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VOL. 33, NO. 1 NEWS AND IDEAS FORTHE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 Breaking Oliver Sacks News From Joins Columbia NEW LEADER In Science Bone Study And Arts By Susan Craig By Bridget O’Brian ones are typi- cally thought of FORAFRICA liver Sacks, the best- as calcified, selling author and inert structures, renowned neurolo- Bbut researchers at gist who has been Columbia University Odescribed as “the poet laureate of Medical Center (CUMC) INSTITUTE medicine,” has joined Columbia have identified a sur- University. prising and critically Sacks will be a professor of clin- important new func- ical neurology and clinical psychi- tion of the skeleton. atry at the Columbia University They’ve shown for Medical Center and also will be a the first time that Columbia artist, a new designation the skeleton is an at the University. He will continue endocrine organ that helps to see patients at the neurological control sugar metabolism and psychiatric institutes and also and weight and, as such, will be involved in training stu- is a major determinant in dents. His appointment was the development of type effective July 1. Sacks will give 2diabetes. his first Grand Rounds lecture to The discovery revealed the faculty and students of the that the skeleton helps Department of Psychiatry on Sept. 7. coordinate the regulation of In his new appointment, Sacks insulin. The breakthrough may becomes a one-man embodiment have major implications for the of the multidisciplinary scholar- treatment of the most common ship that has been a priority of form of diabetes. The Columbia discovery “com- pletely changes our understanding of the function of the skeleton and uncovers a crucial aspect of energy metabolism,” said Gerard Karsenty, chair of the Department of Genetics Diabetes treatment may hingeon our skeletons. and Development at CUMC, and Paul Marks, professor in the basic

sciences and senior author of the BARROSO paper. “These results uncover an BARROSO EILEEN important aspect of endocrinology

that was unappreciated until now.” EILEEN Published in the Aug. 10 issue of Columbia President Lee C. Cell, the research demonstrates that Bollinger.As Bollinger told The bone cells release a hormone called MAMADOU DIOUF New York Times last week, this osteocalcin, which controls the regu- exemplifies the University’s effort lation of blood sugar (glucose) and By Melanie A. Farmer to bridge the gap between the fat through synergistic mechanisms study of neuroscience and other not previously recognized. Usually, rom Senegal to Harlem, Mamadou Diouf is taking where he was a member of the history department. disciplines in which scholars an increase in insulin secretion is aglobal approach as he gears up for his first aca- “It is important for me to make sure that we con- work to understand human behav- demic year as the new director of the Institute of vene regularly our people working on Africa to shape accompanied by a decrease in insulin ior, including economics, social African Studies. the Africa program, to shape our African activities,” sensitivity. Osteocalcin, however, science, law and the arts. F Diouf, 55, joins Columbia as the University said Diouf, who underscored the importance and increases both the secretion and sen- Sacks comes to Columbia after amplifies its teaching urgency of working sitivity of insulin, and boosts the and research on Africa. on identifying all of 42 years at the Albert Einstein number of insulin-producing cells President Lee C. “I think it is impossible to have a Columbia’s Africa-related College of Medicine, where he was while reducing stores of fat. Bollinger has hailed courses as well as all aclinical professor of neurology. An increase in osteocalcin activity Diouf’s hiring as program like ours here and not faculty members and While he describes himself as “a prevents the development of type 2 acritical step in parties who are interest- relatively solitary figure,” in recent diabetes and obesity in mice, the Columbia’s African be involved with Harlem.” ed in Africa. “The integra- years he grew more interested in research shows, opening the door to endeavors, which tion is important.” working with colleagues and eager new therapies to prevent and treat include programs and initiatives at the Earth Institute, Diouf also will inaugurate the teaching of African “to return to some of the teaching type 2 diabetes. the Mailman School of Public Health and the studies in the Department of Middle East and Asian Iloved and of which I haven’t had Diabetes affects an estimated Committee on Global Thought, among others. Diouf Languages and Cultures. “The addition of African stud- much lately.” seven percent of the U.S. popul- comes to Columbia from the University of Michigan, ies will allow us to begin the truly exciting task of His new position will be “sort of continued on page 6 continued on page 4 continued on page 4

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ON CAMPUS MILESTONES

University Professor JAGDISH BHAGWATI received this year’s Thomas C. Schelling Award, presented each year by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to an intellectual whose body of scholarly work has had a transformative impact on public policy. Bhagwati received a$25,000 prize as part of the award.

MICHAEL J. MACKENZIE,an assistant professor at the School of Social Work, will participate in the two-year Leaders for the 21st Century Fellowship program run by Zero to Three, the National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, which is dedicated to the healthy development of young children.

The Caribbean Studies Association presented STEVEN GREGORY with the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship for his book The Devil Behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic. Gregory is an associate professor

CHARLES MANLEY of anthropology.

SUDHIR VENKATESH,aprofessor of sociology, received THE WHITE COATS ARE COMING the 2006 C. Wright Mills Award for his book Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor. On Aug. 24, the medical and dental school students of the class of 2011 received their white clinical coats and publicly declared their The annual award, established in 1964, is presented by intention to practice medicine— “in uprightness and honor”— by reciting the Hippocratic oath before family,friends and faculty.This annu- the Society for the Study of Social Problems. al rite of passagewelcomes the students and emphasizes the importance of compassionate patient care and scientific proficiency.The first white coat ceremony, in 1993, was the brainchild of Arnold P. Gold, M.D., a professor of clinical neurology and clinical pediatrics at ESTER FUCHS and ERIC VERHOOGEN are the recipients the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and his wife, Sandra O. Gold, Ed.D.Before then, students didn't get their white coats until their of the 2006-2007 School of International and Public second year,and didn't take the Hippocratic oath until graduation. The white coat ceremony has now spread to more than 130 schools Affairs’ teaching awards. Fuchs is a professor of urban of medicine, dentistry and osteopathy throughout the United States and internationally. politics and urban economic development; Verhoogen is an assistant professor of economic development.

KENNETH D. CREWS,former director of the Copyright Gridiron Management Center at Indiana University, was named director of Columbia’s new Copyright Advisory Office, which will provide educational and consultativesup- port on copyright issues arising in the creation of orig- Glory Days inal works by members of Columbia University. He USPS 090-710 ISSN 0747-4504 starts the job Jan. 1, 2008. Vol. 33, No. 1, Sept. 6, 2007 Dear Alma’s Owl, Columbia is better known for HARVEY GOLDSCHMID,Dwight Professor of Law at academics than for football. Has that Published by the Columbia, has been named to the board of the new Office of Communications and always been the case? Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Public Affairs FINRA was formed July as the successor to the National Dear Football Fa n, Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the member Ilove football and never miss a home ASK ALMA’S OWL regulation and enforcement arm of the New York The Record Staff: game (away games make my wings ache). Stock Exchange. FINRA will function as the new regu- Columbia was still on 49th Street in latory body for securities firms in the United States. Editor: Bridget O’Brian 1870 when students participated in the Graphic Designer: Nicoletta Barolini Senior Writer: Melanie A. Farmer school’s first game against Princeton; The World Health Organization has named RICHARD University Photographer: Eileen Barroso Columbia lost 6-3. M. GARFIELD,Henrik H. 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When Montgomery died twoyears ago of American Music at Columbia, will take over as direc- game losing streak. at age 94, his daring feat was noted in the tor of the Center for Jazz Studies. He will replace the Over the years, Columbia’s playing The Record welcomes your input for news first paragraph of a lengthy New York center’s founder, Robert O’Meally, who is stepping fields have seen the likes of Sid items and staff profiles. You can submit Times obituary. down from the position to return to teaching full time Luckman, a future NFL Hall of Famer, your suggestions to: By Erich Erving as a professor of comparativeliterature. and Jack Kerouac—who was recruited [email protected] for his football prowess, not his poetry, Send your questions for Alma’s Owl to and later dropped out. Fullback Lou [email protected]. The Record SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 3

TALK OF THE CAMPUS University To Reduce

Emissions Nathaniel Persily

By Barbara King Lord Christopher Brown

tapress conference June 6 with Mayor Bloomberg, Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger joined eight New York-area college and university presidents in pledging to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 Sarah H.Cleveland Apercent over the next 10 years. Now comes the hard part. Each school must take an inventory of its emissions and José Ocampo Carol Becker develop a plan to arrive at the reductions. “We have a concerted, University-wide effort under way to gather the data needed to establish a baseline for our energy usage,” said Nilda Mesa, director of the Environmental Saskia Sassen Stewardship Office, which is coordinating the effort. The data-gathering project, which is expected to take a year, is the latest phase in Columbia’s many initiatives to make the University greener. In addition to creating the Department of Environmental Stewardship in 2006, it previ- ously announced plans for three new environmentally John Coatsworth friendly buildings, reductions to electricity use, and Columbia’s first green dorm, which will become a model for Massimo Morelli other dorms. Columbia’s efforts dovetail with the city’s own environ- mental plans. In December 2006, Mayor Bloomberg announced his PlaNYC sustainability initiative which included a proposal to reduce the city’s carbon emissions 30 New Professors Named for ’07-’08 percent by 2030. The PlaNYC Challenge with local colleges and universities has an accelerated pace for By Record Staff emission reductions, aiming to cut them by 30 percent in only 10 years. In addition to Columbia, the other schools that have made This is a small sample of this year’s new faculty members. commitments are Barnard College, Cooper Union, City University of New York (which CAROL BECKER and political economy at Ohio State University. He has taught has 23 campuses), Fordham University, New Dean and Professor of the Arts at IowaState University and the University of Minnesota. York University, Pratt Institute, St. John’s University, and The Named dean of the School of the Arts in June, Becker joins Morelli’s most recent research projects include conflict and New School. legislative bargaining experiments. At Columbia, the “30 in 10” effort will focus on four areas: Columbia from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, electricity and heating oil purchased by the University; vehi- where she was dean of faculty and senior vice president of aca- JOSÉ OCAMPO cles owned by Columbia or driven by staff; students and fac- demic affairs. Prior to that, Becker taught at the University of Professor of Professional Practice in International ulty; solid waste sent to landfills instead of being recycled; California, San Diego; San Diego State University; Northeastern and Public Affairs Illinois University; and Ionian University in Corfu. Her research and refrigerants. Ocampo will teach in the Ph.D. program in sustainable interests include feminist theory, American cultural history, the Gathering the baseline data is an enormously complex development and play an active role in the Committee on education of artists and South African art and politics. effort, requiring meticulous record-keeping from a variety Global Thought. Ocampo served in the government of of sources. CHRISTOPHER L. BROWN Colombia in several different positions, and was United Eloise Paul, assistant director of special Visiting Professor of History Nations under-secretary-general for economic and social projects, real estate, is assessing energy use Brown, who comes to Columbia from Rutgers University, affairs and executivesecretary of the Economic Commission by the many buildings that Columbia owns specializes in the history of the British Empire in the early for Latin America and the Caribbean. and leases. “These buildings have different modern era and in the comparative history of slavery and NATHANIEL PERSILY methods of delivering energy to tenants,” abolition. His published works include Moral Capital: Professor of Law she said. “We’vehad to rely on the goodwill Foundations of British Abolitionism and Arming Slaves: From of the landlords and building managers to help us dig up that ClassicalTimes to the Modern Age.His current projects include Persily is an expert on voting rights and election law and data.” one on the British in Africa in the era of the Atlantic slave trade has been sought by courts and legislatures in redistricting Columbia will work with the mayor’s office, the other and the other on the British planter class in the cases. He comes to Columbia from the University of schools, and the International Council for Local era of emancipation. Pennsylvania and has been a court-appointed expert for redis- Environmental Initiatives, an organization that helps munic- tricting cases in Georgia, Maryland and New York. ipalities around the world with technological and training SARAH H. CLEVELAND support for their sustainability efforts. Louis Henkin Professor in Human SASKIA SASSEN Mesa notes that she’s working with faculty who are lead- and Constitutional Rights Lynd Professor of Sociology ers in the field “to make sure that whatever is done is done Cleveland, who will also co-direct the School of Law’s Sassen is an expert on cities, immigration and states in the right.” For example, David Major,asenior research scientist Human Rights Institute, previously taught at the University of world economy.Her many books on these topics havebeen Texas School of Law,where she also served as faculty director translated into 16 languages. Sassen comes to Columbia from of the Transnational Worker Rights Clinic and led a student the University of Chicago, and is also the Centennial Visiting investigation of working conditions in the Cambodian gar- Professor at the London School of Economics. ment industry in Phnom Penh. Cleveland was one of five GARY SHTEYNGART experts on the Afghanistan Transitional Commercial Law Assistant Professor of the Arts in the Writing Division Project Working Group, a project sponsored by the American Bar Association. Shteyngart is the author of the novels Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, which both received numer- JOHN COATSWORTH ous awards. His fiction and essays have been in The New Yorker, Acting Dean and Professor at the School Esquire , GQ, The New York Times Magazine and many other of International and Public Affairs publications. He is a contributing editor to Tr avel & Leisure Coatsworth, a former president of the American Historical and previously taught at Hunter College. Association, is the author or editor of seven books and articles MATTHEW WAXMAN

REED on Latin American economic and international history.He

ED Associate Professor of Law comes to Columbia from Harvard, where he was the founding Mayor Bloomberg,flanked by Bollinger and Pratt’s president Waxman most recently served as the principal deputy direc- director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Thomas F. Schutte, at the June 6 press conference tor of the policy planning staff at the Department of State. He Studies from its creation in 1994 until 2006, and also chair of spent nearly twoyears in a Pentagon post created to address at the Columbia Center for Climate Systems Research, has the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights the problems raised by the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal assisted the city’s Department of Environmental Protection Studies. Coatsworth was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation in Iraq and pushed for new Pentagon standards on handling with similar efforts and will be helping to review the Fellowship in 1986. terror suspects to include language from the Geneva Columbia inventory. MASSIMO MORELLI Conventions that bars cruel, humiliating and degrading “This brings it full circle,” Mesa said. “It is our own faculty Professor of Political Science and Economics treatment. in many instances who first researched and discovered the extent of climate change, its workings and impacts, and are Before joining Columbia, Morelli was an associate professor now also looking for potential solutions.” of economics and political science specializing in game theory 4 SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 The Record

FACULTY PROFILE Sacks continued from page 1 New Leader for an intermediary between art and science, although that sounds awfully grandiose,” Sacks Africa Institute said. In coming to Columbia, he will pursue his continued from page 1 longtime interest in schizophrenia, and in that vein, he plans to see patients and consult with reconstructing the historical linkages across these regions,” Columbia’s experts in the fields. Dr. Jeffrey A. said Sheldon Pollock, the department chair. Nicholas Dirks, Lieberman, the Lawrence E. Kolb Chairman of vice president for arts and sciences and professor of anthro- Psychiatry at Columbia’s College of Physicians pology and history, praised Diouf for his commitment to the and Surgeons and himself a specialist in schizo- development of African studies across the social sciences, pol- phrenia, said he and his colleagues are “thrilled” icy studies, the humanities and the arts. at Sacks’ appointment. “We are looking forward Educated principally in France, Diouf is a renowned West to collaborating with him to elucidate mental ill- African scholar who has taught in his native Senegal at the nesses through his writing. Our psychiatry University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar and guest-lectured at trainees, and those in neurology as well, will many European and American universities. He served as direc- greatly benefit from his insight and experience.” tor of the research and documentation program of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Indeed, Sacks has many admirers at the Africa (CODESRIA). At Michigan, he also served in the Center University. “He writes beautifully, and thinks for Afro American and African Studies. Diouf’s research and extremely well about the brain,” said University teaching focuses on urban, political and cultural history in Professor Eric Kandel, a Nobel laureate in medi- colonial and postcolonial Africa. His appointment is in the cine who strongly encouraged Sacks’ move to Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures. the University. “I thought he would be ideal for He will teach a graduate course on Pan-African studies this fall. Columbia,” Kandel said, adding, “This is like a His appointment returns the institute to the School of candy store for him.” Recently, Kandel and Sacks International and Public Affairs, where it was suspended in the together interviewed a woman who had musical 2006-07 academic year as the school searched for a new full- hallucinations. “He does not do quantitative sci- time director to succeed Mahmood Mamdani, a professor of ence, not in the conventional sense, he picks up anthropology who returned full time to teaching. Since joining on themes,” Kandel said. “He often starts with a BARROSO Columbia in July, Diouf’s top priority has been to ensure the neurological problem which has interesting psy- reopening succeeds, and to that end, he plans to reach out to chological implications.” EILEEN other Africa-related organizations and programs at Columbia, The London-born, Oxford University-educat- Excerpts have appeared in The New Yorker, where he is a in New York City and at other universities. The institute must ed Sacks, 74, discussed his new job on a recent morning. He contributing writer, along with Columbia’s Nicholas also work with nearby Harlem, he said. wore a blue Columbia T-shirt and sipped from a Columbia Lemann, dean of the Journalism School, and Orhan Pamuk, “I think it is impossible to have a program like ours here mug. “In an odd way I really sort of skirted and flitted around who won last year’s Nobel Prize in literature and holds and not be involved with Harlem,” said Diouf, emphasizing the academia for the last 40 years,” he said. He became a writer, natural bridge between the institute and a vital community of an appointment in Middle East and Asian Languages in part, because he’s incapable of seeing a patient or scien- African Americans and African immigrants. He hopes to estab- and Cultures. tific phenomenon without wanting to know the story lish a significant connection between Columbia and Harlem to Sacks’ move to Columbia is another example of how arts behind it. “For me, interest in science has been inseparable discuss such topics as African influences in black American and sciences can work together. Several years ago, Gregory culture, how Africa is represented there and how the two cul- from stories.” Mosher, director of Columbia’s Arts Initiative, heard from a tures intersect. Although he has had no formal writing training, “apart mutual friend that Sacks might be interested in exploring a Columbia’s location in New York City makes it ideally from the occasional itinerant meetings with writing classes,” role at Columbia. Mosher made some calls and before long situated to pull together the diverse groups involved with he said, Sacks is the author of 10 books, most of them best- the idea of Sacks’ move to Columbia took on momentum. Africa, he added. sellers. Awakenings was turned into a movie starring Robin Sacks’ “ability to cross over the arts and cultural life and sci- Students and curriculum are also at the top of Diouf’s list Williams and Robert De Niro. His latest book, Musicophilia: entific life will be wonderful,” Mosher said. “He doesn’t divide of priorities, and he recognizes the challenge to regaining Ta les of Music and the Brain, will be published next month. these in his brain. It’s part of who he is.” trust among students who were upset about the institute’s year-long disappearance. “We have to help define the institute, but the students are going to take on the most important role because [it] has to ensuring the institute’s operations would not remain vides a wide range of Africa-related courses and seminars, serve them first,” said Diouf. One of his first priorities is a town suspended indefinitely. what is still missing is a strong, formal, integrated curriculum meeting with students, who he hopes will speak freely and fuel “Columbia will once again have a focal point to promote on what Columbia offers about Africa, he said. a bigger discussion on what the institute can offer now that and encourage the study of Africa and Africa-related issues,” Though the institute re-opened in July, Diouf intends to it has reopened. said Ajoku. “A reinvigorated institute, which builds upon work with students in the fall to host a formal launch to cel- Lincoln Ajoku, a student and president of SIPA’s Pan-African lessons learned, is the best way to demonstrate the beginning ebrate its official reopening. Network (SPAN), calls the reopening a positive development of a new era.” “This is one of the few places outside of Africa where Africa that students will welcome, particularly because they and oth- Diouf plans to work toward creating a comprehensive and is discussed by Africans and non-Africans,” he said. Columbia ers at Columbia dedicated to Africa were vigilant in modern African studies curriculum. Though Columbia pro- “can offer a neutral place for discussion.”

COLUMBIA PEOPLE SANDRA HARRIS

WHO SHE IS: Assistant Vice President for the Office of Heights and Inwood. “A s a social worker, mental health has Government and Community Affairs at Columbia University always been my area of interest,” she said. Coming to Medical Center Columbia “afforded me the opportunity to address mental YEARS AT COLUMBIA: Nine health and health care policy issues at the national level WHAT SHE DOES: A typical day at the office starts with while involving major health care providers and community a call from a community group seeking to establish a health stakeholders.” education arm with one of CUMC’s departments or schools. MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT: Harris helped bring Her job also includes coordinating volunteer programs with Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter to a community health fair students, community leaders and local public schools. organized by her department. More than 2,000 community Because she represents the University in community activi- residents attended and received free health screenings and, ties, her days sometimes end at local community meetings, of course, a photo with the famous athlete. Harris also recalls addressing issues of mental health, public safety and other filling the Alumni Auditorium with 700 inner city youths to social service issues. watch Momma’s Boyz, a gang-prevention theater presenta- AGOOD DAY ON THE JOB: Establishing and promoting tion by Repertorio Espanol.~ links between community and institutional partners is not as BEST PART OF HER JOB: “Every day I truly get the easy as it sounds. Everyone works on individual time lines, opportunity to be resourceful.” Harris is constantly learn- so it can be challenging to keep all parties on the same page. ing about what health policies and research discoveries the A good day on the job is “when after months of program faculty are making and how those, in turn, contribute to planning and development, we are finally able to reach the community and overall goal of improved health care an agreement on scope of work, letters of support, access and quality of life in Washington Heights and linkage agreements... just in time to meet our grant or pro- Inwood. posal deadlines.” IN HER SPARE TIME: Harris enjoys spending time with HOW SHE CAME TO COLUMBIA: Before Columbia, she her three children, Frank, Julio and Sandy, as well as her par- served as executive director of Alianza Dominicana’s Family ents, siblings and their children. A typical family gathering MANLEY Center, which provides alcoholism prevention and mental can include 20 family members. She also loves dancing the

CHARLES health services for new immigrant families in Washington merengue and going to the movies. The Record SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 5

IN THE COMMUNITY Artist, College Restore Smiles Of Abuse Victims By Melanie A. Farmer

ith a hand from Columbia University dentists, local artist and activist Jeremiah Kyle Drake is helping to bring back smiles to victims of domestic violence in New York. W After meeting a woman whose jaw and teeth were damaged by her abusive husband, Drake began to think about the dental aspect of domestic violence and ways he could help provide restorative dentistry to these victims. An artist at Riverside Theatre in Morningside Heights, Drake, who grew up in an abusive family, immediately looked to neighboring Columbia for help. “Columbia was just as excited as I was about this idea,” said Drake. “They really brought the needed lifeblood to this project.” Through the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, resident dentists will see up to 40 WENTWORTH patients per year and provide them with dental treatment that will DAVID include restoring their teeth to “form and function.” In some Riverside Theatre artist Jeremiah Kyle Drake, left, and Dr. Ronnie Myers of Columbia’s College of Dental Medicine. cases, this could include greater and extended treatment. Over the years, the College has reached out to those in need In this new initiative, Columbia has partnered with three with my own traumatic memories.” through community programs in the school system and geriatric community organizations—Safe Horizons, the Dove Program Drake, who joined Riverside Theatre in 2000, began using art centers, as well as with its mobile dental van. The dental college at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and the Washington as a way to raise awareness for victims of domestic violence. also operates the Community DentCare program, which provides Heights/Inwood Coalition Against Domestic Violence—that refer His project Restoring the Icon evolved from an earlier visual art comprehensive dental care for families in Washington Heights, qualified patients to the program. series. The Slashing of the Icon featured images of African Inwood and Harlem. Raising awareness and finding support for victims of domestic American icons such as Billie Holiday, which were slashed as an “We have a strong commitment to helping those in need of violence has been a personal mission for Drake fueled by his own artistic statement on women in domestic violence situations. oral health care,” said Dr. Ronnie Myers, associate dean for traumatic memories of family abuse. As a young boy growing up Drake has also forged a partnership with Harlem Hospital and clinical affairs at the dental school. “If we can be of help in Syracuse, N.Y., Drake witnessed firsthand his father’s repeated inspired the creation of a state senate bill that would amend the to those individuals who have been victims of domestic physical abuse of his mother. social services law to provide medical assistance to needy peo- violence in any way, we will have fulfilled one of our major “He brutalized her,” he said. “I’ve carried these memories ple for the care and treatment of scarring resulting from missions of patient care.” with me, but helping others who are suffering helps me deal domestic abuse.

GRANTS & GIFTS Arts & Sciences BUDDING ENGINEERS By Melanie A. Farmer WHO GAVE IT: Sami W. Mnaymneh, CC’81, co-founding part- ner of venture capital firm HIG Ventures. s Columbia works to address long-term environmen- could power the University's shuttle bus to the Lamont- HOW MUCH: $2 million tal sustainability, this summer it turned to a group Doherty campus in Palisades, N.Y. Another examined ways to WHO GOT IT: Arts and Sciences that isn't usually consulted for that kind of technical create human-powered energy by using old exercise equip- WHAT FOR: $1.5 million will be used to establish the expertise: high school students. ment in Dodge Fitness Center to charge personal electronics Mnaymneh Professorship in Economics, $500,000 will be A Students from the School of Continuing Education’s high such as laptops and cell phones, or even use that power as an used for research support. The gift is matched by a grant school program in engineering design worked on developing alternate electricity source for the gym. Students presented from the Lenfest Challenge Fund. solutions to environmental problems on campus— from turn- their projects in July in front of an audience of their peers, ing trash into energy to using vegetable oil to power vehicles. professors and partners. Columbia Business School The course has been offered for four summers, but this was the The program aims to give the high school juniors and sen- first time the design projects iors a comprehensive course in engineering design and WHO GAVE IT: Anonymous Business School alumnus focused so close to home. applied science as well as real-life college experience. HOW MUCH: $3.5 million The shift supports the “The class is designed to not only provide a realistic experi- WHO GOT IT: Columbia Business School University's efforts to ence on the types of problems they would WHAT FOR: To create the BRIDGE Fellowship Program that make the campus more encounter as engineers and scientists, but will help leverage the school’s position in New York City by environmentally friend- also gives them a preview of life on bringing business executives into the classroom and faculty ly. (In the past, the stu- Columbia's campus,” said McGourty. into the business world, and to ensure a flow of data and dents worked on design Each year a number of the high school ideas to the University and to the world. solutions for people students— who come from around with disabilities.) the world— end up applying to SEAS. College of Physicians and Surgeons Breaking into small Cori Capik, a high school senior groups, the students from Miami, said the course con- WHO GAVE IT: The Boomer Esiason Foundation concentrated on such vinced her that she's on track with HOW MUCH: $6 million projects as turning trash her desired career ambitions. “I WHO GOT IT: College of Physicians and Surgeons into energy, creating got to really understand what WHAT FOR: This gift from the former NFL quarterback estab- human-generated energy environmental engineering lishes the Gunnar Esiason Adult Cystic Fibrosis and Lung pro- and implementing green-roof tech- entails,” said Capik, who gram in the department of medicine, named for Esiason’s nologies. “There is an increasing awareness of the plans to study mechani- now 16-year-old son, who has cystic fibrosis. This pledge many opportunities on campus to reduce greenhouse emis- cal and aeronautical complements prior support made by the Foundation for sions and enhance conservation efforts in general,” said Jack engineering. “Taking Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis program. McGourty, associate dean in the Fu Foundation School of this course convinced me that I want to become an engineer.” Engineering and Applied Science, who teaches the course. Abdullah Al-Jazzaf, a senior from Kuwait, got vital team- Columbia Law School “These campus projects promise to have a positive impact on work experience and a taste of life on a U.S. college campus. Columbia as well as the surrounding community.” “We learned from one another, and how to [conduct] WHO GAVE IT: Sidney B. Silverman, Law’57 The nine student groups each collaborated with a commu- research from the ground up,” said Al-Jazzaf, who hopes to HOW MUCH: $1 million nity partner within the University as well as local not-for-prof- study mechanical engineering in the United States. “We WHO GOT IT: The Law School its and area businesses. Partners at the University included were able to create projects that will actually be used in the WHAT FOR: The Sidney B. Silverman Loan Repayment Fund, an representatives from residential housing and dining facilities, future.” endowment fund to provide interest-free loans to eligible gradu- as well as Nilda Mesa, the University's director of environ- Al-Jazzaf's team worked on a food composting project, and ates who pursue full-time positions in government service that mental stewardship. Local partners included neighborhood its design will be implemented during this academic year by make use of their legal education. The loans, which may be used parks and nearby restaurants. its community partner, Friends of Morningside Park. As for to repay debt incurred to attend the law school, will be forgiven One group proposed a plan to convert the waste vegetable the human-generated energy project at the gym, it will be over time as recipients remain in government service. oil produced at John Jay Hall's cafeteria into biodiesel fuel that studied further. 6 SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 The Record

RESEARCH NEWS

Breaking News on Bones continued from page 1 ROCK LYRICS SPEAK ation, according to the American Diabetes Association. Of the 14.6 million Americans who have been diagnosed with the disease, most have type 2 diabetes. Karsenty and his colleagues previously showed that leptin, a hormone WORDS OF WISDOM released by fat cells, acts upon and ultimately controls bone mass. They reasoned By Diane Dobry that bones must in turn communicate with fat, so they searched bone-forming cells for molecules that could send signals back to fat cells. or decades, parents have worried that the The researchers found that osteocalcin, a protein made only by bone-form- lyrics to rock music could corrupt their chil- ing cells (osteoblasts), was not merely a structural protein, but rather a hormone dren and poison their minds. But what of the with totally unanticipated and crucial functions. Osteocalcin directs the intellectual and spiritual nuggets those lyrics pancreas’s beta cells—which produce the body’s supply of insulin—to produce Fmay contain? more insulin. At the same time, osteocalcin tells fat cells to release a hormone In his new book, Rock ’n’ Roll Wisdom: What called adiponectin, which improves insulin sensitivity. Additionally, osteocalcin Psychologically Astute Lyrics Teach About Life and boosts production of insulin-producing beta cells, which is considered one of Love, Barry Farber, a professor of psychology and the best, but currently unattainable, strategies to treat diabetes. education at Teachers College, analyzes rock lyrics People with type 2 diabetes have been shown to have low osteocalcin levels, for their psychological truths. suggesting that altering the activity of this molecule could be an effective thera- “The better lyricists within the rock tradition tell py. That conclusion is supported by the Columbia research showing that mice stories about life and use creative phrases and with high osteocalcin activity did not gain weight or become diabetic even when imagery to do so,” he says. “Like other artists, they ate a high-fat diet. Mice lacking the osteocalcin protein had type 2 diabetes, great songwriters offer the virtue of a more palat- increased fat mass, a decrease in insulin and adiponectin expression and able way of learning than through the often-tedious decreased beta-cell proliferation. pages of textbooks.” This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the The book, which is published by Praeger American Diabetes Association, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Publishers, an imprint of Greenwood Publishing and the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Group, is not typical of Farber’s oeuvre, which runs more to such articles titled “The Therapist as The researchers are now examining the role of osteocalcin in the regulation Attachment Figure” and “Clients’ Perceptions of the of blood sugar in humans and are continuing investigations into the relationship Process and Consequences of Self-Disclosure in between osteocalcin and the appearance of type 2 diabetes and obesity. Psychotherapy.” But given his research interests in psychotherapy and self-disclosure in patients, therapists and supervisors, it’s not too far a jump to the psychology of 50 Cent, Lil’ Kim and Snoop Doggy Dogg. “Rock lyrics, I believe, can be a lighthearted Garfunkel, John Prine, Billy Joel and Bonnie Raitt. but engaging means to think about some profound Farber notes that in rock lyrics, “nostalgia seems to issues of living,” Farber writes. “Specifically, have two competing sides. One side pushes toward I have looked for lyrics that illustrate in particularly sweetening the past, the other clings to old regrets.” insightful ways common human longings Farber also names the “50 Best Rock Lyrics” (in and concerns.” his opinion). They include selections from the Farber groups rock lyrics into basic thematic cat- Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Joni Mitchell, Paul - egories, including love and friendship; pain; ways of Simon and Billy Joel. The list is diplomatically pre- coping, aging and growing; and the inevitable troi- sented in alphabetical order, beginning with the ka of sex, drugs and money. Beatles’ “A nd in the end the love you take is equal “‘Who am I?’ is one of the great questions of life, to the love you make” and ending with U2’s pondered by philosophers, artists, psychologists, “We’re one, but we’re not the same/We get to and yes, songwriters,” Farber writes, noting that carry each other.” although the rocker Meat Loaf “made fun of such Farber doesn’t dispute that the writings of great existential questions, he also noted implicitly that authors and psychologists go far deeper than rock these are just the kind of things that many think lyrics. He admits, too, that many rock devotees don’t about a good deal.” really listen to the lyrics. Still, he would like to see A chapter on death weaves together a discussion the “words” part of rock given more attention and of Aerosmith, Jackson Browne, Simon and serious consideration. LONGER PATERNITY LEAVE PUTS DADS IN THE LOOP By Record Staff

ost fathers take at least some leave from work to help care for their Fathers who are more highly educated and working in higher-prestige occu- newborn children, and those who take longer leaves are more pations are more likely to take leave and tend to take longer leaves than those involved in their children’s care down the road, according to a study who are less advantaged on those indicators. This result is consistent with prior by two Columbia University social work professors. evidence that higher-paying jobs are more likely to offer leave and to offer M Providing some of the first evidence on paternity leave in the U.S., the study longer periods of leave. finds that an overwhelming majority of fathers take some leave after a birth. A sub- Fathers interviewed about their involvement with their children nine stantial minority take a leave of two or more weeks, but those who do are more months after the birth shed new light on how leave-taking after the involved with child caretaking tasks when interviewed nine months later. birth relates to subsequent involvement. Conducted by professors Lenna Nepomnyaschy and Jane Waldfogel at the “We wanted to know not just whether fathers are taking leave, School of Social Work, the report used data on more than 4,500 two-parent but how that translates into later involvement with their chil- families from the “Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Birth Cohort,” a dren. Are fathers who take leave more involved with their chil- new nationally representative study that is following a large sample of chil- dren subsequently? Our analyses suggest the answer is clearly dren born in 2001. The national study’s researchers interviewed mothers yes,” said Nepomnyaschy. and fathers nine months after the birth, gathering detailed data about their “We find that fathers who take two or more weeks off work involvement with the child and also asking whether they took any leave after the birth of their child are much more likely to participate after the birth and, if so, how much. in a range of child-care tasks when interviewed at nine months When asked whether fathers took any leave after the birth, the vast majori- post birth than otherwise comparable fathers who did not take ty (89 percent) of families report that fathers take some time off work. “This is that much leave.” the first time we have had national data on fathers’ leave-taking, and this The child-care activities examined at nine months include percentage is much higher than any of us would have expected,” said Waldfogel. diapering, feeding, dressing and bathing children. However, the analysis also indicates that these leaves are quite short, The full study, “Paternity Leave and Fathers’ Involvement with with most fathers taking just one week or less and only a third of fathers their Young Children: Evidence from the American ECLS-B,” will be taking two weeks or more. published in the November issue of Community,Work & Family. The Record SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 7

STAFF Q&A

the year, and they saw how impor- aving taken the Lions to tant it was to work out together. So their first record at or they decided to stay this summer above .500 in a decade and run and live together. They had in 2006, Patricia and summer jobs here in the city. HShepard Alexander Head Coach of They’re getting stronger as a team. Football Norries Wilson begins his And they're coming in, they watch second season at Columbia on tape on their own. They’re starting Sept. 15 against Fordham. As an to understand schemes and why undergraduate in psychology, he things have to be a certain way. captained a Big Ten team at the University of Minnesota. Over the Yo u captained a Big Tenteam past decade he served as an assistant at Minnesota, you coached in coach at Bucknell and the University Q. a growing Division I program at of Connecticut. UConn— as well as at Bucknell, In addition to his collegiate expe- which is competitively similar to an rience, Wilson served minority Ivy League program. Is thereany- coaching fellowships in the NFL thing different about coaching an with the Kansas City Chiefs, the Ivy League team? Jacksonville Jaguars and the Indianapolis Colts. Of course, Ivy The kids are a lot smarter League schools don't dole out athlet- A.than I’ll ever hope to be, off ic scholarships or compete for bowl the field. [laugh] Football-wise I'm games. But football is one of many still a little bit smarter than they are. intercollegiate sports experiencing a They have a very high learning resurgence at Columbia University. curve, you can throw a lot of infor- In an era when minor league base- mation at them, it’s just that you ball—such as the Class A Brooklyn have to be careful what you ask Cyclones—has taken off as a popular, family-friendly activity even in big them to do they can do physically as league cities, an afternoon at scenic, well as mentally. subway-accessible Baker Field Athletics Complex at the northern Do you coach them tip of Manhattan offers the Q.any differently because Columbia community as well as Columbia is so competitiveacadem- other New Yorkers an appealing way ically off the field? to enjoy the charm of a classic col- I think coaching’s coaching lege football experience. A.no matter where you are. Students at Columbia have to study hard. They don’t get any special Coach, in your first year you considerations from professors or Q. took a team that didn't win the University just because they're in a league game the previous season a sport. Our kids understand that to its best record in a decade, at 5- they have to go out in the classroom 5. What changed in that first season and compete with gifted students to make Columbia so quickly com- coming from across the country, petitive again? and still have to come to practice each week. What we did on defense was A.different, the defense car- BARROSO How challenging is it to ried us through for the season. The EILEEN Q.attract academically gifted kids started playing for different athletes to Morningside Heights? reasons than they had played for in the past. We never asked the kids to We’re maybe attracting a little go out and win a game for us or to A.bit better player because we go win a game for Columbia, we NORRIES WILSON won some more games this past year. asked them to go out and win a But it's never easy. There are only a game for the guys that they’d prac- Interviewed by David M. Stone certain number of admissible stu- ticed with every day and every dents across the country for the week. They had a great sense of eight Ivy schools to choose from, so family amongst themselves, they “Our kids understand that they have to compete with we usually are all going after the had a great sense of commitment. same academically qualified kids. gifted students coming from across the country, and The fact that we have won champi- How do you create that onships in other sports does help— Q.different feeling among still have to come to practice each week.” the fact that the athletic program the players? appears to be on the upswing, not just in football but across the board, I’ve spent a lot of time POSITION: makes more young people want watching women's sports. Patricia and Shepard Alexander Head Coach of Football A. to come. But we don’t think there’s [Wilson's wife, Brenda, played an “Ivy League type.” We just want forward on UConn's first NCAA LENGTH OF SERVICE: to attract students who can do women’s basketball championship One year,nine months thework academically, and also team.] Whether they’re losing by 20 come out and help us be a better or winning by 20, they always cheer BEFORE COLUMBIA: football program. for each other. So we started prac- University of Connecticut: offensive coordinator (2002-2005), offensive line (1999-2001). ticing cheering for each other, and Bucknell University: offensive coordinator (1997-1998), offensive line (1995-1996). What are your hopes for this practicing celebrating, and practic- Livingstone (N.C.) College: defensive coordinator (1993). year's Lions? ing taking care of the guy that was North Carolina Central University: offensive line/tight ends (1991-1992). Q. the slowest guy on the team, and We'd like to have a winning practicing helping the guy that was A.season. That doesn’t mean the weakest guy. And it got to the anything less would be unsuccessful, point where the guys really didn't care who was playing, only if you're receiving the kick you're scared that you're going to fumble it. I think once you get them out there, five or six plays, [it] just depends how it pans out. We know we just have to take that somebody on their team was playing and that was what it one week at a time. Winning’s not guaranteed. People think they were going to cheer for. they start to settle down and the coaches start to settle down. You have to be settled down in some fashion or you’re going it’s stupid when I say it, but only half the teams that play on to make the kids nervous, so you pretend a little bit that every- Saturday win. And it's tough to go out and win. You’ve got to What did it feel like last year to run on that field for the go out and you’ve got to prepare, and you have to have a little first time, your first game as a head coach? Do you thing’s okay, but you’re worried about everything that could Q. bit of luck, and you have to create some luck. A lot of kids on think it'll be any different this year, now that you haveasea- happen. And I think it still happens to Joe Paterno the first the team are looking down the road and hoping to win an Ivy son under your belt? time Penn State comes out. League championship. But right now I’m focused on that first No, it'll be the same. The first game, you're sure you for- With a full off-season to recruit and prepare, can you talk game and hoping to beat Fordham. A.got something, you're sure you forgot to tell them Q.about what we’re going to see on the field this year? something during the week or during camp, you're nervous For more information about Columbia football 2007, go to how they're going to perform. If you're kicking off, you're We had about 30 kids stay up this summer because they w w w . g o c o l u m b i a l i o n s . c o m . scared the other team is going to take it all the way back, and A.had a chance to taste a little bit of success at the end of The Record SCRAPBOOK SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 8

Dr.Ricardo J. Komotar,a neurosurgery resident at Columbia University,slides safely home during the championship game between Columbia University Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania at the Fourth Annual Neurosurgery Charity Softball Tournament in Central Park in June.Columbia didn't win the game,but the event raised more than $100,000 for the Columbia University Pediatric Brain Tumor Research Fund (www.KidsBrainResearch.org). GGART TA CHRIS . M.D Former Mayor David Dinkins celebrated his 80th birthday at a party at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) with family, friends and colleagues from Columbia and his New York civic life.Clockwise,from far left: blowing out the candles with his wife,Joyce; he ANDERSON, and Joyce with Jean and Lee Bollinger; with Sir Anthony O’Reilly,chair of Dublin-based Independent News & Media Group on whose board C.E.

Dinkins sits,and Theodore Shaw of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Joyce with Ester Fuchs,professor at SIPA. RICHARD

Order in the court! This summer,students from Harlem competed in a mock trial competition in Brooklyn Supreme Court, where they spent two days delivering opening and closing statements and cross-examining witnesses.The students got a real-life glimpse of the legal career track through the Columbia Summer Law Institute, an annual program sponsored by Legal Outreach with funding and support from Columbia Community Service and Columbia Law School. NUNN CARL

Jazz fans got a treat this summer.Community Works and New Heritage Theatre Group collaborated with Columbia’s Center for Jazz Studies on a public concert series and debut of TriHarLenium,a seminal piece by composer and trombonist Craig S. Harris honoring the people and music who have contributed to Harlem’s cultural legacy for the past 30 years.Concerts took place at such venues as Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Morningside Park.The final performance will be Sept. 6 at Harlem Summer Stage. Clockwise, from left: Harris and his trombone; Helga Davis,Nation of Imagination vocalist; and Sing Sing Rhythms,Senegalese drummers. LIN JO

Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Board of Visitors and the Financial Two Prominent Alums Engineering Advisory Committee at Columbia. He also serves on the Engineering Council at the Named University Massachusetts Institute of Te chnology and the Masters in Financial Engineering Steering Committee at the University of California Trustees at Berkeley. Bundles, an award-winning journalist and author, By Record Staff is now a full-time writer of books and professional speaker after a 30-year career in network television news. Bundles worked at ABC News and NBC News wo new members, both prominent alumni, in numerous positions including talent develop- have been elected to join Columbia’s board of ment, executive producer and bureau chief. Among trustees, effective Sept. 4. T her journalism awards are an Alfred I. duPont- Armen A. Avanessians EN’83 and A’Lelia Bundles Columbia Gold Baton and an Emmy. Her critically JRN’76 join the 24-member board, which includes acclaimed biography On Her Own Ground: The Life leaders in law, business, education, medicine and and Times of Madam C.J. Walker was named a 2002 politics led by Chair William V. Campbell. Avanessians Borders Books-Hurston/Wright Legacy Award final- succeeds Michael E. Patterson, who retired from the ist, a 2001 New York Times Notable Book and board at the beginning of this academic year. received other accolades. Her young adult biography, Bundles, who was elected to the board after Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, received an consultation with the Columbia Alumni Association, American Book Award. Bundles spearheaded the fills a vacancy. national campaign that led to the 1998 U.S. Postal Avanessians is a partner at Goldman Sachs & Co. Service’s Black Heritage stamp of Walker. She is He joined the firm in 1985 as a foreign exchange currently at work on her third book, Joy Goddess: strategist and was named a partner in 1994. A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, a biog- Currently, he is director of Fixed Income, Currency WHAT ARE YOULOOKING AT? raphy of her great-grandmother to be published by and Commodities Strategies; Equity Strategies; Simon & Schuster. She chairs a committee charged Investment Banking and Financing Group Strategies HINT: Turn this head and you’ll see a face of great currency.Send answers to with revamping the Columbia Journalism School’s and Goldman Sachs Asset Management Strategies. [email protected]. First to e-mail us the right answer wins a Record mug. alumni association and a 2007 Columbia University Before joining Goldman, he was on the technical staff Alumni Medalist. at Bell Laboratories. Avanessians sits on the Fu ANSWER TO LAST CHALLENGE: The Curl by Clement Meadmore, a gift by Percy Uris to the Columbia Business School.