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As a flood of cash from wealthy individuals finds its way into campaign coffers for this year’s elections, Law School Professor Richard Briffault is following the money.
Columbia University today announced the establishment of an interdisciplinary NeuroTechnology Center with a mission to develop advanced optical, electrical and computational technologies for the study of complex neurobiological systems.
Hundreds of people held aloft glowing lanterns honoring African American artist Romare Bearden during the third annual Morningside Lights procession. It kicked off after dark on Sept. 27 in Morningside Park and wound its way up to campus. Marchers carried lanterns and musical instruments made in workshops at Miller Theatre in the week before the parade. The workshops, led by directors of the Processional Arts Workshop, attracted adults and children from the local community. This year’s theme was Odysseus on the A Train, part of a yearlong celebration on campus of Bearden and his iconic 1977 collage…
Hundreds of people held aloft glowing lanterns honoring African American artist Romare Bearden during the third annual Morningside Lights procession. his year’s theme was "Odysseus on the A Train," part of a yearlong celebration on campus of Bearden and his iconic 1977 collage series, "A Black Odyssey."
Hidden within plain sight around Columbia's campuses is a museum's worth of art donated to the University over the past two centuries.
Race remains a touchstone of American politics, never far from the electoral fray, says Fredrick Harris, professor of political science and director of Columbia’s Center on African-American Politics and Society.
With the parting of a leopard-print curtain and the flash of cameras, the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation officially opened Sept. 16 in its new space in the Journalism School’s Pulitzer Hall.
No one expects Republicans to lose seats in the House, and most forecasts give Republicans the likely edge in taking control of the Senate, although it’s unclear by what margin.
Walter Mischel, the psychologist renowned for the groundbreaking study known as the “marshmallow test,” has finally decided to tell the story of that research for a general audience.
Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, is an expert on Chinese politics and foreign policy, even though he hasn’t been to the country since 2001.
In 1970, Elora Mukherjee’s father arrived in New York City from India on an engineering scholarship with $7 in his pocket. After her mother joined him six years later, the two of them worked multiple jobs and long hours in the hopes of providing their daughters with the opportunities they never had. During childhood trips back to Patna, the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, Mukherjee began to see what it meant for her to grow up in America.
“Patna has just unbelievable poverty,” says Mukherjee, an associate professor at Columbia Law School who oversees the school’s immigrants’…
When historian Kenneth Jackson teaches his “History of the City of New York” course, he takes his students out of the classroom, on an all night field trip—a midnight bicycle ride that starts in upper Manhattan, wends its way through Central Park, Times Square, over the Brooklyn Bridge and ends in Brooklyn Heights at dawn.
The list of the rich and famous who are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx reads like a veritable Who’s Who of late 19th and early 20th century New York high society.
In August 2014, Art Properties completed research on a selection of Chinese bronzes, ceramics and sculpture that are on permanent display in the Faculty Room of Low Library.