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August 03, 2021

7 Great New Columbia Podcasts to Listen to Now

Beat the summer heat with some cool podcasts from around our community.

Columbia University To Launch $20 Million NSF Research Institute to Accelerate AI Discovery

In partnership with the University of Washington and Harvard, the new AI Institute for Dynamic Systems will focus on developing new machine learning ideas and techniques.

2021 Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity

The Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity announced their 2021 cohort, 20 outstanding innovators and leaders who are tackling anti-Black racism.

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A picture of baseball turf with the words "Ivy League Moneyball" on it.

Ivy League ‘Moneyball’ – Introducing the Columbia Society for Baseball Research

A group of women in scrubs does a dance from In the Heights

Columbia Med School Class of ‘24 Parodies ‘In the Heights’

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Research & Discovery

Encoding information into the DNA of e-coli cells

An artist’s rendering of an E. coli cell. (Can Stock Photo / Kateryna_Kon)

Bacteria Employed as "Living Hard Drives"

Columbia scientists have found a way to encode digital information straight into the genomes of living E. coli bacteria cells, which, they say, preserves the data in a surprisingly stable, robust manner.

Columbia graduate students Lin Xiong (left) and Yinan Dong image plasmon polaritons using a cryogenic microscope. (Credit: Yinan Dong)

Physicists Show That a Quantum Particle Made of Light and Matter Can Be Dragged by a Current of Electrons

Like light streaming through moving water, a quantum particle can change speeds when immersed in an electrical current flowing through graphene, says a new study led by Dmitri Basov's lab at Columbia.

training machine learning algorithms to be more human-like

Researchers at Columbia Engineering are working on techniques to teach neural networks to recognize cause and effect.

Training AI to Understand Causality

Teaching computers to distinguish between causation and correlation would be a game changer. Researchers at Columbia Engineering are working on it.

A farmer in the Peruvian Amazon sets a fire to clear land for agriculture. Such fires are a major source of carbon emissions.

A new study quantifies how much adding a ton of human-produced carbon dioxide emissions will contribute to human mortality over time. Here, a farmer in the Peruvian Amazon sets a fire to clear land for agriculture. Such fires are a substantial source of emissions. (Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute)

More Carbon Emissions Will Kill More People. Here's How Many.

A new study coins a new metric: the “mortality cost of carbon.” That is, how many future lives will be lost—or saved—depending on whether we increase or decrease our current carbon emissions.

Arts & Humanities

Ghost Forest, Maya Lin, Columbia University event

Ghost Forest by Maya Lin

Artist and Designer Maya Lin Presents Major New Works

Also known as an environmentalist, she discusses “Ghost Forest” and “What Is Missing,” which both address climate change.

Professor Rivka Galchen, Columbia University School of the Arts

Rivka Galchen's new novel, "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch," is about the mathematician Johannes Kepler and his mother, Katharina.

Rivka Galchen Writes a Witchy New Novel

Read her book to find out what to do if your mother is accused of being a sorceress.

Columbia University Adjunct Writing Professor Kate Zambreno

"To Write As If Already Dead," the new book by School of the Arts Adjunct Professor Kate Zambreno, focuses on the French writer, Hervé Guibert, who died of AIDS.

A Meditation On Illness

Kate Zambreno’s new book, To Write As If Already Dead, examines the age of AIDS and its aftermath.

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POLITICS & SOCIAL JUSTICE

Politics and Pride Are Central to Building LGBTQ Community

Whether it's AIDS or COVID or rampant injustice, political necessity brings LGBTQ people “together in an expression of community.”

Binder folders, Knight First Amendment Institute

Long-Withheld Office of Legal Counsel Records Reveal Agency’s Postwar Influence

The Knight First Amendment Institute found that indexes of opinions from 1945 to 1958 highlight key role of office in issuing controlling interpretations of law inside executive branch.

The Columbia Guide to the Pentagon Papers Case

In 1971, the US government sued to stop the New York Times from publishing classified documents, sparking a momentous Supreme Court battle. Fifty years later, alumni and faculty tell us why this case matters more than ever.

Olatunde Johnson, on Defending the Planet, Columbia Law School

Defending the Planet: Environmental Justice

In the sixth and final episode of Columbia Law School’s limited-series podcast, Professor Olatunde Johnson and environmental and community lawyer Ruth Santiago ’83 J.D., ’10 LL.M. discuss the nexus of civil rights and climate change.

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