The Society of Columbia Graduates cordially invites you to attend its 71st ANNUAL GREAT TEACHER AWARDS PRESENTATION and 110th ANNUAL MEETING
Please register through the following Reunion Weekend web links:
For College Alumni: https://www.college.columbia.edu/alumni/reunion/2019
For Engineering Alumni: https://engineering.columbia.edu/reunion
GREAT TEACHER AWARD HONOREES
GIUSEPPE GERBINO
Professor of Music, Historical Musicology, and Vice Chair of the Department of Music, Giuseppe Gerbino has a passion for introducing music into the lives of undergraduate students. His research and publications have focused on early opera, the relationship between music and language in the early modern period, the Italian Madrigal, and Renaissance theories of cognition and sense perception. Professor Gerbino joined the faculty in 2001 and quickly became a valued member of the Columbia community, contributing his expertise in many distinguished roles. He served as Chair of the Department of Music from 2011 to 2014 and is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies for Music Majors in the School of General Studies. Professor Gerbino’s commitment to the University is broader than just his involvement with the Music Department. He was also a member of the Governing Board and Selection Committee of the Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities, from 2009 to 2012, and has served as a member of the Interdepartmental Committee on Medieval and Renaissance Studies since 2001.
Having served in regular intervals as Chair of Music Humanities, Professor Gerbino has been instrumental in shaping the Music Humanities curriculum. He considers Music Humanities an integral part of the Core Curriculum, describing the four Core classes as “inextricably intertwined points of entry into the intellectual life of the West through four fundamental manifestations of human behavior: the linguistic, the abstract thinking, the visual, and the auditory.” Professor Gerbino teaches a section of Music Humanities, along with his other undergraduate and graduate classes, and also serves as a mentor to the graduate students who teach the class. One of his Music Humanities students described the experience as “an extraordinary class taught by an extraordinary man.” In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award, given to a professor who demonstrates unusual merit in scholarship, university citizenship, and professional involvement. After graduating from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 1993, summa cum laude, Professor Gerbino earned an M.A. in Musicology from Duke University in 1997 and his Ph.D. in
Musicology four years later, in 2001. He was awarded a three- year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the Marenzio Online Digital Edition which was developed to put a complete critical edition of the secular music of Luca Marenzio online. He served as co-editor of that online digital edition. He has been widely published in numerous international journals and is the author of two books, Canoni ed enigmi: Pier Francesco Valentini e l’artificio canonico nella prima metà del Seicento, published by Torre d’Orfeo in 1995, and Music and the Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy, published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. In 2010 he was the winner of the Lewis Lockwood Award of the American Musicological Society.
BARCLAY MORRISON
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Barclay Morrison is widely recognized for his important contributions and research involving traumatic brain injury. His research explores the cellular, molecular, and metabolic effects of injury to brain cells in response to precisely controlled biomechanical stimuli. He explores novel treatment options through an understanding of post-traumatic pathobiology in greater detail and looks to design and implement new research tools in his quest to better understand the mechanisms and cellular response of the brain to traumatic injury.
Professor Morrison and his research group are the recipients of numerous awards. In 2006, he was honored with the Kim Award for Student-Faculty Involvement from the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Kim Award, established in 2000 by Edward and Carole Kim, was created to honor a faculty member who is not only an outstanding teacher, but who also shows a special, personal commitment to students. In 2009, he was Keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury. In 2015 he was elected Vice President of the International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury and three years later, he was elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Since joining the faculty in 2003, Professor Morrison has been actively involved at Columbia with an impressive commitment to the University at every level of service. He sits on numerous University Committees, School of Engineering Committees, and Biomedical Engineering Committees. He has participated in organizing over one hundred outreach events that have supported faculty, students, scholarship winners, as well as prospective high school students and their families who had been invited to campus events as an introduction to Columbia. Professor Morrison’s teaching record has been outstanding. He has had an important role in the design of the Biomedical Engineering curriculum and teaches core curriculum courses in that department. He has implemented an entire course in PowerPoint, Quantitative Physiology II, Organ Systems, in response to its complicated multidimensional inquiry and because there is no quantitative physiology text yet published to address this highly technical material.
He is recognized by his undergraduate students as a wonderful role model and mentor. “Best instructor I’ve had to date”, “I love this class”, “Great ability to communicate ideas, concepts and equations and translate them to application” are among the legion of comments from undergraduate students attending his classes.
A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland, Professor Morrison received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 1992, an M.S.E. in Bioengineering in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering in 1999. At Johns Hopkins, he was awarded the prestigious Ashton Fellowship and the S.R. Pollack Award for Excellence in Graduate Bioengineering Research.