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24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President of Columbia University
Office of the President
Thank you for stepping into Columbia's presidency in 2026 and steering one of the world's great universities with steady, principled hands.
Provost of Columbia University; Professor of Astronomy and of Physics
Office of the Provost
Thank you for guarding Columbia's academic soul as provost while still chasing the physics of the highest energy cosmic rays.
Dean of Columbia Business School; David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business
Dean's Office
Thank you for leading Columbia Business School and showing students that operations and analytics can serve people wisely.
S.T. Lee Professor of Business, Management Division
Management Division
Thank you for teaching the world about the art of choosing and how good decisions really get made.
Dean of Columbia Law School
Dean's Office
Thank you for leading Columbia Law and standing for open inquiry and free expression at a genuinely hard moment.
Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Thank you for naming net neutrality and for defending a fair and open internet for everyone.
Dean of Columbia Journalism School; Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism
Dean's Office
Thank you for leading Columbia Journalism School and defending careful, courageous reporting when it matters most.
Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs; Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations
Dean's Office
Thank you for leading SIPA and preparing a new generation to serve the public good across a complicated world.
Dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor
Dean's Office
Thank you for leading Columbia Engineering and for computer vision tools that have helped fight real harm in the world.
Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science; Founding Director, Data Science Institute
Department of Computer Science
Thank you for pioneering natural language processing and for building Columbia's Data Science Institute from the ground up.
T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Thank you for inventing new kinds of cameras and teaching computers, and the rest of us, how to truly see.
Professor of Physics and Mathematics; Director, Center for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics
Thank you for making the beauty of string theory and the cosmos feel close enough to touch for millions of readers.
University Professor, Department of Biological Sciences (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2008)
Department of Biological Sciences
Thank you for the green glow of GFP that let biologists everywhere finally watch life light up inside living cells.
University Professor (Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 2001)
Department of Economics
Thank you for a lifetime of honest economics that keeps asking how markets can actually serve ordinary people.
Esther Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Thank you for using nuclear magnetic resonance to watch proteins breathe and work in their native settings.
Professor of Astronomy
Department of Astronomy
Thank you for decades of teaching astronomy at Columbia and for inspiring students to look up and think clearly.
University Professor; William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Thank you for honoring Black literature, music, and history with scholarship as lyrical as its subjects.
John Dewey Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Thank you for wrestling with logic, parts, wholes, and time, and making metaphysics feel alive and rigorous.
DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History
Department of History
Thank you for teaching generations the true, unflinching history of Reconstruction, slavery, and American freedom.
University Professor, Department of Neuroscience (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2004)
Department of Neuroscience
Thank you for uncovering how the brain smells the world, opening a whole map of how we sense and remember.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Biological Sciences (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2017)
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Thank you for inventing single particle cryo electron microscopy and letting us see the machinery of life in atomic detail.
Professor of Medicine; Director, Vagelos Institute for Basic Biomedical Research (former Dean, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons)
Vagelos Institute for Basic Biomedical Research
Thank you for leading Columbia's medical school with heart and now advancing basic biomedical research for patients everywhere.
University Professor; Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2000)
Department of Neuroscience
Thank you for revealing how memory is written into our neurons, a gift to everyone who has ever wondered how we remember.
University Professor; Director, Center for Sustainable Development
Center for Sustainable Development
Thank you for tireless work on ending extreme poverty and building a more sustainable world for all of us.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of Columbia University, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.