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This exhibit at Maison Française and The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, open until May 4, features seventy works of visual arts (paintings, drawings, photographs) about the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge, made by the great contemporary artists Vann Nath and Séra (both survivors of the genocide), as well as works by emerging artists who were invited to create artworks evoking the genocide during three "memory workshops" held at Bophana Center between 2008 and 2012.
Several Columbia professors, in disciplines ranging from dance to history to psychiatry, were awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships for 2013
As part of its commitment to pursuing research on the rapidly changing energy landscape and offering real-world solutions to our most pressing energy challenges, the new Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) announced today that the first fellow in its CGEP Fellows Program will be David Sandalow, the assistant secretary for policy and international affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Columbia University will confer seven honorary degrees and recognize the recipient of its University Medal for Excellence at commencement exercises on Wednesday, May 22. The recipients are:
African-Americans with a variant of the ABCA7 gene have almost double the risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer’s disease compared with African-Americans who lack the variant.
Learn more about Robert S. Duncanson: An Antebellum African American Artist, on exhibit at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery through December 8, 2012 Visitor Information Hours Robert S. Duncanson: An Antebellum African American Artist.
New Gallery Showcases “Superheroes: Latino Immigrants Who Make New York” Spider-man clings to the side of a building, cleaning windows; Wonder Woman does a load of laundry; and Superman delivers take-out.
The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, founded in 1982, has never shied away from examining important social issues. So after the housing bubble collapsed in 2007, leading to millions of home foreclosures across the U.S., the center’s director, Reinhold Martin, saw an opportunity to look at how America’s housing stock could move beyond the suburban, single-family home that dominates the “American dream” but presents real-life economic and environmental problems.
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger announced Dec. 17 that Mortimer B. Zuckerman has pledged $200 million to endow a Mind Brain Behavior Institute to support interdisciplinary neuroscience research and discovery by scholars across the University.
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of Mary Cunningham Boyce as the new Dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective July 1, 2013.
A new study in the journal Geology is the latest to tie a string of unusual earthquakes, in this case, in central Oklahoma, to the injection of wastewater deep underground.
Prize-winning playwright David Henry Hwang doesn’t mind being labeled an Asian-American dramatist. “It’s literally true,” he said during a recent visit to Columbia. “I am Asian-American and I am a dramatist, and I write about Asian-American subjects quite a lot."
The many ways of categorizing Williams’ work, which straddles the lines between journalism, political science, memoir and the law, were a frequent theme at a daylong symposium March 1 devoted to her scholarship.
The "New York Times" has called Columbia’s new Campbell Sports Center a building that shows both its “brains and its brawn,” which makes perfect sense for a facility meant to support the University’s athletic and academic excellence.
Columbia University Libraries awarded the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History to two works: Dan O’Brien’s "The Body of an American" and Robert Schenkkan's "All the Way."