First Columbian Named Rhodes Scholar for the East Africa Constituency

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FACULTY

ARTS & HUMANITIES

Megan McDowell, an adjunct professor within the writing program at School of the Arts, is the co-winner of the 2022 National Book Awards for Translated Literature for Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin, and translated by McDowell.

SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Larry Abbott, William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience and Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics (in Biological Sciences and on the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute), gained the Gruber Foundation’s 2022 Neuroscience Prize. He was introduced with the award on the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in San Diego on November 13.

Brooke Aggarwal, assistant professor of medical sciences, and Matthew Lewis, assistant professor of medication, have been not too long ago awarded the 2022-23 Lewis Katz Cardiovascular Research Prize for Division of Cardiology Investigators.

Gregory Alexander, Helen Young CUPHSONAA Professor of Nursing, acquired the Harriet Werley Award for Best Paper from the American Medical Informatics Association.

Jack Drescher, scientific professor of psychiatry and senior psychoanalytic guide at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Research, is the recipient of The Sigourney Award for 2022. Dr. Drescher’s pioneering work has had a worldwide impression on gender identification and harms performed by efforts to vary an individual’s sexual orientation. His work has contributed to actions in 20 U.S. states and almost 30 international locations to ban LGBTQ conversion therapies.

Ruth Masterson Creber, professor of nursing, acquired the Protégé Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research. She additionally was chosen to obtain the Research Article of the Year Award by the American Heart Association’s Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing.

Maureen George, professor of nursing and assistant dean of scholarship and analysis, was appointed as a member of the Interdisciplinary Clinical Care in Specialty Care Settings Study Section by the National Institutes of Health.

Priscila Dib Gonçalves, a postdoc in epidemiology with Myrna Weissman, not too long ago acquired the Scientific Training in Addiction Research Techniques program (START) Excellence Award. START is a one-year program for presented future investigators from traditionally underrepresented and underserved backgrounds, which focuses on utilizing the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development dataset. 

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, professor of epidemiology, has been elected to serve because the seventh president of The World Academy of Sciences.

Nour Makarem, assistant professor of epidemiology, is the winner of the American Heart Association Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Early Career Investigator Award. She was introduced with the award on the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions held in Chicago on November 5.

Marianna Zazhytska, postdoctoral analysis scientist within the Lomvardas Lab, on the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, was presented with the Society for Neuroscience’s Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award at SfN’s Annual Meeting in San Diego on November 13.

STUDENTS

A staff of Columbia GSAPP college students acquired first prize in the Preservation Engineering Technical Committee (PETC) Student Design-Build Competition. Members of the staff embrace Elaf Alsibyani, Adam Oscar Brodheim, Michelle Leach, Eleanor Phetteplace, Jerry Schmit, EunJin Shin, and Winnie Michi Trujillo.

Gloria Charité (CC’23) has been named the 2023 Rhodes Scholar for the East Africa constituency, the primary Columbian to be named a recipient from the area. The Rhodes for East Africa, which launched in 2018, selects a single scholar every year; candidates come from Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Burundi.