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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)
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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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