Best of 2011

13 June 2012
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From championship athletics to groundbreaking discoveries, take a look at the highlights of the 2011-2012 academic year at Columbia University.

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Commencement Week 2012

View a slideshow of photos from University Commencement and Class Day activities of the 258th Academic Year.

Alfred Stepan, Wallace Sayre Professor of Government in the School of International and Public Affairs and the Political Science department, will receive the Karl Deutsch Award in comparative politics, which is given every three years, at the World Congress of the International Political Science in Madrid.

Pedro A. Sanchez, director of tropical agriculture and rural environment at the Earth Institute, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, University Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, and Andre Okounkov, the Samuel Eilenberg Professor of Mathematics, were inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished achievements in original research.

Biotech company Roche awarded Jeff Bandar and Alexandria P. Brucks the Excellence In Chemistry Award for research accomplishments in the fields of synthetic organic chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, and computational chemistry.