Langmuir Scholars - Undergraduate Environmental Fellows

The goal of this program is to attract top science and engineering students with an interest in the environment to Columbia and Barnard and provide them with special opportunities to sustain, expand, and develop their early interests in environmental sciences, technology and related disciplines. Among other activities, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute (EMSI) programs enrich the scholars' activities through seminars and research opportunities provided by the faculty and their research laboratories.

In January, 2001, the first Langmuir Scholars - one each from Columbia College, the Fu School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Barnard College - were appointed. All were outstanding members of their respective third-year (junior) classes, and they conducted research in the biology department, at the medical school, and in the School of Public Health. One of the three spent the spring term at Biosphere 2 Center, participating in the Universe Semester curriculum. Seven Langmuir Scholars will conduct Columbia-sponsored research in the summer of 2003.

We note with special pleasure the first Langmuir Undergraduate Lecture, delivered on March 22, 2001 by our Columbia colleague, Professor Charles Langmuir. A geochemist from the Columbia Earth Institute and the Lamont-Doherty Geological laboratories, Charles Langmuir is the grand-nephew of Irving Langmuir, the Scholar program's namesake.

For more information, please contact Professor Len Fine at fine@chem.columbia.edu.