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Levitating Magnet May Yield New Approach to Clean Energy
In findings published this week in the journal Nature Physics, a team at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports on a unique approach that may allow scientists to generate clean energy from fusion. “Fusion energy could provide a long-term solution t...
Mon, Jan 25 | from Columbia University
Columbia Journalism School Raises $15 Million to Help Establish New Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism today announces that it has completed a $10 million match to help establish the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. This amount fulfills the requirements established by The Tow Foundation, which in February 2008 made a $5 million ple...
Mon, Jan 11 | from Columbia University
Columbia Research Shows More Sleep May Reduce Depression in Teenagers
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have found new evidence that inadequate sleep can lead to depression and suicidal thoughts in adolescents.
Wed, Jan 6 | from Columbia University
Opinion: Columbia Experts Assess Results of Copenhagen Climate Summit
Over the past two weeks, as world leaders attempted to negotiate a climate agreement, Columbia University experts from across disciplines provided their ... and more »
Thu, Dec 24 | from Ethiopian Review
Judie Lomax Named Ivy League Women's Basketball Player of the Week
The Columbia University women's basketball team (6-4) will return to action on Wednesday, Dec. 30 at Robert Morris. and more »
Mon, Dec 14 | from Columbia University Athletics
CU book talk sheds a new light on preservation and history of 'Candide'
A book talk on Wednesday night hosted by the Book History Colloquium at Columbia University explored interpretations of Voltaire's "Candide. ...
Thu, Dec 3 | from CU Columbia Spectator
USC enrolls highest number of foreign students of any U.S. university
New York University, with 6761, had the second-largest international contingent and Columbia University, with 6685, ranked third. UCLA was in eighth place, ... and more »
Mon, Nov 16 | from Los Angeles Times
Wilders' Columbia Song and Dance
At the same time, (1) because Jewish population was growing rapidly, (2) because many traditional Jewish economic niches had become obsolete, and (3) because more non-Jews had begun to enter traditionally Jewish types of business, Jewish social networks were becoming more aggressi...
Sat, Oct 24 | from eaazi (Blogspot)
Opinion: Aliza Davidovit -
is a published writer, author, journalist and former TV producer. She has her B.A. from McGill University and a Master's of Science in journalism from Columbia University. She worked at ABC News "20/20" for six years with Connie Chung and in the ABC News Terrorism/Investigations Unit with J...
Thu, Feb 12 | from YouTube
Podcast: The Conceptions of Social Policy: Universalism vs. Targeting
Jose Antonio Ocampo, PhD is a Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Thu, Dec 18 | from uc.princeton.edu
Fordham vs. the Upper West Side
For more than three years now, Fordham University has wanted to tack its name onto the list of colleges and universities expanding in Manhattan. The Jesuit university, led by the Rev. Joseph McShane, generally avoided the spotlight while Columbia University underwent a hard-fought app...
Tue, Nov 25 | from New York Observer
Opinion: Study finds that Katrina kids are the sickest children in the U.S.
Hurricane Katrina's youngest survivors are now the sickest children in the United States according to a report released Monday by the New York-based Children's Health Fund and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Hurricane Katrina's youngest survivors are now the si...
Tue, Nov 25 | from Facing South
Podcast: Christopher Harwood – professor of Czech at Columbia University
Christopher Harwood is a lecturer in Czech at Columbia University in New York. When I met him at his office on Columbia’s Upper West Side campus, we discussed Czech literature, the difficulties of learning Czech, and how Professor Harwood himself had become good enough at the language to...
Mon, Sep 22 | from Radio Prague
Podcast: Small numbers studying Czech at prestigious New York universities
In this edition of Panorama we meet some of those teaching and studying Czech at two of New York’s most prestigious universities. Our first stop is Columbia University, where Professor Christopher Harwood teaches both the Czech language and Czech studies. How do enrolments compare for b...
Thu, Aug 7 | from Radio Prague
Opinion: Is the academy anti-military?
Over at The Morningside Post, a blog from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs that I helped found, we're having a debate about whether or not veterans come to campuses, especially, well-heeled Ivy League and other private academies, and lose the respect t...
Tue, Dec 19 | from TPMCafe
Podcast: Lecture: "The Rule Against Torture as a Legal Archetype"
The erosion of the legal recognition of torture as something that is forbidden in the United States and the implications for our broader legal system and society of that erosion were the subject of a lecture by Jeremy J. Waldorn, University Professor of Law and director of the Center for La...
Fri, Feb 3 | from Vanderbilt University News
