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Touch may be the hardest of the senses to study, because the skin has so many jobs to do. It parses hot from cold, contends with itches, detects pain. A mother’s touch stimulates brain development in babies, and a friendly hug can induce social bonding or even help a sports team play better.
Neuroscientist Charles Zuker has long been challenging conventional wisdom on how the tongue and brain process taste.
Dear Historically Inclined,
Roosevelt’s New Deal “Brain Trust” included Columbia law professors Raymond Moley and Adolph Berle Jr. as well as economist Rexford Tugwell. When it came to naming a Cabinet, he chose Frances Perkins (GSAS’1910) as secretary of labor, the first female Cabinet member in U.S. history. She held the position throughout Roosevelt’s presidency, from 1933-1945, the longest tenure ever of a labor secretary.
Joyce Jackson directs operations in the 20 residence halls and 18 brownstones that house students on the Morningside Heights campus.
Anil Lalwani wants to deliver medicine directly into the inner ear, the best way to treat ear-related disorders.
Ken Shepard is part of a growing push to develop brain-computer interfaces to repair senses and skills lost to injury or disease.
The excavation has also yielded a rich array of vases, jewelry, weapons, pottery, ceramics and countless bronze objects, including coins, and many architectural elements.
The Columbia community is thinking of those who are contending with flooding and related emergencies.
Columbia University’s new Center for Veteran Transition and Integration has designed an online course to help veterans transition smoothly from military service to higher education.
On August 21, millions of people along a path stretching from Oregon to South Carolina will bear witness as the moon slips over the entire face of the sun, obscuring its light and allowing only the glow of its outer atmosphere to mark its place in the sky.
In his 2014 book, Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama, Stephen Sestanovich argued that since World War II U.S. policy makers have alternated between overdoing it and “underdoing” it.
Ted de Bary was a truly great Citizen of Columbia on every level -- as an accomplished student, visionary scholar, and respected academic leader.
Dana Canedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former senior editor at The New York Times, has been named administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Columbia University Physics Professor Andrew Millis has been named the 2017 recipient of the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics for his groundbreaking research on the electronic properties of correlated materials.