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In 1754 the original King’s College charter declared one of its missions to be teaching “everything useful for the comfort, the convenience and elegance of life.” It’s a goal that seems especially noteworthy as the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science celebrates its sesquicentennial by highlighting the ways it has fulfilled that mission in the past, its present day record of innovation and its plans for future growth.
The Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute has named David M. Greenberg as its first executive director. The Zuckerman Institute was established in 2012 with a $200 million gift from New York philanthropist and business leader Mortimer B. Zuckerman. The Institute will bring together 1,000 scientists at the Jerome L. Greene Science Center, the first building of the Manhattanville campus.
Five Columbia faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.
Dennis Tenen, an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia, has an unusual background for a humanities scholar.
Sean Manning Udell (CC’11) is less than three years out of college, working as an administrator at a new charter school in Denver. Yet he’s getting emails from academic researchers seeking his help.
Last fall, the last card catalogs that stood since 1934 in room 310 of Butler Library were carted away. In place of the drawers that once held 5.4 million cards, the wood-paneled, two-story room will house a digital humanities library, staffed by experts in digital research techniques and lined with computers that will connect scholars and students alike to the millions of titles and tools to be found in Columbia Libraries’ vast system.
Called a collaboratory, the studio is one of many initiatives at the University using digital technology and making it easier than ever for faculty, students and staff to have access to the necessary tools—and the expertise to use them.
As the digital revolution sweeps through academia as surely as it has other fields, it has created new opportunities not just for science but for the humanities, enabling interdisciplinary research on an even grander scale.
A research team led by Ken Shepard and Lars Dietrich has demonstrated that integrated circuit technology, the basis of modern computers and communications devices, can be used for a most unusual application—the study of signaling in bacterial colonies.
Mariusz Kozak, who joined Columbia’s Department of Music last July, is studying the connection between how people listen and move to music. “Every known culture has some sort of combination of dance and music.”
Over 65 years as a crusading civil rights lawyer, Law School Professor Jack Greenberg (CC’45, LAW’48, CC Dean'89-93), argued the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court and won Martin Luther King Jr. the right to march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
Born in the Dominican Republic, Gil studied literature and pre-medicine at Florida International University.
Anna Hyatt Huntington was a pioneering American sculptor. Wallach Art Gallery’ exhibition Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902–1936 focuses on Hyatt Huntington’s early work, including anumal sculpture, the life-size work of Diana of the Chase and various versions of Joan of Ark.
Dipali Mukhopadhyay's new book focuses on two provincial governors, Atta Mohammad Noor and Gul Agha Sherzai, who, she writes, demonstrate that a strong warlord who faced local competition could make the transition from "strongman to strongman governor."