The Columbia men's cross country team ended Princeton's run at a fourth straight Ivy League title, as the Lions beat the Tigers by a point, 60-61, for the closest Heptagonal Cross Country Championships finish in 27 years. The women's team placed third, just six points behind second-place Harvard, with Princeton taking the team title.
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"I did not set this up," insisted Herman Leonard, a photographer best known for the intimate, smoke-hued black-and-white portraits he took of jazz musicians in the 1940s and ’50s.
Leonard, who has been called the dean of jazz photographers, was speaking at a discussion, sponsored by Columbia's Center for Jazz Studies on Oct. 19, that looked at his work as art and historical record.
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On Oct. 13, poetry professor Richard Howard celebrated his 80th birthday with current and former students under an intriguing premise: Howard read his poetry along with six former student poets who read their own.
The format of the evening was Howard’s idea, but there was another intellectual twist—after each former student read a poem, Howard provided commentary on it, turning what happens in a writing workshop into a public performance.
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Shree Nayar has dedicated much of his computer science career to improving the way cameras take pictures. Four years ago, he decided to move in a new direction: to design a camera that could improve the way children learn about science and one another.
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A recent poll shows that the number of Americans who accept that human activity is changing Earth’s climate is declining—down from 47 percent to 36 percent—even though the scientific data is overwhelming and continues to build rapidly. A concise new publication delves into what goes on in the human mind that causes this disconnect, and what communicators of climate science can do about it.
The new 43-page guide, The Psychology of Climate Change Communication, released by Columbia University’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, looks at how people process information and decide to take—or not take—action.
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A new photography exhibit by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute features 25 photos taken by undergraduate students who traveled to East and Southeast Asia over the past year. The photographs illustrate key trends and concerns in East and Southeast Asia today such as the balance between urban and natural environments, the role of the worker and cultural customs and tradition.
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Columbia professors and other scholars gathered with diplomats and policy makers on Friday, Oct. 23 for a conference on how to effectively rebuild war-torn societies, with specific attention paid to Afghanistan and the continent of Africa.
The “Peace Through Reconstruction” conference, presented by Columbia’s Center on Capitalism and Society and the Earth Institute, featured four panels on economic and policy guidelines as well as investment and community-based reconstruction strategies.
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Following news reports that 65,000 modems and wireless routers used by Time Warner Cable customers are vulnerable to attack by hackers, a Columbia University expert on computer security and privacy has found that software flaws in embedded devices like routers, webcams and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone adapters are far more widespread than previously known.
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