Ashkin,
96, is the oldest person ever named a Nobel laureate in any category.
His achievement allowed scientists to use pressure from light to
manipulate tiny organisms without damaging them, “an old dream of
science fiction.”
Two
Columbia professors — a neuroscientist whose work on the visual system
could lead to a cure for blindness and a theoretical computer scientist
who has helped define the limits of computation — are among the 84 new
members elected this week to the National Academy of Sciences.
Columbia University has received nearly three million dollars in grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through its program in Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
Saidiya Hartman, a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and Branden Joseph, the Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemp
The
Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
Branka Arsić was awarded MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for her book
'Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau.'
The
Irvings’ philanthropy will be felt across a wide range of disciplines,
including cancer genomics, immunology, computational biology, pathology,
and biomedical engineering.
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