News Archive
00:00 - Expansion of the Assembly, Dinkins running 1st term
00:41 - Anecdote about Percy Sutton, SEEK Program and Public Service
02:01 - From borough president to running for Mayor
03:52 - Running for Mayor and being the underdog
05:51 - Crime decreasing and the myth of \"crime ridden Dinkins era\"
07:12 - \"The End of Dinkins, political career ruined\" to becoming City Clerk for 10 years
09:27 - Encouraging students to have an interest in public policy
09:56 - Elected officials rise to the occasion, congress needs a blueprint
10:29 - Writing…
The year since Hurricane Sandy blew ashore in the New York area has been one of rebuilding and searching for how best to prevent the level of destruction and death it brought with it.
A recent slowdown in global warming has led some skeptics to renew their claims that industrial carbon emissions are not causing a century-long rise in Earth’s surface temperatures.
Sonya Dyhrman, a microbial oceanographer at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, researches tiny microbes in the ocean that play a role in Earth’s climate.
Three Columbia professors were among the 78 recipients of awards in the National Institutes of Health High Risk-High Reward program. Recognized for proposing highly innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research, they are Rafael Yuste, Ozgur Sahin, and Christine Ann Denny.
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the collection of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953).
Jaffee and his wife Joyce have donated his archives to Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and those who grew up on his subversive, entertaining comics can enjoy and study the remarkable output of his 70-year career.
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NEW YORK, August 13, 2013 — The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University presents Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin’s “Selves,” curated by Emily Liebert. The exhibition will be open to the public from Wednesday, September 4 to Saturday, December 7, 2013.
Eleanor Antin, born in New York City in 1935, is an influential artist and writer. A pioneer of Conceptual art, she works primarily in the mediums of performance, photography, film, video and installation. Antin moved to San Diego in 1968…
Min and his team recently developed a new imaging technique to pinpoint exactly where and when cells produce new proteins.