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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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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
Special from The Record
When Jason Gorman began his graduate work at Columbia, he thought he was in over his head. Just six years later, Gorman, who receives his doctorate this month in biological sciences, has been singled out by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as one of the field’s most outstanding graduate students.
Milos Forman returned to Columbia’s campus on May 3 for a film screening and a discussion at Miller Theatre with his longtime collaborator Michael Hausman, who is a film program adjunct professor and producer.
This year, some 12,000 degrees will be conferred on graduates from all 18 of Columbia’s schools and affiliates.
Mari Carmen Ecoro, an immigrant from Central Africa, was 34 and raising two school-age daughters in Queens when she decided to complete her high school equivalency degree. This month, Ecoro receives her third degree, this time a master of science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University’s School of Continuing Education.