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BRAINYAC: The Zuckerman Institute’s Brain Research Apprenticeships in New York at Columbia.
While Columbia has long revered Prof. Wm. Theodore de Bary (CC’41, GSAS’53) as one of its own, America now regards him as a national treasure.
A group of Columbia University’s students give back to the community by helping clean and restore Riverside Park.
Columbia University celebrates the opening of The Startup Lab. President Lee C. Bollinger thanks the Dean of Columbia College James Valentini, the Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business Glenn Hubbard, the Dean of Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science Mary Boyce, the Dean of SIPA Merit Janow, as well as the head of Columbia Entrepreneurship Richard Witten for coming together and establishing a unique partnership to open the Lab. Forty five teams of recent Columbia graduates will begin working there in the nearest future.
Damon Phillips remembers finding the "Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz" in his parents’ record collection with its 46-page booklet of liner notes about the music when he was about 10 years old. “I just sat there on the floor with those albums,” he recalls. “It was the first time I had read something trying to explain jazz. It planted a seed.”
Mae Ngai’s interest in the history of immigration and labor began when she was a high school student in the 1960s.
Mike Pride, the former editor of the Concord Monitor who led his small New Hampshire newspaper to national prominence and served as co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, has been named administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering, leads a team that is developing new imaging methods for the living brain.
You might think every company will use innovative technology it receives for free if that technology can increase profits by more than 10 percent. Professors Eric Verhoogen and Amit Khandelwal discovered that is not the case.
For Avinoam Shalem the study of art history is not just about locating and defining a civilization, a culture or a movement, it’s about what he calls “interaction zones”— the places where culture and commerce collide and inspire new forms of expression. Forms that may not be best understood through a primary comparison to Western art.
This spring, Godzilla has been wreaking havoc worldwide as the latest incarnation of the skyscraper-sized lizard stomps its way back onto the silver screen. The 2014 reboot of the iconic film franchise also highlights an enduring research interest of Gregory M. Pflugfelder, an associate professor of Japanese history at Columbia who teaches the popular undergraduate seminar “A Cultural History of Japanese Monsters.” He is also on the faculty at the University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Over the past decade, Pflugfelder has collected more than 5,000 posters and other promotional materials—including…
A traveling Smithsonian exhibit of collage works based on Homer’s Odyssey by the celebrated African American artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988) will make its final stop at Columbia’s Wallach Gallery beginning in November.