Mon, Nov 27, 2006, 12:00am
Adjua Starks-Allen will take over as Barnard's assistant dean for preprofessional programs and international students immediately, officials announced in an e-mail Saturday.
Mon, Nov 27, 2006, 12:00am
A participant in Columbia's Service Learning in Community Environment program was fatally shot in the left shoulder Saturday night at 11:45 p.m. in the Throgs Neck neighborhood of the southeastern Bronx.
Mon, Nov 27, 2006, 12:00am
Carman Hall, a dorm for first-years, has expanded its services to meet the needs of mothers babies on campus.
Mon, Nov 27, 2006, 12:00am
A graduate student once told neuroscience major Virginia Gao, CC '08: "You're a girl, you're Asian, and you're short. You're going to have to work a lot harder to get where you want to be."
Mon, Nov 27, 2006, 12:00am
By now most students know that Zvi Galil, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has announced that he will resign at the end of this year to become the president of Tel Aviv University.
Mon, Nov 27, 2006, 12:00am
At Columbia, science is more than just a discipline. It's a money-maker, a prestige-shaper, and a hot-botton issue. In Science and Columbia, we will explore the way science shapes the University and its students in subtle ways.
Mon, Nov 27, 2006, 12:00am
More than halfway through my first semester as vice president of student life, I've noticed that there are more than two kinds of General Studies students. Anyone who's met me has seen my ant-burning glasses and can attest to my super vision.
Mon, Nov 27, 2006, 12:00am
Sexual identity is a tricky business. While I, for one, have always known that I am straight, that does not mean a) that everyone immediately recognizes or embraces their sexual identity and b) that sexual identities are easy to define. In other words, they are not straightforward.
Mon, Nov 27, 2006, 12:00am
My first week as a teacher in the Bronx was challenging, to say the least. Most of my students could barely read short chapter books, no more than 50 pages, and many required pictures to help them make sense of the text.
Mon, Nov 27, 2006, 12:00am
The United States' current policy of promoting democracy to undercut terrorism originating in the Middle East is as misguided as it is morally appealing.
