VOL. 23, NO. 23	MAY 20, 1998

Request for Nominations

Nominations for candidates for honorary degrees and the University Medal for Excellence—to be awarded during May 1999 Commencement—are now being accepted by the executive committee of the Trustees and the University Senate committee on honors and prizes.

  The deadline for nominations is June 1. The committees will meet during the fall to select seven candidates for honorary degrees and one candidate for the University Medal. An honorary degree candidate need not be a Columbia graduate. A candidate for the Medal must be an alumnus/a under 45 years of age.

  Nominations should be sent to: Honors and Prizes, Office of the Secretary, 211 Low Library, 535 W. 116th St., Mail Code 4323, New York, NY 10027.

School of Arts Alumni Event

The School of the Arts Alumni Association will host a reception with Anna Quindlen on June 9 at The Century Club on W. 43rd St. Quindlen—Barnard alumna, former New York Times columnist and author the new bestselling novel Black and Blue— is the featured guest at the association’s spring seminar. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door ($15 in advance for students.) Seating is limited, and checks must be received by June 5 for advance discount. For information call 212 854-7812 or 212 708-1224.

Culture Map

Mah-bode Ghods, a doctoral student at Teachers College, and Gustavo Ortiz-Millan, a doctoral candidate at GSAS, have been named winners of the Columbia University Culture Map Fellowships. The announcement was made by the department of art history and archaeology through its Media Center for Art History and the Teachers College Program in Arts Administration.

  Created by the Columbia Volunteers for the Arts, a group of alumni and students of the Program in Arts Administration, the culture map highlights cultural venues, spaces, galleries, collections, activities and events at Columbia, Barnard and TC. In the past nine years, more than 100,000 copies of the map have been distributed.

  Through a gift by Philip E. Aarons, CC‘73, Law‘76, the Arts Administration program and the Media Center for Art History devised a contest for interdisciplinary teams of students to develop the map on line. The map’s website: www.learn.columbia.edu/culturemap.