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The faculty practice of the School of Nursing is developing a coordinated care program for the mental and physical health of LGBT patients in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
A Columbia-led team has developed a new method to finely tune adjacent layers of graphene—lacy, honeycomb-like sheets of carbon atoms—to induce superconductivity.
On November 16, a current of participatory energy that has been growing for months pushed the University Senate beyond its routine agenda and down some unaccustomed procedural by-ways.
In-depth, long-form narrative nonfiction pieces and the stories behind those stories populate The Delacorte Review, Columbia Journalism School’s latest publishing venture.
Columbia University scientists, in collaboration with researchers from Harvard, have succeeded in developing a chemical process to absorb infrared light and re-emit it as visible energy, allowing innocuous radiation to penetrate living tissue and other materials without the damage caused by high-intensity light exposure.
Courtney Cogburn, an assistant professor at Columbia’s School of Social Work, created a 12-minute virtual reality film, 1000 Cut Journey, that allows others to experience the impact of racism on African Americans today.
The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation has expanded its preservation program, which was founded in 1964, to offer a doctorate that blends scholarship with science and technology, the first in the nation.
Farah Jasmine Griffin, inaugural chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, traces its beginnings to the years Harlem Renaissance literary icon Zora Neale Hurston spent here studying with Franz Boas, a pioneer of modern anthropology.
Scientists have identified a group of genes that induces differences in the developing brains of male and female roundworms and triggers the initiation of puberty, a genetic pathway that may have the same function in controlling the timing of sexual maturation in humans.
Lee C. Bollinger's new book celebrates the 100th anniversary of the formative free-speech cases and warns of new threats to freedom of expression in the digital age.
This year—or indeed any year—there may be some especially difficult conversations if the discussion turns to politics. Peter T. Coleman, director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia’s Teachers College, offers advice.
Pioneering statistician and internationally recognized cancer researcher is the director of the University’s newly established Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics.
A powerful resource at Columbia University has opened areas of inquiry about the corporate and regulatory histories of these companies. ToxicDocs is a database of some 20 million once-secret industry and trade association documents concerning the health hazards of toxic chemicals such as asbestos, lead and PCBs.