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Derek Wittner ’65, formerly associate dean, has been named dean of College alumni affairs and development and deputy v.p. of University development and alumni relations. In addition to his existing responsibilities, Wittner will assume co-management for University major gifts for the Arts and Sciences schools. Ken Catandella’s title has been changed to executive director of alumni affairs at the College. He will continue to direct College alumni affairs and report to Wittner, and also will report to Eric Furda, University vice president for alumni relations. This change reflects the ongoing collaboration and coordination of College alumni relations programs with University programs. Jay Wright has joined the Alumni Office as assistant director of the Columbia College Fund with responsibility for young alumni fund raising. Wright is a graduate of Hamilton College, where he was a member of the football and lacrosse teams, and has been a fund raiser since his graduation in 2003.

Emily C. Lloyd resigned as executive v.p. of government and community affairs on June 30 but continues to advise the administration on the University’s proposed development in Manhattanville and West Harlem. Mark Burstein is leaving his position as v.p. for facilities management to become Princeton’s v.p. for administration, overseeing student services and human resources as well as facilities management, effective August 2. Lloyd and Burstein both had been at Columbia for 10 years. Deborah Rothstein has been named director of the Alumni Career Development Program, which will coordinate alumni outreach for the Center for Career Education. Rothstein is a 10-year veteran of CCE.

Internationally renowned economist and Business School professor R. Glenn Hubbard is the new dean of the Business School, succeeding Meyer Feldberg, who retired July 1. Hubbard, who came to Columbia in 1988, served for two years as chair of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers before returning to Columbia a year ago to resume his faculty duties and become co-director of the Business School’s Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship. Mark Mazower, an eminent historian who has taught at Princeton, Sussex University and Birkbeck College in London and is the author of Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century (Vintage Books USA, 2000), will join Columbia’s faculty this fall. The history department plans to set up a small institute around his work, bringing in speakers and running seminars. Don Melnick, a faculty member since 1981, has been appointed to a new chair, the Distinguished Professorship of Conservation Biology. Melnick is the executive director of the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation.

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