Fri, Mar 23, 2007, 12:00am
The National Science Foundation has awarded four Columbia professors about $1.3 million in grants to fund research such as working towards curing Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
Fri, Mar 23, 2007, 12:00am
Panelists discussed the difficulties of reconciling their cultural upbringing with their sexual orientations at last night's event entitled The Contemporary Lives of Queer Latinas, held in Milbank's Ella Weed room.
Fri, Mar 23, 2007, 12:00am
Panelists at the Friedmann Conference in International Law critiqued the disunity in dealing with international law regarding issues of genocide in Darfur as well as interrogation practices at Guantánamo Bay.
Fri, Mar 23, 2007, 12:00am
Professors, students, and administrators snacked on appetizers, sipped on wine, and cut a bright red ribbon at a reception honoring the two new neuroscience laboratories created for Columbia women science researchers in Schermerhorn.
Fri, Mar 23, 2007, 12:00am
From behind the pulpit at St. Mary's Church last night, Coalition to Preserve Community leader Tom Demott delivered some good news to an audience opposed to Columbia University's proposed expansion.
Fri, Mar 23, 2007, 12:00am
Five years into its existence, students and faculty are still working to establish and understand the role of University Writing within undergraduate education at Columbia.
Fri, Mar 23, 2007, 12:00am
While the Core Curriculum courses Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization focus on the developments of Western civilization, the Major Cultures requirement aims to provide students with an understanding of the important historical, literary, and intellectual developments of the rest
Fri, Mar 23, 2007, 12:00am
Every so often, some furious student group will come along and demand that Columbia's Core curriculum feature more dead minority figures. They argue that the Core is oppressive and exclusive, a who's who of dead white men. This is basically correct.
Fri, Mar 23, 2007, 12:00am
am pretty unabashed in my love for Dancing with the Stars. As a totally awesome perk from my mom's job at ABC, I have a big sleep shirt from the show that reads "Let's Get Ready to Rumba!" and I wear it pretty religiously.
Fri, Mar 23, 2007, 12:00am
Major Cultures was introduced to the Columbia Core Curriculum to give students a more global perspective and understanding. While this is an important goal, the current organization of and approach to Major Cultures just does not fit well into the rest of the Core Curriculum.
