Nature and Nurture: Human Brain Evolved to Respond to Environment
What is it about the human brain that makes us so different from chimpanzees, our closest living relatives? Lead by postdoctoral scientist Aida Gómez-Robles from the Center for...
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By John DiConsiglio
On Day One of her new course on Sexual Communications, Katrina Pariera, assistant professor of communication, opened with an icebreaker. With students...
Are Female Candidates Still Running Against Gender Bias?
By John DiConsiglio
Hillary Clinton’s hairstyle. Sarah Palin’s wardrobe. When female candidates run for office, the electoral focus invariably seems to fall on their appearance rather than...
By John DiConsiglio
No one has ever confused the Anacostia River with the mighty sweep of the Nile. But to archaeologist Kate Birmingham, MA ’10, a cultural resources...
From Cross-Disciplinary Study to the Slums of India, Students’ Business Plan is Changing Lives
By John DiConsiglio
Columbian College junior Maz Obuz and his friend Elliot School student Evan Young were just looking for a good grade in an engineering...
Can Stephanie Travis Save Sketching?
By John DiConsiglio
It’s the dirty secret of design in the digital age: Today’s architects spend many more hours laboring over computer screens than sketchbooks. Hand-drawings, the...
By John DiConsiglio
For many people suffering with schizophrenia, the most terrifying aspect of their condition is the voices—the phantom sounds that echo menacingly through their brains....
A grant from The Morningstar Foundation, the family foundation of Susie and Michael Gelman, will help develop an Israel Studies component of Columbian College's Judaic Studies Program. The grant...
For Human Ancestors, Bigger Wasn’t Better
Nearly 3 million years ago, the earliest members of the Homo genus—which includes our species Homo sapiens, or modern humans—emerged as the bully on the evolutionary block. They...
Dean Ben Vinson: The Path Ahead
Ben Vinson, dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, recently reflected on his vision for an “engaged liberal arts” and the overall educational enterprise...