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Columbia University opens the first buildings on its new Manhattanville campus.
David Dinkins, New York City’s 106th mayor and now a professor at Columbia University, celebrates his 90th birthday July 10 with a celebration at Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence where he once lived. It will be hosted by the city’s current mayor, Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray, and attended by Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger.
Sarah Cole and Fredrick Harris were appointed divisional deans in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Harris, professor of political science, is the new dean of social science, effective July 1.
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In fact, William “Wild Bill” Donovan (CC’1905, LAW,’1908) is recognized as the “father of American intelligence” for his service in creating, and then leading, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the country’s first centralized spy agency. Columbia can boast of having played a central role in Donovan’s remarkable career.
Gardeners and nature lovers have noticed that plants are flowering earlier every year—a phenomenon generally attributed to climate change. New findings by Columbia researchers, however, are among the first to show that a decline in biodiversity may also play a role, magnifying the impact of climate change not just when plants flower, but on entire ecosystems.
Pay attention to Malia Mason. She’s certainly paying attention to you. An associate professor at Columbia Business School, she examines how people regulate their attention—or don’t—and what implications that may have for students, managers and employees.
Alice Kessler-Harris set about amplifying the historical record of women through new methods of research.
Forget nature vs. nurture. Scientists now know that maternal behavior can change offspring in ways that may be passed on to future generations.
Each Thursday at 9:30 a.m., Dr. Sylvia Preston Griffiths arrives at the pediatric cardiology outpatient clinic at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. She dons a long white coat with her full name embroidered on it in blue and places her stethoscope in her pocket.
Of the 50 million people who suffer from epilepsy worldwide, a third fail to respond to medication. As the search for better drugs continues, researchers are still trying to make sense of how seizures start and spread.
In 2014, President Barack Obama took a big step to normalize relations with Cuba. Less than two years later, his successor announced a rollback of many of those policies.
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Curator of Drawings and Archives at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library.
A wide range of people from students and scientists to business people and educators gathered at Columbia University recently for the first conference on a burgeoning approach to science in space: conducting that research in collaboration with the private space industry. One participant compared private space science today to the early days of the biotech industry.
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the first starchitects.