Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King’s College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. After residing at two locations for nearly a century and a half, the University moved to Morningside Heights in 1897.
Columbia is one of the top academic and research institutions in the world, encompassing 17 schools with more than 25,000 students and 2,000 international faculty. Eighty Columbians—alumni, faculty, researchers, and administrators—have won Nobel Prizes. Furthermore, eight current faculty members are Nobel laureates in medicine, economics, physics, and literature. Columbians daily continue to conduct path breaking research in medicine, science, law, business, the arts, and the humanities.
The University’s Mission Statement: “Columbia University is one of the world’s most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.”
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Ideological and Issue Voting in Polarized Societies
Venue
- Columbia University – Schermerhorn Hall
- 1180 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
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Lecture: Ideological and Issue Voting in Polarized Societies: Turkish Elections in the Last Decade
Schermerhorn Hall, Room 807, 6:10 PM
Lecture by Mert Moral, Sabancı University.
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Dongmyung Ahn & Yi-heng Yang — Bach & Couperin
Venue
- Columbia University – St. Paul's Chapel
- 1160 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
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Medicine Grand Rounds: Fellows Research Day II
Fellows Research Day II
A Signaling Network Controlling Envelope Remodeling and Antibiotic Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae
Dr. Genevieve Dobihal Division of Infectious Diseases
Enhancing Adoptive Immunotherapy: Targeting EBV Oncoproteins with Immunosuppression Resistant Cytotoxic Th1/17-like CD4+ T Cells
Dr. Prabesh Khatiwada Center for Translational Immunology
Multiomics Reveal Biomolecular Shifts and ER-Stress in Sleep-Restricted Women Affecting NSC Functions
Dr. Vikas Malik Center for Human Development
Nociceptive Neurons Interact Directly with Gastric Cancer Cells via a CGRP/Ramp1 Axis to Promote Tumor Progression
Dr. Xiaofei Zhi Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases
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Ecology & Culture Seminar; Misreading Climate Change in Bangladesh
Venue
- Faculty House (Columbia University)
- 64 Morningside Drive (enter on 116th Street)
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Misreading Climate Change in Bangladesh:
From floods and food security to gendered migration
Dr. Camelia Dewan, Associate SEnior Lecturer, Uppsala University
Camelia is an environmental anthropologist focusing on the anthropology of development with a historical perspective.
She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology (SAI), University of Oslo where she is ethnographically examining shipbreaking in Bangladesh for the Norwegian Research Council-funded project (Dis)Assembling the Life Cycle of Container Ships.
Dr. Dewan’s bio can be found here; http://www.cameliadewan.com/
Please rsvp to Stephanie Ratte, smr2224@columbia.edu by April 15, 2024, to attend this event.
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Mamie Phipps & Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture: Marc Hill
Venue
- Columbia University – Schermerhorn Hall
- 1180 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
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Dr. Marc Lamont Hill holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Hill is a Presidential Professor of Anthropology and Urban Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His research and writing explore the relationships between race, culture, politics, and education in the United States and the Middle East.
Dr. Hill is the author or co-author of eight books, including the award-winning Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life; Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on The Vulnerable from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond; We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility; Except For Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics; and Schooling Against The Prison.
Dr. Hill is a scholar-activist who has worked on campaigns to end the death penalty, abolish prisons, and release numerous political prisoners. He is also the host of BET News, The Grio, Al Jazeera UpFront, and the Coffee & Books podcast. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Ebony Magazine has named him one of America’s 100 most influential Black leaders.
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Workshop in Sustainable Development Practice: Final Presentations
The student teams in SIPA’s Workshop in Sustainable Development Practice (the EPD Workshop) have been working this year on cutting-edge projects with seventeen clients in over twenty-two countries. Notably, three of the projects involve SIPA alumni as clients, and five faculty advisors (as well as the workshop director) are alumni. This year’s projects support climate resilience and AI innovations in agriculture, education, social entrepreneurship, private sector investment (including gender lens investing), post-conflict reintegration, renewable energy, and indigenous trade. On April 25 and April 26, the teams will present highlights of their work in a hybrid conference hosted by SIPA.
Workshop clients, faculty advisors, members of the Columbia/SIPA community, SIPA alumni and the general public are warmly invited and encouraged to join any sessions of interest.
This event will be hosted in person (for CUID holders) and online. Registration is required to receive a Zoom link.
This year’s workshop clients Enabling Qapital, Fundación Corona, globalbike, Inc., International Trade Centre, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Oxfam Indonesia, Open Development Cambodia, Pencils of Promise, Rwanda Social Security Board, Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, United Nations Development Programme, UN Department for Peace Operations, UN Resident Coordinator’s Office in Mongolia and Pakistan, Value for Women, World Economic Forum India, and World Food Programme’s Regional Center of Excellence against Hunger and Malnutrition.
Click here to view the final presentation schedule.
The Workshop in Sustainable Development Practice is sponsored by the Economic and Political Development Concentration at SIPA.
Economic and Political Development Concentration
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Safeguarding Free Expression: The Role of Judicial Systems
Venue
- Columbia University – Casa Italiana
- 1161 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
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Website
https://italianacademy.columbia.edu/
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Columbia Global Freedom of Expression (CGFoE) turns 10! Founded in 2014 by then Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, CGFoE has been advancing global norms on freedom of speech and the press, building bridges across jurisdictions and disciplines.
To celebrate our many achievements and partnerships, we are hosting an all-day event, including a high-level conference co-chaired by UNESCO, a book talk, and the 2024 Global Freedom of Expression Prize Ceremony.
First Panel – Breakthrough Verdicts: Legal Decisions Shaping the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Second Panel – Critical Legal Frontiers: Global Challenges to Freedom of Expression
Book Talk – “Truth, Justice, and the Power of Journalism”:
A conversation with Elena Kostyuchenko, author of I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country, and Paul Caruana Galizia, author of A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family’s Quest for Justice
2024 Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Prizes:
Presentation of Awards to the Winners in Significant Legal Ruling and Excellence in Legal Services categories. Keynote speaker and master of ceremonies: Elena Kostyuchenko, Russian journalist and activist
Musical Performance:
By Mexican singer-songwriter and activist Vivir Quintana
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CAC Series: Transitional care pathways for patients with Alzheimer’s
Please join us for this seminar in the Columbia Aging Center Series:
Access to preferred skilled nursing facilities: Transitional care pathways for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
Speaker: John McHugh, PhD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management
Affiliated Faculty, Columbia Aging Center
This is a hybrid seminar. Please register in advance for in-person or online attendance:
https://tinyurl.com/CACMcHugh
Attendance is VIA ZOOM OR IN PERSON: 722 West 168th Street, Rosenfield Building, Hess Commons
About our speaker’s work: Dr. McHugh’s research focuses on the ways that organizations respond to changing incentives. He combines organizational theory with health services research methods to better understand organizational changes and how they may affect patient outcomes. His primary area of focus is on transitions of elderly Medicare beneficiaries between hospitals and post-acute providers.
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Innovative ART Solutions to Address Today’s Complex Risk
Captives have been a well-established alternative risk transfer (ART) option for a variety of risks, including an increasing opportunity to write parametric coverage based on technological advancements. In today’s complex risk environment, captives could be a risk management resource for not only measurable risks, but those with limited information that are difficult to measure. Innovation is happening within captives which are being used for ESG initiatives, including regulatory and compliance concerns. Perhaps captives could even play a role in improving access to insurance by underserved markets. Third-party investors have helped by providing greater capacity for hard-to-place risks, broadening the potential for creative solutions.
Speakers:
Cory Mangum, Course Associate, Insurance Management, SPS, Columbia University; Director of Risk Management – Primoris Services Corporation
Karen Hsi, Executive Director, UC Captive Programs at University of California Office of the President
Nate Reznicek, President and Principal Consultant at Captives.Insure
Joe McDonald, Director of Captives, South Carolina Department of Insurance – Captive Division
Mark Benz, Senior Vice President Head of Group Captives, AXA XL
For additional information about program offerings at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, please contact an Admissions Counselor at 212-854-9666 or inquire@sps.columbia.edu.
Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Please notify the office at least 10 days in advance if you require closed captioning, sign-language interpretation or any other disability accommodations. Alternatively, Disability Services can be reached at 212.854.2388 and disability@columbia.edu.
Andy Horner
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BME Seminar: Esak (Isaac) Lee, PhD, Cornell University
Venue
- Columbia University – Pupin Hall
- 120 St., New York, NY 10027
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ABOUT THE SEMINAR
Microphysiological Human Lymphatic System
The human lymphatic system, a network of lymphatic vessels and lymphoid organs plays a role in human health and disease. It maintains fluid homeostasis in tissues by draining excess interstitial fluid. Since the interstitial fluid may contain immune/cancer cells, and diverse biomolecules, impaired lymphatic function contributes to numerous human diseases, such as lymphedema, immune dysfunction, metabolic disease, cancers, and neurodegenerative disease. Though animal models have been widely used, it is often difficult to isolate the relative contributions of biological and biophysical factors in these models, so they have not been as helpful in identifying mechanisms of multifactorial disease. By contrast, traditional cell cultures in two-dimensional dishes are easy to control, but they do not recapitulate the three-dimensional in vivo organization of lymphatics. In this lecture, I will present microphysiological human lymphatic system that recapitulates the native structure and function of lymphatics to decipher the mechanisms of lymphatics-related human diseases.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Esak (Isaac) Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor of BME; Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investi gator in the Life Sciences atCornell University
Esak (Isaac) Lee is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. His research focuses on creating microphysiological tissue chip models to recapitulate the human lymphatic system and better understand related diseases with NIH funding from NHLBI, NCI, and NIAID. He has published more than 35 articles in peer-reviewed journals and received awards including the Microcirculatory Society Award for Excellence in Lymphatic Research, Biomedical Engineering Society Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award, Cornell’s Meinig Family Investigatorship, and Lymphatic Education & Research Network Young Investigator Award.
ABOUT THE BME SEMINAR SERIES
The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University is proud to host a distinguished lecture series on the latest developments and research in Biomedical Engineering. The series takes place on Thursday afternoons at 1:00 PM Eastern and includes a variety of renowned academics from top universities to talk about their specific research and experience. This is a hybrid event.
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Navigating Global Nutrition Security in a Changing Climate
Join us for a Center for Climate and Health seminar featuring Dr. Bianca Carducci. Dr. Carducci will be presenting, “Navigating Global Nutrition Security in a Changing Climate: Impacts and Adaptations.”
The seminar will take place via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 996 7071 2983
Passcode: 980327
Dr. Bianca Carducci is a nutrition scientist, at Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, specializing in the linkage between food systems, nutrition, and environmental sustainability. Bianca received her PhD from University of Toronto in Nutritional Sciences with a Collaborative Specialization in Global Health where her dissertation aimed to improve the understanding of the food environment and its relationship with diet-related health outcomes in school-aged children and adolescents in low- and middle- income countries, using Pakistan as a case study. In addition, she holds a Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences from University of Guelph. Most recently, she was a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Berman Institute of Bioethics and Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. At the Climate School, she is working to expand the Food for Humanity Initiative. This includes implementation research on using climate services to adapt nutrition interventions in Ethiopia and Cambodia; developing targets for food system indicators to measure and monitor progress, particularly as it relates to sustainable and healthy diets and nutrition (Food Systems Countdown Initiative); just transformations for healthy food systems, including economic and policy incentives (EAT-Lancet 2.0 Commission); as well as modelling the effect of climate variability on crops (Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils) and dietary diversity.
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Culture on the Corner: THINK.BECOME: Runway of Life Fashion Show
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- The Forum at Columbia University
- 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027
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The Forum, located on the corner of 125th Street and Broadway, is a unique community gathering space that serves as the gateway to Columbia University's developing Manhattanville campus. Open to the entire university as well as the local New York City community, The Forum is a multi-use venue that houses a state-of-the-art auditorium, meeting and event spaces, and communal work areas.
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Welcome to Culture on the Corner, an exciting new event series at The Forum. This initiative aims to celebrate and explore the vibrant tapestry of our neighborhood culture in creative ways. We hope to offer a nook where people can forge new connections, foster deeper understandings, and discover the diverse heritage that makes Manhattanville unique.
The Forum and Mario Miguelito, the Artist and Creative Director of Void Asylum, invite you to an interactive fashion experience, highlighting what it looks like to let go of the corporate tether and navigate a path of creative entrepreneurship. Come celebrate Void Asylum’s new art pieces, and network with like-minded energy. Be prepared for prizes, giveaways, and a finale fashion show!
Void Asylum by Mario Miguelito is a luxury streetwear fashion brand manifested within the universal coordinates of past, current, and future culture. Each fashion garment created is an artistic extension of the brand’s core mantra, “Think.Become.” Void Asylum’s goal is to invite everyone to seize today in a way that cultivates and inspires them to let go and be freedom’s creation.
RSVP is encouraged! Seating is limited and will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.