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AROUND THE QUADSTransitionsPRESIDENT GALIL: Zvi Galil, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and professor of computer science, will leave Columbia at the end of the school year to become president of Tel Aviv University, Israel’s largest university with 29,000 students. Galil, who has been at Columbia for 25 years and has served as dean for more than a decade, graduated from Tel Aviv and began his teaching career there in 1976. “Tel Aviv University is more than my alma mater,” Galil wrote in an e-mail to the SEAS student body. “My late father was one of its six founders, I earned my B.S. and M.S. degrees there and met my wife there. I was asked to take on the presidency to help realize its full potential — being the premier university in Israel and in the top tier of universities worldwide.” NEW TRUSTEES: Kyriakos Tsakopoulos ’93 and Kenneth Forde ’59 P&S are the newest members of the University’s Board of Trustees, having officially joined the board at its October meeting. They succeeded retiring members George Van Amson ’74 and John Chalsty on the 24-member board. Tsakopoulos, who majored in political science, is president of KT Communities and a principal of AKT Development in California. He also is a trustee of the California State University System. Forde, who graduated from CCNY before coming to Columbia, served on the faculty of the medical school as a professor of clinical surgery from 1966–2006. ALUMNI OFFICE: Richard von Bargen Jr. joined the alumni office in December as a development officer for young alumni. In this role, he will assist with the office’s efforts to foster participation in the life of the College by the newest alumni. An alumnus of Williams College, von Bargen worked at the Williams Club in New York City for more than three years, most recently as program and marketing director.
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