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Columbia is one of several universities that are responding to Mayor Bloomberg’s call for proposals to develop a new applied science campus in New York City.
Levine, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at Columbia University Medical Center, began to notice attachment behavior in adults all around him. He realized that this kind of insight could have significant implications for romantic relationships.
Some 30,000 high-resolution images and hundreds of 360-degree views of more than 200 cathedrals—can be found on the award-winning website, Mapping Gothic France (www.mappinggothicfrance.org).
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and two other institutions have uncovered a vast new gene regulatory network in mammalian cells that could explain genetic variability in cancer and other diseases. The studies appear in today’s online edition of Cell.
Nicholas Dirks, Columbia University’s Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts, announced today the appointment of novelist Richard Ford as the soon-to-be-established Emmanuel Roman and Barrie Sardoff Roman Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Writing at Columbia University.
In his new book, The Price of Civilization (Random House, 2011), Jeffrey Sachs argues that the United States has underestimated the long-term effects of globalization, which have created deep and largely unmet challenges with regard to jobs, incomes, poverty and the environment.
Stéphane Hessel, a 93-year-old French Resistance leader who survived imprisonment in concentration camps to become an ambassador and human rights activist, came to Columbia on Sept. 27 to deliver a message to today’s youth: Identify something happening in the world that truly frustrates you, and commit to changing it.
After less than a month in operation, a new NASA satellite has produced the first map showing how saltiness varies across the surface of the world’s oceans.
Columbia University will award the 2011 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young for their work on the molecular basis of circadian rhythms, the first demonstration of a molecular mechanism for behavior.
An investigative reporter whose work has revealed how secret profit schemes cheated the families of fallen U.S. soldiers, sickened or killed patients and cost taxpayers billions of dollars is the recipient of the 2011John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced today. David Evans, senior writer for Bloomberg Markets magazine, was selected in recognition of his tenacious reporting over two decades on stories that expose wrongdoing and bring about reform.
2011 Chancellor Award Winner David Evans
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As the Columbia Lions geared up for the 2011 season, Football Head Coach Norries Wilson sat down to discuss expectations and team philosophy ahead of the team’s home opener against Albany on Friday, Sept. 24 at the Robert K. Kraft Field at Columbia’s Baker Athletic Complex.
Columbia University’sMiriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallerycelebrates the beginning of the academic year withSquare Word Calligraphy Classroom, an exhibition by renowned Chinese contemporary artist Xu Bing.
Special from The Record
Throughout history, milk has been a symbol of motherhood and fertility, but also prosperity, health and strength. In Hindu mythology a churning ocean of milk releases the nectar of immortality. Statues of the Egyptian goddess Isis show her nursing her son, Horus. Romans credited the creation of the Milky Way to the spraying breast milk of the goddess Juno.
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After four years at Columbia, Samuel Alexander will have a bachelor’s degree in English and Comparative Literature. And another one in Midrash, or rabbinic storytelling, from Jewish Theological Seminary.