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Dirk Englund is developing technology that tackles one of the most pressing problems of the Information Age— keeping information secure.
Columbia men’s basketball Head Coach Kyle Smith has a long history of leading his teams to victory. While a junior at Hamilton College, his team had a 26-1 record and was ranked #1 in the NCAA Division III. Later, as an associate coach at St. Mary’s College of California, he oversaw that school’s surprising ascent into the Sweet 16 in 2010.
For the first time this fall, entrepreneurial-minded engineering students are living together in Res. Inc., an initiative of the Engineering School in which 72 students—45 of them first-years—share more than kitchen space in their suites on the eighth floor of Hartley and Wallach halls.
When Kenneth T. Jackson began teaching his course "The History of the City of New York" 37 years ago, he decided to take his students out of the classroom to grasp the full impact of the urban environment.
Health costs exceeding $14 billion dollars and involving 21,000 emergency room visits, nearly 1,700 deaths, and 9,000 hospitalizations are among the staggering impacts of six climate change-related events in the United States during the last decade, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in November 2011 edition of the journal Health Affairs.
(Editor's Note: Every year, Columbia honors veterans by sponsoring a float in New York City's Veterans Day parade, which this year is Wednesday, November 11. The University is proud to recognize its 652 student veterans, the most among our peer institutions.)
Columbia student veterans, ROTC members and others in the University community marked Veterans Day with the first of what will be regular flag raisings by a student color guard on the University’s main campus. Each week, the color guard will raise Columbia’s American flag Monday morning and lower it on Friday evening.
Kelly Posner is trying to save lives. As director of the Center for Suicide Risk Assessment, she led a team from Columbia’s Department of Psychiatry in developing a tool that successfully predicts suicidal intent.
Anyone who uses multithreaded computer programs—and that’s all of us, as these are the programs that power nearly all software applications including Office, Windows, MacOS, and Google Chrome Browser, and web services like Google Search, Microsoft Bing, and iCloud—knows well the frustration of computer crashes, bugs, and other aggravating problems.
Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) announced today that Cyndi Stivers has been appointed the editor-in-chief of the publication.
Rep. Charles Rangel and other political and community leaders from throughout Harlem, Inwood and Washington Heights joined Columbia University Medical Center’s leadership Monday to formally welcome Drs. Rafael Lantigua and Dennis Mitchell to their new positions as Dean’s Special Advisors for Community Health Affairs.
The eurozone is in trouble. What began as a sovereign debt problem in a few countries has exposed major weaknesses in the euro project. On the face of it, the problem is familiar and resolvable: several governments have borrowed more than they can possibly repay. Such over-borrowing by governments is not unusual; it has happened repeatedly over the years and has one effective solution: the debt needs to be reduced.
Tragically, the eurozone leadership has for two years refused even to consider this most obvious of solutions. Instead, the leadership has been determined to raise ever-larger bailout…
Steven Hahn, a widely esteemed Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in 19th century America, and Robert Blau, a managing editor at Bloomberg News noted for his commitment to investigative and narrative journalism, have been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University announced today.
In September, Popular Science named Eitan Grinspun to its “Brilliant 10” list of top researchers in the U.S. Calling him a “computational contortionist,” the magazine lauded the associate professor of computer science at Columbia Engineering School for helping to create an entirely new field of geometry.