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Catherine Jallim has owned her own construction business for 11 years and thought she knew everything there was to know. Then she was accepted into Columbia University’s two-year construction mentorship program, where she learned even more.
Some light has been shed on the search for dark matter.
A global team of scientists looking for evidence of the existence of dark matter announced that they found none from the leading candidates. The analysis of 13 months of data at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LGNS), a collaborative effort led by Elena Aprile, professor of physics at Columbia, provided no evidence for the existence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, the phenomenally-named WIMPs, that are the leading candidates for dark matter. This doesn’t mean that dark matter doesn’t exist, only that potential candidates…
Three-time Olympian Caryn Davies (LAW’13) added to her collection of medals this morning in London when her U.S. rowing team won the women’s eight. This is Davies’ second gold medal and third medal overall—the team captured gold in the women’s eight in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and silver in Athens in 2004.
Columbia University today announced the 2012 winners of the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Study Pinpoints a Genetic Cause of Most Lethal Brain Tumor— May Lead to New Treatment
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have discovered that some cases of glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of primary brain cancer, are caused by the fusion of two adjacent genes.
Physics Professor Igor Aleiner is one of 21 theoretical physicists, mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists from across the U.S. to receive the inaugural Simons Investigators award, which provides $100,000 per year over five years in direct support to pursue whatever research they want.
Rebecca Jordan-Young, an associate professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard, is studying the issue of sex verification in sports.
For the first time, scientists have identified tropical and subtropical species of marine protozoa living in the Arctic Ocean.
Researchers at ICAP’s Harlem Prevention Center joined the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) today to announce study results that showed disturbing rates of new HIV infections occurring among black gay and bisexual men in the U.S. (also known as men who have sex with men, or MSM), particularly among those age 30 and younger.
Duy Linh Tu, an assistant professor at Columbia Journalism School, has been teaching students digital storytelling techniques since 2002. So he was encouraging when a former student told him she wanted to make a documentary about the impact of HIV in the Deep South—and intrigued when she suggested he work on it with her.
Editor’s Note: The above video interview took place in July 2012, immediately following news of the election and the ongoing issues surrounding violence and journalists in Mexico. When Pablo Piccato was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, a professor suggested he look at crime and public health in Mexico City in the early 20th century for his dissertation. Piccato’s dissertation was the basis of his first book, City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931, later followed by The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere. His…
Provost John Coatsworth has appointed Sree Sreenivasan as Columbia’s first Chief Digital Officer.