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Editor’s Note: The above video interview took place in July 2012, immediately following news of the election and the ongoing issues surrounding violence and journalists in Mexico. When Pablo Piccato was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, a professor suggested he look at crime and public health in Mexico City in the early 20th century for his dissertation. Piccato’s dissertation was the basis of his first book, City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931, later followed by The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere. His…
Provost John Coatsworth has appointed Sree Sreenivasan as Columbia’s first Chief Digital Officer.
Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steel and Small Business Services Commissioner Robert Walsh presented La-Verna Fountain, Columbia’s vice president for Construction Business Services and Communications, with the Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise Advocate of the Year Award for Upper Manhattan.
Some 75 Columbia faculty members, post-docs, students and friends gathered in Low Library at 3 a.m. Wednesday to experience one of the biggest developments in particle physics, watching a live feed from Geneva where news was announced of the discovery of a new sub-atomic particle—quite possibly the long-elusive Higgs boson.
Columbia mourns the passing of three members of its community who made significant contributions to the University.
Robert Shapiro is a professor of political science, who specializes in American politics, especially public opinion and political behavior, political psychology and political leadership.
Here’s his view on the issues raised in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 opinion on the Affordable Care Act.
The Inamori Foundation announced that Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been selected to receive the 28th annual Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy in the field of thought and ethics. An Indian intellectual, activist and University Professor, Spivak is also a founder of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Known as the “Nobel of the arts,” the Kyoto Prize is an international award presented annually to individuals who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of mankind in categories of advanced technology, basic sciences and…
As the eyes of the world focused on Egypt’s transition to democracy, Columbia University political science faculty members conducted a quantitative research workshop for aspiring social scientists at The American University in Cairo just weeks before Egypt’s historic presidential elections.
One in eight people who suffer a heart attack or other acute coronary event experience clinically significant symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a meta-analysis of 24 studies led by Columbia University Medical Center researchers.
On June 8, a Head Start ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrated the opening of a brand-new space for the program.
Modern science is immensely complex, but Professor Virginia Cornish had a simple idea for solving a big problem. The problem was cholera, which infects about four million people annually and kills at least 100,000, most of them children under age 5.
The Bridge to the Ph.D. Program in the Natural Sciences strongly encourages applicants from historically underrepresented groups including but not limited to black, Hispanic, Native American and Pacific Islander undergraduates. The two-year program is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Provost’s Office.
“Inequality undermines the strength of our economy and contributes to economic instability,” says Stiglitz. America’s growth was strongest in periods where inequality was far lower, he points out, particularly in the decades after World War II when wages for middle class and blue collar workers steadily increased.