C olumbia U niversity RECORD January 24, 2003 11 College Students Receive Rhodes, Mitchell Honors Columbia’s Children’s Progress Inc. to (Continued from Page 1) Lehrer says. “It has been a hum- dents’ interest in Ireland. The 12 bling process and an amazing recipients from the Partner with ’s Cyberstart Shapiro in the English department; experience.” will receive one year of tuition, Professors Dabashi, Saliba, El- Habib and Lehrer now join the room, a stipend, and travel to and Recently, then-Pennsyl- arts, math and foundational Hage, Massad and Nichanian in ranks of Bill Clinton, Bill Bradley, from Ireland and Northern Ireland. vania Governor Mark science. Using Web-based the MEALAC department; Pro- Byron White and Dean Rusk, who In addition to these awards, Schweiker announced that tools, the software creates a fessor Cannon in the computer sci- are among the nearly 3,000 Amer- Joshua Laurito, CC’04, has been a Pennsylvania state-run narrative report detailing ence department, and perhaps ican recipients of the Rhodes awarded a Global Scholar Award technology and education the individual child’s skills most importantly, Deans McDer- Scholarship. The award, which from the Circumnavigator Foun- initiative known as Cyber- as well as their visual, audi- mott and Lorch at Columbia Col- provides two or three years of dation. Laurito plans to use the start will partner with a tory and motor abilities, lege.” study at Oxford University, was award to study the policy, uses and Columbia portfolio com- offering targeted recom- A pianist and skier with a black established by the will of British influence of nanotechnologies in pany, Children’s Progress mendations for improve- belt in karate, Habib uses his colonialist Cecil Rhodes in 1902. sustainable development in Inc., to provide teachers ment. computer skills to foster new The two were selected among Tunisia, South Africa, Australia, and parents in Pennsylva- “[Pennsylvania’s] Cyber- opportunities for disabled users. 981 nominees nationwide. Of the Japan and Switzerland. The Foun- nia with a new method of Start Program is known for He also works as an advocate for 98 finalists, 7 were from Colum- dation funds travel/study grants for understanding a child’s its success in providing students with disabilities on cam- bia College. The College also had global study projects that span ten learning capabilities dur- children with the latest in pus and in the community. one finalist for the Canadian weeks during the summer and ing their pre-school years. technologies to enhance a Habib plans to study compara- Rhodes. include visits to at least five coun- Eugene Galanter, profes- child’s learning capabili- tive modern literature at Oxford. While Habib and Lehrer will tries. sor of , founded ties,” Galanter said. Joining Habib at Oxford next head for Oxford in the fall, class- Besides awards offered by Children’s Progress Inc., “Together with Children’s fall will be classmate Jonah mate Robbie Majzner, CC’03, will external foundations, Columbia in 1999. The company Progress, the program will Lehrer, a neuroscience major attend the University of Galway, College has awarded Eudora Kel- invented, designed and provide child care from Los Angeles. Ireland, as a Mitchell Scholar. A lett Fellowships to R.J. Jenkins, patented the new evalua- providers with knowledge Lehrer’s lifelong interest in sci- Morris Plains, NJ, native, Majzner CC’03, and Jonathan Manes, tion method slated for use of a child’s development, ence and books led him to plans to study public health and CC’03. Jenkins, who double in Pennsylvania. and arm them with individ- Columbia and the Kandel Lab, intends to pursue a career practic- majors in English and anthropolo- The software enables ualized, actionable infor- where he is examining the biolog- ing clinical medicine and working gy, will pursue a Master of Letters teachers and parents a mation to enable optimal ical process of memory and what on international HIV policy. He in Victorian fiction at Cambridge. more precise method to performance for each and happens in the brain on a molecu- was previously the recipient of a Manes, who majors in philosophy assess skills in language every child.” lar level when a person remem- Truman Fellowship and Goldwa- of science and biochemistry, will bers or forgets information. ter Fellowship. study for a B. Phil Degree in Phi- In the lab, Lehrer credits The George J. Mitchell Scholar- losophy at Oxford. Kausik Si, Kandel’s post-doctoral ship, named in honor of the former The Kellett Fellowship supports research fellow, as a great senator's contribution to the two years of graduate study at researcher who has deeply influ- Northern Ireland peace process, Oxford or Cambridge for two Col- enced him. aims to broaden American stu- lege students each academic year. Lehrer asserts that science asks questions so big it has to incorpo- rate other dimensions, such as Legislative Update psychology. As such, he plans to study philosophy, physiology and psychology at Oxford, and hopes Deficit Affects Federal, State Funding to become a science writer. “Science is too often perceived costs for three initiatives: fund: as cold,” he says. “I want to trans- BY ELLEN S. SMITH for drought assistance, Medicare late science and show how beau- adjustment payments, and elec- tiful it can be.” Facing looming deficits at the tion system reform. In addition to his work in the federal and state levels, legisla- President Bush is expected to lab, Lehrer is a member of tors and Executive Branch lead- release his FY 2004 (10/02/03- Columbia Advocacy, where he ers are seeking ways to control 9/30/04) budget proposals in volunteers at local church soup increases and decrease spending. early February. For additional kitchens and on other projects to Also this week, President George information about the Federal help the homeless. He was the W. Bush and the Administration budget and annual funding, editor of the Columbia Review for filed briefs in opposition to the please contact Susan Long, two years and enjoys writing University of Michigan’s two [email protected]. Psychology Professor Eugene Galanter founded Chil- poetry. cases with regard to affirmative State Budget Issues dren’s Progress Inc., in 1999. “It is an incredible honor to be action in admissions. Last Fri- On January 8, 2003, Governor selected a Rhodes Scholar,” day, January 17, President Lee C. George Pataki delivered his State Bollinger was a featured speaker of the State Budget alluding to at a Forum on Civil Rights in the many of the themes that will FROM the SENATE 21st Century. Senator Ted make up his FY 2004 (4/01/03- Kennedy (D-MA) and Senator 3/31/04) expected to be released Tom Daschle (D-ND) sponsored on January 28, 2003. With New University Senate Defers Action on New Doctorates the forum. York facing billions of dollars in porate governance—but will proba- A&S/Social Sciences) reported on Federal Budget Issues budget gaps, programs of con- BY THOMAS MATHEWSON bly surpass the total of 89 resolutions recent deliberations of the faculty cau- After a Senate deadline over cern to the University such as in these categories that it evaluated cuses, which she co-chairs. A recur- committee ratios and funding for student aid may be cut. Once the At its last meeting on Dec. 13, the last year. The CSRI may also contact rent theme, she said, has been the need staff was broken last week, the budget is submitted the Gover- University Senate postponed action authors of some resolutions for fine- for more shared information from the path was cleared for the Senate to nor has 30 days to make revi- on proposed doctoral programs in tuning of the language that might lead central administration. One example pass an Omnibus bill including sions to his budget. With the nursing practice and physical therapy, to committee support. Janow also is last year’s request, in a Senate reso- all of the remaining FY 2003 tightness of the budget this year, so that it can evaluate them by a set of mentioned the committee’s Dec. 4 lution, for non-confidential salary (10/01/092-9/20/02) spending few changes are expected. The guidelines for doctoral degrees in the statement opposing the recent petition ratios involving language lecturers. bill. The House had already Governor noted he hopes to cre- Health Sciences to be presented by recommending divestment of Colum- Others involve transparency in major passed the bill. The Government ate a Center of Excellence in Vice President Gerald Fischbach. At bia’s stock in companies that manu- budget decisions, and in procedures has been operating with a series that will focus on the previous meeting, on Nov. 22, a facture or sell weapons to Israel. She for allocating faculty apartments. of stopgap funding measures. biomedical research and include two-hour discussion of these degrees said this issue will not be on the CSRI O'Halloran recognized that the admin- The Administration hopes that Columbia. The budget process ended with a call from President agenda again this year. istration has cooperated in recent Sen- the final bills will be completed promises to be a long and ardu- Bollinger for an articulation of stan- Executive Committee chairman ate inquiries on gender promotion and by the January 28th State of the ous one and continue past the dards for Columbia doctorates. Paul Duby reported briefly on the online learning, but said the lack of Union. Now that each body has beginning of the new fiscal year. The Senate also heard from Merit Dec. 7 Trustees’ meeting, which he timely and adequate information lim- passed the bills, the appropriate Even during the current fiscal Janow, professor at SIPAand new chair had attended with Sen. Marni Hall its the Senate's efforts to fulfill its role committee members will meet to year (ending on March 31, of the Advisory Committee on Social- (Stu., GSAS/Nat. Sci.). He said he in University management. She work out their differences and 2003), it is expected that New ly Responsible Investing, and renamed was also obliged to report that, once hoped to establish ongoing coopera- pass an agreed upon final bill. York will have to issue deficit an uptown academic unit, adding three again, a brief summary of some of his tive procedures, or perhaps indepen- The final FY 2003 spending bill bonds to aid the state if it runs letters to make it the Department of remarks at the last meeting—object- dent reviews of Senate data requests. will cost approximately $386 bil- out of money in February due to Biomedical Informatics. ing to the exclusion of material from The two clinical doctorates will be lion, about $9 billion less than the a $2 billion deficit. Most In her review of her first months in the previous Record column--had back on the Senate agenda next time, FY 2003 spending package observers recommend that state charge of the CSRI, Janow said the been cut. But he added that the Exec- on Jan. 31 at 1:15 pm in the Davis approved last fall by the Senate contracts should be executed as group will likely consider the same utive Committee is working on an Auditorium of Schapiro Engineering. but never finalized. Prior to a soon as possible. categories of issues for proxy resolu- agreement on new procedures for Anyone with a CUID is welcome. vote on the Senate floor, a 1.6 For additional information on tions as last year—including the envi- resolving disagreements about the More information, including meeting percent across-the-board cut was the state budget, contact Cathy ronment, labor, human rights, phar- content of the column. documents, will be available on the adopted as a means of offsetting Dente at [email protected]. maceutical issues, handguns, and cor- Sen. Sharyn O’Halloran (Ten., web at www.columbia.edu/cu/senate.