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Despite statistics showing that two out of three people today earn higher incomes than their parents, a report from the Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts reveals that African-American baby-boomers are more likely to have slipped down the socioeconomic ladder than their white counterparts.

A research team at Columbia was awarded a $4 million research grant for the year 2008 to investigate the mysterious sudden decline in U.S. bee colonies, according to Columbia’s Office of Public Affairs.

Researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health are pioneers in a new field of study. Mailman researchers, with the help of colleagues from the Universities of Minnesota, Alabama (Birmingham), California (San Francisco), and Harvard University, conducted one of the first studies linking racial discrimination to health-risk behavior.