Don Melnick

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Don J. Melnick (June 2, 1953 – April 18, 2019) was an environmental biologist and conservationist. He held the position of

He served as the founding Executive Director of the

Melnick received his Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology from Yale in 1981, and became one of Columbia's youngest tenured faculty members, as well as the youngest person ever to serve as chair of Columbia's Anthropology Department. For six years (1988-1994), he lived in one of Columbia's undergraduate dormitories as faculty-in-residence. He died at the age of 65 in 2019.^[1]

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