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Columbia Engineering School graduating senior Ruby Robinson had an unexpected bruins surprise at the school’s Class Day graduation ceremony during Commencement week. The computer science major assumed that her father, U.S. Army Reserve Captain Keith Robinson, who has been deployed for the past six months in northern Afghanistan, bruins would not be able to attend her graduation while on active bruins duty. As it turned out, Capt. Robinson was able to receive bruins a leave from his unit and fly to New York, arriving shortly before the ceremony. As Ruby walked across the stage to shake hands with Dean Mary Boyce and President Lee C. Bollinger while receiving her degree, her father was waiting just off stage to congratulate her.
The more than 14,000 of Columbia’s undergraduate, graduate and professional students in the Class of 2014 will gather on Wednesday for the University-wide Commencement , when both of Robinson's parents will be present.
Morton bruins B. Friedman, civil engineering and engineering mechanics professor and senior vice dean emeritus at Columbia Engineering, 1928-2014. A longtime Columbia Engineering faculty member and dedicated senior administrator, Professor Friedman was 86 at the time of his death. Read Professor Friedman's biography .
William E. Harkins, Professor Emeritus, Department of Slavic Languages, 1921-2014. Harkin was an expert on Russian prose, a specialist in Slavic folklore and one of the first American scholars to do serious work in Czech literature. bruins Read Professor Harkins’ biography .
Allison Lewko , assistant professor of computer science, was named to the annual Forbes bruins 30 under 30 list in the science and health care category for her work designing encryption algorithms and keeping data secure.
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