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Senators Jeffords, Moynihan, Mack Visit Columbia
 hree United States senators visited Columbia recently: James Jeffords (R.-Vt.), chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee; Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D.-N.Y.), ranking member of the Finance Committee, and Connie Mack (R.-Fla.), chairman of the Banking Committee's Housing Opportunity and Community Development Subcommittee, vice chairman of the joint House-Senate Economic Committee and chairman of the Finance Committee's Long-Term Growth, Debt & Deficit Reduction Subcommittee.
Jeffords, who received SIPA's Excellence in Government Award, also spoke to SIPA students on "Education: The Nation in Crisis."
Jeffords visited the Morningside Heights campus Dec. 8, meeting with President George Rupp, Health Sciences Vice President Herbert Pardes, School of International and Public Affairs Dean Lisa Anderson, Associate Dean Steve Cohen and Kate Wilson, executive director for student financial services. Moynihan visited the Health Sciences campus Dec. 10. He received Columbia's 42nd annual Cartwright Prize and delivered the Cartwright Lecture, speaking on "The Commodification of Medicine." The award, created in 1870, is given to individuals in recognition of their outstanding contributions to medicine. Moynihan is the first person outside of biological sciences to receive the award. Mack visited the Health Sciences campus on Jan. 6. A strong advocate for increased funding for biomedical research, Mack met with Rupp, Pardes and Assistant Vice President for Federal Relations Ellen Smith.
A series of presentations on advances and challenges in health sciences research were offered by faculty members Karthryn L. Calame, Riccardo Dalla-Favera, Ramon E. Parsons, Patrick S. Moore, Karen H. Antman, Daniel P. Petrylsk, Frederica Perera and Richard Mayeux. Vice Provost Michael Crow and William A. Polf, deputy vice president for external relations and strategic programs at health sciences, also delivered presentations.
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