Columbia University

By By KAREN W. ARENSON There was a sharp division of opinion Tuesday about the manner in which the president of Columbia University introduced the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

By Joachim Martillo(tprovoni@aol.com) 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...

By By JENNIFER MEDINA In a speech at Teachers College at Columbia University, the education secretary, Arne Duncan, said the schools need “revolutionary change.”

By maf2182@columbia.edu Researchers at Columbia University have developed a statistical method that accurately predicts how an organism will respond to dozens of commonly used drugs. This clinical and conceptual advance moves medical science a step closer to an era of personalized medicine—one where doc...

By luke@thefire.org (Luke Sheahan) Do you think it is acceptable — especially in light of Columbia's ostensible endorsement of and promise to respect the rights provided by First Amendment — for Columbia University to have rules which would be struck down by a court were it a public university?

By maf2182@columbia.edu Two Columbia University faculty members have received the nation’s highest honor for scientists at the outset of their professional careers. Helen H. Lu, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Tanya Zelevi...

Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health are working with Argentina's National Institute of Infectious Diseases, the National Administration of Laboratories and Health Institutes (ANLIS) and Roche 454 Life...

 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 ...

 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 ...

 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. ...

The Columbia Web notes that 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 ...

By jeu2104@columbia.edu The 93rd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, were announced by Columbia University at its Graduate School of Journalism. The awardees will be honored at luncheon on Thursday, May 28.

 United States By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO For most of its Friday-night concert at the Miller Theater at Columbia University the Columbia Ballet Collaborative looked exactly like what it is, a student troupe. From left, Kimi Nikaidoh, Ted Seymour and Victoria North. ...

By rss@youtube.com (GoodNewsBroadcast) 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...

By Eric(noreply@blogger.com) From second paragraph: Columbia University does not discriminate against any person in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other University-administered programs . . . Eric

By Charles Huckabee By launching an attack on Gaza, the Israeli government has once again chosen to adopt strategies of violence that are tragically akin to the one’s deployed by Hamas — only the Israeli tactics are much more lethal. How should academics respond to this assault on an institution of higher edu...

By rss@youtube.com (ro6ertchaste) Melissa Liu speaks at Northeastern university. Guest Speaker: Melissa Liu Columbia University Title: Moduli spaces of flat bundles over a nonorientable surface Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: 509 Lake Hall In "The Yang-Mills equations over Riemann surfaces...

Jose Antonio Ocampo, PhD is a Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

By Joachim Martillo(noreply@blogger.com) Abu el-Haj, an anthropologist at Barnard College of Columbia University, explores in this interesting study how archeology has shaped the social and political imagination of Israel and served the aims of the state. The blurb on the back cover of the book by Talal Asad, another anthropol...

By Eliot Brown 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...

By Desiree Evans 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...

By Steve Cohen, Executive Director, Columbia University’s Earth Institute On November 19 Columbia University and the Manhattan Borough President's Office held a conference on The Politics of Food. The half-day conference was devoted to one of New York City's biggest challenges: ensuring that the public has ready access to high-quality food. Speakers include...

By noreply@blogger.com (Juan Cole) The increasingly sleazy John McCain, who once promised to run a clean campaign, has now attacked my friend Rashid Khalidi and attempted to use him against Barack Obama. Khalidi is an American scholar of Palestinian heritage, born in New York and educated at Yale and Oxford, who now teache...

By Katharine Jose As usual, when Chuck Hagel spoke at Columbia University, he didn't reveal who he intended to vote for in the presidential election. But he did say that Barack Obama "probably will be" elected next week because "we think he is a leader we can believe in, we can trust."

By mbinker “It’s discouraging, because there’s just so much power in the state government,” said Evan Cornog, associate dean at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and publisher of The Columbia Journalism Review. ...

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...

 NC - Senator Obama (Columbia University, Harvard Law, Harvard Law Review President) served in the Illinois State Senate for 8 years and was elected to the US ...

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...

Alfred Hermida is an online news pioneer and journalism educator. He is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, the University of British Columbia, where he leads the integrated journalism program. He was a founding news editor of the BBC News website. He blogs at Repo...

 OH - He earned his PhD from Stanford University, an MA from Rice University, and a BA from Columbia University. “I am looking forward to working with RMA's ...

By Ted Thornton New York: Columbia University Press, 2008; and Noah Feldman, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Roy’s book comes out ahead in Filkins’ rating. Among Roy’s conclusions: conditions ...

By Joachim Martillo A year ago, he became a cause celebre in the struggle for academic freedom when his invited presentation, "Hitler's Legacy: Islamic Anti-Semitism in the Middle East," at the University of Leeds (UK) was canceled at the last minute due to "security concerns."

Conrad's new team ca, Canada - In 1962, graduated at the top of his class from Columbia University Law School, where he was also the Notes Editor of the prestigious Columbia Law Review. ...

Past Phoenix editors: Where are they now? Swarthmore College The Phoenix Online,  United States - He is also a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review. ...

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

Abu El-Haj tenure flap flares at Barnard Ben Harris A brewing battle over tenure for a polarizing Barnard College professor is threatening to thrust Columbia University back into the center of a Middle East-related controversy. Published: 08/14/2007 NEW YORK (JTA) -- A brewing battle...

By Jen Chung TV star Matthew Fox went to his alma mater today to give the Class Day speech at Columbia College. Fox, class of 1989, was a controversial speaker choice amongst the Columbia community, given that other Columbia University schools had, er, Nobel Laureate and former Treasury Secretary ty...

By Jerry Gordon Professor Nadia Abu-El Haj of Barnard College at Columbia University is up for tenure consideration. The other day I sent the members of the Barnard College Tenure, Promotions and Appointment committee a copy of a review of Professor Abu-El Haj’s book by Professor Sondra M. Rubenstein of...

By Michael That's right. According to the New York Times, a team of surgeons at the Columbia University Medical Center performed a laparoscopic gallbladder removal through the vaginal canal. The procedure was a successful experiment designed to demonstrate the feasibility of such a scarless ope...

Billionaire media entrepreneur John Werner Kluge is giving $400 million to Columbia University for financial aid — one of the largest gifts ever to an American university. The announcement was made Wednesday by university President Lee C. Bollinger at a ceremony attended by Kluge, 92, a...

By Michael Developed by a team of engineers at Princeton University, Columbia University and the University of Cambridge, the membranes feature microelectrodes that are able to withstand the sudden stretching that is used to simulate severe head trauma. The systems could allow far more nuanced...

WASHINGTON -- University of Delaware alumni may have donated generously to their alma mater last year, but they weren't as willing to give on the whole as alumni from tiny Wesley College. While the University of Delaware secured donations from only 11 percent of its alumni, nearly a third...

By michaelroston 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...

By John Bambenek Last week at Columbia University, members of the International Socialist Organization and other student groups violently rushed the stage during a speech by Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project. This is the same university that employs this year's Nobel Prize winner in economics. Th...

By Jen Chung Wednesday night's clash between immigration "watchdog" group the Minutemen and Columbia University student protesters has even pulled Mayor Bloomberg into the frazy. During his radio show, Mayor Bloomberg said university president Lee Bollinger has "got to get his hands around thi...

By jen Protest is alive and well at Columbia, though it's still a far cry from 1968. Yesterday evening, Jim Gilchrist, head of the Minutemen, the "citizens' vigilance operation" that patrols the Mexican border in California, was invited to speak at Columbia University. But pretty much as soon a...

By Ed Kent 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.

By rwayne GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Infants receiving a new combination of vaccines were twice as likely to require medical attention for fevers after their shots as babies who received the prior shot regimen, University of Florida and Columbia University researchers have found.

When Rachel Hanson needs to check the bus schedule, grades or dining hall menu, the sophomore at Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J., reaches for her cellphone.And when Maria Emerson needs to find washing machines for four loads of laundry, the junior at Carnegie Mellon Univers...

By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) 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...