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Sergeant John McClelland, a former special operations forces combat medic with the U.S. Army’s 1st Ranger Battalion, graduates this week with 22 other School of General Studies student veterans. T
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When Jason Gorman began his graduate work at Columbia, he thought he was in over his head. Just six years later, Gorman, who receives his doctorate this month in biological sciences, has been singled out by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as one of the field’s most outstanding graduate students.
Milos Forman returned to Columbia’s campus on May 3 for a film screening and a discussion at Miller Theatre with his longtime collaborator Michael Hausman, who is a film program adjunct professor and producer.
This year, some 12,000 degrees will be conferred on graduates from all 18 of Columbia’s schools and affiliates.
Mari Carmen Ecoro, an immigrant from Central Africa, was 34 and raising two school-age daughters in Queens when she decided to complete her high school equivalency degree. This month, Ecoro receives her third degree, this time a master of science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University’s School of Continuing Education.
At age 5, Morris Kaunda Michael fled with his family from war-torn Sudan for a refugee camp in northern Kenya. Now he is graduating from Columbia Engineering with an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering and planning to go to medical school.
Why is a cure for cancer so elusive? Brent Stockwell, an associate professor with a joint appointment in chemistry and biological sciences and an Early Career Scientist with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, believes the main culprit is “undruggable proteins”—the 85 percent of the proteins in the human body that are not treatable with traditional drugs.
Stuart Gaffin, research scientist at Columbia’s Center for Climate Systems Research, has been supervising a green rooftop monitoring project at Con Edison’s Learning Center in Queens, NY, home to 21,000 plants on a quarter acre. He estimates the green roof retains 30 percent of precipitation, allowing plants to release the water as vapor, rather than overflowing the city’s sewage systems.
Keene’s retirement from Columbia at age 88—and his announcement that he plans to spend the rest of his life in Japan—was big news in Japan, where he is famous.
Envisioning Jazz at Columbia’s Miller Theatre, part of the School of the Arts (SOA), examines the rich history and diverse expressions of jazz captured by photographer Kwame Brathwaite, a Harlem native and photographer with more than 50 years of photojournalistic experience.
Can digital journalism be profitable? What's making money, what isn't, and why? A new report from Columbia University faculty members Bill Grueskin, academic dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and Ava Seave, principal at Quantum Media and adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School, addresses these questions about the financial state of digital journalism.
Two Columbia professors have been named members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Researchers at Columbia Engineering School lead by Professor Elisa Konofagou have been developing a new method, Electromechanical Wave Imaging (EWI), that is the first non-invasive direct technique to map the electrical activation of the heart.
Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program professors and alumni have occupied a premiere place in recent issues of The New Yorker, which have featured short stories by Fiction professors Donald Antrim, Sam Lipsyte, and Ben Marcus; essays by Fiction Professor Gary Shteyngart, and Fiction alumna Kiran Desai (’99SOA); and a feature article by Fiction alumna and Adjunct Professor Rivka Galchen (’06SOA).