The American Philological Association has awarded its prestigious Goodwin Award of Merit in classical scholarship for 1996 to Alan Cameron, the Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia. Cameron, who has taught at Columbia for 20 years, received the award for The Greek Anthology: From Meleager to Planudes (Clarendon Press--Oxford: 1993), a history of the work of anthologists in classical scholarship.
Rafael Yuste, assistant professor of biological sciences, has won several grants to support his research into the microcircuitry of the brain's cortex. The awards are from the Klingestein Foundation for $120,000, the March of Dimes Birth Defect Foundation for $80,000, the EJLB Foundation for $225,000 and the Epilepsy Foundation of America for $40,000.
Laura Kay, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard, has been selected to participate as a team leader in a national curricular project designed to eliminate barriers between science and women's studies. It is sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities' Program on the Status and Education of Women (PSEW) and financed by an $857,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Women and Scientific Literacy (WSL) is a three-year project. Participants from 10 institutions, chosen from 76 applicants, will develop new courses on women and science and revise existing courses.
Larry Engel's Going Places, a Thirteen/WNET production by Engel Brothers Media, Inc., recently aired nationally on PBS. It was hosted by Al Roker, the managing editor. Engel is a professor of film at Columbia.
Tory E. Higgins, professor and departmental chairman of psychology, has received the Donald T. Campbell Research Career Award, the most prestigious prize given by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the foremost international organization for personality and social psychologists.
