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September 2023

Treating Anxiety Disorders in Youth with Exposure Therapy

Overview Anxiety disorders affect up to 10% of children and adolescents, and some evidence suggests an increase in prevalence during and following the COVID pandemic. When left untreated, anxiety disorders are associated with increased risk of depression and substance misuse later in life, as well as impairment in school, at home, and socially. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, […] ...
29 Sep
Online
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Situational Awareness

Situational Awareness applies to all situations: being aware of where you are and to what is happening around you; being alert to potential threats to your health and safety and being cognizant of emergency exits and other paths to safety.   You will learn: How the Fight-or-Flight response affects your safety How situational awareness can keep you safe […] ...
29 Sep
Online
10:00 am - 11:00 am
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October 2023

CUNP-SRP Webinar – Partnering with Tribal Communities

The Columbia University Northern Plains Superfund Research Program is happy to kick-off its monthly webinar series with Assistant Director of MBIRI Rae O’Leary, MPH, RN and Jill Kessler, MS who will be presenting “Partnering with Tribal Communities to Address Environmental Health Concerns”.   Registration for this webinar can be found here: https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckfuCgqDgqGdIk2fCOynHwScpgh8ICw6C0 Event Contact Information: Whitney […] ...
02 Oct
Online
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Helping Adult Learners Tell Their Stories Using Photo-Literature: The FotoDialogo Method, with Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi

This presentation will focus on the use of the FotoDialogo Method as a research and education tool to engage adult learners in dialogue. The presentation will provide ideas for those in community-based education regarding methodological issues of recording and portraying adult learners’ lifelines. It will argue that the use of learner-produced photo-literature not only entices […] ...
02 Oct
Online
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Book Talk: Mom Rage, with Minna Dubin

Don’t miss the third installment of our TC Fall Book Talk series examining the reproductive lifespan trajectory, featuring Minna Dubin on Mom Rage:  The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood (Seal Press/Hachette, September 19th, 2023).  For our final conversation, we will once again bring in the framework of matrescence or the process of becoming a mother to explore […] ...
02 Oct
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Book Talk: Sustainability: We Need to Talk, with Dr. Isabel Rimanoczy

Please join Teachers College alumna Dr. Isabel Rimanoczy for a presentation of her latest book, Sustainability: We Need to Talk (SMIndicator LLC., 2022). Companion to the Sustainability Mindset Principles (Routledge, 2021), this publication offers a dynamic dialogue between the author educator and four of her enthusiastic students – Alexis, Walter, Jose, and Asuka — and  encourages us to examine […] ...
03 Oct
Online
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium with Linda Cummings, NJIT

Speaker: Linda Cummings, New Jersey Institute of Technology Title: Dewetting and dielectrowetting in thin films of nematic liquid crystals Abstract: Thin films of nematic liquid crystal (NLC) find widespread industrial use, in applications ranging from liquid crystal display devices to liquid lenses and optical shutters. Understanding how such films spread and flow is therefore important from an industrial […] ...
03 Oct
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Columbia University - Mudd Hall
500 West 120th Street

HUD Colloquium Fall 2023 Presents: Talent Development among Intellectually Precocious Youth: 40-Years of Longitudinal Research on Educational, Occupational, & Creative Outcomes

The Human Development Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. David Lubinski Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University   “Talent Development among Intellectually Precocious Youth: 40-Years of Longitudinal Research on Educational, Occupational, & Creative Outcomes” The exceptional accomplishments of intellectually precocious adolescents in later life illuminate the importance of multidimensionality and […] ...
04 Oct
Online
11:35 am - 12:45 pm
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Basics of PR for Social Entrepreneurs

Join Liz Bazini, partner at Bazini Hopp, for an overview on learning the basics for doing your own PR. Register here — About the Webinars for Social Entrepreneurs Series This series is open to all ventures — from early-stage to later-stage — on topics ranging from PR to pro bono legal support to decision-making. Webinars […] ...
04 Oct
Online
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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October Narrative Medicine Rounds with Judith L. Herman

“Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice,” a talk with Judith L. Herman For our October Rounds we are truly honored to host acclaimed author and psychiatrist Judith L. Herman, MD, author of the groundbreaking Trauma and Recovery, hailed by The New York Times in 1994 as “one of the most important psychiatric works to be published […] ...
04 Oct
Online
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Per Aspera ad Astra: How the Soviet Jew Was Made

How the Soviet Jew Was Made Keynote Lecture by Sasha Senderovich, University of Washington (Moderator: Elaine Wilson) Senderovich will discuss his new book, How the Soviet Jew Was Made, (Harvard University Press, 2022; finalist for the 2023 National Jewish Book Awards). The book offers a close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film that recast the […] ...
05 Oct
4:30 am - 6:00 pm
Columbia University - Deutsches Haus

Per Aspera ad Astra: The Making of Soviet Jewish Selves

Please join the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, the Department of Germanic Languages, and the Harriman Institute for a conference, Per Aspera ad Astra: The Making of Soviet Jewish Selves. Registration required. The beginnings of the Soviet Union saw a dramatic shift in rights, policy, and rhetoric toward non-Russian peoples. Many ethnic minorities that had been […] ...
05 Oct
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Columbia University - Deutsches Haus
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