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In the 20 years since David Dinkins left office, the former New York City mayor has stayed busy as a professor of public affairs at Columbia, running his annual Leadership and Public Policy Forum on campus, and serving on philanthropic boards.
Jeffrey Milarsky, distinguished musician, scholar, teacher and conductor, is the recipient of the 2013 Ditson Conductor’s Award for the advancement of American music, Columbia University has announced.
Daniel Wolf Savin and Michael Hahn have made a big leap toward cracking one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics—why the corona, or plasma surrounding the sun, is so much hotter than the sun’s surface.
When astronauts go on a mission, they are allowed to take one or two personal items with them. On his first space flight in 2002, Michael Massimino (ENG’84) took a Columbia Engineering School flag. The second time, in 2009, he took a gray Columbia Engineering T-shirt covered with the signatures of as many Engineering School students and faculty as could fit on it.
Brooklyn-based artist Rafael Vargas-Suarez paints a mural in the Miller Theatre lobby. The project is the first collaboration between two major presenting spaces at Columbia University: The Wallach Art Gallery and Miller Theatre.
From providing expertise on the risks of rising seas to New York’s coastline to shedding light on the mysteries of the universe, Columbians bring hands-on experience to the ways we understand the Earth and space.
Paleoclimatologist Peter B. deMenocal was on one of the last research vessels to ply the waters off the Horn of Africa before the region was declared off limits to scientists due to the threat posed by Somali pirates—a peril vividly illustrated in this fall’s hit movie, "Captain Phillips."
After a 40-year absence, the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps is settling in at Columbia. A new class of white-clad midshipmen, veterans, faculty, students, members of the administration and alumni gathered at the Italian Academy in September to commemorate the reinstitution of the program.
Arthur Danto has just died. In two places where Arthur worked for many decades – Columbia’s Philosophy Department and the Journal of Philosophy – there had always been a general feeling among us that much as he loved and laboured here, he found us too confining.
Columbia climatologist Maureen Raymo is trying to predict the planet’s future by looking to its past.
00:00 - Expansion of the Assembly, Dinkins running 1st term
00:41 - Anecdote about Percy Sutton, SEEK Program and Public Service
02:01 - From borough president to running for Mayor
03:52 - Running for Mayor and being the underdog
05:51 - Crime decreasing and the myth of \"crime ridden Dinkins era\"
07:12 - \"The End of Dinkins, political career ruined\" to becoming City Clerk for 10 years
09:27 - Encouraging students to have an interest in public policy
09:56 - Elected officials rise to the occasion, congress needs a blueprint
10:29 - Writing…
The year since Hurricane Sandy blew ashore in the New York area has been one of rebuilding and searching for how best to prevent the level of destruction and death it brought with it.
A recent slowdown in global warming has led some skeptics to renew their claims that industrial carbon emissions are not causing a century-long rise in Earth’s surface temperatures.
Sonya Dyhrman, a microbial oceanographer at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, researches tiny microbes in the ocean that play a role in Earth’s climate.
Three Columbia professors were among the 78 recipients of awards in the National Institutes of Health High Risk-High Reward program. Recognized for proposing highly innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research, they are Rafael Yuste, Ozgur Sahin, and Christine Ann Denny.