November 2017
Kadija Ferryman – Fairness in Precision Medicine
754 Schermerhorn Extension 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY Speaker: Kadija Ferryman, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Data & Society Research Institute "Precision Medicine” is a growing field that aims to use multiple data sources to tailor medical care to individuals. From incorporating genetic information to using data from electronic medical records, precision medicine has the potential to transform healthcare and medical research. Precision medicine has strong support in multiple sectors, including the government’s $215 million dollar Precision Medicine Initiative, as well…
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Educating the Brain: How the Acquisition of Reading and Mathematics Affects Human Brain Circuits – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
Stanislas Dehaene, Professor and Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology, Collège de France, will discuss how regions of the brain, especially the visual cortex, change as children acquire reading an math skills. Can these findings aid in the better development of educational tools and practices?
Find out more »Michael Nutter – Cities Matter: The Role of Cities in Promoting Health
420 W 118th St, Room 1501, New York, NY 10027 Keynote Speaker: Michael Nutter, Former Mayor of Philadelphia Panelists: Charles Branas, Mailman School of Public Health; Ester Fuchs, SIPA; Diana Hernández, Mailman School of Public Health; Malo André Hutson, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation; Vincent Schiraldi, School of Social Work; and Rose Culson-Villazer, Columbia Law School. Moderator: Jane Waldfogel, School of Social Work. At a time when worsening maternal mortality rates in the United States are making the news—women in the United…
Find out more »Dana Goldman – The Economic Returns to Delayed Aging: Promises and Pitfalls
Dana Goldman, Leonard D. Schaeffer Director’s Chair at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics of the University of Southern California, discusses The Economic Returns to Delayed Aging: Promises and Pitfalls.
Find out more »Dan Jurafsky – “Does This Vehicle Belong to You?” Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations
This talk will also describe the differences we find in the language directed toward black versus white community
members, and offer suggestions for how these findings can be used to help improve the fraught relations between police officers and the communities they serve.
It’s All Forms of Life: One Idea is Enough
Join Harry M. Collins, Director of the Center for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science, and Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University, for a seminar that will look at the connection between his research on: tacit knowledge, gravitational wave physics and other sciences, the problem of replication, artificial intelligence, expertise, imitation games, how science and sociology of knowledge bears on democracy, and sociological methodology.
Find out more »What is Life: Is Life Inevitable?
The question “What is life?” takes just three words. But it is one of the hardest questions in science, attracting researchers from a huge range of disciplines, from molecular biology to astronomy to philosophy. This fall, science writer Carl Zimmer delves into this question by talking to eight experts over four nights to understand what the newest research tells us about life.
Find out more »The Success of Failure: Perspectives from the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, Education, and Law
We are all familiar with the platitudes teaching us the value of failure on the path to success, constrained by a view of failure as a means to an end, a necessary obstacle to be overcome. What about the intrinsic value of failure? Failure that contains valuable data, not just an error message? Failure that is a critical part of the process? Can there be such a thing as positive failure? Can failure make progress? Can we use failure to improve creativity, education, or behavior? How do we research and recognize failure? This two-day conference will investigate these and other perspectives on failure across disciplines, searching for commonalities and differences.
Find out more »Megan Todd – The Biology of Disadvantage: The Immune System and Social Inequality
Megan Todd, postdoctoral scholar at the Columbia Aging Center, discusses The Biology of Disadvantage: The Immune System and Social Inequality.
Find out more »Daphne C. Watkins – From Angry Black Men to #BlackBoyJoy: The Evolution of Mental Health and Manhood Among Young Black Men
In “From Angry Black Men to #BlackBoyJoy: The Evolution of Mental Health and Manhood Among Young Black Men,” Prof Watkins will discuss the origin and successful implementation of the Young, Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) project, an intervention created to address the unique pressures and needs of young black men, especially issues related to their masculinity and mental health.
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