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Digital technology is about to add big data to the bird enthusiast’s traditional tools of binoculars and a field guide.
The U.S. government’s latest official report on climate change, released this week, says northeastern states are already seeing dangerous effects of warming climate, including the nation’s largest increase in extreme downpours, sea-level rise above the global average, and crop-unfriendly weather.
The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation has awarded its 2014-2015 “Magic Grants” to eight teams of students, faculty, alumni and post-docs from Columbia and Stanford Universities.
Three Columbia professors have been named members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Election to NAS, in recognition of "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research," is considered one of the highest honors a scientist or engineer can receive.
Nobel Laureate Richard Axel, MD, University Professor, has been elected to the Royal Society as a foreign member.
Before they graduate from Columbia’s School of the Arts, M.F.A. students in the theater producing and management concentration are required to put together a project that has some connection to the University.
Laurence Abbott, PhD, the William Bloor Professor of Neuroscience, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
April 30, 2014 -- While researchers at leading universities have made major scientific discoveries that advance understanding of the global HIV epidemic, translating the benefits of this knowledge into better health for communities around the world has been left to government agencies and non-governmental organizations. In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, an opinion piece by Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, professor of epidemiology and medicine and director of ICAP at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, in collaboration with co-authors Neena Philip, MPH,…
In a new paper published in the journal "Cell," a team of researchers led by Dana Pe’er at Columbia University and Garry Nolan at Stanford University describes a powerful new method for mapping cellular development at the single cell level.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University presents "HYPER-RESEMBLANCES," curated by Alison Coplan, Heidi Hirschl and Kathleen Langjahr.
I know several Columbians have gone on to become professional baseball players. Is it true that one of those ball players also became a spy?
In a study published in the April 6 online edition of the journal Nature, a team of Columbia University Medical Center researchers led by Ellen Lumpkin, associate professor of somatosensory biology, solves the mystery of how cells just beneath the skin surface enable us to feel fine details and textures.
A study by Columbia researchers has found that children from three school districts in Maine exposed to arsenic in drinking water experienced declines in intelligence.
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“I’m delighted to announce that Gillian Lester will be the next dean of Columbia…