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Ronald Breslow, Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry and University Professor at Columbia, will receive the American Chemical Society’s highest honor, the Priestley Medal, at the association’s national meeting in March 1999. Breslow and his students have explored the properties of molecules ranging from unusual three-membered aromatic rings to complex organic systems that imitate the chemical properties of enzymes. Olger C. Twyner III has been named the new executive director of Columbia’s Double Discovery Center. Twyner, who was coordinator of the Public Interest Law Center at NYU Law School, received his M.B.A. from Columbia, concentrating on public and non-public management. While at Columbia he served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation’s Human Rights and Governance Program. After graduating, he was founding director of the Columbia Business School Community Collaboration. Two adjunct faculty in the Writing Division of the School of the Arts have won 1998 Guggenheim Fellowships. They are: novelist A.M. Homes, adjunct assistant professor of writing, and poet Marie Howe, adjunct professor of writing. Hani Quassis has been hired by Dining Services as chef de cuisine. He has catered for Muhammad Ali, Bill Cosby, Lena Horne and Donna Karan. He has also worked with David Bouley, of the acclaimed restaurant Bouley’s New York. Quassis holds a culinary degree from the Veer Hotel Management Cooking School in Israel and will be responsible for process improvement, training of culinary staff, introducing new menu items and coordinating culinary service for catering events. Author and Pulitzer Prize laureate Jane Smiley read in Butler Library Apr. 7 from her recently published novel, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, an historical fiction set in Kansas in 1855. Invited by the Friends of Columbia University Libraries, Smiley also fielded questions about her work—past, present and future—and signed copies of her book.
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