News Archive
April 30, 2014 -- While researchers at leading universities have made major scientific discoveries that advance understanding of the global HIV epidemic, translating the benefits of this knowledge into better health for communities around the world has been left to government agencies and non-governmental organizations. In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, an opinion piece by Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, professor of epidemiology and medicine and director of ICAP at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, in collaboration with co-authors Neena Philip, MPH,…
In a new paper published in the journal "Cell," a team of researchers led by Dana Pe’er at Columbia University and Garry Nolan at Stanford University describes a powerful new method for mapping cellular development at the single cell level.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University presents "HYPER-RESEMBLANCES," curated by Alison Coplan, Heidi Hirschl and Kathleen Langjahr.
I know several Columbians have gone on to become professional baseball players. Is it true that one of those ball players also became a spy?
In a study published in the April 6 online edition of the journal Nature, a team of Columbia University Medical Center researchers led by Ellen Lumpkin, associate professor of somatosensory biology, solves the mystery of how cells just beneath the skin surface enable us to feel fine details and textures.
A study by Columbia researchers has found that children from three school districts in Maine exposed to arsenic in drinking water experienced declines in intelligence.
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“I’m delighted to announce that Gillian Lester will be the next dean of Columbia…
Columbia’s College of Dental Medicine has joined with the National Dental Association to expand programs to schoolchildren in Upper Manhattan this spring.
A team of researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), Weill Cornell Medical College, and Brandeis University has devised a wholly new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease involving the so-called retromer protein complex.
Maintaining Public Safety’s files, keeping attendance records and scheduling conferences are just part of Mary Dooley’s job.
Chef and Columbia alumnus Jacques Pépin (GS '70, GSAS '72) came back to campus to celebrate the opening of the new kitchen at Maison Française in Buell Hall.
Look up! As you walk through some of New York’s best-loved public spaces, you’ll see the magnificent work of Spanish immigrant Rafael Guastavino, who, with his son Rafael Jr., figured out how to decorate the grand domes and arches of America’s leading Beaux-Arts architects.
America’s earliest academies, like the nation itself, have a legacy of slavery woven into their very fabric. In his latest work MIT historian Craig Steven Wilder (GSAS’89,’93,’94) examines the tarnished relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the rise of the American college.
His new book, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, documents the extent to which the nation’s oldest colleges perpetuated, maintained and benefited from the slave economy. Many were founded on land taken from indigenous peoples, built by enslaved workers,…