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Victoria Stodden is at the forefront of a movement to convince journals, academics and policy makers alike to embrace a new era of open access data sharing.
A man who was wrongfully convicted for the 1990 double murder of a former New Haven alderman and the alderman’s lover should be freed within 60 days unless the state of Connecticut decides to retry him, a federal judge ruled Monday in a hard-fought victory for Columbia Law School Professor Brett Dignam and her clinical students.
The examination of mental disorders would seem to be the almost exclusive domain of psychiatrists and psychologists, not humanities scholars. Yet William V. Harris, the William R. Shepherd Professor of History, has spent his time in recent years studying his chosen field—the history of ancient Greece and Rome—through the lens of mental illness.
Castillo is part of a group of University employees responsible for cleaning academic and administrative buildings on the Morningside campus.
Smith’s current research focuses on attitudes toward nature during the scientific revolution—a period that, as she put it, “you could say began in the Middle Ages and stretched up to the beginning of public funding of science in World War II.” She focuses on the origins of modern science in the 15th through 18th centuries, paying particular attention to craft knowledge.
The fifth annual Puppy Study Break is kicking off. Students are encouraged to take a break from their studies and play with puppies in John Jay.
In their book This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains, David Stark, the Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, and photographer Nancy Warner pair images of abandoned farms with the plain-spoken recollections of the people who still live in nearby communities.
Professor Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and director of Columbia's Institute for African Studies, discusses Nelson Mandela's life and lasting influence.
Understanding that past will help scientists like Ali, a PhD student at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, project what might happen in the future as the world warms up. This is no esoteric question for Los Angeles, whose nearly 4 million people depend in part on Mono Lake’s watershed for drinking water, green lawns, agriculture and industry.
When the writer Sholem Alecheim died in 1916, his funeral was one of the largest public gatherings ever seen in New York City. As many as 200,000 people lined the streets of the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens to watch his funeral cortege pass by. A memorial service was held in Carnegie Hall the next day, where Sholem Aleichem was lionized as “the Jewish Mark Twain.”
Tradition! Tradition! Alisa Solomon, a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, has written a book about a musical that was so wildly successful, it became a tradition all its own. Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof examines far more than the 1964 Broadway juggernaut whose songs have been enjoyed by millions of Jews and non-Jews alike and has had countless productions mounted in every corner of the globe, from high school auditoriums to the Alhambra theater in Jaffa, Israel. Solomon shows how a musical set in a Jewish village in czarist Russia at the turn of…
As part of its 125th anniversary celebration, the college has mounted an exhibition, "Doing and Undergoing," which honors John Dewey by embodying his concept of learning through experience.
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in transforming human stem cells into functional lung and airway cells.
Patricia Culligan, professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics, is leading a team of 20 investigators who have just won a five-year $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study how urban green infrastructure (GI) can mitigate the city's role in coastal zone pollution.