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Wilders' Columbia Song and Dance

24 Oct 2009 18:50:13 PDT

Written 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...

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Using Simple Genome, Columbia Researchers Move Personalized Medicine Closer to Reality

13 Oct 2009 08:16:49 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Columbia University .

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Former FIRE Intern Criticizes Columbia's Speech Code and Bureaucracy

21 Sep 2009 10:21:00 PDT

Written 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?

Original story at FIRE .

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Scientists Decode Genomic Sequences of H1N1

31 Jul 2009 13:27:57 PDT

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...

Original story at Infection Control Today .

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Ready for the next step

30 May 2009 17:56:50 PDT

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. ...

Original story at Columbia Daily Tribune .

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Steele Columbia University's Next Provost

14 May 2009 08:19:54 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Hiram College .

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Columbia University news and blogs - November 24, 2009

24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Columbia University news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Columbia Still Reeling Over Visit -- by By KAREN W. ARENSON from NYT > Columbia University
• Teacher Training Termed Mediocre -- by By JENNIFER MEDINA from NYT > Columbia University
• Anne Frank and Marek Edelman -- by Joachim Martillo(tprovoni@aol.com) from Ethnic Ashkenazim Against Zionist Israel
• A Lunch Break With a Bach Partita as the Main Course -- by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI from NYT > Columbia University
• Doctor Is Pressed Again on Ties to Device Makers -- by By BARRY MEIER from NYT > Columbia University
• Climate Events at Columbia University -- by maf2182@columbia.edu from Columbia University News
• College Football Trophy Renamed for Former Columbia Coach -- by maf2182@columbia.edu from Columbia University News
• Grant Supports Innovative Web Archiving Program at Columbia Libraries -- by maf2182@columbia.edu from Columbia University News
• Kristine A. Billmyer Appointed Dean of Columbia's School of Continuing Education -- by maf2182@columbia.edu from Columbia University News
• White House Honors Two Columbia Early-Career Scientists -- by maf2182@columbia.edu from Columbia University News

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Dance Review | Columbia Ballet Collaborative

05 Apr 2009 16:00:00 PDT

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. ...

Original story at New York Times .

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Opinion: Aliza Davidovit -

12 Feb 2009 13:18:28 PST

Written 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...

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Opinion: Melissa Liu (Part 5) M2U00126

29 Dec 2008 19:13:32 PST

Written 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...

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Podcast: The Conceptions of Social Policy: Universalism vs. Targeting

18 Dec 2008 22:00:00 PST

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

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Fordham vs. the Upper West Side

25 Nov 2008 13:37:10 PST

Written 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...

Original story at New York Observer .

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Opinion: Study finds that Katrina kids are the sickest children in the U.S.

25 Nov 2008 12:26:30 PST

Written 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...

Original story at Facing South .

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McCain Racism, Hypocrisy on Khalidi Issue

30 Oct 2008 03:00:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Informed Comment .

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Podcast: Christopher Harwood – professor of Czech at Columbia University

22 Sep 2008 02:57:43 PDT

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...

Original story at Radio Prague .

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Podcast: Small numbers studying Czech at prestigious New York universities

07 Aug 2008 08:13:29 PDT

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...

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Embedded at UBC::University of British Columbia Takes Integrated Approach to Teaching Journalism

04 Aug 2008 15:51:10 PDT

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...

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Küntzel, Columbia, Streaming, 6:00PM, Eastern

06 Mar 2008 14:52:37 PST

Written 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."

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Opinion: Liam Rector, 57, a Poet and Educator, Dies - New York Times

16 Aug 2007 22:52:46 PDT

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

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JTA Forum: Article Comments: El-Haj tenure flap flares at Barnard

16 Aug 2007 13:16:07 PDT

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...

Original story at Jewish Telegraphic Agency .

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Matthew Fox's Class Day Speech at Columbia

15 May 2007 12:37:32 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Gothamist .

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Nadia’s Next Effort: Jewish Racists

09 May 2007 23:06:26 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at IsraPundit .

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Transvaginal Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

20 Apr 2007 02:14:31 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Medgadget.com .

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Opinion: Is the academy anti-military?

19 Dec 2006 10:49:10 PST

Written 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...

Original story at TPMCafe .

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Opinion: On Planning: Columbia v. Penn?

30 Sep 2006 11:25:00 PDT

Written 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.

Original story at Blogger News Network .

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Podcast: Lecture: "The Rule Against Torture as a Legal Archetype"

03 Feb 2006 15:38:00 PST

Written 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...

Original story at Vanderbilt University News .

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Columbia University - best news, blogs, videos, photos and more - Boxxet

Wilders' Columbia Song and Dance

Using Simple Genome, Columbia Researchers Move Personalized Medicine Closer to Reality

Former FIRE Intern Criticizes Columbia's Speech Code and Bureaucracy

Scientists Decode Genomic Sequences of H1N1

Ready for the next step

Steele Columbia University&#39;s Next Provost

Columbia University news and blogs - November 24, 2009

Dance Review | Columbia Ballet Collaborative

Opinion: Aliza Davidovit -

Opinion: Melissa Liu (Part 5) M2U00126

Podcast: The Conceptions of Social Policy: Universalism vs. Targeting

Fordham vs. the Upper West Side

Opinion: Study finds that Katrina kids are the sickest children in the U.S.

McCain Racism, Hypocrisy on Khalidi Issue

Podcast: Christopher Harwood – professor of Czech at Columbia University

Podcast: Small numbers studying Czech at prestigious New York universities

Embedded at UBC::University of British Columbia Takes Integrated Approach to Teaching Journalism

Küntzel, Columbia, Streaming, 6:00PM, Eastern

Opinion: Liam Rector, 57, a Poet and Educator, Dies - New York Times

JTA Forum: Article Comments: El-Haj tenure flap flares at Barnard

Matthew Fox's Class Day Speech at Columbia

Nadia’s Next Effort: Jewish Racists

Transvaginal Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Opinion: Is the academy anti-military?

Opinion: On Planning: Columbia v. Penn?

Podcast: Lecture: "The Rule Against Torture as a Legal Archetype"

Steele Columbia University's Next Provost