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| VOL. 23, NO. 4 | September 26, 1997 |
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People: McNeil, Fort, Slade, Soloman, Mischel, Graumlich, Davies, Levin
- Two people moved up, one moved in and one moved out this summer in the administration of the Division of Special Programs. Dean Frank Wolf has announced that two division administrators were promoted to associate dean and a professor was hired to take over a directorship vacated through retirement. Paul McNeil, former director of continuing education, is now the associate dean of the division. Irene Fort, who directed the office of budget, financial planning and personnel, was named the associate dean for finance and administration. The new director of the Summer Session and the Special Students Program is Carol Slade, an adjunct associate professor in the department of English and comparative literature. She succeeds Joseph Kissane, who retired after 43 years at Columbia.
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- Robert A. Solomon has been named chair of the department of neurological surgery at Columbia and director of the neurological surgery service at Presbyterian Hospital, succeeding Bennett Stein. Solomon, who joined Columbia in 1980, is a pioneer in the treatment of giant cerebral aneurysms, badly deformed and ballooned vessels in the brain that are likely to rupture and cause death.
- Columbia Professor Walter Mischel received an honorary doctor of science degree in June from Ohio State University, where he earned the Ph.D. Mischel, the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology, is an authority on personality and author of two classic books and more than 100 research publications on the subject. Ohio State lauded his work in illuminating "the mysteries of human behavior. His creative research designs and his ability to apply them to practical problems of social significance have justifiably made him the acknowledged leader and innovator in the field of personality psychology," the degree citation said. He has taught at Columbia since 1983.
- Lisa Graumlich has been named to the newly created posts of director of the Earth Learning Center and deputy director of the Biosphere 2 Center in Oracle, Ariz. She comes to the Columbia-run facility from the University of Arizona, where she was director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. At Biosphere 2, she will direct the building of an interdisciplinary program that brings together not only a variety of Earth systems disciplines, but also areas of research, education and public outreach dealing with issues of planetary stewardship.
- Two leading educators have joined Teachers College as visiting professors: Gordon K. Davies, who set policy for Virginia's public colleges and universities for 20 years, and Henry M. Levin, who is a specialist in the economics of education.
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