The Center for Science and Society welcomes four new postdoctoral scholars in its Presidential Scholars in Science and Society program and the Making and Knowing Project.
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University recently acquired two astronomical texts by Caroline Lucretia Herschel and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora.
The Environmental Sciences and Humanities Cluster integrated teaching and research around the theme of "Biodiversity" over the course of the 2016-17 academic year. In the seminar on the "History of Environmental Thought," students' final project was a public exhibition about the history of biodiversity at a New York Public Library branch.
This year, the Center for Science and Society has awarded funding to five interdisciplinary projects led by faculty from a number of departments at Columbia University, including psychology, journalism, political science, sociology, and history.
In Force of Nature, more than 95 objects from the Museum at FIT’s permanent collection are placed within a context of period philosophies and scientific literature in order to demonstrate this deep interconnectedness.
Columbia to the Core recently featured the archaeological illustration course "Science and Art in Archeological Illustration" that was funded by the Center for Science and Society.
This interdisciplinary event comprised weaving demonstrations and featured speakers from psychology, history, biomedical engineering, anthropology, and other fields. If you missed the weaving demonstrations, Presidential Scholar Lan Li put together a short video.
This July, the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program will welcome its third cohort of Presidential Scholars.
This July, the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program will welcome its second cohort of Presidential Scholars.
The Columbia Magazine's Winter 2015-2016 issue features a visit to Professor Pamela Smith's graduate class, "Craft and Science: Objects & Making in the Early Modern Period."
The Center for Science and Society and Cluster leaders Pamela Smith and Robert Pollack were featured in a recent article on interdisciplinary research and curriculum at Columbia.
The new Centre will provide a world-classs environment” for academic research and it will be open to the public as well.