C olumbia U niversity RECORD June 11, 2004 3 News in Brief Queen Elizabeth II Honors that capture key elements of the real cir- culatory system, which could be used for Marconi’s John Jay Iselin improved diagnostic nuclear magnetic CU Receives Two Grants for Digital Projects resonance imaging and hydrodynamic tar- From National Endowment for the Humanities geting of drug delivery. he National Endowment for the Humanities recently made two grants to Colum- Bill Berkeley Named Tbia. The Columbia University Libraries has been awarded a $300,000 grant from 2004 Carnegie Scholar the NEH to continue the development of Digital Scriptorium, a collaborative online project that digitizes and catalogs medieval and Renaissance manuscripts from insti- ill Berkeley, Columbia adjunct pro- tutions across the United States. Under the two-year grant, the online project will Bfessor of international affairs, was move from its current home at the University of California, Berkeley, to Columbia. recently named a 2004 Carnegie Scholar, Jean Ashton, director of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is the principal inves- joining a total of 52 others awarded the tigator on the grant; Consuelo Dutschke, Columbia’s curator of medieval and Renais- fellowship since 2000. The 15 scholars sance manuscripts, was one of the founders of the project and is serving as the man- chosen this year will explore such issues aging director. as economic growth and human develop- Digital Scriptorium is an ment; the rise of far-right extremist image database of medieval and groups and the role masculinity plays in Renaissance manuscripts that their resurgence; and how U.S. trans- unites resources from numerous John Jay Iselin Atlantic relations can remain effective. libraries into an international Each scholar will receive up to $100,000 tool for teaching and scholarly he United Kingdom’s Queen Eliza- for a period of up to two years to pursue research. Since its debut online Tbeth II has awarded John Jay Iselin, his or her research. in 1997, it has grown into a visu- president of Columbia’s Marconi Fellow- Berkeley, a former investigative al catalog currently holding ship Foundation, an honorary CBE. The reporter and editorial writer for The New 15,000 images and 3,500 CBE stands for Commander of the Most York Times and the author of The Graves records from 19 participating Excellent Order of the British Empire, an Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power institutions. order founded in 1917 that honors for- in the Heart of Africa, was selected by the Columbia’s Visual Media eigners for public service. Iselin’s investi- Carnegie Corp. of New York for his ongo- Center also recently received a ture ceremony in Washington, D.C., ing research on the Iran hostage crisis, the three-year NEH grant, for occurred June 9. focus of his current book project. He also $200,000, to develop a suite of The honor is in recognition of his out- was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fel- digital teaching Web sites in standing contribution to British television lowship in support of this work, a re- Chinese, Japanese and South interests in the United States and his ser- examination of the hostage crisis as seen a Asian art focusing on works vices to Cambridge University. Iselin was generation later. In this book, he will used in undergraduate art histo- formerly president of WNET, the New focus on the surviving Iranian hostage- ry as well as Asian culture class- York PBS station, and was the driving takers, some of whom have emerged in es. They have partnered with force behind a distinctive schedule of pro- the Metropolitan Museum of middle-age as leading figures in Iran’s COURTESY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES gramming, which elevated WNET to one reformist movement. Art, the Freer and Sackler gal- of the two leading public television sta- leries in Washington, D.C., and “Benjamin MS 1” is held in Columbia’s Rare tions in America. In so doing, he nurtured the National Palace Museum in Book and Manuscript Library and is also online key relationships with the BBC and vari- SOA Student Gets Grant Taiwan. at sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium. ous British companies that opened the door From Mitchell Foundation for the incredible penetration of British television into the American market. icola López, SOA’04, Visual Arts National Endowment for the NEA’s grant makes possible will provide He helped WNET to program NDivision, received one of 10 Joan journalists from all over the country with Upstairs/Downstairs, Monty Python’s Mitchell Foundation 2004 MFA grant Arts Creates Arts Criticism a wonderful means of learning more Flying Circus and I, Claudius. He also awards. The honor includes a $10,000 Institute at Columbia about classical music and opera, and over launched the program Nature and over- grant in recognition of artistic quality. The time it should have a demonstrable posi- saw WNET’s unprecedented six-year annual MFA grant program was created in he National Arts Journalism Pro- tive effect on American journalism in that series, The Shakespeare Plays. 1997 to help MFA painters and sculptors Tgram at Columbia University has area.” further their artistic careers and to aid in been chosen by the National Endow- Columbia’s institute, will continue in Nina Shapley Receives Grant their transition from academic to profes- ment for the Arts (NEA) to become one 2005, is part of the NEA’s $1 million sional studio work upon graduation. To of three NEA Arts Journalism Institutes overall national initiative. Other institutes date, the Joan Mitchell Foundation has that will focus on improving arts criti- for theater criticism and dance criticism awarded 81 MFA grants. cism in classical music, opera, theater will be hosted by the University of South- and dance. Columbia’s program will ern California in Los Angeles and Duke Music Pulitzer Rules Change center on classical music and opera crit- University, respectively. All of the partic- icism. All three institutes will be ipants’ expenses will be covered. designed for journalists who cover the he Pulitzer Prize Board announced on Up to 25 journalists—critics and arts for print and broadcast outlets locat- reporters specializing in classical music TJune 1 changes in its entry require- ed outside the country’s largest media ments for the music prize, beginning with and opera, as well as editors who super- markets, where professional develop- vise them—will be selected to attend the the 2005 awards. The board stated that it ment opportunities are limited. now would consider a broader range of Columbia institute this fall. The curricu- “We are grateful to the National lum includes classroom and hands-on ses- musical compositions, “from the contem- Endowment for the Arts for giving the porary classical symphony to jazz, opera, sions conducted by experts on classical Columbia Journalism School the opportu- music reviewing and the basics of musical choral, musical theater, movie scores and nity to deepen its service to the profes- other forms of musical excellence.” performance. sion,” said Nicholas Lemann, dean of the For more information or to apply, visit The previous requirements called for Journalism School. “The program the compositions that had been publicly per- www. najp.org. formed for the first time in the last year. Nina Shapley Now, either a public performance or a recording in the last year is permitted. ssociate Professor of Chemical Engi- Opening the door fully for improvisation- Quotable Columbian Aneering Nina Shapley has received a al works, composers will no longer be research award for showing leadership required to submit a score with their reud is back, and not just in theory,” declares Mark Solms, chair and scientific discovery in the field of entry. of neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town, in a feature biotechnology. The award is from the The board also will widen its pool of Farticle in the May issue of Scientific American. Purporting that James D. Watson Investigator program, music prize jurors. Previously, the jury neuroscientists are confirming Freud’s theories with biological studies which was created to maximize the poten- had consisted of four composers and one of the brain, Solms quotes University Professor and Nobel laureate Eric tial of life sciences research being con- music critic. On the new jury there will be Kandel several times in his article. So The Record asked Kandel for his ducted at New York’s public, not-for- slots for three composers, one for critics thoughts on Freud’s comeback, and his answer was: Not just yet. profit and private academic research insti- and one for “presenters of musical pro- “If psychoanalysis is satisfied with its current position, that’s fine,” tutions. The program complements New grams, orchestra conductors, musical arts said Kandel. “Freud will be read like Shakespeare and Homer, as great York’s comprehensive efforts to make the and other knowledgeable members of the works of literary insight. But if they want to become a science, they Empire State an international leader in music world.” The 2004 Pulitzer Prizes need to get an empirical basis. Certainly the discovery of implicit mem- high-tech and biotechnology-related were announced on April 5 and were pre- ory storage, which is the unconscious recall of information, shows a research and economic development. sented on May 24 at the University. biological basis of the unconscious. Freud had some interesting Shapley will research the behavior of Columbia awards the prizes on the notions—some of which are now in a position to be tested by neuro- concentrated suspensions and emulsions Pulitzer Prize Board’s recommendation. science—but that baby has not grown scientifically since 1910.”.