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BARNARD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS RAJIV SETHI NAMED 29TH EMILY
GREGORY AWARD RECIPIENT
New York,
NY, March 21, 2003—The McIntosh Activities Council in
conjunction with the Alumnae Association of Barnard College
and The College Activities Office will honor Professor Rajiv
Sethi at the 29th Annual Emily Gregory Award Dinner on April
1. The reception will begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by a dinner
at 7:00 p.m. The entire Barnard community is invited.
Barnard
Junior Sylva Hsieh nominated this year's recipient Associate
Professor of Economics Rajiv Sethi. The award is given to
celebrate and honor Professor Sethi's excellence in teaching
and service to the Barnard College community.
A yearly
tradition since 1975, the award is named after former Columbia
University Professor Emily Lovira Gregory, who came to Columbia
in 1889. Gregory was the first woman ever to be awarded the
title of full professor at Columbia University, and among
the first women in the United States to receive a doctorate
in an era during which women were largely excluded from the
realm of higher academia.
After
receiving her Ph.D. in Botany and teaching at various universities
including Smith, Bryn Mawr, and Harvard, Emily Gregory taught
at Barnard initially as an unpaid professor, intent on creating
academic opportunities for Barnard women that would equal
those given to men at Columbia College. Before her death in
1897, she continued to attain distinction in her professional
career with her appointment as the first women ever to be
named to the American Society of Naturalists.
For more
information about the event contact Carolyn Cavaness, Chair
of the Emily Gregory Award at (212) 853-1482 or cc2043@barnard.edu.
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