March/April 2010
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FELLOWS: Don J. Melnick, Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology and professor of anthropology and biological sciences; Robert Y. Shapiro, professor of political science; and Liang Tong, professor of biological sciences, are among seven Columbia professors who have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a prestigious scientific society established in 1848. Also selected were Jeffrey A. Lieberman, the Lieber Professor of Psychiatry; W. Ian Lipkin, the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology and professor of neurology and pathology; Stephen S. Morse, professor of clinical epidemiology; and Lorraine S. Symington, professor of microbiology and immunology. The seven new fellows are among 531 inductees from across the nation.
GERRARD: Michael Gerrard ’72, director of the Law School’s Center for Climate Change Law, has been selected as the first Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice. This new endowed professorship is the first at any law school in the world devoted exclusively to the study of climate change law.