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The president of Columbia University is the chief officer of Columbia University in New York City. The position was created in 1754 by the original royal charter for the university, issued by George II , and the power to appoint the president was given to an autonomous board of trustees .
These individuals all served as President of Columbia University in New York City, New York in the United States. Pages in category "Presidents of Columbia University" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
As of the 2023 awards, 103 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia University as alumni or faculty. Among the 103 laureates, 72 are Nobel laureates in natural sciences; [a] 46 are Columbia alumni (graduates and attendees) and 34 have been long-term academic members of the Columbia faculty; and subject-wise, 33 laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, more than any other subject.
Lipkin was the Louise Turner Arnold Chair in the Neurosciences [5] at the University of California, Irvine from 1990 to 2001 and was recruited shortly thereafter by Columbia University. He began his current tenure at Columbia as the founding director of the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory from 2002 to 2007, which ...
George D. Yancopoulos (born 1959) is a Greek-American biomedical scientist who is the co-founder, president and chief scientific officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. [ 1 ] Yancopoulos is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , and the holder of more than 100 patents. [ 2 ]
John V. Lombardi (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968) – president of University of Florida (1990–1999); chancellor of University of Massachusetts Amherst (2002–2007); president of Louisiana State University System (2007–present) Seth Low (B.A. 1870) – president of Columbia University; chairman of Tuskegee Institute (1907–1916)
The oldest president at the time of death was Jimmy Carter, who died at 100 years, 89 days. John F. Kennedy , assassinated at the age of 46 years, 177 days, was the youngest to have died in office; the youngest to have died by natural causes was James K. Polk , who died of cholera at the age of 53 years, 225 days.
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, [8] is a private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan , it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States .