EPIC Interludes

September 8, 2022

New Member Luncheon

Jazz Ensemble & Annual Meeting Vote

Faculty House, Garden Room 2

Tuesday, September 13, 12–2pm

A Chance ... to Meet

... to Greet

... to Eat

... to Vote!

The 2022 Annual Meeting will be EPIC’s first in-person gathering since the Covid campus shutdown. The meeting will be hybrid—in-person and simultaneously on Zoom. We have an outstanding jazz ensemble from Columbia’s renowned Music Performance Program and are going to make a special effort to meet-and-greet in-person and on Zoom.

This is the proposed slate, the EPIC Charter, and the new members who have joined our ranks. We will vote at the event.

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Columbia Business School Tour

Preceded by a

Luncheon at The Forum

Wednesday, September 28 12pm

THE PAST

Prof Emeritus Elliot Sclar, Urban Planning and Earth Institute, will talk to us about about Manhattanville’s storied past.

A century ago, Manhattanville was a bustling port and rail cargo hub that developed into a local center for dairy products, automotive finishing, meatpacking, and other light industry. Bounded by the era’s great public works—the elevated subway viaduct on Broadway and the Riverside Drive viaduct above 12th Avenue—the new Manhattanville campus pays tribute to that history.

THE PRESENT

Edward Moroni, Executive Director, Operations and Manhattanville Planning at the Columbia Business School, will lead EPICureans on a guided tour.

Architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, in collaboration with FXCollaborative, created two buildings—Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall— encompassing 492,000 sq. ft., more than doubling the previous space. The buildings incorporate a layer-cake design, integrating faculty, students, and staff in a way that cultivates relationships and the open exchange of ideas. (Read more)

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EPIC Conversation with Allen I. Hyman, MD

Luncheon at Faculty House, Garden Room 1

Tuesday, October 18, 12–2pm

Allen Hyman, MD, has had a long and distinguished career in research, policy and administration. An anesthesiologist by training, Dr. Hyman was Chief Medical Officer, Medical Director and NewYork-Presbyterian’s first chief of staff. Our conversation will include Dr. Hyman’s service as health-aide to Senator Robert Dole while on a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship. Certain to provide fascinating insights into the history of medicine. (Read more)

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Talks on the Horizon

November 1, 12–2pm – Luncheon Talk: Amy Pollack and Robert Pollack will lead a stimulating and unique discussion on their work The Course of Nature, a delightful artistic romp through the nature of natural selection.

November 15, 12–2pm – Luncheon Talk: Ellen Gruber Garvey will discuss her fascinating and illuminating work Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance.

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