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“The concept of the right to know has transformed a great deal of American society,” said Michael Schudson, a sociologist who teaches at Columbia Journalism School. “It has made government information more accessible to the press, to the public, even to Congress. Much more broadly it changed how people think about their lives in America.”
Massive fires in Indonesia. A typhoon in the Philippines. Forecasts of flooding in Kenya, drought in Brazil and torrential rains in bone-dry Southern California.
These disasters are separated by thousands of miles and on different continents, but they have a common cause—the climate phenomenon known as El Niño.
It occurs every two to seven years, as surface-water temperatures rise in the eastcentral Pacific near the equator and trade winds—which normally blow westward— diminish. Warmer ocean water—which can then push eastward—increases temperatures in the atmosphere, leading to…
Who He Is
Mechanic on the R/V Marcus G. Langseth, part of the Earth Institute’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Years at Columbia
43
What He Does
Gutierrez operates heavy equipment on the National Science Foundation research vessel, which is operated by Lamont’s Office of Marine Operations. Wearing a harness that tethers him to the back of the ship, Gutierrez deploys its seismic recording system: four 3.7-mile-long cables that are pulled behind the ship to capture 3-D images of the ocean floor with sonar waves released from a series of pneumatic sound sources. He makes sure…
Revolutionizing “human-on-a-chip” technology by providing predictive cardiac physiology.
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Columbia has a longstanding academic presence in Paris at Reid Hall in the Montparnasse District, which is home to Columbia Global Center Europe. President Bollinger and other members of the University administration have been monitoring events since Friday night and were in prompt communication with our staff in Paris. Based on rapid outreach there overnight, we believe that all Columbia students and faculty at the Paris Global Center are safe and accounted for. We continue to monitor the situation through all of our schools and will update this information if appropriate. With the rest…
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Nov. 13, 2015) — Columbia University has become a founding member of the White House-sponsored Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research, a national effort to engage colleges, universities and other mission-driven organizations in meaningful action to support research and improve public policy regarding women and girls of color. Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies and Dean of Social Sciences for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Alondra Nelson will lead Columbia’s participation together with Farah Jasmine Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative…
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NEW YORK, N.Y. (Nov. 12, 2015) — Columbia University announced today that its School of Continuing Education has been renamed the School of Professional Studies to reflect a targeted focus on professional degree offerings, market-specific academic programming, and cross-disciplinary scholarly research.
“This School, one of the premier destinations in the world for innovative professional education, has been evolving for several years now to better meet the needs of professionals grappling with the challenges of a…
EpiBone is a revolutionary bone reconstruction company that allows patients to “grow their own bone”. Our pioneering technology utilizes a scan of the patient’s bone defect and the patient’s own stem cells to construct and cultivate a defect-specific autologous-like bone graft. Epibone is strategically positioned to provide a superior bone graft that will provide exact defect repair, a simplified surgical procedure, improved bone formation and regeneration, and shorter recovery times, without the complications of foreign body implantation, to the over 900,000 patients who undergo bone-related…
Tissue specific biomaterials, the next generation of 3D cell culture
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BlocPower's technology and finance platform develops clean energy projects in American inner cities.
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New York, NY (November 2, 2015) —The Office of the President and Columbia Entrepreneurship announced today that Steve Blank, a pioneer in teaching aspiring entrepreneurs about innovation and the creation of startups, has been appointed a Senior Fellow for Entrepreneurship.
Blank is credited with revolutionizing how startups are built and how entrepreneurship is taught around the globe. A retired eight-time serial entrepreneur turned educator and author, Blank launched the Lean Startup movement, described in a May 2013 Harvard Business Review piece, Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything…
Marcos Troyjo, co-director of the BRIClab at the School of International and Public Affairs and an adjunct professor, explains what is going on with Brazil’s economy. A former press secretary at the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations and chief of staff of the Science and Technology Department of Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he joined Columbia University in 2006 as a visiting scholar.
Online and Print Magazines Are Now Eligible to Enter International Reporting, Criticism and Editorial Cartooning
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NEW YORK, N.Y. (Oct. 27, 2015) — The Pulitzer Prizes have expanded eligibility for three more journalism categories -- International Reporting, Criticism and Editorial Cartooning -- to include many online and print magazines, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced today.
Coupled with last year's opening to Investigative…