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2010 Honorary Degree and Medal for Excellence Recipients

Columbia University will confer eight honorary degrees and two Medals for Excellence at its University Commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 18, 2010:

Xu Bing
Doctor of Humane Letters

Geoffrey Canada
Doctor of Laws

Joel I. Klein
Doctor of Laws

Bernard Bailyn
Doctor of Letters

C. Lowell Harriss
Doctor of Letters

Tony Kushner
Doctor of Letters

Jacqueline K. Barton
Doctor of Science

Koji Nakanishi
Doctor of Science

Ron Gonen
Medal for Excellence

Dana Schutz
Medal for Excellence


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2010 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Columbia University will present five teaching awards at its University Commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 18, 2010:

Sharon Akabas                                         
Associate Clinical Professor  
Department of Pediatrics              

Michelle S. Ballan
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work

Linda F. Cushman                                      
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Population and Family Health

Frederik B.S. Paerels
Associate Professor
Department of Astronomy

Michael S. Sparer                     
Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management


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2010 Alumni Medalists

Columbia University will present ten Alumni Medals at its University Commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 18, 2010:

Kyra Tirana Barry
1987 B.A. Columbia College

Roger Baumann
1984 I.F. School of International and Public Affairs
1985 M.I.A. School of International and Public Affairs

Brenda Johnson Gallagher
1997 M.S. School of Social Work

Barbara Silver Horowitz
1955 B.A. Barnard College
1974 M.Ed. Teachers College

Gedale B. Horowitz
1953 B.A. Columbia College
1955 J.D. Columbia Law School

Hajime Kosai
1996 M.B.A. Columbia Business School

Larry J. Lawrence 1969 B.A. School of General Studies
1971 M.B.A. Columbia Business School

Simon K. C. Li
1970 M.S. School of Journalism

Maria E. Shiao-Di Francesco
1986 B.S. The Fu Foundation of Engineering and Applied Science

Sara Shipley Stone
1969 B.S. School of Nursing

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Three Columbians — Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Weldon Johnson — made important contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of African-American literature and art in uptown New York during the 1920s and 1930s.