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Branka Arsić had an “aha” moment after reading the works of 19th-century American writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson. She started looking at the literary criticism on them and realized that she didn’t agree with much of it.
Columbia’s Center for Teaching and Learning, along with University Libraries and several higher education partners, launched the Footprints Project in 2014, a crowdsourced online database that follows the journey of Jewish books printed in all languages from the invention of moveable type to 1800.
This past spring, Carmel Raz taught a seminar, “Music and Madness,” that covers dancing manias, trances, melancholy, musical savants, music therapy, and even Beatlemania.
For years, scholars interested in the roots of economic inequality focused on extreme poverty. Then came the 2008 financial crisis and the Occupy Wall Street protests. By then, Shamus Khan was already studying the upper class.
Tey Meadow dedicates her first book, Trans Kids, Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century, “to the kids who are different and the adults who ease the way.”
The theater world has Columbia to thank for the achievements of Rodgers and Hammerstein, who met at the College’s Varsity Show, an original musical that skewers and satirizes life at Columbia each spring.
Columbia People: Jonathan Kornberg, Director of Instructional Technology at Irving Medical Center
Researchers have come up with a physics-based model that marks a turning point in earthquake forecasting.
In the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s newly remodeled maker space, the Fabrication Lab, architects hybridize the analog and the digital.
Sarah Cole divides her new role as dean of humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into three parts: as the liaison between the University administration and the 13 departments she oversees, supporting and promoting the work of those departments and their faculty, and encouraging those departments’ best practices.
Sarah Cole and Fredrick Harris were named divisional deans in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last year, taking on the roles of shaping the fields of humanities and social sciences.
For Fredrick C. Harris, dean of social science at Columbia, wants to ensure Columbia’s social science faculty have the resources they need and that their work is accessible within and outside the University.
Researchers found clumps of non-functioning hnRNP H and at least three other RNA-binding proteins in the brain cells of people who had died with ALS, frontotemporal dementia or both.
Columbia University has received a $10 million gift from the Persian Heritage Foundation to endow the Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies.
Geochemist Alex Halliday builds on a distinguished career as an earth science researcher and the leader of a variety of research institutions around the world, including Oxford University and the Royal Society in London.