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Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, is an expert on Chinese politics and foreign policy, even though he hasn’t been to the country since 2001.
In 1970, Elora Mukherjee’s father arrived in New York City from India on an engineering scholarship with $7 in his pocket. After her mother joined him six years later, the two of them worked multiple jobs and long hours in the hopes of providing their daughters with the opportunities they never had. During childhood trips back to Patna, the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, Mukherjee began to see what it meant for her to grow up in America.
“Patna has just unbelievable poverty,” says Mukherjee, an associate professor at Columbia Law School who oversees the school’s immigrants’…
When historian Kenneth Jackson teaches his “History of the City of New York” course, he takes his students out of the classroom, on an all night field trip—a midnight bicycle ride that starts in upper Manhattan, wends its way through Central Park, Times Square, over the Brooklyn Bridge and ends in Brooklyn Heights at dawn.
The list of the rich and famous who are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx reads like a veritable Who’s Who of late 19th and early 20th century New York high society.
In August 2014, Art Properties completed research on a selection of Chinese bronzes, ceramics and sculpture that are on permanent display in the Faculty Room of Low Library.
With the parting of a leopard-print curtain and the flash of cameras, the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation officially opened Sept. 16 in its new space in the Journalism School’s Pulitzer Hall.
Environmental geographer Ruth DeFries is a pioneer in the study of how humans have transformed the surface of the Earth.
Just as Florence Nightingale brought professional nursing care to the Crimean War 160 years ago, today’s digitally savvy nurses are bringing health care and preventive medicine into the digital age with the most modern of devices: smartphones and tablets.
The list of the rich and famous who are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx reads like a veritable Who’s Who of late 19th and early 20th century New York high society: Alva Belmont, formerly Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, F.W. Woolworth, and Isidor and Ida Straus, who perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Other notables interred there include Herman Melville, Joseph Pulitzer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Fiorello LaGuardia, Augustus Juilliard, Duke Ellington, Celia Cruz and Robert Moses.
Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering and member of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, leads a team that is developing new imaging methods for the living brain. Their goal is to understand the way that the brain functions and regulates its blood flow, which can provide important clues to understanding early brain development, disease and aging. The brain increases local blood flow when neurons fire, and this increase is what is detected by a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan. Hillman’s team has found that a layer of cells is capable…
Nicotine, no matter the source, may function as a gateway to marijuana and cocaine
Like conventional cigarettes, electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) may function as a “gateway drug”—a drug that lowers the threshold for addiction to other substances, such as marijuana and cocaine—according to the 120th Shattuck lecture, presented to the Massachusetts Medical Society by Columbia researchers Denise and Eric Kandel and published today in the online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
On his website, Carl Hart describes himself as a scientist, an activist and an educator, in that order. Now he can add award-winning book author for his widely praised memoir, "High Price."
Which place on campus best evokes the Colonial era in which King’s College was founded?