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Dr. Stephen S. Morse is a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center and an expert in global and public health. He cooperates with scientists world wide on research and the development of early warning and response systems for the prevention of infectious diseases. His book, Emerging Viruses was selected by American Scientist for its list of “Top 100 Science Books of the 20th Century.”
Dr. Stephen S. Morse is a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center and an expert in global and public health. He cooperates with scientists world wide on research and the development of early warning and response systems for the prevention of infectious diseases. His book, Emerging Viruses (Oxford University Press) was selected by American Scientist for its list of “Top 100 Science Books of the 20th Century.”
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Kartik Chandran, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering, is an authority on environmentally sustainable wastewater treatment and sanitation. He has been collaborating with research groups in Brazil focused on energy-efficient wastewater treatment. One goal is for an existing sewage treatment plant to discharge better water quality into Guanabara Bay, where sailing events for the 2016 Olympic Games will be held, while also emitting smaller amounts of greenhouse gases.
James Schamus is a longtime film professor at the School of Arts, where this fall he will teach courses on “Topics in American Film” and “The Western.” Last year, he was inducted into the 25 Year Club at Columbia. “The dinner was great fun and I was presented with a very nice Tiffany picture frame,” he said.
Turkuler Isiksel was born in Turkey but left to attend university in Edinburgh, later receiving her Ph.D. from Yale. Trained as a political theorist, she now teaches in the Department of Political Science and is the James P. Shenton assistant professor of the Core Curriculum. She is also a member of the Committee on Global Thought. Columbia News asked her to explain the situation after the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has left the country in disarray. Erdogan has declared a three-month state of emergency, which would allow him and his cabinet to draft new laws and suspend some individual rights without the approval of the Turkish parliament.
Thomas Trebat, an economist and political analyst, is director of the Columbia Global Centers, Rio de Janeiro. A former Latin America analyst on Wall Street, he now travels extensively in Brazil to build the University’s connections with partner institutions in government and academia. Trebat is also an adjunct professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs where his research focus is the role of the state in the Brazilian economy.
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Chandran has been collaborating with research groups in Brazil focused on facilitating energy efficient wastewater treatment there. Through this approach, sewage treatment plants can discharge better water quality to receiving water bodies such as Guanabara Bay, where sailing events for the 2016 Olympic Games will be held. Additionally, such improvements to water quality can be achieved while emitting lower amounts of greenhouse gases. Recently Chandran led a team of Columbia students, who developed bioprocess technologies to enhance the capacity of the Alegria sewage treatment plant, which discharges to Guanabara Bay. The technology was prototyped at Columbia and the prototype was demonstrated in Rio de Janeiro. Chandran has been instrumental in the similar upgrade of the wastewater treatment infrastructure of New York City for enhancing the degree of treatment and ultimately protecting very sensitive water bodies surrounding New York City. Chandran is an authority on environmentally sustainable wastewater treatment and sanitation. He was named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow for his work in “transforming wastewater from a pollutant requiring disposal to a resource for useful products, such as commodity chemicals, energy sources, and fertilizers.” His current work includes water utility partners around the globe focused on improving water quality, while simultaneously using far lower amounts of energy and chemicals and actually recovering chemicals and energy.
more information: news.columbia.edu/content/How-Rio-Can-Clean-Polluted-Waters-in-Time-for-2016-Olympic-Games
Chicago, the city beautiful. Courtesy of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library.
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library’s American Viewbooks Collection provides pictorial documentation of the growth of cities and towns across the United States from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. The collection's more than 4,000 titles were published in a variety of formats, including printed books, photographic albums and accordion-fold booklets.
“The viewbooks present a sweeping vision of the changing American landscape,” said Carole Ann Fabian, Avery’s director. “The images chart the growth of rural areas into towns and cities, the advance of the railroad across the country and the rising popularity of county fairs and national expositions—the documentation of architecture and urbanism in an expanding country.”
On view are images of buildings, streetscapes, monuments and parklands with accompanying text that describes the growth of agriculture and local industries, stunning natural scenery, the construction of major buildings, the development of transportation networks and the characteristics of regional architectural styles.
One 1915 viewbook contains pastoralperfect images of New Holstein, in the Lake Winnebago region of Eastern Wisconsin, a glowing advertisement for the town’s agricultural and manufacturing products, whether seed peas or cigars. In contrast, an early 20th-century viewbook of Cleveland focuses on the nitty-gritty of urban industry.
A selection of viewbooks are on display in the Avery Classics Reading Room from June 20 through October 31.
Who He Is
Associate Vice President for Strategic Policy and Program Implementation
Years at Columbia
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