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AROUND THE QUADSIn Lumine TuoBOLLINGER: University President Lee C. Bollinger has been appointed to the nine-person board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the largest of the 12 Federal Reserve banks. Bollinger begins his three-year term as a class C director of the board this month. His responsibilities include approving the bank’s budget, appointing the bank’s officers and helping to set the district’s interest rate. TILLY: Charles Tilly, the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, was honored in October by Phi Beta Kappa with the 2006 Sidney Hook Memorial Award. Presented at the 41st Triennial Council if the Phi Beta Kappa Society, held in Atlanta. The award recognizes national distinction by a single scholar in each of three endeavors — scholarship, undergraduate teaching and leadership — in the cause of liberal arts education. The award is made possible by a grant from the John Dewey Foundation. Tilly is an internationally recognized authority on long-term social processes. He has examined military, demographic, economic, urban and political change in Europe and North America from the Middle Ages to the present. SONNE: Paul Sonne ’07 has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship, marking the first time since 2001 that a Columbia student has received the honor. Two others, Susanna Berger ’07 and Arun Chandrasekhar ’07, were finalists for the award, which is funded by the British government and given to American students to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Sonne, a Russian language and literature major, is editor-in-chief of the Columbia Political Review. He spent the fall semester of his junior year studying in Moscow and interning at the local bureau of The New York Times. In 2004, he founded The Birch, the first American undergraduate journal of Eastern European and Eurasian studies. Sonne plans to use his scholarship to pursue a master’s of philosophy in Eastern European studies at Oxford.
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