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Miller Theatre is named for Kathryn Bache Miller, a New York City philanthropist whose father, Jules Bache, was a German immigrant who arrived in the U.S. in the 1880s and became a wealthy investment banker and art patron.
Human remains are at the heart of Zoë Crossland’s work. In one of the most popular classes that she teaches, Corpse Life, students learn about the history of death and the treatment of remains.
Linda Amrou works to strengthen the ties between the University’s nine Global Centers and Columbia students, faculty and alumni.
Raju Tomer has won a NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, for his pioneering work in developing new technologies for high-resolution mapping of brain structure and function.
Alex Teachey and David Kipping report that the detection of a candidate exomoon – that is, moons orbiting planets in other star systems – is unusual because of its large size, comparable to the diameter of Neptune. Such gargantuan moons do not exist in our own solar system, where nearly 200 natural satellites have been cataloged.
Columbia alumnus Arthur Ashkin (CC 1947) has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking research in laser physics.
Ben Marcus’s new book, Notes from the Fog, is a collection of 13 short stories in which, among other things, a young Jewish boy rejects his parents’ love and turns into an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist.
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today joined Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, founder and principal of Renzo Piano Building Workshop, to inaugurate The Forum: a new 56,000-square-foot, three-story facility that completes the first ensemble of new buildings on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus in West Harlem.
Columbia University announced that David J. Greenwald (LAW’83), Victor H. Mendelson (CC’89), Julie Jacobs Menin (CC’89), Julissa Reynoso (LAW’01), and Kathy Surace-Smith (LAW’84) have been elected to its Board of Trustees. Their term begins September 4, 2018.
Columbia University mourns the death of Sen. John McCain and extends condolences to the McCain family whom we are proud to have as part of the extended Columbia community.
The Obama Foundation, University of Chicago, and Columbia University announced the full inaugural class of Obama Foundation Scholars.
Branka Arsić had an “aha” moment after reading the works of 19th-century American writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson. She started looking at the literary criticism on them and realized that she didn’t agree with much of it.
Columbia’s Center for Teaching and Learning, along with University Libraries and several higher education partners, launched the Footprints Project in 2014, a crowdsourced online database that follows the journey of Jewish books printed in all languages from the invention of moveable type to 1800.
This past spring, Carmel Raz taught a seminar, “Music and Madness,” that covers dancing manias, trances, melancholy, musical savants, music therapy, and even Beatlemania.
For years, scholars interested in the roots of economic inequality focused on extreme poverty. Then came the 2008 financial crisis and the Occupy Wall Street protests. By then, Shamus Khan was already studying the upper class.