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Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid spoke of the tenuous state of U.S. involvement in both nations at Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum on March 20.
David L. Phillips believes violent conflict is not inevitable. As director of Columbia’s Program on Peace-building and Rights, Phillips’s office is on the Morningside campus, but his real work takes place in trouble spots across the globe.
Known for his groundbreaking scholarship on information networks, Wu's focus at the FTC was on helping the government with emerging regulatory policy and cases involving the Internet and mobile markets.
A little over a year after Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, Columbia students and master musicians will present a concert of Japanese classical music whose central purpose, for more than 1,400 years, has been to restore order to the universe.
Amy Benson, a writer and faculty member at the School of the Arts, was tired of always going to downtown Manhattan for literary events. So when she discovered that a friend and fellow writer was also experimenting with writing from the “we” perspective, an idea for a literary event took shape, one that could be conveniently located near her Harlem home. Earlier this month, the new reading series debuted at the Shrine World Music Venue on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and 134th Street. It is called First Person Plural because it is devoted to works written in the “we” voice. Columbia…
Diane Paulus (SOA'97), half the creative team behind The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, has a new appreciation for the old adage “be careful what you wish for.” Last summer, her collaboration with the writer Suzan-Lori Parks on a musical adaptation of the American folk opera, currently playing to packed houses on Broadway, became a point of contention for the theater community.
A study by Columbia researchers suggests that cells in the patient’s intestine could be coaxed into making insulin, circumventing the need for a stem cell transplant. Until now, stem cell transplants have been seen by many researchers as the ideal way to replace cells lost in type I diabetes and to free patients from insulin injections.
The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism announced today that it will rename the Journalism building “Pulitzer Hall,” after its founder, Joseph Pulitzer.
President Barack H. Obama will deliver the keynote address at Barnard College’s 120th Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 14, at 12:30 p.m. on Columbia University’s South Lawn.
The world’s oceans may be turning acidic faster today from human carbon emissions than they did during four major extinctions in the last 300 million years, when natural pulses of carbon sent global temperatures soaring, says a new study in Science.
New Research Shows That It Interferes With the Synthesis and Function of BDNF, Derailing the Brain’s Center for Learning