Lauded by Architect Magazine as “one of the most intelligent, original, and unexpected buildings of the decade,” the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University Medical Center was dedicated on June 10. The new medical and graduate education building, a 100,000-square-foot tower designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in partnership with Gensler, incorporates technologically advanced classrooms, collaboration spaces, and a modern simulation center.
The gift from Wendy and Richard Pini will support Columbia’s growing archive of comics and graphic novels
The program will allow graduate students of Black history, culture, and intellectual traditions to take their scholarship to the next level
The position is the highest academic distinction for a Columbia faculty member