June 1, 2018
Suman Jana Awarded an ARO Young Investigator Award
A four-year, $360,000 award will support Jana’s research into incorporating machine learning methods to improve methods for finding and fixing software bugs before they become security vulnerabilities.
May 30, 2018
No More Sweet Tooth? Scientists Switch Off Pleasure from Food in Brains of Mice
New research in mice has revealed that the brain’s underlying desire for sweet, and its distaste for bitter, can be erased by manipulating neurons in the amygdala, the emotion center of the brain.
May 30, 2018
Increasing Heat Is Driving Off Clouds That Dampen California Wildfires
Increasing summer temperatures brought on by a combination of intensifying urbanization and a warming climate are causing cloud cover to plummet in southern coastal California, leading to increased risk of wildfires.
May 28, 2018
Climate-Related Flooding May Quickly Disrupt Global Trade Chains
Intensifying river floods caused by global warming may hamper national economies worldwide, and effects might propagate through global trade and supply networks, a new study says.
May 28, 2018
New Research Finds Tall and Older Amazonian Forests More Resistant to Droughts
A new study led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia Engineering, shows that forest height and age directly impact the carbon cycle in the Amazon.
May 25, 2018
Faculty Tech Talk: Treating the Living Brain
What’s it like to decode the inner workings of the human brain? Elizabeth Hillman and Elisa Konofagou, both professors of biomedical engineering and radiology, recently discussed their cutting-edge efforts to understand and heal the brain.
May 24, 2018
Columbia’s Carol Mason Elected to National Academy of Sciences for Pioneering Research into Brain Science of Sight
The Academy recognizes decades of work to map complex pathways that connect the eye to the brain — research that could inform treatments of developmental and vision disorders.