Columbia began offering a handful of courses in blockchain a few years ago, although they were one-off classes, said Jeannette Wing, a computer science professor and director of Columbia’s Data Science Institute.
Housed in Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy, the new initiative will be led by Julio Friedmann, a former top Energy Department official under President Obama.
Discovering unexpected resilience in the brain could inform future treatment approaches for patients recuperating from stroke or other brain trauma.
Julio Friedmann will lead a major new research initiative at Columbia to advance the public policy, financial and economic aspects of carbon management.