Film

For two Columbia alumni, a film class assignment has paid off in a big way. A script written by two M.F.A. ’08 graduates of the School of the Arts, Ken Kristensen and Colin Marshall, was selected Monday as one of five winners of this year’s Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.

When Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL, was traveling in the Caribbean, he chanced upon a picture of Iris Chang in the obituary section of an old copy of the New York Times from 2004.