotlight – Denise L. Pease
President Obama’s appointment of Denise L. Pease to serve as the Regional Administrator of GSA’s Northeast and Caribbean Region is now official. As the Region 2 Regional Administrator, Denise will oversee GSA’s work in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
At Columbia College, New Dean Is a Philosopher
Michele M. Moody-Adams will take over as the first female Black dean of Columbia College this summer.
March 12, 2009, New York Times
University Trustee Eric Holder Named Next U.S. Attorney General Nominee
University Trustee and alumnus Eric Holder ’73CC, ’76LAW is selected by fellow Columbia alumnus Barack Obama ’83CC to serve as U.S. Attorney General.
December 1, 2008, Columbia News
Columbia Alumni Purchase Mansion in the Bronx
A look at the home of Marcel Deans ’98CC and Sherrie Deans ’98CC.
December 27, 2007, New York Times
