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Columbia University will expand its ongoing commitment to diversity in its faculty, dedicating another $100 million over the next five years—in addition to $85 million since 2005—to support recruitment and career development for professors, doctoral and post-doctoral students who traditionally have been underrepresented in higher education.
Jeremy Dauber, the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture in the department of Germanic languages, was well aware that “analyzing comedy runs the risk of killing it.” Still, he forged ahead, chronicling the arc of Jewish humor.
Kanze’s research, which she conducted with Mark Conley, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology who studies how people’s motivations are expressed verbally, comes at a time when the tech industry is under scrutiny for sexist practices and attitudes.
In the first evaluation of evaporation as a renewable energy source, researchers at Columbia University find that U.S. lakes and reservoirs could generate 325 gigawatts of power, nearly 70 percent of what the United States currently produces.
Columbia's Office of University Life is offering counseling and mental health services to students and staff. Multiple Columbia affiliates, the City of New York and international organizations are organizing efforts to assist Puerto Rico and send necessary items to those on the island.
Ivaylo Ivanov, an immunologist at Columbia who studies the role of intestinal bacteria in the body’s immune response, in collaboration with Caltech researcher Pamela Bjorkman, has received a two-year, $200,000 Innovation Fund award from the Pew Charitable Trusts. The grant will fund Ivanov’s ongoing research with Bjorkman.
Researchers have published a study suggesting a theoretical prediction explaining the unusual brightness of some astronomical explosions, first developed by Columbia University astronomers and physicists in 2014, is correct.
Columbia University announced that Alexander "Alex" Navab (CC’87), a partner and former head of the Americas Private Equity business at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., and Li Lu (CC’96, LAW’96, BUS’96), founding general partner at Himalaya Capital, have been elected to its Board of Trustees.
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute organized a three-day conference that starts brings together cognitive scientists, neuroscientists and computer scientists. Kriegeskorte spoke with us about the event and his research.
Researchers Find a Drop in Some Harmful Genetic Mutations in Longer-lived People
In a study analyzing the genomes of 210,000 people in the United States and Britain, researchers at Columbia University find that the genetic variants linked to Alzheimer’s disease and heavy smoking are less frequent in people with longer lifespans, suggesting that natural selection is weeding out these unfavorable variants in both populations.
The Harlem-based Colombian-American artist Lina Puerta (pictured) has transformed the lobby of Miller Theatre with an immersive installation, Manigua. Part of her ongoing Botánico series inspired by weeds and uncontrolled nature within urban spaces, Manigua—Spanish for scrubland or swampy undergrowth—explores the tension between humans and the botanical world, evoking nature’s resilient response to humans’ efforts to exert control.
It would be unusual to confuse the mouth-watering aroma of baking chocolate chip cookies with the fragrance of a floral perfume or the stench of burning plastic. Most people recognize these scents instantly.