Frontiers of Science

The poetry of mathematics

Columbia needs to emphasize the power and beauty of math.

By Andrea Viejo | Apr 15 06:57 pm ET

A scientific Core

Sometimes students have to be forced to learn what's best for them.

By Derek Turner | Apr 10 08:39 pm ET

Refining the pursuit

Explaining the changing rationale behind the science requirement.

By Darcy Kelley, Don Melnick, and Ivana Hughes | Apr 10 07:33 pm ET

Measurable adjustments

The Core's science requirement needs to be rethought quantitatively.

By Jason Han | Apr 10 06:55 pm ET

Reflections on Frontiers of Science

Frontiers of Science allows all of us to critically evaluate science, allowing us to question the experts.

By David Kagan | Dec 8 06:57 pm ET

Pushing the Frontiers

Frontiers of Science deserves to be appreciated as an essential part of the Core Curriculum.

By Cesar Rodriguez | Nov 10 07:08 pm ET

Helfand taking leave from Columbia to lead start-up university

“I gradually sort of got sucked into this concept of starting a university from scratch, which was really designed for students and problems of the 21st century, rather than the 19th century,” Helfand said.

By Sammy Roth | Jul 27 12:25 pm ET

The failure of Frontiers

Though a good idea in theory, Frontiers of Science still faces practical shortcomings.

By Andrew Wright | Jan 25 08:57 pm ET

Frontiers of philosophy

“Even professional scientists,” Albert Einstein remarked, “seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.” When he said this in 1944, he was referring to a type of “independence created by philosophical insight” that scientists should consider diving into more often. It’s also been a wonder to me why academic institutions, including Columbia, separate the sciences from philosophy as strictly distinct disciplines, when both sides could actually grow more intellectually by communicating and overlapping a little more.

By Yurina Ko | Jan 26 10:13 pm ET

Frontiers of Science up for evaluation, renewal

The University continues to experiment with Frontiers of Science.

By Amber Tunnell | Nov 5 03:32 am ET

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