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Thomas M. Jessell, codirector, and Sarah Woolley, principal investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute discuss how the Jerome L. Greene Science Center in the new Manhattanville campus was designed for discovery. The innovative space encourages exploring the complexities of mind, brain and behavior.
Christina McInerney, president and CEO of the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, discusses how the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on the new Manhattanville campus will engage the community and be at the forefront of mind, brain, behavior research.
A healthy, thriving community benefits Columbia and its West Harlem neighbors. Kofi Boateng, executive director of the West Harlem Development Corporation, and Sheena Wright, president and CTO of United Way-New York, discuss the impact Columbia's Manhattanville campus will have on Harlem and surrounding community.
Van Tran is a second-generation refugee. His father left China at age 5, after the 1949 Communist revolution, eventually moving to Vietnam, where Tran was born. But history repeated itself, and in 1990, when Tran was 10, he, his parents and two of his four siblings fled Saigon.“
Jessica Prata and her team collaborate with departments across Columbia to help reduce the University’s impact on the environment.
From online privacy to massive leaks of classified government documents, data breaches have become part of modern society. But in recent months cybersecurity has become a new wild card in our nation’s political process.
Earlier this summer, the Democratic National Committee’s computers were hacked, reportedly by Russian state actors. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released a trove of Hillary Clinton’s emails, with promises of more damaging revelations to come. And in August, the National Security Agency’s own hackers may have had some of their own hacking tools stolen by, yes, hackers…
Dear fellow members of the Columbia community:
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reversed a position it has held for the past 12 years and decided that students at private universities may be treated as employees for the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act when they are appointed to positions as teaching assistants or research assistants. The decision overturns a 2004 ruling involving Brown University.
More than a decade has passed since Carla Shedd began her research about urban adolescents in Chicago. As a Ph.D. student in sociology at Northwestern, she found neighborhoods dominated by gangs, 13-year-old students carrying guns and schools that were deeply divided along racial and social lines.
Not much has changed.
“One would have hoped that we wouldn’t still be talking about inequality in 2016, but we are,” said Shedd, an assistant professor of sociology at Columbia and author of the recently published Unequal City: Race, Schools and Perceptions of Injustice. “It’s not just…
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.
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.