What is an Affiliate Faculty?
The Zuckerman Institute has two categories of membership: PIs and Affiliate Faculty. Zuckerman PIs have laboratories and offices in the Jerome L. Greene Building. Affiliate Faculty will be closely engaged with Zuckerman Institute activities but their laboratories and offices are located in other University buildings across Columbia’s campuses. PIs and Affiliates are full-time Columbia Faculty. The community of Affiliate Faculty will contribute to the intellectual life of the Zuckerman Institute, and, in turn, of the University. The specific involvement of each Affiliate Faculty will vary based on areas of interest and expertise. Examples of activities include: seminar series participation, teaching, planning, and participation in education and outreach programs, collaboration on multi-investigator research projects and access to Zuckerman Institute facilities and services as appropriate. All affiliate Faculty will receive regular communications about talks and other activities at the institute.
What are the criteria for becoming an Affiliate Faculty?
All Affiliate Faculty will be full time Columbia University Faculty. Affiliate Faculty are expected to contribute to the overall mission of the Zuckerman Institute through research, education, and/or practice. Many Affiliate Faculty will be engaged in collaborations with PIs.
How to join the Affiliate Faculty network?
Columbia University faculty members are invited to register, with a brief statement outlining interests and current or proposed collaborations. The Affiliate Faculty program is currently in a pilot phase, with the objective of identifying productive components that will foster collaboration and connection across the university.
The Affiliate Program is led by Carol Mason, PhD, Chair of Interschool Planning
Carol Mason is Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Neuroscience, and Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology). As Chair of Interschool Planning for the Zuckerman Institute, she aims to promote interdisciplinary interaction among faculty on the Morningside and CUIMC campuses, and the Affiliate Faculty program is one such step. She and her colleagues seek to develop constructive relationships with relevant academic leaders such as deans and department chairs to realize the vision of the Zuckerman Institute as a hub for research and education around the study of the brain from all academic disciplines.
At Columbia, Carol Mason has served as a co-director of the Neurobiology & Behavior graduate program and Consulting Director of the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative (CTNI), and is director of the Vision Sciences Training Program. She is a Simons Society Senior Fellow, a fellow of the AAAS, and a member of the National Academies of Science and Medicine. From 2013-2014, she was President of the Society for Neuroscience.