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Albert Thompson and Carlos Muñoz lived on the same block of West 116th Street and knew each other at Columbia College, overlapping for one year. Now their names jointly grace a new Columbia initiative for future generations of local students.
Nelson, a professor of sociology, was named dean of social sciences. Marcus, the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, became dean of humanities.
Sharon Marcus, a scholar of 19th century French and English literature whose current research focuses on theatrical celebrity, sees her new role as dean of humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a chance to put the humanities at center stage.
This fall, Marcus, the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, has devoted much of her time as dean to working with faculty on a Humanities Initiative. “We want to make our teaching and research more global, more public and more digital,” she said.
Marcus says she is impressed with the remarkable intellectual…
Alondra Nelson, the new dean for the social sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, says part of the job is to be “an advocate and a cheerleader” for the departments of anthropology, economics, history, political science and sociology.
“I want to support and showcase the remarkable work being done by some of the best thinkers and researchers in the world,” says Nelson, a scholar of race, gender and science and former director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
Since her appointment was announced last June, Nelson has held divisionwide faculty meetings…
Chemist Hervé This and chef Michael Laiskonis introduce note-by-note cooking at the Columbia Maison Française. Note-by-note cooking is changing the future of food: it builds upon molecular gastronomy and makes it possible to compose new tastes while using chemical compounds.
NY, NY. (Nov. 12, 2014) – Columbia University has been awarded a grant from the Amgen Foundation that will provide hands-on laboratory experience to undergraduate students through the Amgen Scholars Program. This marks the 9th year that Columbia University will participate in the program, which aims to inspire the next generation of innovators by providing undergraduates with hands-on summer research opportunities at many of the world’s premier education institutions.
The Mesopotamia website is one of several faculty-led mapping projects under the umbrella of Archmap, a shared database of text and more than 40,000 images, which grew out of the Mapping Gothic France project.
In anticipation of the 2014 National Veterans Day, Columbia University proudly salutes United States military veterans. Over three hundred student-veterans are currently enrolled and take classes at Columbia University.
At the front of the classroom, Columbia Journalism School Professor Judith Matloff clicked through a somber slideshow of 15 journalists killed, assaulted or seriously injured while doing their jobs.
First came James Foley, the freelance reporter recently beheaded by Islamic State militants in Syria, followed by Steven Sotloff, who met the same fate. Then there was Chris Hondros, a Getty photographer killed on assignment in Libya in 2011, and Marie Colvin, the reporter for the British \"Sunday Times\" who died covering the Syrian conflict in 2012. Last was Daniel Pearl, the \"Wall Street Journal…
A new book by Colm Tóibín, the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities, is always a much-anticipated event.
Columbia Health's Sexual Violence Response provides empowering support to survivors and co-survivors of violence and works on prevention of gender-based violence in Columbia community. Step UP! Program facilitates effective training, allowing students to acquire practical strategies and learn how to maintain safety, support survivors, intervene and help others in difficult situations.
Serge E. Przedborski, MD, PhD, an internationally recognized clinician-scientist in the neurobiology of disease, has been appointed the inaugural director of the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative (CTNI).
On Nov. 11, Dr. Craig Spencer, New York’s first and thus far only diagnosed case of Ebola, was released from Bellevue Hospital Center where his recovery was made possible by expert care.