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With the primary goal of building capacity to recruit and fund scholars and students dedicated to social and civic engagement in Brazil, the Lemann Foundation has signed a multimillion dollar agreement with Columbia University for the benefit of several related initiatives.
The Lamont-Doherty Core Repository holds one of the world’s most unique and important collections of scientific samples from the deep sea—approximately 72,000 meters of sediment cores from every major ocean and sea.
Fueled by industrial greenhouse gas emissions, Earth’s climate warmed more between 1971 and 2000 than during any other three-decade interval in the last 1,400 years, according to new regional temperature reconstructions covering all seven continents.
A massive study analyzing gene expression data from 22 tumor types has identified multiple metabolic expression changes associated with cancer.
Artworks by contemporary Cambodian artists, including survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide, are on display at Columbia’s Maison Française and Italian Academy.
Given her expertise in constitutional law and Congressional power, "The Record" asked Johnson to discuss recent clashes between the executive and legislative branches.
The Lamont-Doherty Core Repository holds one of the world’s most unique and important collections of scientific samples from the deep sea—approximately 72,000 meters of sediment cores from every major ocean and sea. It is both an archive of sediment (some terrestrial), rocks and coral from beneath the ocean floor, and an archive of the digital data pertaining to the material.
In his new book, The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power, Journalism School Professor Victor Navasky examines influential political cartoonists from the 18th century to the present.
More than 350 guests attended the conference and, appropriately enough, hundreds more tuned in via webcast. Its starting point was the often observed fact that the world is awash in a sea of data, from sensors, digital photos, global positioning systems, social media, e-mail, inventory statistics, patient metrics, consumer spending patterns, and weather stations, to name some of the leading sources.
Columbia Engineering researchers, led by Dimitris Anastassiou, Charles Batchelor Professor in Electrical Engineering and member of the Columbia Initiative in Systems Biology, have developed a new computational model that is highly predictive of breast cancer survival.
This exhibit at Maison Française and The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, open until May 4, features seventy works of visual arts (paintings, drawings, photographs) about the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge, made by the great contemporary artists Vann Nath and Séra (both survivors of the genocide), as well as works by emerging artists who were invited to create artworks evoking the genocide during three "memory workshops" held at Bophana Center between 2008 and 2012.
Several Columbia professors, in disciplines ranging from dance to history to psychiatry, were awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships for 2013
As part of its commitment to pursuing research on the rapidly changing energy landscape and offering real-world solutions to our most pressing energy challenges, the new Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) announced today that the first fellow in its CGEP Fellows Program will be David Sandalow, the assistant secretary for policy and international affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Columbia University will confer seven honorary degrees and recognize the recipient of its University Medal for Excellence at commencement exercises on Wednesday, May 22. The recipients are:
African-Americans with a variant of the ABCA7 gene have almost double the risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer’s disease compared with African-Americans who lack the variant.