In 1997, we celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the Morningside Heights campus. As all Columbians know, it is a remarkable physical setting. Concentrated in an area bounded by just a few city blocks, the campus fosters the air of intellectual intensity and the cross-fertilization of ideas that the world has come to associate with Columbia.
Two miles to the north, on the University's Health Sciences campus, one finds a similar sense of compactness and intersecting energies. There, students from different schools and divisions work in close proximity to specialists in basic research and world-renowned clinical experts, while the University and its distinguished partner, the New York Presbyterian Hospital, collaborate in setting the global standard for medical education, life-saving discoveries, and patient care.
In both locations—and farther up the Hudson at Nevis Laboratories and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and wherever Columbia conducts its world-class programs of graduate and professional training and advanced research—there are three essential ingredients for success: talented students, gifted faculty, and programs that cultivate rigorous disciplinary expertise while also cutting across traditional boundaries. |
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