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As founding director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, Ursula Staudinger, a lifespan psychologist, focuses on what happens in a society whose population is living longer than ever.
Thomas A. DiPrete is Giddings Professor of Sociology, co-director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), co-director of the Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality at Columbia University, and a faculty member of the Columbia Population Research Center. He discusses what life could look like we science successfully increases healthy life spans.
Glance through the glass doors of the Miller Theatre and you will see vivid, large-scale paintings pulsating with color on the lobby walls.
Glance through the glass doors of the Miller Theatre and you will see vivid, large-scale paintings pulsating with color on the lobby walls.
Jason Bordoff, a former member of the White House staff and a top energy policy expert, started learning about the industry at an early age. His father and grandfather owned gas and auto service stations in Brooklyn when he was growing up. His mother emigrated to the U.S. from the Middle East with her family as a teenager.
Alfred Stepan has been called the democracy whisperer. As the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government, he’s been watching, advising and studying government and democracy for over 40 years. He has done field research and written about more than 15 attempts at democratic transition, including relatively successful attempts in Brazil, Chile, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Czech Republic, India, Indonesia and Senegal. Stepan just returned from his sixth visit to Tunisia with a field report on the development of democracy building there. Tunisia held its run-off presidential election on December 21 and…
The St. Louis County grand jury decision last week to bring no criminal charges against Darren Wilson, the white police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, set off a torrent of civil unrest—and a national conversation about failings of the criminal justice system. Nine days later, there came a similar outcome in New York City, when a grand jury did not indict a white police officer whose chokehold contributed to the death of Eric Garner, according to the medical report. Garner was suspected of selling loose cigarettes.
Two criminal law professors at…
Every year Columbia Dining hosts a Thanksgiving feast for 1,000 students to celebrate and give thanks with their Columbia family before holiday break. A traditional dinner of turkey, stuffing and all the trimmings is served family style in John Jay Dining Hall, where the menu includes vegan, vegetarian, halal and kosher options.
Columbia’s Arts Initiative and American Ballet Theatre formed a new partnership to offer students a distinctive immersion into the process of creating a ballet.
Dear Alma,
How did Columbia wrestler Nat Pendleton (CC’1916) score parts in both the 1920 Olympics and the Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers?
—Wrestling & Film Buff
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