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Zvi Galil Award for Improvement in Engineering Student Life
Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE)

Bernard Jaffe Prize 
Yunus Kovankaya 

School of Engineering and Applied Science Scholar Athlete Award
Elisa Luo

Campbell Award
Alexander Moreno

School of Engineering and Applied Science Student Activities Award
Katherine O'Reilly

Thomas "Pop" Harrington Medal
Athena Pagon 

George Vincent Wendell Memorial Award
Elias Tzoc-Pacheco

Robert D. Lilley Award for Socially Responsible Engineering
Engineers Without Borders: Yuba County

Morton B. Friedman Memorial Prize for Excellence
Yash Vijay Amonkar, PhD

Graduate Student Life Leadership Awards
Mark Barbet, PhD
Albert Fernandez Veiga, MS

Graduate Speaker
Camille-Louise Kouba Mbayo, MS

Valedictorian and Illig Medal Winner
Ethan Wu

Salutatorian 
Julia Zhao

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CEAA Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
Lydia Chilton, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Xunyu Zhou, Liu Family Professor of Financial Engineering 

Edward and Carole Kim Award for Faculty Involvement
Hardeep Johar, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research 

Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Award 
Brian Smith, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Presidential Teaching Award Winner
Yi Zhang, Associate in the Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

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Columbia Alumni Medalist
Alexander A. Ned BS’87, MS’90 

ABOUT THE STUDY

JOURNAL: Nature

TITLE: “Indefinite and Bidirectional Near Infrared Nanocrystal Photoswitching”

AUTHORS: Changhwan Lee (1), Emma Z. Xu (1), Kevin W. C. Kwock (2), Ayelet Teitelboim (3), Yawei Liu (3,4), Hye Sun Park (5), Benedikt Ursprung (1), Mark E. Ziffer (6), Yuzuka Karube (7), Natalie Fardian-Melamed (1), Cassio C. S. Pedroso (3), Jongwoo Kim8, Stefanie D. Pritzl (9,10), Sang Hwan Nam (8), Theobald Lohmueller (9), Jonathan S. Owen (7), Peter Ercius (3), Yung Doug Suh (11,8,12,13,*), Bruce E Cohen (3,14,*), Emory M Chan (3,*), P. James Schuck (1,*)

1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
3. The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
4. State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
5. Research Center for Bioconvergence Analysis, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Cheongju, South Korea
6. Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
7. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
8. Laboratory for Advanced Molecular Probing (LAMP), Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Daejeon, South Korea
9. Chair for Photonics and Optoelectronics, Nano-Institute Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen, Germany
10. Department of Physics and Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
11. Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea
12. School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea
13. Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials(CMCM), Institute for Basic Science(IBS), Ulsan, South Korea
14. Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

FUNDING: The study was supported by the Global Research Laboratory (GRL) Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (number 2016911815), and KRICT (KK2261-12, SKO1930-20); the Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the US Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231; the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Enhanced Night Vision in Eyeglass Form (ENVision) program (number HR00112220006); the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR-2019444; the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program; the DOE NNSA Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship program (No. DE-NA0003960); Programmable Quantum Materials, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES), under award DE-SC0019443IBS-R019-D1; 2022 UNIST Research Fund (1.220108.01); seed funding support from Columbia University's Research Initiatives in Science & Engineering competition; the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 893439; the Fulbright Scholarship Program; the Zuckerman-CHE STEM Leadership Program; and the ISEF Foundation;  the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CHE-2203510. S.D.P; the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the Collaborative Research Center 1032, Project no. 201269156, A8).

The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest.