2009 Honorary Degree and Medal for Excellence Recipients

UNIVERSITY MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE

Kiran Desai
Author

DOCTOR OF LAWS

P.N. Bhagwati
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India (former)

Helene D. Gayle
International Humanitarian

H. FitzGerald Lenfest
Media Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

Joseph L. Sax
Environmental Law and Property Law Scholar

DOCTOR OF LETTERS

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Philosopher

Caroline Walker Bynum
Medieval History Scholar

Ainslie T. Embree
Historian of Modern South Asia

Paul Farmer
Physician, Anthropologist 

2009 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Wendy K. Chung
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine
Department of Pediatrics

George Deodatis
Santiago and Robertina Calatrava Family Professor of Civil Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Marguerite Y. Holloway
Assistant Professor of Journalism
Graduate School of Journalism

Scott A. Snyder
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

Joseph Tenenbaum
Edgar Leifer Professor of Clinical Medicine
Department of Medicine

2009 Alumni Medalists

Jacqueline A. Bello
College of Physicians and Surgeons, MD 1980

Margarita S. Brose
Barnard College, BA 1984

Stephen H. Case
Columbia College, BA 1964
Law School, LLB 1968

Helen Coleman Evarts
School of General Studies, BA 1970

Lois A. Jackson
Barnard College, BA 1973
College of Dental Medicine, DDS 1977; Post-Doc 1980

James Leitner
School of International and Public Affairs, MIA 1977

Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Columbia College, BA 1986
School of the Arts, MFA 1992

Richard M. Smith
School of International and Public Affairs, IF 1969
Graduate School of Journalism, MS 1970

George L. Stern
Columbia College, BA 1958
School of Engineering and Applied Science, BS 1959

George L. Van Amson
Columbia College, BA 1974