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Each year, Columbia’s Presidential Teaching Awards spotlight the most dedicated and innovative instructors at the University. The awards are given at Commencement to both faculty members and graduate student instructors.
Soon after graduating from college, Tyler Bickford taught music for a year at a rural Vermont elementary school. Years later, the same school would serve as a rich laboratory for his Columbia dissertation about how kids consume digital media.
On the way to earning his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, Bickford returned to Vermont to take notes on how some 70 K-8 schoolchildren share earbud headphones and use MP3 players. Before long, he found himself recruited back into teaching music appreciation to the same group of youngsters.
“Running a second grade class, you learn that you have to have clear…
Special from The Record
Over billions of years, Earth’s continents have split apart and rejoined, and ice sheets have disappeared. Although the natural world is full of drama, the problem for teachers is that it happens in geological time, not real time.
| Earth and Environmental Sciences teaching assistant Kat Allen is seen here in her scuba gear. |
Enter Columbia graduate student Kat Allen, who has developed a repertoire of techniques for bringing the popular introductory geology course, “The Climate System,” to life.
“Physicists can drop…
Two Columbia News videos will air this month on NYC TV, the official television network of New York City.
Both videos highlight unique collaborations between the University and the local community, including Columbia Engineering’s Center for Technology, Innovation and Community Engagement and The Young Company, an effort spearheaded by the School of the Arts’ acting program to bring Shakespeare to middle and high school students.
Soon after Columbia Law School emptied out at the end of the spring semester, its Jerome L. Greene Hall filled up with representatives of some of the world’s most remote island nations. The topic of their three-day meeting was the danger posed by rising sea levels.
Richard Hamilton, Davies Professor of Mathematics, has won the 2011 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. The Shaw Prize is given annually in three areas: astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical sciences. This is the eighth year of the Shaw Prize; awardees will be honored at a ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 28.
The Shaw Prize is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions and significant advances in their current field of study. The award is dedicated to \"furthering societal progress, enhancing quality of life, and enriching humanity's spiritual civilization,\"…
Not every child can dream up a smartphone application and see it come to life. But that’s what happened when 8-year-old William Belhumeur suggested his father make an app that identifies plants using visual recognition technology.
As a professor of computer science at the engineering school and director of Columbia’s Laboratory for the Study of Visual Appearance, Peter Belhumeur has worked on face recognition software since the mid-1990s. He quickly saw that the same algorithms that can process the curve of an eyebrow or the angle of a cheekbone could be applied to the shape of…
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SCHEDULE FOR DANCE INSTRUCTION
Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:30 p.m.: AFRO-SAMBA 7:30 p.m.: BELLY DANCE 8:30 p.m.: DANCE PARTY Shall We Dance? will feature free dance instruction followed by “feel-good” music spun by DJ Stormin’ Norman of Sundae Sermons. Absolute beginners in all styles are welcome. Lightweight clothing and athletic… |
A team of researchers from Columbia Engineering, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and Rutgers University has now demonstrated that evaporation from the land surface is able to modify summertime rainfall east of the Mississippi and in the monsoonal region in the southern U.S. and Mexico.
After decades spent studying indoors in separate buildings, students from the Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning (GSAPP) and the School of the Arts got a chance to put theory in practice by collaboratively building a structure outside for public use on the Morningside campus.
The report, “Climate Change and Cities: First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (ARC3),” is a comprehensive study detailing the risks global cities face due to a warming world.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today signed an agreement of their intention to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) programs at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years. The agreement was signed at a ceremony onboard the USS Iwo Jima, docked in New York for the Navy’s annual Fleet Week.
Sergeant John McClelland, a former special operations forces combat medic with the U.S. Army’s 1st Ranger Battalion, graduates this week with 22 other School of General Studies student veterans. T