President’s Global Innovation Fund Faculty Grants Awarded
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