President George Rupp and Provost Jonathan Cole have announced the appointment of three Columbia faculty to the rank of University Professor. Biochemistry Professor Wayne Hendrickson and Economics Professors Jagdish Bhagwati and Robert Mundell were appointed University Professors, Columbia's highest faculty rank, by the University Trustees at their March meeting

The appointment as University Professor recognizes exceptional scholarly merit of the highest distinction and distinguished service to the University.

Hendrickson, a member of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons faculty since 1984, is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics. One of the world's preeminent structural biologists, Hendrickson has invented a method to speed the determination of atomic structures for biological molecules from the X-ray diffraction of crystals. He has also developed software programs widely used in interpreting X-ray data. The author of more than 200 articles, Hendrickson and his co-workers determined the structure of a key molecule that the AIDS virus uses to attach onto a human immune cell during infection. He and his colleagues have also determined the structures of many other biological molecules, including other AIDS-related molecules and several proteins that function at the surfaces of living cells.

Bhagwati, a member of the Columbia faculty since 1980, is the Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and professor of political science. A prolific researcher, Bhagwati has published more than 300 articles and 40 volumes, while writing extensively also in leading newspapers and magazines. Widely regarded as the preeminent international trade economist today, Bhagwati has also made contributions to public finance, immigration and the new theory of political economy. His works include Protectionism (MIT Press,1988) and A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration and Democracy (MIT Press, 1998). His book, India: Planning for Industrialization (Oxford, 1970), co-authored with Columbia economics professor Padma Desai, provided the intellectual case for the economic reforms now under way in India. He has received several awards, among them the Freedom Prize (Switzerland) and the Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy (USA).

Mundell, a member of the Columbia faculty since 1974, is the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics. The 1999 Nobel Prize winner in economic science, Mundell laid the intellectual groundwork more than 30 years ago for the creation of the European Union and its common currency, the euro, and was an originator of "supply side" economics adopted by the Reagan administration.

His books include The International Monetary System: Conflict and Reform (Private Planning Association of Canada, 1965), Man and Economics (McGraw-Hill, 1968), International Economics (Macmillan, 1968) and Monetary Theory: Interest, Inflation and Growth in the World Economy (Goodyear, 1971).

Jagdish Bhagwati	Wayne Hendrickson	Robert Mundell