Announcing Office of the Provost 2025 Faculty Awardees

Dear fellow members of the Columbia community,

With the end of the academic year upon us, I am very pleased to recognize many of this year’s recipients of awards and grants from the Office of the Provost. The work of these faculty members exemplifies our shared commitments to advancing research and scholarship, promoting inclusive excellence, and working together in service of the public good. 

I am delighted to announce the 2025 recipients of the Faculty Mentoring Award and the Faculty Service Award, recognitions awarded annually by the Office of the Provost. In addition, I am excited to share the most recent awardees of Junior Faculty Grants and Dialogue Across Difference Grants. 

2025 Faculty Mentoring Award

Kathleen McKeown 
Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science
Columbia Engineering

2025 Faculty Service Award

Jacquelyn Y. Taylor
Helen F. Pettit Professor of Nursing and Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
Columbia School of Nursing

Fall 2024 Junior Faculty Grants

Black Measure: Architecture After Property
Emanuel Admassu 
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

The Physics Scholars Program
James McIver 
Assistant Professor of Physics 
Faculty of Arts and Sciences 

Engineering Dendritic Cell-Targeting Nanobodies for Enhanced Vaccine Development Against Enteric Viruses
Asher Williams  
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering 
Columbia Engineering

Fall 2024 Dialogue Across Difference (DxD) Seed Grants

The Listening Tables Core Student Fellowship Program
Gil Eyal, Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Larry Jackson, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum, Lecturer in Philosophy
Amy Werman, Lecturer in the Discipline of Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work

Modeling Dialogue Across Differences Using Standardized Simulation Patient Scenarios 
Natalya Pasklinsky, Associate Professor of Nursing at the Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia School of Nursing
Mary Hickey, Professor of Nursing at the Columbia University Medical Center, Vice Dean of Education, Columbia School of Nursing

It is a pleasure to recognize this incredible work happening across campus. Please join me in congratulating this year’s awardees and thanking them for their exceptional contributions to our Columbia community.

All the best wishes,

Angela V. Olinto
Provost
Professor of Astronomy and of Physics