On Wednesday, November 14 and Thursday, November 15, SEBS braved the winds outside at College Walk, informing the Columbia community about the flu virus and raising awareness about the free flu vaccines that Health Services were giving out in Lerner. In an effort led by executive board members Kelsey Roberts and Stephanie Sarbanes, SEBS made [...]
Columbia University’s 17-acre Manhattanville campus in West Harlem has earned LEED Platinum certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Neighborhood Development rating system. It’s the city’s first LEED ND certification and the first university campus in the nation to earn the award. Columbia will create an energy-efficient, pedestrian-friendly environment, with local retail outlets and public [...]
The architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has designed a 14-story tower of study and social spaces for Columbia University Medical Center’s new medical and graduate education building in Washington Heights. The design, to be released on Wednesday, is unorthodox for a medical school not only in its verticality and sculptural treatment of exposed interiors [...]
Event Detail – The Earth Institute at Columbia University. In a little over 1 hour in the Davis Auditorium in Schapiro (way back of campus!) the Center for the Study of Science and Religion will be holding the following event: The Business of Genomic Medicine: a film documentary presentation by Director Stephanie Welch Tuesday, April [...]
Rethinking the Human Sciences – 57829 | Columbia University in the City of New York. Last year SEBS organized a Science vs. Humanities Panel (check it: http://www.youtube.com/user/jsgot06bora?feature=mhum#p/u ) examining the seeming and troubling divide between all you self-proclaimed “Non-math” and “Non-reading” people. Go watch some of Columbia’s greatest professors tackle the issue in this full-day conference. Here’s the [...]
Mental Health Awareness Week is an effort to create awareness and stimulate discourse about mental health on campus with the intent of helping to remove the stigma that surrounds mental illness. We hope to enlighten students and also give them hope. We want students to know that they are not alone and that there are [...]
Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) presents weekly seminar series on topics such as neurobiology, microbiology and pathology, etc. Prominent researchers present their findings and talk about where this research will lead in the future. These seminars are free, and all Columbia University students are welcome to attend! Travelling from the Morningside campus to the Medical [...]
The question of how Alzheimer’s spreads in the brain has been debated for decades: does the disease begin independently in vulnerable regions of the brain at different times, or does it begin in one area and spread through neuronatomical connections, or synapses? A recent study by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) strongly supports [...]
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