Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 12:00am
The Earth Institute, the think tank headed by globe-trotting professor Jeffrey Sachs, may propose a new concentration that would open up the growing field of sustainable development to undergraduates.
Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 12:00am
This summer Columbia assumed the directorship of the Kyoto Consortium, a newly restructured program that allows students from American universities to study in Japan for a year, and revamped the Japanese language program to accommodate an almost 25 percent increase in enrollment.
Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 12:00am
Correction appended.
Last Friday the School of International and Public Affairs sponsored a panel of members of Columbia's political science department to discuss this summer's conflict between Israel and Hezbollah from the perspective of social scientists.
Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 12:00am
A call from a Schapiro Hall security guard Saturday night brought New York police officers to the Columbia dorm where, according to students, an unidentified man was arrested for theft.
Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 12:00am
Increasing personal interaction with the student body was a focus at the candidate forum for the Engineering Student Council's first-year elections, held Friday.
Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 12:00am
Any friend of mine knows that my gay pals are very important to me. And any friend of gays or lesbians knows that there is, most definitely, a biological component to sexuality. Yet, although there currently exists much hype about "the gay gene," this term is slightly misleading.
Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 12:00am
Recently, some of the 30-odd workers who make up the staff at the Columbia University Faculty House left their workplace to hand out fliers and tell the Columbia community that the administration had put them in an intolerable situation.
Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 12:00am
Finding a job is a task that many students fear, some so much that they put it off for another few years and go to graduate school. Columbia's Center for Career Education and Barnard's Office of Career Development were created with the intent of making life easier for the dazed and confused.
Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 12:00am
Even though I slept through most of my political philosophy class last semester (it was a 9 a.m.
Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 12:00am
Accounts differ as to why Columbia University ultimately withdrew its invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Some accept the explanation Columbia President Lee Bollinger gave through Public Affairs officials that security could not be arranged in time.
