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We hope our new Global Center opening in Istanbul will offer the Columbia community another way of supporting the recovery and planning efforts of the Turkish people.
Columbia University has been awarded a five-year, $3.7 million federal grant for a five-year program to implement the Summer Public Health Scholars Program, a partnership among Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, College of Dental Medicine, School of Nursing and the Mailman School of Public Health.
The retreat of Antarctica’s fast-flowing Thwaites Glacier is expected to speed up within 20 years, once the glacier detaches from an underwater ridge that is currently holding it back, says a new study in Geophysical Research Letters.
Thwaites Glacier, which drains into west Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea, is being closely watched for its potential to raise global sea levels as the planet warms. Neighboring glaciers in the Amundsen region are also thinning rapidly, including Pine Island Glacier and the much larger Getz Ice Shelf. The study is the latest to confirm the importance of seafloor topography…
To mark the premiere of the four-part public television series The Fabric of the Cosmos With Brian Greene, Columbia professor of mathematics and physics Brian Greene will host a special live forum at Miller Theatre on Wednesday, Nov. 2. Presented by the World Science Festival, Columbia and the PBS program NOVA, the forum will include a screening of the series premiere followed by a conversation with Brian Greene and other participants in the series, including theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind and Saul Perlmutter, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics.
What’s the connection among such innovations as the iPod Touch, Blu-ray Disc technology, the cancer drug Erbitux, DirecTV and Adobe Illustrator’s paintbrush options? Each of these products came about to consumers, in part, because of technologies discovered by researchers at Columbia.
Engineering professor Shih-Fu Chang is trying to make visual search technology as effortless as typing a keyword like “Morningside restaurants” into Google.
Vijay Modi, a professor of mechanical engineering, is working to create sustainable energy models for cities, such as New York, where current infrastructure will not be able to support future demand, and for countries as far away as Tanzania, where power costs are high and energy is inefficient.
“The best liars are the people who tell the truth most of the time,” said Hirschberg, who is teaching Computational Approaches to Emotional Speech at the Engineering School this term.
Steven Bellovin always had a knack for catching computer hackers—even before most people knew what they were.
Columbia is one of several universities that are responding to Mayor Bloomberg’s call for proposals to develop a new applied science campus in New York City.
Levine, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at Columbia University Medical Center, began to notice attachment behavior in adults all around him. He realized that this kind of insight could have significant implications for romantic relationships.
Some 30,000 high-resolution images and hundreds of 360-degree views of more than 200 cathedrals—can be found on the award-winning website, Mapping Gothic France (www.mappinggothicfrance.org).
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and two other institutions have uncovered a vast new gene regulatory network in mammalian cells that could explain genetic variability in cancer and other diseases. The studies appear in today’s online edition of Cell.
Nicholas Dirks, Columbia University’s Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts, announced today the appointment of novelist Richard Ford as the soon-to-be-established Emmanuel Roman and Barrie Sardoff Roman Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Writing at Columbia University.