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The Research Cluster on Curiosity is excited to launch a mailing list. Be sure to sign up to receive information about their upcoming events.
Michael Kideckel was awarded the Bancroft Dissertation Award for 2018 for his dissertation “Fresh from the factory: Breakfast cereal, natural food, and the marketing of reform, 1890-1920.”
The Center for Science and Society is pleased to open its fifth application cycle of Seed Grants. Proposals are welcome from all full-time junior faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students at Columbia University and Barnard College.
The Center for Science and Society is pleased to award its fifth cycle of course development grants. This program supports the development of new undergraduate and graduate courses in the study of science and society.
The Center for Science and Society is proud to welcome two new Clusters: the Research Cluster on Curiosity and the Research Cluster in the Historical Study of Race, Inequality, and Health.
For Columbia Giving Day on October 24, all funds donated to the Center will support our Seed Grant program.
Meet Eamonn Bell and Katy Ilonka Gero who were awarded a 2018 seed grant to start a student reading group called Making Art in an Age of Algorithms: Critical Readings Across Disciplines.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce a study group in historical music notation, Ars Nota, which meets weekly on Columbia’s campus to sing medieval and Renaissance music from facsimiles of original sources.
Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience Matteo Farinella was interviewed in Psychology Today about his latest book.
The Center for Science and Society is pleased to present its End of Year Newsletter which includes information and reviews about Center activities in the 2017-2018 academic year and offers a preview of upcoming events in Fall 2018.
Over three weeks in Summer 2018, Presidental Scholars in Society and Neuroscience Matteo Farinella and Lan Li hosted the Science and Storytelling: Visual Narratives Workshop, which explored the intersection of visualization and storytelling.
CSS awarded four grants to Columbia and Barnard affiliates working on projects that help to increase public understanding and/or address societal concerns surrounding science, technology, or medicine. Hear more from Awardee Christopher Medina-Kirchner below.
The Center for Science and Society is pleased to award its first cycle of public outreach grants. Public outreach grants were open to all full-time employees and students at Columbia University, Teachers College, and Barnard College, including faculty, postdocs, researchers, and administrators.
Research Cluster on Science and Subjectivity undergraduate students Neci Whye and Ewoma Ogbaudu share their experience creating a course entitled Marginalization in Medicine: A Practical Understanding of the Implications of Race on Health.
Two of Founding Director Pamela Smith's books have recently been reissued.