Vol.25, No. 11	Jan. 21, 2000

People

The 30th annual James Russell Lowell Prize of The Modern Language Association of America was awarded last December in New York City to English and comparative literature professor Gauri Viswanathan for her book Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief. The book also received the American Comparative Literature Association's Harry Levin Prize.

Kristin Linklater, chair of the School of the Arts Theatre Division, stars in Donald Margulies' two-person play "Collected Stories," at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine January 14-30. The 1997 Pulitzer nominated-play explores the complex relationship between an established writer (played by Linklater and previously performed off-Broadway by Uta Hagen ) and her young protégée.

Stephen P. Zeldes, the Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Finance and Economics at the Business School, won the fourth annual Paul A. Samuelson Award of the TIAA-CREF Institute on January 7 in Boston. The award was given for Social Security Money's Worth, a study authored by Zeldes and colleagues from Yale and The Wharton School.

Dr. Cheryl Healton, head of the Division of Sociomedical Sciences and associate dean of the Mailman School of Public Health, has been appointed chief executive officer of the American Legacy Foundation. Healton becomes the anti-tobacco educational organization's first CEO.

After more than 20 years of service to Columbia, Dwight Childers, director of Software and Consulting Services for AIS, will retire at the end of January 2000. Johathan Markow, who has been with AIS since 1983 most recently as Associate Director and Application Architect in the AIS Software and Consulting Services group, will assume the role of director of Software and Consulting Services.

Teresa Pober has joined Human Resources as manager of the new Human Resources/Payroll Information Systems Improvement Project. Pober comes to Columbia from Hofstra University where she was Director of Payroll. She will direct the planning and implementation of the new systems improvement project, which will bridge a gap between Human Resources and Payroll, reducing the paper process and establishing a more efficient system.