In This Issue:

New Departmental Space

Presidential Fellows

Class of 2004

CVN is "Best of Web"

TAs Receive Awards

Heffner Hydrologic Lab

SEAS Teachers Honored

Free Email Forwarding

High School Students Build Robot

Annual Fund Hits New High

Alumni Briefs

Camp Columbia Reunion

Columbia Video Network: Forbes' "Best of the Web"

Columbia Video Network: Forbes' "Best of the Web"Columbia Video Network (CVN) has earned a designation from Forbes Magazine as "Best of the Web" for online higher education websites. Forbes called the website "one of the most up-to-date online higher education sites you'll find." Last year, CVN enrollments exceeded 1,000 for the first time, and enrollments are expected to increase by 30% this year. All CVN courses are now online.

"We have a significant number of international students," said Executive Director Grace Chung, "representing every continent except Antarctica." Ms. Chung credits her staff for much of CVN's success. "I am fortunate to have such a dedicated group of people working with me," she said. "We are constantly striving to make Columbia Video Network better for both the companies and the graduate students we serve."

Forbes said: "Columbia University's graduate engineering school offers degrees in six programs, almost entirely over the Internet. You can follow classes in Medical Informatics, Genomic Information Science and Technology and Industrial Electrochemistry. . . . Download class notes, course materials, homework assignments and syllabuses over the Internet. . . . The best feature: professors must respond to student emails within 24 hours."

You can visit the CVN website at . www.cvn.columbia.edu.