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Mae Ngai’s interest in the history of immigration and labor began when she was a high school student in the 1960s.
Mike Pride, the former editor of the Concord Monitor who led his small New Hampshire newspaper to national prominence and served as co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, has been named administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering, leads a team that is developing new imaging methods for the living brain.
You might think every company will use innovative technology it receives for free if that technology can increase profits by more than 10 percent. Professors Eric Verhoogen and Amit Khandelwal discovered that is not the case.
For Avinoam Shalem the study of art history is not just about locating and defining a civilization, a culture or a movement, it’s about what he calls “interaction zones”— the places where culture and commerce collide and inspire new forms of expression. Forms that may not be best understood through a primary comparison to Western art.
This spring, Godzilla has been wreaking havoc worldwide as the latest incarnation of the skyscraper-sized lizard stomps its way back onto the silver screen. The 2014 reboot of the iconic film franchise also highlights an enduring research interest of Gregory M. Pflugfelder, an associate professor of Japanese history at Columbia who teaches the popular undergraduate seminar “A Cultural History of Japanese Monsters.” He is also on the faculty at the University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Over the past decade, Pflugfelder has collected more than 5,000 posters and other promotional materials—including…
A traveling Smithsonian exhibit of collage works based on Homer’s Odyssey by the celebrated African American artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988) will make its final stop at Columbia’s Wallach Gallery beginning in November.
Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty of Columbia University School of the Arts, announced today the appointment of two acclaimed playwrights to the faculty of the Arts: David Henry Hwang, Associate Professor of Theatre in Playwriting and director of the Playwriting Concentration, and Lynn Nottage, Associate Professor in Playwriting.
Two Columbia professors have been making their mark on the Brooklyn arts scene this spring with work that contributes to the conversation on race in America. Hurry across the river if you want to see them: Kara Walker’s show closes on July 6; Kellie Jones’ on July 13.
Columbia University Provost John H. Coatsworth has appointed Jennifer Crewe as president and director of Columbia University Press.
When the World Cup kicks off in Brazil on June 12, no soccer fan in the Columbia community will have more invested in the U.S. team’s effort than Sunil Gulati.
Thomas Jessell, PhD, the Claire Tow Professor of Motor Neuron Disorders in the Departments of Neuroscience and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University, is the recipient of the 2014 Neuroscience Prize of The Gruber Foundation.