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Milestones
June M. Besek, executive director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School, will chair the new Copyright Law Reform Task Force of the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law.

Columbia's Center for International Earth Science Information Network has been awarded a five-year contract for more than $20 million from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to continue operating the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, which is part of NASA's Earth Observing System.

Nabila El-Bassel, professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and director of the Global Health Research Center in Central Asia, has received a $3.5 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to conduct an innovative couples-based HIV/STI study in Central Asia.

Profiles
Antonio 'Tony' Arevalo Jr.Name: Antonio 'Tony' Arevalo Jr.

Position: Utility A Mechanic, Carpentry Shop/ Butler Library

A Vietnam veteran, Arevalo procured a job at Columbia after leaving the service, with the help of his father, who worked at Facilities in the plumbing shop. On his first day, in 1974, he was "nervous...and then glad, because I had money in my pocket."  Forward
Alumni News

Read the September 2008 Columbia Alumni
Association Newsletter

This month's edition includes a link to join CAA's new social network, as well as opportunities to learn about carbon emissions at Café Science or gape at sea lion pups at the Bronx Zoo.

Columbia Faculty Discuss the Issues of our Times
On any given day of the week, the voices and ideas of Columbia faculty members can be seen and heard in the local, national and international media. But this has been an especially busy summer for many professors making contributions to the public's understanding of some of the great issues of our time, from climate change and the war on terror, the U.S. presidential election and economy, to the Beijing Olympics and the Georgia-Russia conflict.  Forward

TOP STORIES

Columbia Business School Opens Semester with Newly Enhanced Core Curriculum

Columbia Business School will unveil its redesigned core curriculum this fall with the entering class of 2010, introducing a streamlined set of foundational courses, newly built-in flexibility and a corporate governance module during orientation for first year students.  Forward

Three Columbians Win Olympic Silver Medals
in Fencing

Three-time Olympian Erinn Smart, BC '01, won the silver medal in the women's team foil competition. Her brother Keeth, who will begin classes this fall as a first-year MBA student at Columbia Business School, won a silver in the men's team sabre competition with current graduate student James Williams, CC '07.  Forward

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