The 11th Lecture of the "Logical Reasoning in Human Genetics" course was a discussion of "The Ins and Outs of Sustaining a Longitudinal Cohort for Genetic Studies".
Cet événement était consacré au lancement du livre "Entanglements of the Maghreb", qui est distribué en Amérique du Nord par Columbia University Press.
On the fourth day of OST Global Immersion Week, Columbia Global Centers I Tunis hosted Open Startup Tunisia. OST delegates had the opportunity to discover the different structures creating the beautiful dynamic of the Tunisian innovation ecosystem.
The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) at Columbia University, the Academy of Political Science, Brenthurst Foundation (Johannesburg), in partnership with Columbia Global Centers I Tunis and Columbia Global Centers I Nairobi, worked together on the launch of the report: The Economic Impact of COVID-19 and Prospects for a Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery in Africa.
In partnership with the African Development Group at Columbia University and the Columbia Alumni Association, Columbia Global Centers | Tunis and Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi organized this webinar to expose Columbia students and affiliates to possible careers on the continent through direct interaction with Columbia alumni who are working in those careers.
Dr. Andrea Achi is Assistant Curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. She specializes in the art and archaeology of Late Antiquity and has a particular interest in manuscripts and archaeological objects from Christian Egypt. Trained as a Byzantinist, Dr. Achi’s scholarship focuses on late antique and Byzantine art of North and Northeast Africa, and she has brought this expertise to bear on several exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
The tenth Lecture of the "Logical Reasoning in Human Genetics" course was an examination of the search for CNVs in the exomes of Tunisian patients and their role in breast cancer.
Member of our Faculty Advisory Board and Director of the Columbia Institute of African Studies, Pr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne, joins Insaniyyat as a Member of its Scientific Committee.
In January 2022, the TC-Tunisia Foreign Language Teacher Education Transnational Project, or TC-Tunisia Project kicked off its second year, welcoming a new cohort of participants. This cohort will follow the same syllabus as the 2021 cohort: engaging in four learning modules and a culminating capstone project. The 2022 cohort will also be invited to various community-building events throughout the year, with the ultimate goal of collaboratively building capacity for English language educators in Tunisia.
Learn more about the project by checking the first issue of the TC-Tunisia 2022 newsletter…
The 2nd Cohort of the TC-Tunisia Foreign Language Teacher Education Project is officially launched. Co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy Tunis, Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique, the Columbia Global Centers | Tunis, and Teachers College, Columbia University, this project provides professional development in English language teaching.