The Impact of Islam in the Contemporary World
Dean Ben Vinson sat down with Assistant Professor of Anthropology Attiya Ahmad to discuss her research on the socio-cultural interrelationship between gender,...
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At latitude 42 degrees South, longitude 165 degrees West—somewhere in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, roughly 200 nautical miles east of New Zealand—Lily Anna Segalman got...
Scholarship Program to Boost STEM Teachers
Through a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation and the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship...
Architecture Seminar Draws Blueprint for Debate
East meets West in Stephanie Travis’ Modern Architecture and Design Dean’s Seminar. As in: the East Building of the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art meets the West Building. It...
For Author Waberi, Voices of Genocide Echo From Rwanda
In 1998, Abdourahman Waberi, then a 32-year-old novelist and poet, embarked on a mission to Rwanda with 10 African authors and filmmakers. It was just four years after the...
As a middle schooler, Victoria Skrivanos, now a Columbian College sophomore majoring in communication and minoring in journalism and mass communication, hit on what seemed like a...
For Alumna, Forensics Meets Fashion
As a forensic identification specialist with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Erika Di Palma, MFS ’07, can start her day at the scene of a burglary, where she might be...
The Nature of Visual Cognition
Why do some individuals outperform others? Associate Professor of Psychology Stephen Mitroff sits down with Columbian College Dean Ben Vinson to discuss the...
Making Women + Math = Opportunities
As a 6th grader, Isabelle Berger was convinced she hated math. When her middle school teacher used baseball batting averages to explain statistics, Berger’s eyes glazed over with...