In This Issue:

New Faculty Join Six Departments

Engineering in the Financial World

John Chu Receives Honorary Degree from Columbia

Civil Engineering's New Research Directions

Call for Medal Nominations

Design for Living and Learning

Global SEAS

Apple's "Other Steve"

Faculty Notes

50 Years at Columbia

Campaign for Engineering

Graduate Students

Donors Meet Scholars

Career Connections

Class Notes

Reunion

Class Day

Marconi Prize

Columbia Career Connections

If it’s true that it’s not what you know, but who you know, then the new Columbia Career Connec-tion may give your career a big boost. Later this fall, SEAS alumni and undergraduates will be invited to network online with alumni from all Columbia schools – a group of some 260,000 new professional contacts.

The Columbia Alumni Association (CAA), which connects alumni across all University schools, will provide this career support through a new online career networking module, Columbia Career Connections.  Through this module, each alum can use a UNI and password to log in to alumni.columbia.edu/careerconnections and create a career profile that lists current and past professional information and networking preferences.

All University alumni (and current undergraduates) will be able to search these profiles to find and connect with Columbians in specific fields or regions. For example, you can find and contact a graduate of any of the University’s 16 schools and units, based on current industry, company, job description, job location, or area of affinity.  Only Columbia graduates will be able to access the module, and contact will be arranged through a “blind e-mail” function, with which networkers can e-mail each other without seeing their actual e-mail addresses. In a later phase of the project, graduate students will also be invited to join the network. 

Columbia Career Connections will be synchronized with the University-wide online alumni directory and the SEAS E-Community, so that new career information will need to be updated only once.

“The Columbia Alumni Association is committed to helping alumni connect with one another across the University,” said Eric J. Furda, Vice President for Alumni Relations. “Columbia Career Connections will be a huge step toward that goal: providing alumni with the tools to share their work experiences, their questions, and their collective excellence.  We expect that, in time, alumni will build for themselves a uniquely enriching professional community and information source through Columbia Career Connections.”