Generative AI and the Science of Learning 

12:00PM – 1:00PM

Faculty Innovations through Provost’s Teaching and Learning Grants: A Panel Conversation

12:00PM – 1:00PM

Celebrating 10 Years of Provost-Funded Teaching Innovations at Columbia: A Faculty Panel

3:00PM – 4:00PM

Celebratory Reception

4:00PM – 5:30PM

Victoria Malaney-Brown

Director for Academic Integrity

Victoria Malaney-Brown is the Director for Academic Integrity at Columbia University to help foster a campus culture that is committed to academic integrity. Dr. Malaney-Brown created the educational campaign, “Wear the Crown with Honor” at Columbia to cultivate a strong academic community that values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage in upholding our Honor code and pledge. She facilitates in-person and online workshops during the New Student Orientation Program and during the academic year to help students understand both their rights and their responsibilities as academic citizens of Columbia. Dr. Malaney-Brown completed her PhD in Higher Education in the department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on race, racism, and multiracial college students. Dr. Malaney-Brown has a Master of Education degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English-Spanish and minors in Dance and Latin American Studies from Skidmore College.

Kathleen McKeown

Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science

Kathleen R. McKeown is the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and the Founding Director of the Data Science Institute, serving as Director from 2012 to 2017. In earlier years, she served as Department Chair (1998-2003) and as Vice Dean for Research for the School of Engineering and Applied Science (2010-2012). A leading scholar and researcher in the field of natural language processing, McKeown focuses her research on the use of data for societal problems; her interests include text summarization, question answering, natural language generation, social media analysis and multilingual applications. She has received numerous honors and awards, including 2023 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award, American Philosophical Society Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Science elected member, American Association of Artificial Intelligence Fellow, a Founding Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics and an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow. Early on she received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, and a National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women. In 2010, she won both the Columbia Great Teacher Award—an honor bestowed by the students—and the Anita Borg Woman of Vision Award for Innovation.

Christopher Munsell

Glascock Associate Professor of Professional Practice of Real Estate Development Finance

Christopher Munsell is the Glascock Associate Professor of Professional Practice of Real Estate Development Finance at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Chris teaches both core and elective real estate finance courses and has assisted in restructuring and developing courses in the program. He is interested in new forms of financial structuring as well as investment opportunities that feature a lower barrier to entry. Chris is also a Principal at APRE Consulting, providing acquisitions, asset management and capital markets services to APRE’s clients. Chris has over a decade of real estate experience in both the debt and equity sides of the business with positions at Citizens Bank, Arbor and CBRE. He has structured and managed more than $3 billion in real estate across all asset types and in more than 20 states. Chris holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Boston University.

Ashli Carter

Lecturer in the Management Division at Columbia Business School

Ashli Carter is a Lecturer in the Management Division at Columbia Business School (CBS). She received a Ph.D. in Management from Columbia and a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University. Currently, she teaches topics in leadership and negotiations in the MBA and Executive Education programs, and prior to rejoining CBS as a faculty member, she taught leadership and professional ethics at NYU Stern. Ashli’s favorite topics to discuss are ways to practice a growth mindset and cultivate curiosity within ourselves and with others. Recently, she has begun to explore ways that technology and art can help make abstract concepts real in the classroom. In addition to her teaching and research, she works with professionals one-on-one and in small groups as a leadership coach to share simple, research-backed strategies that help individuals better understand themselves and others, align their everyday behaviors with their underlying values, and expand into their highest potential self.

Rachel Cummings

Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Rachel Cummings is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Columbia University, where she is also a member of the Data Science Institute and co-chairs the Cybersecurity Research Center. She is also a Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology. Before joining Columbia, she was an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests lie primarily in data privacy, with connections to machine learning, algorithmic economics, optimization, statistics, and public policy. Dr. Cummings is the recipient of numerous awards including an NSF CAREER award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, a DARPA Director’s Fellowship, an Early Career Impact Award, multiple industry research awards, a Provost’s Teaching Award, two doctoral dissertation awards, and Best Paper Awards at DISC 2014, CCS 2021, and SaTML 2023. Dr. Cummings also serves on the ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee, the IEEE Standards Association, and the Future of Privacy Forum’s Advisory Board.

Joseph Howley

Associate Professor of Classics

Joseph Howley is Associate Professor of Classics and a scholar of ancient Rome with interests in intellectual culture and the history of the book and reading. He has published on ancient Roman essay collections, tables of contents in fifteenth-century printed books, and phonograph recordings of Greek and Latin from the early twentieth century, and is currently writing a book about enslaved labor and Roman book culture. He has previously served as chair of the A&S Junior Faculty Advisory Board, a member and subcommittee co-chair on the Provost’s Advisory Committee for Libraries, and a Senator in the University Senate, and is currently the Paul Brooke Program Chair for Literature Humanities in Columbia College, a course he has taught for over a decade.

Laurel Daniels Abbruzzese

Associate Professor of Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine in the Programs in Physical Therapy

Laurel Daniels Abbruzzese is Associate Professor of Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine in the Programs in Physical Therapy at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S). She also serves as the program’s Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Director of the Performing Arts Fellowship in partnership with West Side Dance Physical Therapy. She serves on the Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine DEI committee, serves on the executive committee of the VP&S Anti-racist Transformation in Medical Education Project and co-chairs the Anti-racist curriculum sub-committee. Dr. Abbruzzese is on the planning committee for the CUIMC Anti-racist Educator Institute and on the Steering Committee for Interprofessional Education at CUIMC. Dr. Abbruzzese has collaborated extensively with CUIMC colleagues and partners in the Center for Teaching and Learning and was recognized as a Columbia University Provost Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar in 2022. She is committed to dismantling systemic racism in health professions education, promoting Interprofessional collaborative practice, and advancing health equity.

Jay Sethuraman

Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research 

Brent Stockwell

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Chemistry and of Pathology and Cell Biology

Brent R. Stockwell, PhD, is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences, and Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. His research involves the discovery of small molecules that can be used to understand and treat cancer and neurodegeneration, with a focus on biochemical mechanisms governing cell death. In a series of papers from 2003-2012, Dr. Stockwell discovered a new form of cell death known as ferroptosis. Dr. Stockwell has received numerous awards and has been in the top one percent of highly cited researchers the last four years and was named as one of the 50 most influential life science individuals in New York. Professor Stockwell has developed a blended learning approach to teaching biochemistry, performed randomized controlled trials to examine the effectiveness of teaching methods, and introduced the use of virtual reality and augmented and mixed reality into his biochemistry course. He founded the biopharmaceutical companies CombinatoRx Incorporated, Inzen Therapeutics, and ProJenX, Inc., and is the author of The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines and is a top-ranked writer on Medium.

Susan Witte

Professor of Social Work