Summer 2014
Around the Quads
Ten Faculty Receive Lenfest Awards
Ten Arts and Sciences faculty members have been honored with Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Awards for their ability to engage, challenge and inspire students. The awards were established by University Trustee (now Emeritus) Gerry Lenfest ’58L in 2005 and award each honoree a stipend of $25,000 a year for three years.
Two of this year’s honorees are College alumnae: Christine Philliou ’94, associate professor of history, and Valerie Purdie-Vaughns ’93, assistant professor of psychology.
The others are Elizabeth Blackmar, professor of history; Virginia Page Fortna, professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science; Erik Gray, associate professor of English and comparative literature; Peter Kelemen, the Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ioannis Mylonopoulos, associate professor of art history and archaeology; Joanna Stalnaker, associate professor of French and romance philology; Brent Stockwell, associate professor of biological sciences and chemistry; and Rafael Yuste, professor of biology and neuroscience.