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Researchers at Columbia Engineering School have demonstrated that light can travel on an artificial material without leaving a trace under certain conditions, technology that would have many applications from the military to telecommunications.
John F. Szwed, professor of music and jazz studies at Columbia University, has been appointed director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia.
The rise of Internet search engines like Google has changed the way our brain remembers information, according to research by Columbia University psychologist Betsy Sparrow published July 14 in Science.
After the recent great quakes that have swept away entire coastlines and cities in Japan, Haiti and Sumatra, scientists are now looking hard at the nation that may suffer the gravest threat of all: Bangladesh
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger announced the appointment of Miller Theatre director Melissa Smey as executive director of Columbia’s Arts Initiative, effective immediately.
On June 23, Low Library was transformed into a lively dance studio for Columbia’s fifth annual “Shall We Dance?”, sponsored by the Office of Government and Community Affairs, the School of Continuing Education-Summer High School Program and the University’s Arts Initiative.
A team of researchers led by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic has developed a new technique to evaluate human stem cells using cell micropatterning — a simple but powerful in vitro tool that will enable scientists to study the initiation of left-right asymmetry during tissue formation, to diagnose disease, and to study factors that could lead to certain birth defects.
Sixty years ago, when neurology department professor Harry Grundfest was doing groundbreaking research at the College of Physicians and Surgeons that attracted the likes of future Nobel laureate Eric Kandel to Columbia, he designed a workspace at the medical center that was intended to promote maximum contact among his postdoctoral students.
Dear Alma,
Columbia is big in interdisciplinary neuroscience, including two Nobel laureates, but who came before them?
—Neuro Fan
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced the appointment of Carlos J. Alonso as dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
After two years at Columbia as University provost, Claude Steele is returning to Stanford University, where he will become dean of its School of Education. A noted social psychologist, Steele came to Morningside Heights in May 2009 from Stanford, where he served as a professor of psychology from 1991 to 2009 and led the psychology department as chair from 1997 to 2000.
Steele has conducted a wide range of research, examining such issues as self-identity, group stereotypes and addictive behaviors. He described the decision to leave Columbia as perhaps the most difficult of his career…
Rafael Yuste likens scientific research to mountain climbing. Assemble a skilled team, get the best equipment, map the route and proceed with slow, deliberate steps. “By walking up very securely, step by step, and not losing track of the summit, you can get there,” says the professor of biological sciences and co-director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science.
Yuste knows what he’s talking about. An avid mountain climber, last summer he scaled Monte Perdido, an 11,000-foot peak in the Spanish Pyrenees whose final icy incline has claimed dozens of lives.
From the much lower…
Columbia University trustee Gerry Lenfest has made a leadership gift of $250,000 to Columbia University Libraries as part of a matching challenge funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a senior conservator at the Libraries.
Special from The Record
Jae Woo Lee knows what it is like to feel confused in class. He spoke almost no English when he immigrated to Flushing, Queens from Korea at age 18. At Bayside High School, “I could see what was on the board in math and science classes,” recalls Lee, who is now working toward a Ph.D. in computer science at Columbia. “But for three months I couldn’t really understand what people were saying.”