Ashley Pandolfi

In one of the largest endowments for faculty development in Columbia’s history, the Mailman School of Public Health announced Friday that it has received $20.7 million from the estate of alumnus Ronald H. Lauterstein, MS ’58.

Making connections is a hot theme for subway ads: hot-pink relationship services, ethnically diverse university mentors, and multilingual ambulance chasers.

Dinosaurs had feathers. Poison ivy could take over. Plants are celebrating as humans perish in the San Diego fires.

With Columbia at the helm, NASA has restarted a high-profile astrophysics mission to probe the high-energy emissions of space.

The cracked floor, crumbling walls, and leaky, stained ceiling of the stacks at Columbia’s Health Science Library make visitors question why 140,000 books and journals are stored in a basement under 20 floors of scientific research wet-labs.

Three Columbia University research scientists won a total of $5.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to fund research over the next five years.

Creating walk-in doctor’s offices in more easily accessible locations such as department stores and supermarkets may be a solution to the increasing health gap between New York’s rich and poor, according to a report on health discrepancies released Thursday morning by New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. Based on data from 1990 to 2005, the report identified correlations between health conditions and income levels in the city’s neighborhoods.

At “Summer on the Hudson,” the west side of Manhattan’s fifth annual county fair held Sunday afternoon, New York City kids and parents got a little touch of country living as they milked fake cows—diluted flour and water “does the trick,” explained a volunteer—and rode a six-cage Ferris wheel looking out at the Hudson off the end of the 72nd Street pier.

More than 200 students, family members, and area residents gathered in prayer as darkness fell Saturday to celebrate the breaking of a day of fasting, called an Iftar, beginning the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Forget the mystery meat. Efforts to help teach public school children to eat better in, and outside of, the school cafeteria have taken root all over the city in recent years.

Graduate students discussed the pros and cons to a master's degree in biotechnology and a diverse array of career options at Columbia's first biotech career conference held Friday in Fairchild.

Sweet incense, elegant rugs, and more than 100 students and community members filled Earl Hall to celebrate the birth of the prophet Muhammad at an event hosted by the Muslim Students Association last night.

Fifteen students are ready to snap on fresh latex gloves as new dental assistants. Last week, the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia held a graduation for students in its nine-year-old Dental Assisting Training Program, a free program that trains minorities traditionally underrepresented in the dental field to become dental assistants in their communities.

Sixteen percent of individuals in Central Harlem have diabetes. But just a few blocks southwest, the statistic drops down to 6 percent for residents of the Upper West Side, according to 2004 New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reports.

The keg is full of cocoa, the girls are wearing sneakers and people are carrying water bottles instead of Dixie cups. Columbia's version of a frat party? Sort of.

Over the last two years, 1,000 formerly homeless families were placed in dangerous apartments with lead-paint hazards, according to a report issued earlier this month by the Manhattan-based Coalition for the Homeless.

The first medical college to be approved in New York state in the last 30 years will open its doors in Harlem this September-and officials say it will encourage future physicians to practice medicine in underserved areas.

A city program introduced this Monday seeks to provide more resources to combat domestic violence in northern Manhattan.

Discovery, adrenaline, penguins, ice, snow, and a deserted continent make for quite an adventure. With little appetite for canned tour group outings, pioneering explorer Dr. Samuel Silverstein, the John C. Dalton professor in the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, set his sights on a climbing expedition to Antarctica-twice.

New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the teaching hospital for Columbia University and Cornell University, has expressed an interest in purchasing New York Westchester Square Medical Center in the east Bronx following a recommendation to close the facility by the Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, released in December 2006.

In light of University President Lee Bollinger's stated goal of making Columbia a global university, the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons has introduced an internship program based in Bangkok, Thailand-the first in the school's history.

College students typically wait tables and stack library books to earn a few dollars, but at Barnard, work time can involve nap time. Members of the Barnard College Babysitters play soccer, make dinner, read The Cat in the Hat, and even catch up on homework while rolling in up to $25 an hour.

Columbia has begun plans to establish a Department of Neuroscience to replace its current Center for Neurobiology and Behavior.

Ross Johnson, CC '10, whose stepfather is deaf, has begun a campaign to bring ASL classes to Columbia College.

Adrenalin is flowing on a clear Saturday morning at Riverside Skate Park. Two skateboarders take turns zigzagging up and down the sides of a steep half-pipe, while a third becomes airborne off a ramp.