A faculty of innovators, inventors, visionaries-leading seminars, serving as mentors, guiding independent research. A faculty committed to undergraduate education. Award-winning scholars publishing benchmark books and articles. Public intellectuals shaping social debate. Pioneering researchers. Critically acclaimed artists and performers. Seasoned professionals with a global network of industry contacts. Nobel Prize winners who keep open office hours.

Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee, James Schamus, producer of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, teaches film history, theory and criticism.

Faculty Facts:

• Columbia faculty supervise more than $530 million in sponsored research;
• 8 current faculty are Nobel Laureates, part of a cumulative total of 76 Nobel Prize winners in the Columbia family, past and present (including faculty and alumni);
• 143 are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
• 38 are members of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies;
• 20 of the National Academy of Engineering;
• 41 of the National Academy of Sciences;
• 4 have won the National Medal of Science;
• 28 have won a MacArthur Foundation Award, popularly known as the “genius grant.”

Scientific Advances by Columbia Faculty Include:

• Virginia Apgar (Columbia Faculty from 1935-59), credited with founding the field of perinatology.
• Jacqueline Barton (1983-89), discovered how DNA can be damaged and how that damage can be reversed, furthering cancer research.
• Harold C. Urey (1929-45), won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of deuterium, an essential component of thermonuclear weaponry and nuclear-powered reactors.
• Thomas Hunt Morgan (1904-28), whose studies on inherited characteristics of the fruit fly laid the foundations of modern genetics and led to such advances as the deciphering of the human genome.

Artistic Works by Columbia Faculty Include:

• Gregory Amenoff, Facing North (solo exhibition), 2007 (painter)
• Milos Forman, two-time Academy Award winner for Amadeus, 1984 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975 (director)
• Chris Washburne (and the SYOTOS Band), Land of Nod (compact disc), 2007 (jazz musician)
• Gregory Mosher, two-time Tony Award winner for revivals of Our Town, 1989, and Anything Goes, 1988 (producer/artistic director for Lincoln Center Theater)
• Binnie Kirshenbaum, An Almost Perfect Moment (novelist), 2005
• Mira Nair, The Namesake (director), 2006
• Joseph Dubiel, Songs of the Transformed, etc/Fulmer, et al (compact disc) (composer), 2005