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Environmental geographer Ruth DeFries is a pioneer in the study of how humans have transformed the surface of the Earth.
Just as Florence Nightingale brought professional nursing care to the Crimean War 160 years ago, today’s digitally savvy nurses are bringing health care and preventive medicine into the digital age with the most modern of devices: smartphones and tablets.
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: Alva Belmont, formerly Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, F.W. Woolworth, and Isidor and Ida Straus, who perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Other notables interred there include Herman Melville, Joseph Pulitzer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Fiorello LaGuardia, Augustus Juilliard, Duke Ellington, Celia Cruz and Robert Moses.
Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering and member of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, leads a team that is developing new imaging methods for the living brain. Their goal is to understand the way that the brain functions and regulates its blood flow, which can provide important clues to understanding early brain development, disease and aging. The brain increases local blood flow when neurons fire, and this increase is what is detected by a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan. Hillman’s team has found that a layer of cells is capable…
Nicotine, no matter the source, may function as a gateway to marijuana and cocaine
Like conventional cigarettes, electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) may function as a “gateway drug”—a drug that lowers the threshold for addiction to other substances, such as marijuana and cocaine—according to the 120th Shattuck lecture, presented to the Massachusetts Medical Society by Columbia researchers Denise and Eric Kandel and published today in the online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
On his website, Carl Hart describes himself as a scientist, an activist and an educator, in that order. Now he can add award-winning book author for his widely praised memoir, "High Price."
Which place on campus best evokes the Colonial era in which King’s College was founded?
As a Business School professor who has won awards for teaching excellence, Daniel Ames doesn’t seem like someone associated with mind reading. Yet Ames specializes not only in mind reading—the inferences we make about what other people think—but also in self-awareness and how people form impressions.
Over the summer Idniel Paula headed to Nobel laureate and University Professor Eric Kandel’s neuroscience lab, donned a white coat and peered through a microscope. His daily routine resembled that of many experienced scientists but not of a typical 16-year-old high school student.
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of Amale Andraos as the next dean of the University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
On mornings in July, a group of very large and fit Columbia students arrived on West 205th Street to spend their first days in New York with preschoolers. Towering over the four- and five-year-olds, a half dozen freshman football players—the shortest was 6 foot 3 inches—read stories to the children, helped them with arts and crafts, taught them the alphabet letter-by-letter, took them to the park and on field trips around the city.
Beginning in the 1920s, Jewish men and women, as members of the Soviet avant-garde of state photographers and photojournalists, transformed how people in the Soviet Union visualized, conceptualized and thought about their country, the war and the world around them, according to Professor Rebecca Kobrin of the Harriman Institute.