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VOL. 32, NO. 5 NEWS AND IDEAS FOR THE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY DECEMBER 4, 2006 Students CUMC LECTURE Tell Zvi, HIGH-FLYING WOMEN Challenge SCIENTISTS of Diversity “Stay Put!” in Health By Mary-Lea Cox

e promise not to Care complain about your e-mails if you is: stay!” read one of theW very first entries to the newly launched SaveZvi.com, a blog con- D structed by undergraduate engineer- By Keely Savoie ing students at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied he American population Science (SEAS) in honor of their has become increasingly departing dean, Zvi Galil. diverse, while diversity Meanwhile, in another part of among the nation’s med- the blogosphere, the BWOG icalT school students, professors and (sponsored by the undergrad physicians remains low. The result magazine The Blue and White) is a widening gap between the gen- posted the mass e-mail Galil sent eral population and health care out just before Thanksgiving, services, according to Donald including humor columnist Dave Wilson, director of the Program in Barry’s Thanksgiving spoof “Easy Minority Health and Health Turkey Recipe.” Disparities Education and Research Affectionately dubbing Galil the and former dean of the University “spam robot extraordinaire,” the of Maryland School of Medicine. BWOG writers noted that his idio- Wilson, who has the distinction syncratic e-mails are just one of being the first African American to head a non-minority medical SEAS Dean Zvi Galil school, made these remarks when hasn’t left yet but lecturing on the need for diversity in medical research and practice is already missed. on Nov. 27 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. example of what students will be SPECIAL SECTION, pages 4–5 Introducing Wilson, Lee missing when Galil returns to his Goldman, dean of the Faculties of native Israel to serve as president of Seven of Columbia’s women Health Sciences and Medicine, said Tel Aviv University. The announce- scientists recount their paths to that diversity is one of the most ment of his departure at the end of success: ROBIN BELL • PATRICIA important issues he wishes to take this academic year came in early CULLIGAN • GERALDINE DOWNEY on in his new role at Columbia. “I November. It sent ripples through • NORMA GRAHAM • DARCY want to make it a top priority here,” the entire University community, KELLEY • BEATE LIEPERT • said Goldman, who has served as where the charismatic engineering MAYA TOLSTOY dean since June. He also acknowl- professor has gained a huge follow- edged Jean Howard, Columbia’s ing over his 25 years of service, the first vice provost for diversity initia- last 11 as SEAS dean. BALLOONS ALOFT, INC. tives and co-host of the lecture. Beate Gertrud Liepert (center) was the “talk of As President Bollinger stated in CHAMPAGNE HOT AIR Wilson opened his remarks by the town” after taking New Yorker writer Nick a University-wide message: “I know BALLOON FLIGHTS referring to some stark statistics: Paumgarten on a balloon ride in August. CC Zvi’s leaving will not be easy for the PITTSTOWN, NJ white men outlive their black student Priya Jayasimha Murthy accompanied. many students, faculty and staff counterparts by an average of six who have thrived under his men- years; white women outlive black torship. In his years as dean, SEAS By Fred A. Bernstein for women scientists continues to be fraught with hur- women by four years. Moreover, has addressed the exponential dles. Many of them face choices—especially when work looking at potential years of life lost continued on page 8 eate Gertrud Liepert, a senior researcher at and family life conflict—that their male colleagues fre- due to suboptimal medical care, he Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observa- quently avoid. Even those without families say the road said that African Americans lose tory, spends much of her life in front of a com- to tenure can be especially difficult for women. At the twice as many years from their lives puter—except, that is, when she is floating in a Lamont-Doherty Observatory, the overwhelming as whites—which, he noted, comes Bballoon above New Jersey or walking the streets of majority of faculty members are men, while most of the as little surprise when you learn Manhattan checking pollution levels. She ventures out women (including Liepert) are researchers, a status that that 20 percent of blacks are on occasion on behalf of her pioneering study of lacks not only professorial perks but also job security. uninsured as compared to only 11 “global dimming,” a phenomenon by which pollution To address such disparities, Columbia’s women scien- percent of whites. prevents sunlight from reaching the earth’s surface. tists are working on developing a new kind of science: Wilson went on to cite a 2003 Liepert is one of hundreds of women scientists the science of diversity. Psychologist Geraldine Downey report from the Agency for doing cutting-edge work in Columbia’s laboratories organized a symposium on Nov. 17 as a platform for the Healthcare Research and Quality, and classrooms. They include (to name just a few) academic community to discuss advances in the study of which found unequivocally that Janet M. Conrad, a Harvard and Oxford-trained particle inclusive environments. Participants found that bias racial inequalities in access to physicist; Darcy Kelley, a neurobiologist studying the remains deep seated especially when women aspire to do health care exist but that our sex-linked vocal styles of African frogs; and astronomer jobs thought to be highly male. At the same time, they understanding of those disparities Jacqueline Van Gorkom, an expert in galactic structure. agreed that one of the most useful techniques for com- is limited by the lack of research But while their numbers are ballooning—and are bating this prejudice is the collection of basic data, such on the topic. Yet the 2004 report expected to do so even more thanks to the efforts of as the percentage of tenured faculty who are women. As by the Sullivan Commission on both Jean Howard, the vice provost for diversity initia- panelist Joan Girgus of Princeton put it: “People engage Diversity in the Healthcare

SEAS tives, and the scientists themselves—the road to success around data more easily than around principle.” continued on page 8

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RECENT SIGHTINGS MILESTONES

President LEE C. BOLLINGER was one of three members recently appointed to the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the largest and most important of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks. He was designated as a class C (from outside the banking community) director for a three-year term beginning Jan. 2007. His respon- sibilities will include approving the Bank’s budget and appointing its officers.

SUZANNE BAKKEN, alumni professor of nursing and professor of biomedical informatics, has received the 2006 Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award for her inno- vative use of PDA-based technologies in the care of underserved populations.

Several Columbians have been awarded Fulbrights. DENISE BURNETTE, professor of social work, will lecture in India on the development of social work programs. JOHN C. DINGES, associate professor of journalism, will HOLIDAY AT THE go to Chile to study journalism quality in Latin American countries. STEPHEN NICHOLAS, director of the HEIGHTS International Family AIDS Program and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics, will examine maternal- newborn HIV infection in the Dominican Republic. GARY Y. OKIHIRO, professor of international affairs, went to Japan in June to lecture on Asian American history. ROBIN R. SEARS, a research scientist in the Department of Environmental Research and Conservation, will travel to Peru to study sustainable development in Amazonia.

EILEEN BARROSO EDITOR’S NOTE Angelo Lisboa, Business ’07, with Alexis Stroud (left) and her older sister, Tamara An article in the Oct. 19 issue on Austin Quigley’s 10 years Taking advantage of its position at the northern pole of Manhattan, Columbia shifts into Santa mode during the holiday season with schools, at Columbia erroneously reported that Dean Quigley was departments and the President’s office holding gift-giving parties for children from Harlem, Morningside and Washington Heights. Ushering in this involved in the creation of the course Frontiers of Science, year’s season was Columbia Business School’s annual “Holiday Party for Kids” on Nov. 15. For one night, Uris Deli, the lobby and Hepburn Lounge jointly offered by Columbia College and SEAS, which chal- were transformed into a winter wonderland for nearly 200 children from youth centers throughout Morningside Heights. Local youth participated lenges students to understand the relationship between in activities such as decorating (and eating!) holiday cookies with the help of students, faculty and staff. Low Rotunda will be the scene of another the humanities and science. In fact, the course was solely such event on Dec. 5, when President Lee C. Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger host their annual gathering for faculty and staff, who are asked a faculty initiative, first proposed in 1983 and delivered in to bring an unwrapped gift for a child for distribution to community organizations. Meanwhile, over at the Medical Center, the Office of Government practice in 2003. As part of the Core Curriculum, it is not and Community Affairs is sponsoring its annual toy drive. Over 600 toys will be collected at departmental holiday parties, including the dean’s open to SEAS students, and its primary purpose is to offer holiday event, to be donated to local daycare centers, Head Start programs and after-school programs. a 21st-century scientific perspective on the universe. Can you tell me about the murals

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Dear Alma’s Owl, run by the Works Progress Administration Published by the Office of Communications In your peregrinations, do you ever get up (WPA) during the Great Depression, the murals and Public Affairs to Harlem Hospital, and if so, what’s the deal are treasured today both for their artistic merit with the murals? and for their important contribution to African — Harlem Explorer American history. Indeed, this body of art- t: 212-854-5573 work—which comprises mosaics, frescoes and f: 212-678-4817 Dear Explorer, oils on plaster and canvas attached to the wall—was the first major WPA commission to Columbia Record Staff A very discerning question! Few think to ask be awarded to African American artists, as well ASK ALMA’S OWL about Harlem Hospital as most are unaware of as the first to be supervised by an African Editor: Mary-Lea Cox Graphic Designer: Scott Hug its connection with Columbia. But like the American: Charles Alston, who attended Studies and the Office of Government and Staff Writer: Dan Rivero Jewish Theological Seminary, Teachers College Columbia College and Teachers College. Community Affairs, has created a Web site University Photographer: Eileen Barroso and Barnard College, Harlem Hospital Center The WPA gave artists creative freedom, telling the story of the hospital’s conservation Contact The Record: is a Columbia affiliate. It is affiliated through and under Alston’s direction, the Harlem work on the five murals that are still intact. All t: 212-854-3283 Columbia University Medical Center. Hospital team took full advantage, creating five must be removed to make way for the f: 212-678-4817 e: [email protected]

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TALK OF THE CAMPUS Compiled by Mary-Lea Cox Columbia’s Mount Rushmore Moment CUMC & NYPH: t was as close as it gets on the East Coast to having a Mount Rushmore moment: the sight of three presidents—Columbia SIMPLY THE BEST President Lee C. Bollinger and former heads of state Václav Havel and Bill Clinton—gathered on the stage of Roone IArledge Auditorium on Nov.15. The topic of the day was fittingly presidential: the challenges facing today’s emerging democracies, the theme of this year’s Kraft Family Fund event series. It was hard not to be impressed by these three figures, each of whom has in his own way contributed to the growth of democracy: Bollinger as a First Amendment scholar and national leader on freedom of speech and diversity in higher education; Havel as a trailblazer to the post-communist era in his native Czechoslovakia and the rest of Eastern Europe; and Clinton as a champion of democracy in the former Soviet bloc (offering former Soviet countries closer ties with NATO, for instance) and in Haiti. Bollinger pointed out that over the last hundred years, there have been 30 new democracies, many of which are still strug- gling to become viable. He said that Clinton and Havel, both of whom have made the transition from the “poetry of political change” to the “prose of governing,” were ideally situated to provide these fledgling democracies with advice. Havel said that the new democratic leaders should “think in terms of decades and act accordingly.” Clinton said that such leaders could find no better source of inspiration than Havel him- self, who, along with Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, MORGAN STANLEY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL changed the course of history through nonviolence. Eventually, the conversation came to rest on the challenge n a recent survey of New York City treatment of acute stroke patients. the United States is facing in trying to impose democracy on hospitals, New York magazine asked more than 1,000 physicians in the PARKINSON’S: Under the leadership of metropolitan area to choose the NOVEMBER 20, 2006 superstar doctor Stanley Fahn, the Itop 10 facilities across 10 “broad-care” Columbia program oversees more areas. New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH), which is affil- Parkinson’s patients than any other medical facility in the iated with Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) as city. The program is also distinguished for its well-funded well as with Weill Cornell Medical Center, was voted the best research labs, in which Fahn’s colleague, Blair Ford, has pio- for overall care, scoring a total of 5,088 points. (Runners-up neered “deep brain stimulation” (DBS) surgery. were Mt. Sinai with 3,298 points and NYU with 3,021.) In his introduction to the New York magazine’s cover story HEART SURGERY: Columbia offers state-of-the-art treatments reporting on these findings, heart specialist Sandeep Jauhar that have led to some of the lowest mortality rates any- said the survey results demonstrate the special advantages of where—no wonder Bill Clinton chose Columbia for his big teaching hospitals like Columbia’s. Such facilities consis- emergency triple-bypass. Columbia is further renowned for tently outrank their competitors, he said, because of their cardiac superstars Mehmet Oz, Craig Smith, Eric Rose and ability to offer greater numbers of experienced health pro- Jeffrey Moses. Earlier this year, NYPH/Columbia broke

EILEEN BARROSO EILEEN fessionals to diagnose patients’ illnesses and to consider the ground on Milstein Family Heart Center, a $250 million latest research on treatments. building in Washington Heights, which, when completed in Iraq, with Clinton delivering some hard-hitting prescriptions for The story went on to highlight Columbia’s achievements 2008, will be one of the most comprehensive heart facilities what the U.S. should do to rescue the deteriorating situation in in six subspecialties, as summarized below. in the world. that country as well as in Afghanistan. The conversation also had its lighthearted moments, such as ALZHEIMER’S: The Taub Center at CUMC has one of the GIVING BIRTH: More than half of Columbia’s OB/GYNs are when Bollinger asked the two leaders to comment on how to world’s largest Alzheimer’s DNA databases for studying the high-risk experts. Its neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU), morph from president to private citizen. disease’s secrets in search of a cure. located in the newly constructed Morgan Stanley Children’s “I made up my mind that I would not be someone who spent Hospital, participates in a unique high-risk-pregnancy the rest of his life wishing I were still president,” Clinton said. STROKES: Led by top stroke specialist Ralph Sacco, CUMC is program. “That seemed to be a waste and also an arrogant attitude.” conducting the Northern Manhattan Stroke Study, the first of Havel joked that in addition to being a pioneer for its kind to examine why Hispanics have the highest inci- PROSTATE CANCER: Columbia has distinguished itself democracy, he is also a pioneer for the Czech ex-presidency, as dence of stroke in the United States. Columbia is also the through specialist Daniel Petrylak’s recent discovery that most of the country’s leaders have died in office, been chased only hospital in New York City to be awarded a $12-million chemotherapy may be effective in severe cases as well as the out of office, or else left in disgrace. NIH grant for translational research on rapid diagnosis and research being conducted at its Center for Holistic Urology.

Samosas BULLETIN BOARD Instead of Sushi? Goldman Sachs report issued three years ago on the so-called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies predicted that in the next 25 years, India’s economy will outstrip Japan’s to become larger than Aall economies bar those of the United States and China. SCOTT HUG Columbia Business School put this provocative conclusion to the test when hosting major conferences on India and inflation but also “a variety of other shocks to the economy.” Japan in October. Anyone who was able to attend both events So will India catch up while Japan continues to grope would have come away thinking that, while India’s economy is toward a solution for long-term growth? Participants in the certainly gaining in strength, it’s still too early to say whether business school’s conference on India—held in partnership samosa stands will replace sushi bars in another 25 years. with SIPA in mid-October—said that while growth was indeed At the Oct. 26 conference held to commemorate the 20th the “India story” of the past few years, there is a question mark anniversary of Columbia Business School’s Center on Japanese over the emerging giant’s ability to sustain its momentum. Economy, participants agreed that Japan is now firmly on the Delivering the keynote speech, Indian Minister for road to recovery after nearly two decades in the doldrums. “It Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath said that hundreds of was a lost 20 years, and now we are back where we started,” said millions of rural poor have yet to experience the country’s Takatoshi Ito, professor of economics at the University of Tokyo. economic boom, a situation that has led to growing civil Speakers could not concur, however, on the durability of unrest. In his view, India’s continued success depends on Japan’s economic recovery. “The celebration is premature,” said whether it can achieve double-digit increases in manufactur- Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University Professor and Nobel laure- ing output—a policy that he said would have the added bene-

ate, noting that the government still needs to address not only fit of providing new job opportunities for agricultural workers. SCOTT HUG 4 DECEMBER 4, 2006 TheRe

According to Kelley, who edits the journal Developmental Neurobiology, frog research has produced some important insights into how sex differ- FACULT ences in brain function can affect social interactions. Kelley received her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Rockefeller University. At Columbia, she is the Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and a founder of the joint doctoral program in neurobiology and behavior with the Medical School. Colum Strongly committed to undergraduate teaching, she received a major grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2002 to help bring science education into the 21st century, which she used to help create a Hotshot new Core Curriculum course called Frontiers in Science. Scien Q.How did you first get interested in science? When I was 11, I read a book that described the discovery of insulin rue to their profession, wome A.by Canadian researchers. After that, I was hooked. Another key quality on full display at Co moment was the summer after my junior year in high school, when I attend- “science of diversity.” Women p ed a summer institute sponsored by the National Science Foundation on the Columbia joined forces with th biological basis of behavior. At Barnard, I focused on the interface between institutionsT to explore the results of th behavior and the brain. My interest coincided with the emergence of the of gender and racial discrimination in t field of neuroscience in the 1970s, when I was a graduate student. ings were distressing—proving that th participants said they took heart from k Once you decided to pursue scientific studies, what hurdles did you minorities are finally being collected in Q.face as a woman? It is therefore with some trepidatio No major hurdles, really. The generation of women that came before unscientific sampling of Columbia’s top A.me had paved the way for women to become academic scientists. ply, to put faces to the statistics. Who a Both men and women have been mentors for me, and I in turn serve as siderable odds to pursue high-powered mentors for both. did they have to overcome? And how do If there is a common thread to this Are there any innate differences between men and women, and how sion, it is that all seven women were on Q.does this affect their approach to the sciences? Columbia’s Vice Provost of Diversity In Boys engage in more rough-and-tumble play. Men are more variable: Howard is Columbia’s William E. R A.more mathematical geniuses (and madmen) but also more mathe- renowned Shakespeare scholar—she is MICHAEL DAMES matically mal-adept; taller and shorter; more fragile in terms of longevity. I’m women are doing behind the scenes not sure any of this translates into qualities that determine success in science. Bell, for instance, leads Columbia’s Na program to increase the number of wo DARCY B. KELLEY But do men and women approach scientific questions differently? Graham chairs the University’s taskforc Q. ing. Patricia Culligan chairs the Diver Interviewed by Fred A. Bernstein Men and women are socialized differently and do use some different Foundation School of Engineering a A.cognitive strategies in problem-solving. Happily, there are many ways Downey organized the November symp ne of Columbia’s most prominent women scientists, Darcy B. to solve problems that work well for both sexes. But what is perhaps even more imp Kelley is an expert on the singing styles of the males and females cause simply by being good at what of Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog. Through fieldwork in What suggestions do you have for recruiting more women scientists at potential to inspire other women to rea South Africa, she discovered that each sex has a distinct repertoire Q.Columbia? would—and hence raise the glass ceilin Oof songs used to signal such behaviors as receptivity and territoriality—the The problem for me is not so much women in science as it is the result of physiological differences controlled by secretion of the hormones A.public image of science. Science is hard and we need as many smart androgen and estrogen. people as we can get. LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY SEAS ROBIN E. BELL PATRICIA CULLIGAN NORMA G

POSITION: Senior research scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory POSITION: Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics POSITION: Professor, Dept. of Psycholog and director of the ADVANCE Program, Earth Institute SPECIALIZATION: Geo-environmental engineering, geotechnical centrifuge SPECIALIZATION: Visual perception, SPECIALIZATION: Sub-glacial environments; process-based studies of estuaries modeling, porous media flow and transport models of visual behavior and neuroph and rivers ORIGINAL INSPIRATION: I have always been interested in math and science EARLY INFLUENCES: Both my parents a EARLY INFLUENCES: Early in life, I became fascinated by Jacques Cousteau but was attracted by the idea of being able to build something. I also love entists. I remember my mother demon and spent much of my childhood underwater. Just before I went to college, the challenge of problem-solving—the harder the problem, the better. me (when she was teaching at Barnard I learned about Walter Pitman’s ocean floor research, and I suddenly real- Engineering therefore seemed a natural degree choice. my decision to do research on visual pe ized you could use physics to understand how the earth works. From then MENTORS: In my senior year at college, my fluid mechanics professor and I distinctly remember announcing, at on, I was hooked. my soil mechanics professor encouraged me to continue for a Ph.D., which going to be a scientist. PRIORITIES: I have been very fortunate to be at Lamont-Doherty Earth I did after a two-year spell in civil engineering practice. It’s no coincidence MENTORS: The trail to where I am no Observatory where my passion to understand the earth—involving scientific that my Ph.D. work involved research into fluid flow in soils. My parents made a difference along the way, some expeditions ranging from trips to the Hudson River outside my office to the have always encouraged and supported me, which I also think is important. pulling me away. My college, graduate deep interior of the Antarctic (I’ve led seven major expeditions to Antarctica)— HURDLES: In all of my work environments, I have been the sole woman or extremely supportive. has been supported, intellectually and financially, for over two decades. one of a handful of women. Any environment where you consistently find HURDLES: When I joined Columbia’s ps HURDLES: I’ve come to see that issues I used to think were the result of my yourself to be a minority can be awkward, discomforting and even sor 40 years ago, it had just started bein individual approach to science are actually systemic. Right now I am direct- sometimes dispiriting, regardless of your gender, race or sexual orientation. noting, though, that even here, progres ing the NSF-sponsored ADVANCE Program at the Earth Institute, which When I was younger, I got over these feelings by focusing on the many were no women or just one woman out seeks to increase the participation and advancement of women scientists exciting aspects of my career. With increasing age and knowledge of social now, we have been hiring half women and engineers at the University through institutional transformation. science research, I have become more aware of the impact that societal remains among faculty over 60. But th MALE VS. FEMALE APPROACH: The physics of the Earth—whether earth- preconceptions can have on career trajectories in the academy. Breaking figures: all seven faculty members olde quakes, volcanos or ice sheets—simply is not gendered. I also reject the idea down preconceptions about the prototype for a successful academic is a of around 20. that men and women scientists have different interests. One of the promi- greater hurdle, but one that I feel is faced by everyone who is committed to “HEADS UP” TO YOUNG SCIENTISTS: Se nent early physicists on the Manhattan Project at Columbia was Chien- a truly meritocratic academic system. ence in February for undergraduate Shiung Wu. She developed a process to separate fissionable uranium-235 THE COLUMBIA ADVANTAGE: Women scientists and engineers should pick careers in sciences, math and engineeri from uranium-238, a key step in accumulating uranium fuel for the bomb. Columbia for the same reasons that men do. It’s a vibrant, stimulating environ- balancing of work and personal life, an ACTION PLAN: When faculty search committees assemble candidate lists, they ment populated by talented colleagues and students. The hurdles faced by peo- paths in academic, industry and govern have a stereotype in mind of an eminent scientist, who is usually a man. We ple who don’t fit preconceived prototypes for success in science are the same COLUMBIA’S PROGRESS: There are som must get eminent women on the shortlists. Then comes the tricky step: search at Columbia as elsewhere. The Earth Institute’s ADVANCE program and Jean ancing life with work—where we may committees, which often assume that eminent women are not movable and Howard are spearheading efforts to increase awareness of these hurdles and and we are certainly behind the corpor simply do not ask them if they might be interested in coming to Columbia. hopefully to lay the foundation for a better work environment for us all. the recent efforts by Jean Howard and Record DECEMBER 4, 2006 5 TY Q&A GERALDINE DOWNEY Interviewed by Fred A. Bernstein

t the Social Relations Laboratory in Columbia’s Department of mbia’s Psychology, researchers study the ways individuals perceive and respond to rejection. While the work once focused on rejection by indi- viduals, it has expanded to include race and gender-based rejection. t Women AThe lab’s director is developmental psychologist Geraldine Downey. Born in Kilkenny, Ireland, Downey received her B.S. from University College, Dublin, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell. She taught at Michigan and ntists Colorado before coming to Columbia in 1991 as an assistant professor in the psychology department. Since 2002, she has served as department chair. en scientists tend to be data hounds, a Downey has conducted extensive research on sensitivity to rejection in olumbia’s Nov. 17 symposium on the the context of interpersonal relationships and institutional settings such as psychologists and neuroscientists from schools. She is an expert on the effects of stigmatization on mental health. heir counterparts from other academic he latest scientific studies on the causes As a young woman, were you encouraged to study science? the workplace. While many of the find- e glass ceiling is still firmly in place— Q. I attended an all-girls school in Ireland, where I was encouraged in all knowing that good data on women and my endeavors. At University College, I was on a science track and stud- n a systematic way. A. ied everything from biochemistry to computer science. Eventually, I decided n that The Record presents this rather on psychology, both because I was particularly interested in human behav- p women scientists. Our goal was, sim- ior and because a faculty member went out of his way to encourage me. are these women who have defied con- d careers in the sciences? What hurdles What hurdles have you faced in academia? o they feel about working at Columbia? s group other than gender and profes- Q. With a husband who is also an academic, I knew we would have to bal- n a shortlist provided by Jean Howard, ance two careers. One big help was that my graduate school adviser was nitiatives. While not a scientist herself— A. in a similar situation, and I saw that she and her husband could make it work. Ransford professor of English and a s grateful for the work many of these

Do you think women and men approach the sciences differently? BARROSO EILEEN to foster diversity at Columbia. Robin ational Science Foundation ADVANCE Q. It’s unclear whether there are any science-relevant differences, bio- omen scientists and engineers. Norma publishing are unnecessarily convoluted, requiring endless revisions many logical or otherwise, between the sexes. There are, perhaps, more ce on diversity in science and engineer- A. of which do not result in substantial improvements. This disadvantages women who are concerned with using science to improve the world rather rsity Initiatives Committee for the Fu everyone, but it may have a particular impact on women trying to balance than only to further scientific knowledge. But the place where biological and Applied Science, and Geraldine the pressures of career and family, and it may influence them at crucial differences really matter is in decisions about balancing childbearing and posium. turning points. rearing with the pursuit of tenure. As women enter their thirties, they face portant, all seven are aiding Howard’s critical choices that men don’t. they do. Their talents give them the How would you assess Columbia’s level of support for women in science? ach higher heights than they otherwise Q. What can be done to improve the situation for women scientists? ng a few more centimeters. Psychology is a very unusual department in that over a third of the Q. A.faculty are women. However, the historically low likelihood of getting Family-friendly policies, and the availability of infant care in particu- tenure becomes a factor when a woman in a junior faculty position has to — Mary-Lea Cox A.lar, are very important. Another concern is that proposal writing and decide whether to stay here or accept an offer elsewhere. EILEEN BARROSO EILEEN BALLOONS ALOFT, INC. LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY GRAHAM BEATE GERTRUD LIEPERT MAYA TOLSTOY gy POSITION: Research scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory POSITION: Research scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory human psychophysics, mathematical SPECIALIZATION: Global climate change, impacts of anthropogenic aerosols SPECIALIZATION: Marine geophysics, mid-ocean ridges hysiology and greenhouse gases on climate, global dimming, radiative measurements, EARLY INFLUENCES: My father and both of my older sisters are scientists. My and two of my grandparents were sci- climate analysis first high school physics teacher was fabulous and encouraging. Since then, nstrating colored visual afterimages to EARLY INFLUENCES: Growing up in a small village in Bavaria, I was never it has been family support and stubborn determination. and I was about 5). Perhaps this led to encouraged by anyone. I never had a role model, although I was fascinated HURDLES: I’ve seen it all: harassment, overt as well as subconscious bias, erception (though not color). That said, by Star Trek and adored Lieutenant Uhura, who was played by an African peers thinking women shouldn’t go to sea, and the challenge of juggling the time of Sputnik, that I was never American woman. I stumbled into the field and liked it immediately. motherhood with a hectic travel schedule and demanding workload. My HURDLES: Lamont-Doherty has about 30 faculty members, all but two of high school physics teacher screamed at me in front of the whole class that ow was long and twisty. Many people whom are white males. And then it has a big, much more diverse group of women don’t belong in physics when he discovered that I had applied to pushing me toward science and others researchers, all of whom support themselves by writing grant proposals. study physics at Edinburgh University. Even now, I’m not a professor, I’m a e school and post-doc mentors were Only four-and-a-half months of my annual salary as a senior researcher is research scientist—while the job has the same basic qualifications and day- guaranteed by the Observatory. (The junior scientists have three out of 12 to-day tasks as a professor, it is not as secure or privileged. As a member of sych department as an assistant profes- months guaranteed.) I have to raise the rest, plus 52 percent overhead, in the researchers’ caucus in the University Senate, I am working to improve ng very supportive of women. It’s worth order to get paid. People who can’t get proposals funded or can’t deal with the status of research scientists, who are disproportionately female. ss has been slow. Forty years ago, there the ongoing insecurity leave for other institutions with more secure jobs. FEMALE VS. MALE APPROACH: Women do not approach science any t of a total 15 or 20 faculty. For decades Furthermore, the federal government has cut funding for the earth sciences differently. The scientific method is sacrosanct. Women may, however, be n at each level, so the only imbalance by about 20 percent. That isn’t good for anyone, but it disproportionately better at interdisciplinary collaborations because they less commonly need hat imbalance still shows in our overall affects women because fewer of them have job security. to be the alpha-scientist on every project. Integrated research is the way of r than I are white males, out of a total LACK OF CRITICAL MASS: My field, atmospheric research, has long been a the future, so that skill should mean that women will become increasingly man’s world that feels unwelcoming to women. One reason is that, histori- successful. everal groups are sponsoring a confer- cally, it was tied to the military. Then, too, Ivy League universities tend to FEMALE VS. MALE INTERESTS: I think that women have equally broad sci- and graduate students, focusing on hire Ivy League graduates, which perpetuates the problem. At organizations entific interests as men. It is more socially acceptable for women to be in ing. There will be panels discussing the like NASA and NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Admini- nurturing fields, so you may be likely to find more women there because the nd comparing different kinds of career stration), a much higher percentage of climate scientists are women. environment is more welcoming. But high female student numbers in the nment. TAKING ACTION: We are now fighting for research professorships, which physical and earth sciences speak to a broad and increasing interest by me areas—in particular, support for bal- would put the research staff on the same level as faculty. Our director, G. women in these fields. y be lagging behind other universities, Michael Purdy, is spearheading the effort. RECOMMENDED MEASURES: Increased transparency; broadly defined, truly rate world. I am hopeful, however, that GLIMMER OF HOPE: About 50 percent of the grad students in my field are open faculty searches; proactive leadership; restoring integrity to the others will rectify the problem. women. But the question remains: how far will they get in the pipeline? process and setting consequences for departments failing in this regard. 6 DECEMBER 4, 2006 TheRecord

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ILAS Brownbag CERC Seminar Havel Special Chemistry LDEO Seminar “New York, Photography Anthropology Wayne Mayer of Event Colloquium Maria Uriarte New York” Exhibition Ph.D. student Duke U. speaks Final event in the Bristol-Meyers speaks on CU Wind Ensemble Last chance to Felipe Gaitan-Ammann takes on “The Piassaba Palm: Havel residency, featuring a Squibb mini-symposium on “Effects of Hurricane performs works by Bernstein, see “Forced Migration Track,” us back to the slave trade in Conservation and dialogue on human rights organic synthesis, with Robert Disturbance on the Dynamics, Schuman, Gershwin, Hagen, sponsored by the Heilbrunn early colonial Panama. Development in the Buffer between Wole Soyinka and Discordia of BMS and Justin Structure and Carbon Ewazen, Goldman and a world Department of Population 12:00–1:00 p.m. Zone of Peru’s Cordillera Azul President Václav Havel. DuBois of Stanford. 3:30 p.m. Sequestration Potential of a premiere by Michael and Family Health and by the International Affairs Bldg, National Park.” 4:00–5:00 Sponsored by the Center for Havermeyer Hall, Room 209. Caribbean Forest.” DiGiacinto. 2:00–4:00 p.m Global Health Forum. 5:00 Room 802. 212-854-5468. p.m., Schermerhorn Human Rights Documentation 212-854-2202. 12:15–1:15 p.m. Lamont- Miller Theatre. 212-854-7799. a.m.–11:00 p.m. Hess Extension, Room 1015. and Research. 10:30 a.m. Doherty, Seismology Seminar Commons. Statistics [email protected]. Miller Theatre. ccnmtl- Yule Log Room. [email protected] New Secondary Seminar [email protected]. Ceremony bia.edu. School Open Modern Italian With Ruey S. Tsay Film Screening Performed every House Studies Seminar of the U. of Chicago. The Manchurian “Plight of Black year by the Blue Key Society. Ancient Columbia Secondary School for Gabriella Gribaudi 12:10–1:00 p.m. 1255 Candidate (1962, Men” John Jay Hall lounge. Mediterranean Math, Science and Engineering of the University of Naples on Amsterdam Ave. (between U.S.). Directed by John With Ron Mincy of 7:00–9:00 p.m. Center Talk holds an admissions open “The Experience and Memory 121st & 122nd Sts.), Room Frankenheimer, starring Frank the School of Social Work. [email protected]. Three of the world’s leading house for sixth graders. of Violence in Total War: 903. 212-851-2132. Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Sponsored by CUSSW’s Black scholars on ancient medicine 3:00–5:00 p.m. Fu Foundation Southern Italy, 1940–44.” Angela Lansbury and Janet Caucus. 12:00–2:00 p.m. Film Screening speak on “Hippocrates and School of Engineering and 6:15 p.m. Conference Room, Premiere: The Leigh. Introduced by Tony 1255 Amsterdam Ave. (at Milou en Mai Hippocratic Medicine.” 9:30 Applied Science, 500 West 120 Casa Italiana. ruth.benghi- Mystery of Love Anemone of the New School. 121st St.), Room C03. Open (1990, France). a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 2:30 St. 212-678-8224. [email protected]. New PBS special 6:30–8:00 p.m. International to the public; RSVP required. French with English subtitles. p.m. Casa Italiana, 5th Floor exploring love’s many facets. Affairs Bldg, Room 1219. [email protected]. 7:30 p.m. Maison Française, Conference Room. 212-854- With Joan Konner, former J- [email protected]. East Gallery, Buell Hall. 212- 2306. school dean and the series’ “The Future of 854-4482. executive producer. Men’s Basketball the Internet” “Bach in 7:00–9:00 p.m. Graduate vs. Wagner With Tim Wu of Lorenzo Da Ponte Context” Series School of Journalism, The 7:00 p.m. Levien Columbia Law School. Concert The Orchestra of Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor. Gymnasium, Dodge Fitness Sponsored by Scientists and With James the Age of Enlightenment per- [email protected]. Center. Engineers for a Better Schaffner, tenor. 8:00 p.m. forms Bach’s wind sinfonias Society. 5:00–6:00 p.m. Teatro, Casa Italiana. Tickets: and Mozart’s Apollonian Alfred Lerner Hall, Roone $12; free for students. 212- Serenade. 8:00–10:00 p.m. Arledge Cinema. 854-1623. Miller Theatre. Tickets: $35. [email protected]. 212-854-7799.

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Statistics December Cool Rabi-Warner Stressbusters “Migrant Worker Editor’s Pick Seminar Down Concert Got knots? Enjoy a Rights in the LUCKY NUMBER 13 With Radford Neal Featuring fitness With ID-DINJA, free massage from UAE” of the Univ. of Toronto. gear giveaways, free back- program TBA. 12:15 p.m. the CU Stressbusters. With Sarah Leah Whitson of Two controversial digital-media artists have 12:10–1:00 p.m. School of rubs, free food and personal Faculty House. Open to the 12:00–2:00 p.m.Teacher’s Human Rights Watch. taken over the first-floor space at Casa Italiana: Eva Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam training evaluations. public; free admission. 212- College Cafeteria, 79 Grace 12:30–2:00 p.m. and Franco Mattes, the duo known as Ave., Room 903. 212-851- 12:00–2:00 p.m. Alfred 749-0800. Dodge Hall. International Affairs Bldg, 0100101110101101.org, which stands for the letter 2132. Lerner Hall, 2nd Floor Room 1118. “K” in computer binary code but which in the art Lounge. Book Talk Engineering [email protected]. world has come to refer to a new form of political Café Science Meet the authors Seminar activism known as “culture jamming.” Eat, drink and talk Music at St. of the Community C.Y. Hui of Cornell Memo The occasion is the opening of their second molecular science Paul’s College Resource Center’s speaks on “Bio-Inspired A one-act play by American showing of 13 Most Beautiful Avatars, a with chemist Colin P. Featuring the newest book, Defending the Fibrillar Interfaces for Contact Václav Havel, pro- series of digital photos that capture the most cele- Nuckolls. 5:00–7:00 p.m. Columbia University Orchestra. Community College Equity and Adhesion.” 2:30–3:30 duced and directed by the brated “stars” of Second Life, a 3-D Internet world PicNic Café, 2665 Broadway. 7:00–9:00 p.m. St. Paul’s Agenda. Co-editor and CCRC p.m. Seeley W. Mudd Bldg, School of the Arts MFA built and owned by over a million “residents” from Cover charge: $10 (includes Chapel. Free and open to the Director Thomas Bailey pro- Room 834. 212-854-3143. Theatre program. 8:00 p.m. around the globe. Participants connect with each one drink). public; children especially wel- vides a brief introduction. Schapiro Studio, 605 W. other via a massive multi-player online game. Using [email protected]. come. 212-854-0480. 3:00–4:30 p.m. Teachers Collins/ 115th St. mjr2133@colum- College Zankel Bldg, Room Kaufmann Forum bia.edu. (Closes Dec. 17.) over 200 settings, they create an avatar, or virtual self, ISERP Workshop Columbia 109. [email protected]. Andrew Dolkart of to maneuver around a virtual, 3-D landscape. Deborah Balk of University Columbia speaks on “New Protest The Matteses have been “living” in the Second Life Baruch/CUNY dis- Orchestra Salve Regina York: Vernacular City.” 6:15 A play by Vaclav world for over a year, exploring its terrain and inter- cusses “A Spatial Part of the Columbia The Grand Tour p.m. 612 Schermerhorn Hall. Havel, produced acting with its peculiar inhabitants. This show—the Understanding of Urban Performers Program. 8:00 Orchestra per- [email protected]. and directed by the School of result of what they call their “video game flanerie”— Populations.” 6:30–8:30 p.m. p.m. Miller Theatre. Free and forms the sacred and secular the Arts MFA Theatre pro- should be interesting to anyone intrigued by what it International Affairs Bldg, open to the public. 212-854- music of Baldassare Galuppi Women’s gram. Time TBA. Schapiro means to explore alternative lives in the virtual Room 801. 7740. and his contemporaries. 8:00 Basketball vs. Studio, 605 W. 115th St. sense, which for many people in our era has become [email protected]. p.m.Teatro, Casa Italiana. Wagner [email protected]. as normal as brushing their teeth. Tickets: $20; $10 for students 7:00 p.m. Levien Gymnasium, (Closes Dec. 17.) Open 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the show runs and seniors. 212-854-1623. Dodge Fitness Center. through Dec. 19. VIEWS ON THE NEWS

of an ambitious set of recommendations, ranging from reducing World AIDS Day 2006 the impact of prisons on the spread of HIV to improving the qual- ity of housing in poor communities of color, ultimately have an On Nov. 27, three days before World AIDS Day, , PLoS Medicine impact on the root causes of this epidemic? Only time will tell, but a journal published by the Public Library of Science, carried a for this disparate group of leaders to acknowledge that AIDS has study showing that HIV/AIDS will now join heart disease and become one of black America’s number one problems has to be stroke as one of the top three causes of death worldwide in the viewed as an important beginning. next 25 years. This year’s statistics uphold that grim prediction. The United Nations recently reported that an estimated 39.5 mil- Nabila El-Bassel, professor and director, Social Intervention lion people are now living with HIV, of which 4.3 million were Group, Columbia University School of Social Work: HIV/AIDS con- infected this year. There have been 2.9 million AIDS deaths in tinues to be one of the most devastating pandemics, and women 2006, the highest number reported in any year. now account for more than 50 percent of cases worldwide. AIDS spoke to two Columbia professors who do research The Record will continue to increase among women if access to women-spe- on HIV/AIDS to see what they think are the biggest challenges facing cific prevention strategies does not improve through addressing some of the epidemic’s most vulnerable groups in the year ahead. underlying problems such as gender inequality, lack of employ- ment resources, and the availability of women-controlled preven- Robert Fullilove, professor and associate dean, Mailman School tive devices such as microbicides, new forms of female condoms On November 16, 2006, my report examining of Public Health: and diaphragms. Researchers from the Social Intervention Group the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African Americans was published at the School of Social Work have been on the front line collabo- by the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) after having been rating with partners from Central Asia and China to scale up treat- reviewed and endorsed by a blue ribbon panel of African ment, care and prevention for women at risk for HIV/AIDS. American congressional lawmakers, civil rights leaders, public health officials, activists and researchers. Will their endorsement DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA DURBAN SOUTH TheRecord DECEMBER 4, 2006 7 BREAK TIME STAFF Q&A Picks for SARAH Presents CADDICK By Erich Erving Interviewed by Dan Rivero his season I’m considering donating a POSITION: cow, chicken or sheep to a needy fam- Executive Director, Columbia Center for ily or village in the name of my family Neuroscience Initiatives and friends. This is possible through THeifer International, a nonprofit that aims to end world hunger by supporting projects that LENGTH OF SERVICE: encourage self-reliance and sustainability. 1.5 years I guess because I was one of those kids who liked looking at creches, I love the idea FAVORITE QUOTE: of making a gift of livestock. But for those in “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this search of more personalized presents, then world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that why not contribute to the Morningside I was made for another world.” —C.S. Lewis Heights economy by shopping at some of these Columbia favorites: e all know that Columbia has MONDEL’S CHOCOLATES big plans for the study of mind, 2913 Broadway (at 114th St.) brain and behavior under the direction of Richard Axel, Mondel’s is the place to go for chocolate CHRIS TAGGART WThomas Jessell and Eric Kandel. Thanks to a Santas and other mouth-watering treats to stuff in the kiddies’ shoes on St. Nicholas Day generous gift earlier this year by Dawn M. “Networking is a dirty word in science, (Dec. 6). The chocolate tastes so divine that Greene and the Jerome L. Greene Science Katharine Hepburn once called it “the best Foundation, these pioneering neurobiologists but you know what? I’m really good at it.” in the world.” Need we say more? will establish a new center that houses the University’s ongoing initiatives into unlocking LIBERTY HOUSE the mysteries of brain diseases like Alzheimer’s been somewhere else—Thomas Jessell’s lab, with the female mentoring I’ve seen at 2878A Broadway (at 112th St.) and Parkinson’s. for instance—maybe it would have been dif- Columbia. At the same time, there are plenty As the Jewish folk song says, “it doesn’t mat- But few of us know the administrative cor- ferent. Back then, when people left the world of women here who choose to limit their ter whether you’re Socialist or religious.” tex behind Columbia’s world-renowned of science, they would torture themselves involvement with students. Some of the male Either way you can pick up great gifts for research into the human mind. Sarah Caddick with the idea that they were mediocre scien- faculty are dismissive of women who spend Chanukkah (starts Dec. 16)—Christmas, directs the Center for Neuroscience tists and couldn’t make the cut. When I look too much time teaching or mentoring. too—at this Upper West Side institution. Initiatives, the organizing arm for the back at my research and compare it to the Scientists are as driven as anybody on Wall What little child wouldn’t have hysterics over University’s current projects in this burgeon- people we’re trying to recruit now, I wouldn’t Street not to look weak. Still, there is a practi- a Sigmund Freud doll (only $20)? There is ing field. She is the go-to person for setting up make the cut. But I enjoy what I do now. And cal need to provide women scientists with also a wonderful selection of jewelry, natural- grant programs, connecting with other scien- it’s interesting because I suspect that many extra support for their dual roles. The best fiber clothing and craft items. And don’t for- tists, recruiting the next generation of faculty, former scientists feel the same as I do. Not example I’ve seen is German biologist get to buy your 2007 Peace Calendar. increasing research space and getting advice that we were mediocre scientists but that Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. She took her on fundraising. She recently directed the whatever we were doing probably wouldn’t money and put it in a foundation that dis- LABYRINTH BOOKS launch of www.neuroscience.columbia.edu to have worked out. burses grants to female faculty members for 536 W. 112th St. (at Broadway) showcase the work of faculty members the sole purpose of facilitating childcare. For the bookworms on your list, why not a engaged in various aspects of the neuro- Did you decide to go into the business work by a Columbia author? On a recent sciences. Amidst all this activity, she has also Q.world? It’s obvious that your training as a visit to Labyrinth, beloved of Columbians for found time to lobby for the creation of a neu- People assume I’ve done corporate. Q.neuroscientist benefits the people you providing an alternative to the campus roscience department, set to be approved by A.The truth is, when research stopped work with at Columbia. But what do you get bookstore, I found poetry collections by two the trustees this academic year. being fun, I didn’t know what to do. My out of it? of my favorite professors: Saskia Hamilton’s It’s natural to assume that Caddick holds father didn’t want me to leave but said that I enjoy the part that things get done, As for Dream and Mark Strand’s latest, Man an M.B.A., but she candidly admits she’s never people who make a difference in the world A.and then I can move on to something and Camel. Academic works by Columbians taken a business course. Rather, she is a are often in positions of policy or money, so else. Also, because of my training, I can rec- are well represented, too. trained neuroscientist who chose to leave a I explored alternative careers in science: ognize the potential for collaboration among career in research and experiment with tak- museums, journals, National Institutes of different scientists. Networking is a dirty MARTIN BROTHERS WINES ing a job in academic administration. Health and the American Association for the word in science, but you know what? I’m AND SPIRITS In late November, Caddick sat down with Advancement of Science. Then one morning really good at it. 2781 Broadway (at 107th St.) The Record to discuss her career transition as I was reading the New York Times classifieds In preparation for a round of “Auld Lang well as what it’s like to be a woman in a and decided to apply for a position at a can- Does your brain ever take a rest? Syne,” pick up a wee dram at Martin Brothers. male-dominated field. cer foundation to help build a new clinical Q. (If more than a wee dram is required, the program. That’s how I got into philanthropy It’s interesting you asked that ques- shop stocks three Macallan replicas: 1841, Was leaving research a difficult and foundations—and unexpectedly made A.tion. Growing up, Alice in Wonderland 1861 and 1876, each for around $200.) If Q.decision? my father proud. was my favorite book. As a child, I was quite you’re not a scotch drinker, Martin Brothers I came from England to do a one-year curious—and still am. My neurons are always has its own wine: Bellum. The first vintage, A.post-doc at Duke, and then I did Was being a woman in science difficult active. But I do take a rest from time to time. 2003, got good reviews, but the owners pre- another post-doc at the Medical College of Q.at the time? Theater—I’m a George Bernard Shaw fer the 2004 at $16. If nothing but cham- Virginia. Both were on biomedical research in I really had no female mentors until fanatic—is a passion, along with running pagne will do, splurge on the Krug 1990. epilepsy. The second lab was disastrous. Had I A.after I left research. I’ve been impressed marathons, painting and listening to jazz.

SENATE UPDATE Student Senators Weigh In on Free Speech and Manhattanville At a rare Thursday plenary on Nov. 16, the University Senate widespread student disaffection with the adminstration’s One was a committee decision by majority vote to consider took no actions but talked a lot—prompted mainly by student Manhattanville communications: “Students are. . . skeptical of secretly recorded tapes in grievances but only if they bear on a caucus reports addressing free speech and condemning Columbia’s intent and question its sincerity and genuineness.” crucial issue and only if other evidence is not determinative. administration communications about Manhattanville. The report, which Gaston described as a “qualitative” assess- Also discussed were the unregulated practices at some uptown The first report, from student co-chair Christopher Riano ment of student sentiment, cited very few examples. It drew schools of changing the appointments of tenure-track faculty (GS), included as an appendix a resolution from 1970—the sharp rebukes from Sens. Peter Strauss (Ten., Law) and Bradley from 12 to 9 months, and of allowing outside funding of faculty Senate’s first year—affirming free speech at Columbia. On that Bloch (Alum.) as well as an equally sharp defense from Sen. salaries apart from the Medical Center’s grant procedures. The occasion, the impetus was a disruption by Columbia students Nancy Worman (Fac., Barnard), who criticized the latter practice, known as “pass-through” funding, was recently of a speech by San Francisco State University President S. I. Manhattanville presentation at the Oct. plenary as “lacking in banned. The committee also reported disagreements with the Hayakawa. Riano said that before seeing the 1970 resolution, transparency, quite obfuscating.” provost about jurisdiction over salary grievances and about the his caucus had adopted a similar statement in response to the President Bollinger expressed “surprise” at the report, best procedure for determining a donor’s intent when there are Minutemen event of Oct. 4, which ended abruptly after chant- offering to meet with student groups. “How can we all accom- disputes about appointments to named chairs. ing protesters climbed on stage with banners. Riano said that plish what is a very important and difficult goal of becoming Most Senate documents are available online. The next plenary the caucus achieved a majority but no consensus for its reso- more a part of the communities of our area?” he asked. “I will be on Dec. 8 at 1:15 p.m. Anyone with a CUID can attend. lution, which condemned any effort “to take away someone don’t know of any other university, except one or two per- else’s right to express their opinions.” Two dissenters, John haps, that is undertaking this kind of venture. And so we ask Johnson (Law) and Tiffany Davis (CC), expressed reservations the students—I ask the students—to work with us, and tell us The above was submitted by Tom Mathewson, manager of the about unqualified application of the principle of free speech what you think ought to happen.” University Senate. His column is editorially independent of The to invited speakers in an academic setting. A Faculty Affairs report, presented by co-chair Robert Pollack Record. For more information on the Senate, go to: The second report, from Kimberly Gaston (SW), identified (Ten., A&S/NS), listed policy issues raised by recent grievances. www.columbia.edu/cu/senate. TheRecord SCRAPBOOK DECEMBER 4, 2006 8

2. TIM DAVIS, Seven Entertainers, 2002 1. DANIEL BOZHKOV, Advanced Swedish for Beginners (detail), 2005 The Empire Strikes Back

otice to all victims of burnout: shut down your machines and reboot your artistic drives. The remedy to your cubicle fatigue is at hand. For your visual stimulation, The Record presents a selection of works from the current shows at the Wallach 8. ELY KHAN, 1450 Broadway—The Continental Building (sketch), 1930 GalleryN in Schermerhorn and the LeRoy Neiman Gallery in Dodge Hall. At the Wallach now is a stunning display of works showcasing architect and Columbia graduate Ely Jacques Kahn (1884–1972), taken from the col- lection at Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. Kahn dedicated his life to transforming New York into a modern city of art deco splendor that could stand as a symbol of American power and financial clout. Little did he realize that his cherished ideals would become fodder for 21st- century artists exploring the evils of empire—as many of the artists fea- tured in the LeRoy Neiman show Dead Serious appear to be doing. The exhibit features a range of works that rely on biting humor to engage viewers in a critical dialogue about how we structure our world. While many of these pieces go beyond the surface, they can also make one nos- talgic for more innocent times—when architects like Kahn literally had a ball dressing up as their most famous buildings (see #7). The Wallach 3. ADAM SCHREIBER, New Balance (detail), 2006 7. Society of Beaux-Arts Architects Ball (Ely Khan third from left), 1931 show runs until Dec. 9 and the LeRoy Neiman show until Dec. 12.

6. Kahn & Jacobs’ company brochure (1407 Broadway cover), 1963

4. PETER COFFIN, Untitled (Robin Williams and Koko Tickling), 2006 5. DANIEL BOZHKOV, Advanced Swedish for Beginners (detail), 2005 DEAD SERIOUS PHOTOS BY JOANNA EBENSTEIN ELI KHAN PHOTOS BY SCOTT HUG

Zvi Galil Donald Wilson continued from page 1 continued from page 1 growth of technology and its interdisciplinary impact Workforce was met by “deafening silence,” Wilson said. by forming partnerships with other schools and The report, entitled Missing Persons: Minorities in the departments within the University.” Health Professions, provided detailed recommenda- Galil told The Record that the Tel Aviv University tions to Congress on how to increase the representa- presidency was “like a call to duty” as well as the tion of minorities in the nation’s medical, dental and “closing of a circle” given his strong personal ties to nursing workforce. Past reports on nationwide med- the institution. ical problems, Wilson said, were met with legislative “My late father was one of its six founders, I earned my demands for change. B.S. and M.S. degrees there, and I met my wife there,” he In Wilson’s view, the time for debating the issue of explained. “I served on its faculty full time for six years diversity in health care is over. It is no longer an option and jointly with Columbia until I became dean.” Thus he but a necessity, he said, given the country’s changing could hardly resist an opportunity to help the institution racial composition. Quoting English novelist Aldous “realize its full potential as the premier university in Israel Huxley’s saying that “facts do not cease to exist because and in the top tier of universities worldwide.” they are ignored,” Wilson noted that by 2030, half of the But if the decision was obvious, it was far from easy. American population will consist of ethnic minorities, The engineering dean, who also occupies two named which makes it imperative to tackle the need to chairs—the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro professor and improve minority health care right away. Julian Clarence Levi professor of mathematical He added that engendering diversity among medical methods and computer science—doesn’t hide his sen- professionals is not just about improving the nation’s timents for Columbia, stressing in several recent com- physical health; it is also about strengthening its eco- munications how much he has “enjoyed working with nomic base. “Unhealthy adults are poor workers, and Columbia’s great faculty, terrific students, excellent unhealthy students are poor students,” he said, going on staff and loyal alumni and parents, many of whom are to warn that “as a nation, we ignore diversity at our peril.” now close friends.” Galil will clearly miss Columbia, but Columbians WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? CUMC’s Andrew Marks is already making headway in may miss him even more. In the coming months, mem- diversifying the medical school applicant pool through bers of the Web-based Save Zvi Movement can be HINT: It’s indoors and on Morningside campus, albeit seen from a fresh per- his summer program for minority undergrads. Learn expected to intensify their campaign to thwart the spective. Can you guess what it is? Send answers to [email protected]. more from the video feature on the Columbia news site: dean’s plans to leave on the strength of the argument First to e-mail us the right answer receives a RECORD mug. www.columbia.edu/cu/news/media/06/447_Columbia that “we love Zvi more than Tel Aviv does.” ANSWER TO LAST CHALLENGE: Trusset from GSAPP’s 125th. Winner: Josh Hirschland, CC’08 ResearchFellowship/index.html.