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Columbia University will be closed on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Jan. 16, and will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 17.
Reducing Soot and Methane Would Bring Fast Results, Says Study
A study by a large international team of scientists says that relatively cheap, simple measures to cut two common pollutants could substantially reduce global warming and improve human health and agriculture in coming decades.
Nathaniel Persily, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia Law School, has been named special master for redistricting by the Connecticut State Supreme Court.
President Lee C. Bollinger’s Statement on the Recent Death of Judge Robert L. Carter
A review of recent research on methamphetamine use suggests that claims the drug causes significant cognitive problems are exaggerated. The study by Carl Hart, PhD, and colleagues at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) was released in this month’s Neuropsychopharmacology.
Kelley Remole’11, PhD, still has fond memories of the day a local scientist visited her middle school classroom. “It was the first time I had a met a scientist and I thought it was really cool. I was already interested in science, but I would say she made the idea of science as a profession more real in my head.”
So when Remole began graduate school at P&S in the Department of Neuroscience she wanted to pass the favor on to a new generation. The department didn’t have an outreach program, but the chair encouraged Remole to start one.
“I cold-called about half a dozen…
Tom Edsall has covered every presidential campaign since 1968. He has reported on politics from more than 30 states and written five books on the subject. He sees politics in virtually everything. “If I’m walking down Broadway and I see a school bus hit a police car, my first thought is, does this help the Democrats or the Republicans?” he said.
Fourteen winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards were announced today by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
It’s been a busy year for Kellie Jones. She has just published an anthology of her essays from the past 20 years and curated a well-regarded exhibition at UCLA’s Hammer Museum exploring the legacy of African American artists in Southern California.
For years, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have worked to bring the latest medical advances and treatment to their neighbors in Upper Manhattan.
The newly reinstated Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) will be open to Columbia undergraduates as early as the start of the spring 2012 semester, and the program will be fully implemented by next fall.
Stuart Firestein, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, and William Zajc, chair of the Department of Physics, have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a prestigious scientific society established in 1848.
The first years of Matthew La Croix’s life were consumed with hospital visits. By the time Matthew was 3 in 2010, he needed a bone marrow transplant to survive.
Sixty years ago, music professor Vladimir Ussachevsky received a large package at his office with revolutionary new technology: a reel-to-reel Ampex tape recorder. At the time, most people were using such a device to record and edit sound. Ussachevsky had another idea. He wanted to use it to create original music.
His subsequent experiments led to the founding of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, the oldest center for electronic music in the United States. Launched in 1958 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, the center sought to encourage the brand-new art of electronic…
When he was 10 years old, Julio Fernandez took a correspondence course in electronics and earned a certificate for putting together a doorbell. Today, the Columbia professor of biological sciences builds and takes apart proteins, the building blocks of the body which, when they bond improperly, may cause disease.
Traditionally, scientists study proteins in a test tube, a method that Fernandez believes does not offer an accurate enough picture of complex body biochemistry. “In a test tube how would you know what’s happening to something that requires mechanical force to extend…