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"The best education is one that prepares you for your own venture into the unknown." - Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia University President

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Joined February 2011

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  1. During a brutal winter storm, the weapon of choice is road salt. 20 million ~tons~ per year. But what are the environmental effects of salt build-up? (Hint: They're bad.)

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  2. "There is this unlimited access to knowledge, to people, to cultures." Meet the change-makers that make up the 2018 cohort of scholars at Columbia.

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  3. LISTEN | The "radical, unprecedented and very disruptive" exhibition that will change how you view modernist art, and it's on now at the Gallery. Go behind the scenes with curator Denise Murrell (GSAS’04, M.Phil’10, Ph.D.’14) on .

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  4. More and more Barnard students are interested in entering public health fields. A new program through and gives those students a chance to complete their BA and MPH in just 5 years.

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  5. all your friends are on break but you're still on campus.

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  6. Jan 4

    How do our brains tune out the sounds of creaking bones and other noises inside our bodies? Scientists at 's are looking to this fish for clues. 🐟

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  7. Jan 3

    We’re excited to be working with and on such a cool project! MT : Dean Collins speaking today with a panel of experts, including ’ Dean Boyce, about new plans to avoid a shutdown of ’s L Train.

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  8. How do our brains make sure we remember our most significant events and keep our minds free of superfluous details? A new study led by & Daphna Shohamy reveals a key secret behind the brain's ability to remember.

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    A profile of the reclusive mystery novelist Patricia Highsmith ’42, who started her career in comic books and whose novel The Talented Mr. Ripley was made into an Academy Award-nominated film.

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  10. Jan 4

    Climate scientist Kate Marvel writes that in the face of impending , we won't get a utopia. But "we can have a “topia,” an ordinary future where we go about ordinary lives in cities on stilts, missing what we’ve lost."

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  11. Jan 4

    TFW false news appears real. "I had to look twice because it looked like such a real newstand." A surprising public information campaign by .

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  12. Jan 3

    “I began to feel myself doing less, and thinking less, and feeling less. It was a kind of nullity.” Prof. and writer Andrew Solomon shares his experience with depression in a powerful .

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  13. Jan 3

    When you're stressed out, do you bake? “Baking is mindful. Mindfulness means paying attention to yourself in the moment and not being in the past or the future, but really being there,” says 's Philip Muskin.

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  14. Jan 3

    Young black Americans are twice as likely as whites to die from firearms. Important from

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  15. Jan 2

    "I began to feel myself doing less, and thinking less, and feeling less. It was a kind of nullity." Prof. and writer Andrew Solomon shares his experience with depression in a powerful .

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  16. Jan 2

    How does cellular “housekeeping” protect some neurons against the toxic proteins of Alzheimer’s disease? Via

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  17. Jan 2

    "I don't think there's ever been an opera performed in Low Library." Some music for your holiday drive, courtesy of Lorenzo Da Ponte and the Low Down Podcast:

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  18. Jan 2

    "Without question, he has once again written a valuable book, reflective as well as jarring, concerning the most violent and enduring conflict in American history." reviews Prof. Delbanco's book, "The War Before the War"

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  19. Professor Richard Ford, author of Independence Day and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, on how Fiction Writers succeed. "When you're writing about the most important things that you know, you are more apt to stay your course." at

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  20. Jan 2

    Prof. Frances Negrón-Muntaner talks about the representation of Latinx actors in the media and about starring in

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