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Kaaryn Nailor Simmons works to promote economic development, empowerment and job-creation in the Harlem community
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who died last May at age 89, taught at the School of International and Public Affairs for nearly 30 years.
On March 18, Russians voted for president. The way that Vladimir Putin won the election will play a role in shaping Russia’s future.
Columbia has ended the administrative positions of Thomas Jessell and will be winding down his lab. These decisions are unrelated to his research and scholarship.
The project combines mapping techniques with Twitter-usage data to gain a real-time understanding of how people occupy public space.
From 86 million genealogy profiles, researchers have amassed the largest, scientifically-vetted family tree to date, which at 13 million people, is slightly bigger than a nation the size of Cuba or Belgium. Published in the journal Science, the new dataset offers fresh insights into the last 500 years of marriage and migration in Europe and North America, and the role of genes in longevity.
The newly-created Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics will be the first program of its kind at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, encompassing narrative medicine, ethics and healthcare justice.