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Rachel Adams has enjoyed a successful academic career as an author and educator. This semester, she returns to the classroom not only as a professor, but as a nontraditional student at GS, where she is studying biology in preparation of obtaining a master's degree in genetic counseling, inspired by a newfound love of science and a family member's diagnosis.
Congratulations to Matthew Hart, who has become President of the Modernist Studies Association for the upcoming year to October 2020. The MSA is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the late 19th through the mid-20th century. Hart will preside over the 2020 annual meeting of the Association in Brooklyn, for which Columbia is one of the host institutions
The Truman Capote Award Ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Oct. 16 in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber. The event will feature remarks by Brent Hayes Edwards and a reception in the Old Capitol Museum. Both events are open to the public.
Congratulations to our esteemed colleague, Saidiya Hartman, who has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow for her outstanding work "tracing the afterlife of slavery in modern American life and rescuing from oblivion stories of sparsely documented lives that have been systematically excluded from historical archives."