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SLICE Program Highlights Columbia’s Role in Local Workforce Development
Many people don't realize that Columbia University is New York City’s seventh largest non-governmental employer, with more than two-thirds of its 14,000 employees residing in the city’s five boroughs, and nearly 30 percent of its staff in upper Manhattan neighborhoods. The Universi...
Tue, Jun 23 | from Columbia University
A Sneak Preview of the 2009 CCIP Activities - PR.com
press release), NY They also allow students a glimpse into university life in America plus a chance to experience New York's rich cultural diversity. University Tours to Princeton and Columbia: Offered by Princeton University and Columbia University, this activity will ...
Mon, Jun 15 | from PR.com
Brain Regions Responsible for Empathy Mapped by Columbia Researchers
Columbia University researchers have shown for the first time that two brain systems are primarily responsible for allowing humans to accurately predict the emotions of others. Psychology professors Kevin Ochsner and Niall Bolger, graduate student Jamil Zaki and research assistan...
Mon, Jun 15 | from Columbia University
Columbia Partners With ARChive of Contemporary Music
A vast collection of sound recordings, books, photos, films, and music-related memorabilia will assist future research and help further integrate the arts into the University's educational experience. The new resource is a result of a recent agreement between Columbia University L...
Thu, Jun 11 | from Columbia University
Empty condos providing new dorm space
VA Students at Johnson & Wales University will pay yearly rents of $10383 for one-bedroom apartments and $9249 for two-bedrooms -- comparable prices to on-campus dorms. In New York, Columbia University last year paid $67.6 million for a residence hall for ...
Tue, Jun 9 | from Richmond Times Dispatch
Hypospadias Rates in New York State are not Increasing - Abstract
CA This investigation was approved by the Columbia University internal review board. There was no statistical change in hypospadias rates in New York State from 1992 to 2005 (r = 0.127, p = 0.6). Overall the mean +/- SE prevalence rate was 34.9 +/- 0.36 ...
Sun, May 31 | from UroToday
Ready for the next step
MO The Rock, the student newspaper, was one of 20 high school newspapers to receive a Gold Crown Award from Columbia University in New York. Commencement speaker Rafa Nizam encouraged the students to continue making history. ...
Sat, May 30 | from Columbia Daily Tribune
Stanford Psychology Professor Claude M. Steele Appointed Columbia University’s Next Provost
Steele comes to Columbia from Stanford University, where he has served as a professor of psychology since 1991, leading the department as chair from 1997 to 2000. He is currently the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and director of Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the B...
Wed, May 13 | from Columbia University
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
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: Liam Rector, 57, a Poet and Educator, Dies - New York Times
New York Times, United States - He had also taught at Columbia University, New School University, Emerson College and elsewhere. Mr. Rector’s work appeared in The Paris Review, ... Liam Rector, poet and teacher, kills self United Press International TOP NY POET KILLS SELF New York Post
Thu, Aug 16 | from nytimes.com
Opinion: On Planning: Columbia v. Penn?
Heights, Manhattanville, and Morningside Heights. 197c Manhattanville site specifically; in stark contrast to 197a, it is concerned only with how the university will turn a swath of land in Manhattanville into an arm of the Columbia University campus.
Sat, Sep 30 | from Blogger News Network
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
