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Days after New York State approved marriage equality in 2011, Samuel G. Freedman, a School of Journalism professor and former reporter for The New York Times, mused to friends about how the world had changed since he had worked at the paper in the 1980s.

Wendy Chung realized in medical school that someone would need to know what to do with all that information gleaned from sequencing the human genome—so she focused on acquiring the skills to find genes and treat genetic diseases.

Rings of Saturn, moons of Jupiter, the constellation Cassiopeia. Young students are reaching for the stars and planets, with Columbia’s help.

As the Islamic State continues its attacks in Iraq, Syria and now France, Columbia News asked professors from a number of disciplines to evaluate the threats posed by the group. Stuart Gottlieb (Ph.D’96), a professor at the School of International Public Affairs, discusses a terrorism attach that occurred in Paris.

As the Islamic State continues its attacks in Iraq, Syria and now France, Columbia News asked professors from a number of disciplines to evaluate the threats posed by the group. Austin Long, an assistant professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, served in Iraq as an analyst and adviser to coalition forces and the U.S. military

As the Islamic State continues its attacks in Iraq, Syria and now France, Columbia News asked professors from a number of disciplines to evaluate the threats posed by the group. Page Fortna, the Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy, recently published an article with the provocative title, “Do Terrorists Win?” She is also chair of the Political Science Department.

As the Islamic State continues its attacks in Iraq, Syria and now France, Columbia News asked professors from a number of disciplines to evaluate the threats posed by the group. Zainab Bahrani, the Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, realized over a decade ago the importance of documenting cultural treasures in war-torn regions. She now runs the Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments project.

As the Islamic State continues its attacks in Iraq, Syria and now France, Columbia News asked professors from a number of disciplines to evaluate the threats posed by the group. David L. Phillips is the director of Columbia’s Program in Peace-building and Human Rights. He is a former senior adviser to the United Nations and U.S. State Department.

As the Islamic State continues its attacks in Iraq, Syria and now France, Columbia News asked professors from a number of disciplines to evaluate the threats posed by the group. Kimberly Marten is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Director of the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at Columbia's Harriman Institute.

As the Islamic State continues its attacks in Iraq, Syria and now France, Columbia News asked professors from a number of disciplines to evaluate the threats posed by the group. Claire Wardle, senior research scholar and research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.

As the Islamic State continues its attacks in Iraq, Syria and now France, Columbia News asked professors from a number of disciplines to evaluate the threats posed by the group.

As the Islamic State continues its attacks in Iraq, Syria and now France, Columbia News asked professors from a number of disciplines to evaluate the threats posed by the group. Richard Bulliet is a professor of history who specializes in the history of Islamic society and institutions.

The Center for Climate and Life, a new research initiative based at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, will focus on how climate change affects our access to such basic resources as food, water, shelter and energy.

“Climate is changing faster than our ability to keep pace,” said the center’s founding director Peter deMenocal, an oceanographer and professor of earth and environmental sciences. “At a time of decreasing federal support for this basic research, we will mobilize our considerable talent to generate the knowledge we need, and to put it to use in the marketplace…

“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…