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Kelley Remole has been interested in science since she was a child. In high school, she was drawn to astronomy and neuroscience, which she says involve “the biggest questions in science, what is our place in the universe and what makes us who we are.”
Valerie Adams entered a class through the organization Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW). She was one of 28 women.
For a small group of Manhattan high school students, getting exposure to the construction, engineering and architecture fields has meant presentations from professionals with decades of experience and one of New York City’s most prominent construction sites as their classroom.
Columbia University joined other area businesses and institutions in supporting the 125th Street Business Improvement District’s annual holiday lights and family activities on 125th Street during the 2014 holiday season.
As the holiday season approached, more than 650 union construction workers paused from their daily duties to join Columbia University and Lend Lease executives in celebrating the holidays and reaffirming the project’s longstanding commitment to safety.
Columbia’s Manhattanville development team hosted 30 clean construction professionals to learn about effective strategies for monitoring diesel emissions reduction and equipment testing.
More than 40 Columbia University and Lend Lease volunteers spent a day at the Graham Windham Manhattanville Cornerstone After-School Center in West Harlem painting rooms, installing tiles and cleaning entrance ways.
Hundreds of construction workers raised the final steel beam to the top of the Lenfest Center for the Arts on Thursday October 2, with Columbia University representatives and executives of Lend Lease, the construction manager for the first phase of the Manhattanville development, cheering them on.
African American artist Romare Bearden’s iconic series of works based on Homer’s "The Odyssey" is finally returning home.
Over the summer Idniel Paula headed to Nobel laureate and University Professor Eric Kandel’s neuroscience lab, donned a white coat and peered through a microscope. His daily routine resembled that of many experienced scientists but not of a typical 16-year-old high school student.
When Farah Griffin asked her mother what she remembered about World War II, her response was, “All the handsome soldiers who drove the buses in Philadelphia.”
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger announced Dec. 17 that Mortimer B. Zuckerman has pledged $200 million to endow a Mind Brain Behavior Institute to support interdisciplinary neuroscience research and discovery by scholars across the University.
Jack Agüeros is a poet, playwright, short story writer, translator and author of five books. He was an activist in New York’s Latino community in the 1960s and ’70s and director of El Museo del Barrio for close to a decade.
Columbia University’s environmentally sustainable design and overall project plan for its 17-acre Manhattanville campus in West Harlem has earned LEED® Platinum under the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system established by the U.S. Green Building Council—its highest designation and the first LEED-ND Platinum certification in New York City, as well as the first Platinum certification for a university campus plan nationally.
Business School will be among first to join interdisciplinary Jerome L. Greene Science Center in academic development of new campus.