On Friday, Spectator sat down with G. Michael Purdy, Columbia’s executive vice president for research, in his third floor Low Library office. Purdy has held the job for a year, before which he was director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. We spoke with Purdy about nanoscience, fundraising, and more.
Highlights from the interview:
- Slightly more than half of the 65 to 70 spots in the building will go to the Medical Center, and the rest will be divided up between Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science. It’s not yet clear how many spots will go to particular departments, though:
“There will be a number of people from biomedical engineering moving in there. Certainly there will be a number of people from psychology moving in there. The exact details of who it’s going to be is going to be determined over the next couple of years.”
