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Columbia’s urban setting is central to Rebecca Kobrin’s teaching and research. The Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History encourages her students to venture beyond Morningside Heights and learn how the city has been shaped over time.
For Souleymane Bachir Diagne, a professor of French and philosophy, teaching is about finding the right balance in the classroom. He evaluates how much time to spend presenting information versus leading a lively discussion with students, and his syllabus includes specific questions about each reading.
A number of years ago, a student reviewing a class taught by Dorothea von Mücke summed up how the professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures taught the course Literature Humanities this way: “Professor von Mücke refuses to tell us The Truth. We have to figure out everything on our own.”
Whether she’s teaching an advanced graduate seminar or a beginning undergraduate class, Carol Rovane wants her students to start thinking like philosophers.
Gillian Metzger (LAW’96), the Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law and faculty director of the Law School’s Center for Constitutional Governance, is an expert in administrative and constitutional law, with a specialization in federalism.
Columbia University and Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith are pleased to announce that Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 is the 2015 winner of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History.
Larry Abbott, the William Bloor Professor in Neuroscience, Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, was a theoretical physicist until the late 1980s, when it struck him that it might take decades to see the fruits of his research. He hungered for a field of study where results and insights could come more quickly.
For years, Arlin Crotts has been an iconoclast among his peers in the world of lunar science. His beliefs that the moon must have water and could possibly supply all the elements necessary to sustain life were considered unconventional to say the least.
Local Harlem children visit a Wallach Art Gallery exhibit featuring African American artist Romare Bearden’s iconic series of works based on Homer’s "The Odyssey".
When the Berlin Philharmonic performed the Georg Friedrich Haas piece dark dreams at Carnegie Hall last October, critics were ecstatic and some audience members booed. Anthony Tommasini, reviewing the concert in The New York Times, noted that “new pieces are not often booed. I hope Mr. Haas feels that he was doing something right to arouse such a reaction.”
Local Harlem children visit a Wallach Art Gallery exhibit featuring African American artist Romare Bearden’s iconic series of works based on Homer’s "The Odyssey".
Valerie Purdie-Vaughns is an associate professor of psychology at the University, specializing in stereotypes and the experiences of marginalized groups in society, including minorities, the disabled, women in science, gays and lesbians, and ex-convicts.
A portable solar array, which has 72 panels and measures 20 feet by 60 feet when fully deployed on a modified landscaping trailer cranked out enough juice to feed 150 people at a solar-powered turkey dinner after Hurricane Sandy.
Scott Small, director of Columbia’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, the Boris and Rose Katz Professor of Neurology, discusses what is known and what’s yet to be discovered, about the disease.
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger has appointed Peter E. Pilling as the University’s new Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education.