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The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, founded in 1982, has never shied away from examining important social issues. So after the housing bubble collapsed in 2007, leading to millions of home foreclosures across the U.S., the center’s director, Reinhold Martin, saw an opportunity to look at how America’s housing stock could move beyond the suburban, single-family home that dominates the “American dream” but presents real-life economic and environmental problems.
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger announced Dec. 17 that Mortimer B. Zuckerman has pledged $200 million to endow a Mind Brain Behavior Institute to support interdisciplinary neuroscience research and discovery by scholars across the University.
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of Mary Cunningham Boyce as the new Dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective July 1, 2013.
A new study in the journal Geology is the latest to tie a string of unusual earthquakes, in this case, in central Oklahoma, to the injection of wastewater deep underground.
Prize-winning playwright David Henry Hwang doesn’t mind being labeled an Asian-American dramatist. “It’s literally true,” he said during a recent visit to Columbia. “I am Asian-American and I am a dramatist, and I write about Asian-American subjects quite a lot."
The many ways of categorizing Williams’ work, which straddles the lines between journalism, political science, memoir and the law, were a frequent theme at a daylong symposium March 1 devoted to her scholarship.
The "New York Times" has called Columbia’s new Campbell Sports Center a building that shows both its “brains and its brawn,” which makes perfect sense for a facility meant to support the University’s athletic and academic excellence.
Columbia University Libraries awarded the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History to two works: Dan O’Brien’s "The Body of an American" and Robert Schenkkan's "All the Way."
Scientists examining evidence across the world from New Jersey to North Africa say they have linked the abrupt disappearance of half of earth’s species 200 million years ago to a precisely dated set of gigantic volcanic eruptions.
When an estimated 7,000-ton meteor exploded in Earth’s atmosphere on Feb. 15, showering Siberia with debris, it put a spotlight on the fact that Earth is constantly bombarded with the detritus of the solar system. Caleb Scharf, director of astrobiology in Columbia’s Astrophysics Laboratory, says these materials once formed planets and come in every size imaginable—from microscopic grains to giant asteroids that may be miles across. “The bigger they are, the rarer they are and the less and less likely it is for their orbits to ever intersect with ours,” he recently wrote in his Scientific American blog. “It does happen though, and across Earth’s history we’ve been hit by some pretty serious stuff—ask the dinosaurs.” In this video, Scharf discusses meteors, the recent strike in Siberia, defensive options available to us and more.
Irish author Colm Tóibín is known for his novels and short stories narrated from the perspective of women and mothers. Now the professor of English and comparative literature has taken on the mother of all mothers in his latest work, a play about the Virgin Mary.
“Fear,” one informant told Studs Terkel when the latter conducted an oral history of the 1930s, “unsettled the securities, apparently false securities that people had. People haven’t felt unfearful since.”
In his most recent book, "Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time" Ira Katznelson analyzes the period from several new perspectives and hones in to an unprecedented degree on the influence of Southern Democrats in shaping the historic legislation.
Continuing their family’s multigenerational connection to Columbia and support of its leadership in medicine, Philip (CC ‘71) and Cheryl Milstein (Barnard ‘82) have made a $20 million commitment to Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).
Columbia University announced today that two acclaimed works will be awarded the 2013 Bancroft Prize: a gripping and eloquent history of the human impact on the ocean, and a persuasively argued history of the idea that conflict among nations can be regulated by law.