03/02/2018
The Society of Columbia Graduates is very pleased to announce the 2018 winners of the Great Teachers Award.
This year’s winners will be presented with their awards at 4pm on Saturday June 2nd, 2018 at a gala ceremony to be held in the Faculty Room of Low Library. Registration details to follow.
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science:
Andrew Smyth
Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Chair of the Smart Cities Center of the Data Science Institute
Director of Research, Robert A. W. Carleton Laboratory
Columbia University
Research Description:
Andrew Smyth is a Civil Engineer specializing in Structural Mechanics with special emphasis on system identification problems and their potential application in the assessment and control of structures.
http://civil.columbia.edu/andrew-w-smyth
Columbia College:
Dustin R. Rubenstein
Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
Columbia University
Research Description:
Dustin Rubenstein is an integrative behavioral and evolutionary ecologist who studies (1) the evolution of complex animal societies and (2) how organisms adapt to and cope with environmental change. He seeks to develop a synthetic understanding of animal sociality by combining mathematical theory with empirical studies of behavior, ecology, evolution, and the underlying genetic, epigenetic, and neuroendocrine mechanisms to study not only the causes of sociality (with an emphasis on the environmental drivers), but also the behavioral, morphological, physiological, and genetic consequences of living in complex societies. Additionally, he examines the behavioral, morphological, and physiological adaptations that allow individuals to cope with environmental uncertainty not just in social species, but in all animals that experience unpredictable environments. Currently, lab members work on free-living social vertebrate (African starlings and weavers) and invertebrate (Synalpheus shrimp).
http://beta.global.columbia.edu/people/dustin-reid-rubenstein
Research Areas Structural Dynamics, Structural Health Monitoring and Control, Nonlinear System Identification, Random Vibrations. Biography B.A., B.Sc., 1992, Brown University; M.S., 1994, Rice University; M.S. (Electrical Engineering), 1997, Univ. of
