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3. Columbia in the World Today

SOME OF LAST YEAR'S JOURNEYS

To Argentina, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Venezuela:
President George Rupp, visiting with alumni and friends of Columbia
To Athens, Beijing, Frankfurt, The Hague, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Hong Kong, Rome, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Vancouver, and other cities:
Columbia College admissions officials seeking top students
To Bali, Beijing, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Cambridge, Kyoto, Oxford, Paris, Rome, Scandiano, and Tokyo--sixty countries all told:
198 Columbia College students in study abroad programs
To Beijing:
Law School Dean David W. Leebron and R. Randle Edwards, director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, for U.S.-China conference on legal education
To Bochum, Germany; Keszthely, Hungary; and Majorca:
Erinn Smart '01BAR, fencing her way to a Junior World Cup silver medal
To Bogota:
SIPA faculty, teaching an M.P.A. curriculum they developed for the Universidad Externado
To Brazil/Argentina, China, Cuba, India/Pakistan, Japan, South Africa, and Thailand/ Vietnam:
300 Business School students on study tours visiting businesses and government officials
To Cannes:
Annette L. Insdorf, professor of film in the School of the Arts, hosting a television broadcast of the Cannes Film Festival awards
To Czechoslovakia and Germany:
art history and architecture students, examining early (from 1905) creations of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect of the Seagram Building and other skyscrapers
To Israel:
University Professor Eric R. Kandel, to accept the Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine for his molecular neurobiology research on memory and learning
To Manila:
the Columbia Parliamentary Debate Team, competing in the International Debate Tournament
To Paris, Jerusalem, and northern Thailand:
Nursing School students, gaining international clinical experience in overseas hospitals

Richard N. Gardner, the Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization


R. Randle Edwards, director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies

To Prague:
Journalism School faculty, teaching American-style journalism to Czech students at Charles University
To Reading and Henley-on-Thames, England:
Columbia's Lightweight Crew, to win the Senior B Eights event in the Reading Regatta, then reach the quarterfinals in the Henley Regatta
To Rome, Sydney, Tokyo, and elsewhere:
roving "ambassadors" on display--books loaned to exhibits from Avery Library's rare collection of architectural drawings and manuscripts
To Seoul, Havana, London, Como, and Keszthely:
Jed Dupree '01C, to win a World Cup individual bronze medal in fencing, then reach World Cup Team finals with U.S. Men's Foil Team victory over China
To Stockholm:
Horst Stormer, professor of physics and applied physics, with colleagues from Princeton and Stanford, to accept the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics, the fifty-eighth Nobel won by present and past Columbia faculty and students
To Stockholm:
Louis J. Ignarro, 1962 Columbia pharmacy graduate, with colleagues from SUNY Downstate and the University of Texas, to accept the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, bringing our Nobel home runs to fifty-nine and counting
To Sydney, Australia:
Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Cristina Teuscher '00C, to win gold, silver, and bronze at the Pan-Pacific Championships
To Taiwan:
exchange students from our School of Dental and Oral Surgery, to pursue studies at National Taiwan University
To Winnipeg, Manitoba:
Susan Jennings '00C, with U.S. Women's Foil Team to win Pan American Games bronze medal
To Yunnan Province, China:
Chou Wen-chung '54GSAS, the Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition and director of the Columbia-based Center for United States-China Arts Exchange, to help establish a new museum and arts department dedicated to indigenous cultures in the province
To Zimbabwe:
Yahonnes Cleary '00C, winner of a Truman Scholarship, to study poverty issues in sub-Saharan Africa

Horst Stormer, professor of physics and applied physics

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