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TRANSITIONS

BAECHLER NAMED: Lea Baechler has been appointed assistant dean for academic affairs. She will continue to work closely with Kathryn Yatrakis, dean of academic affairs and associate dean of the College, on all aspects of academic life.

Baechler began her academic career teaching at the University of Idaho and has taught at Princeton, the School of General Studies, and most recently at Barnard. She has edited a number of books and has been heavily involved in the Core Curriculum, both as a teacher and an administrator.

IN LUMINE TUO



István Deák
(PHOTO: STEVE GOODMAN)

INSIGHTFUL: On November 16, Seth Low Professor of History István Deák was one of three recipients of the 37th George Washington Awards from the American Hungarian Foundation. Deák, the former director of Columbia's Institute on East Central Europe and author of The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849 (winner of the Lionel Trilling Award) and Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 (winner of the Vuchinich Book Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies), was recognized for providing "new insight into modern European history, Hungary and East Central Europe not only for students and scholars but also for laypersons."

The George Washington Award, inspired by a statue of the first president donated in 1906 to Budapest's City Park by Americans of Hungarian descent, honors distinguished contributions in the broad field of human knowledge, the arts, and understanding among men and nations. The American Hungarian Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted to furthering the understanding and appreciation of the Hungarian cultural heritage in the United States.

ELEGANT: The Elegant Universe by Professor of Physics and Mathematics Brian Greene has won the 1999 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award for Science, which carries with it a prize of $2,500. Winners were selected in three categories by panels of scholars in the various fields from over 100 entries submitted by publishers. The other winners were James Olney of Louisiana State, whose Memory & Narrative was honored in the field of literary scholarship or criticism, and H.C. Eric Midelfort of the University of Virginia, whose A History of Madness in Sixteenth Century Germany won for outstanding study of the intellectual and cultural condition of mankind.

One member of the book committee commented, "Greene must be an excellent teacher. His ability to explain fundamental, complex ideas through everyday examples is extraordinary."

CORRECTION: In the November 1999 issue of CCT, Alan Brinkley, the Allan Nevins Professor of History, was not listed with Professors David Rosand '59 and Jack L. Snyder as a new Columbia member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. All three professors were inducted into the Academy in early October 1999. CCT regrets the omission. For the text of Brinkley's remarks at the induction ceremony, see Columbia Forum.

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