2026 Annual Faculty Honors Celebration
The Annual Faculty Honors Celebration brought together faculty from across the University to recognize the outstanding achievements of colleagues throughout the Columbia community.
The event honored 2025 and 2026 awardees while also offering a chance to pause and appreciate the many ways faculty drive and enrich the intellectual, scholarly, and creative contributions of our University.
The gathering also fostered conversation and connection across schools and disciplines, and reinforced the shared sense of purpose that underpins Columbia’s academic community. It was an evening that celebrated not only individual accomplishments, but also the spirit of excellence and collegiality that faculty bring to the University.
Participants from left to right:
Claire Shipman
Acting President, Columbia University
Kristina Douglass - 2025 MacArthur Fellowship
Associate Professor of Climate
Duy Linh Tu - Edward R. Murrow Award
Professor of Professional Practice of Journalism
Farah Griffin - American Academy of Arts & Sciences
University Professor, English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies
Tim Roughgarden - American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Computer Science
Elora Mukherjee - Provost's Award for Faculty Service
Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor of Law
Cory Abate-Shen - National Academy of Sciences
Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Professor of Urologic Sciences (in Urology)
Robert Sonneborn Professor of Medicine
George Deodatis - Provost's Award for Faculty Mentorship
Santiago and Robertina Calatrava Family Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics; Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering
James McIver - Sloan Research Fellowship
Assistant Professor of Physics
Laura Kurgan - National Design Award
Professor of Architecture
Michael Weinstein - American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Professor of Mathematics
Angela V. Olinto
Provost
Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics
Michael Kaplan - Guggenheim Fellowship
Lamont Research Professor in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Harrison Hong - Guggenheim Fellowship
John R. Eckel, Jr. Professor of Financial Economics