President’s Global Innovation Fund Faculty Grants Awarded

May 10, 2018

Dear fellow members of the Columbia community,

I am delighted to announce the sixth round of grants from the President’s Global Innovation Fund. The Fund awards grants for faculty members to leverage and engage the nine Columbia Global Centers in order to increase opportunities for research, teaching, and service. 

Projects receiving awards focus on a wide array of topics, including water availability and climate change, colonial medicine and literature, economic policy, and health and human rights. Many are highly collaborative, with faculty members working across University departments and schools, and partnering with other academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and research consortia. The full list of funded projects can be found below. 

These awards, selected by a review committee of senior faculty, follow five previous rounds of grants from the President’s Global Innovation Fund that have supported 72 projects. Collectively, these projects play an essential role in realizing the potential of the Columbia Global Centers to create new opportunities for faculty and students, and in defining in tangible ways what it means for Columbia to explore new frontiers of knowledge. The high level of interest in this program from our faculty is gratifying. Further information on the program and the previous rounds of funded projects can be found on the PGIF section of the Columbia Global Centers website.

Please join President Bollinger, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development Safwan Masri, and me in congratulating these grant recipients.

John H. Coatsworth 
Provost

Spring 2018 Awardees

Terry McGovern
Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center
Chair, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health

Wafaa El-Sadr
University Professor; Dr. Mathilde Krim-amfAR Professor of Global Health (in Epidemiology)
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Director, ICAP

Malo Hutson
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Neil Boothby
Professor of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center
Mailman School of Public Health

Mary Mendenhall
Associate Professor of Practice
Department of International and Transcultural Studies
Teachers College

Nora Akawi
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Rishi Goyal
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Jeanine D'Armiento
Associate Professor of Medicine (in Anesthesiology)
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Annika Sweetland
Assistant Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry)
Mailman School of Public Health

Andrea Howard
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (in ICAP) at the Columbia University Medical Center
Mailman School of Public Health

Julie Kornfeld
Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center
Vice Dean for Education
Mailman School of Public Health

Michael Best
Assistant Professor of Economics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Craig Spencer
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health

Sarah Knuckey
Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann and Bernstein Associate Clinical Professor of Human Rights
School of Law

Lindsay Stark
Associate Professor of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center
Mailman School of Public Health

Andreas Hielscher
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology (Physics) and Electrical Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Danielle Bajakian
Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Columbia University Medical Center
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Philip LaRussa
Professor of Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Lawrence Stanberry
Reuben S. Carpentier Professor of Pediatrics
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Wilmot James
Visiting Professor of Pediatrics
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Sidney Hemming
Professor and Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Deputy Director for Education, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Stephen Cox
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Joaquim Ignacio Goes
Lamont Research Professor
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Helga do Rosario Gomes
Research Scientist
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Yael Kiro Feldman
Associate Research Scientist
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Steven L. Goldstein
Higgins Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Associate Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Yochanan Kushnir
Lamont Research Professor
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory