The awards recognize the accomplishments and future promise of the most talented faculty-rank early-career scientists and engineers at America’s top academic and research institutions.
Recent research by scientists at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute is revealing new, complex roles for this ancient and universal brain structure.
“There were just a number of their properties that really screamed out that they were coming from some kind of magnetized neutron star,” said Brian Metzger, an astrophysicist at Columbia University.
Research led by Climate and Life Fellow Pierre Dutrieux will enable better projections of the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and associated sea level rise.
Raymo is a world-renowned marine geologist and climate scientist whose work focuses on the history and causes of past climate change.