A quartet of Columbia Engineering faculty will be embarking on long-term, risk-taking research, having received $6.5 million from the National Science Foundation as part of its $90 million initiative in Information Technology Research (ITR). In announcing these first ITR awards, President Bill Clinton noted that high technology accounts for one-third of the U.S. economic growth in recent years and generates jobs that pay 85 percent more than the average private sector. Columbia was one of five universities receiving the most large-scale ITR awards. [More]

  Martin Hellman, left, and Whitefield Diffie, right, win the Marconi Foundation Fellowship for insuring Internet privacy.
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  Prof. Ponisseril Somasundaran's research on surface-active compounds has far-reaching effects on everyday life. [More]

   Rajesh Jain '89 set up Indiaworld.com to provide news to non-resident Indians, and became a dot-com millionaire. [More]

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