March 2016
Linda P. Fried – The Future of Epidemiology: An Epidemiology of Health
Speaker: Linda P. Fried, Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Open to the Columbia community.
Find out more »Eric Sanderson – Ecology and Urbanity: The Past, Present and Future of Manhattan Island
Eric Sanderson, Senior Conservation Ecologist, Wildlife Conservation Society, and director of the Mannahatta2409/Visionmaker NYC project, will speak about the historic ecology of Manhattan island, with a special focus on Washington Heights. These themes are echoed by the currently running exhibition, Talia Greene: Passage. Dr. Sanderson will also discuss current and future urban planning in northern Manhattan, and what you can do to make your voice heard. Artist Talia Greene and Eric Sanderson will engage visitors on a walk-through of the…
Find out more »Community Brain Expo: A Celebration of Science and the Brain
Families, students, and teachers are invited to test, trick, and learn about their brain at the third annual Community Brain Expo. The Brain Expo, by Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute, features demonstrations by scientists and activities for all ages.
Find out more »Moran Levy – Trial and Error: How Anticancer Drugs Shaped Cancer Science
The Science, Technology, and Knowledge (SKAT) workshop is a forum for the seminar-style presentation and discussion of graduate student work in the sociology of expertise, the sociology of professions, actor-network approaches, medical sociology, science studies, etc. The workshop is hosted by Columbia Sociology but welcomes graduate students from all institutions and disciplines.
Find out more »Imag(in)ing Sex in the Brain
Feminist scholars from neuroscience, philosophy, and cultural & media studies discuss how sex/gender gets into brain images, and what we can (and can’t) get out of such images.
Find out more »Alondra Nelson – The Social Life of DNA
We know DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is both revelatory and endlessly fascinating. Tracing genealogy is now the second-most popular hobby amongst Americans, as well as the second-most visited online category. The tsunami of interest in genetic ancestry tracing from the African American community has been especially overwhelming. Alondra Nelson has studied this phenomenon deeply for over a decade. Weaving together keenly observed interactions with root-seekers, alongside historical details, she…
Find out more »Giorgio Coricelli – Strategizing and Attention in Games
Speaker: Giorgio Coricelli, Associate Professor of Economics and Psychology, University of Southern California I will present the results of two related experimental studies (work in collaboration with Luca Polonio) in which we used eye-tracking to measure the dynamic patterns of visual information acquisition in games. In a first study, participants played one-shot two-player normal-form games in which either, neither, or only one of the players had a dominant strategy. Our method allowed us to predict whether the decision process would lead…
Find out more »Should We Re-Engineer Humanity?
In 2015 we saw a revolution in genetic science. New techniques have drastically simplified bioengineering, raising urgent questions about what genes we should and shouldn’t modify. In this conversation, Carl Zimmer and Daniel Kevles will explore the past, present, and future of biotech ethics.
Find out more »“Sound Figures” Sonic Effects in Art and Science since the 18th Century
Our workshop addresses several such sound figures and their discursive effects in the 19th and 20th centuries, viz. tact, vibration, resonance, “Stimmung,” and “Zusammenklang.” The significance of each of these figures emerges at once from their physical and material basis and from their theoretical transformation into figures of thought.
Find out more »SUSTAINABUILD Design Challenge – Launch Event
This spring, New York City’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC) has partnered with the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning (GSAPP), and the Columbia Population Research Center to present the first annual SUSTAINABUILD Design Challenge. This challenge coincides with the launch of the DDC’s new ‘Design and Construction Excellence 2.0: Guiding Principles’. New York City’s Department of Design and Construction strives to promote and support healthy minds and bodies with…
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