Alexa Davis

Columbia College’s Frontiers of Science program received a $200,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation this semester, which will be used to support the research of postdoctoral science fellows who teach the course.

Columbia College may have reason to worry that, instead of evolving and growing, its science programs have remained developmentally static and are not attracting enough potential science majors.

College students are often told to cherish “the best years of their lives” by graduates who wish they had taken greater advantage of their own undergraduate opportunities. While it may be impossible to turn back time, the retired professionals enrolled in Columbia’s “Lifelong Learners” program know a college education doesn’t have to end at graduation. In fact, it might even be better the second time around.

While the term “gender gap” is generally associated with disadvantages for females, an event held Monday afternoon in Schermerhorn Hall addressed the increasing female advantage in the American education system, as sociology department chair Thomas DiPrete and Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives Geraldine Downey spoke to a crowd of roughly 20 students and fellow faculty members.

A year after holding its first successful feminism-centered event, Students for Choice teamed up with fellow student groups and once again invited professors and administrators to discuss their views on feminism with students on Wednesday night in the Ella Weed Room of Milbank Hall. This year’s discussion focused on how feminism and multiculturalism interact.

In the first of many 40th anniversary commemorations of the 1968 protests, Estelle Freedman, BC ’69, addressed a crowd of roughly 100 in the James Room Wednesday night about her struggle to build an identity in the midst of that politically tumultuous year.

Five months after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Columbia there are no homosexuals in Iran, Dr. Janet Afary argued otherwise Wednesday evening in the International Affairs building. Her lecture was planned in response to both University President Lee Bollinger’s wish to increase campus awareness on the Islamic Republic of Iran and the recent rise in student interest in Iranian issues.