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Esteban Calvo, member of the Columbia Aging Center (CAC) faculty, adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, and professor of public policy at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile, was part of a three-member group that was awarded funds by the CAC to develop aging science. Their project, titled “Aging well with alcohol? Harnessing longitudinal data from 20 countries to understand health impacts of moderate drinking among older adults,” entails a collaboration between him, Katherine Keyes (CAC Faculty Fellow, and associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University), and Katherine Ornstein (assistant professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at Mount Sinai).
The scientific panel discussion, titled "The Earth Cannot be Silenced: Columbia Climate Research and the Fate of the Planet," was successfully held at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing on July 8, as an event of "Columbia Beijing Summer" Experience Columbia in Beijing series.
“If there exists an era for long poems, it must be today’s era.”
This is what SHANG Wei, Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture at Columbia University said during the poem sharing session of “Retrospect and Prospect: Problems & Potentials of Chinese New Poetry Composition.”
Despite a growing audience for Asian cinema around the world, few opportunities exist for students to immerse themselves in its comparative study. In light of this, the Columbia Global Centers in Mumbai and Beijing launched an intensive six-week summer program on Media Practices in India and China. Led by Columbia University film scholars, 12 undergraduate students got an opportunity to pursue learning in real-world settings.
On November 19, Chile will hold Presidential and Congressional elections. In early July, two of the three main political coalitions, the center-right alliance Chile Vamos and the leftist partnershipFrente Amplio, held primaries to select their presidential candidates, a process in which former President Sebastián Piñera and journalist Beatriz Sánchez were elected, respectively.
My friend once said if only Chinese media wasn’t restricted. Then I asked him: ‘let’s say we were free of control now and you were the big boss of the New York Times, which one would you choose, money or truth?’ He was shocked and said the answer would still be money.”
The Santiago Center, in association with Chile’s Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), organized a seminar in late June entitled “Promoting Equality through Sustainable Public Transportation."
The risks of climate change and the adverse effects of greenhouse gases can only be mitigated by effective action at the local and global level. Given that urbanization has exacerbated climate risks, cities need to be at the forefront of reform. The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group is one such innovative initiative, serving as a platform for a network of the world’s megacities. The C40 Cities network acts locally – at the level of multiple city leaders such as mayors and municipal commissioners.
Manoj Pooleery is one of the instructors of Columbia Business School’s Venture for All® (VFA) program. He is also the Founder and CEO of M-Phi Innovators, a specialized technology services company that provides full range of innovation services to businesses. He provides end-to-end technology and business strategy definition and implementation to both startups and established businesses. He has helped many companies get started, out of the Columbia Business School as well as outside. In June 2017, he spent a week in São Paulo teaching a one-week VFA course to Brazilian students.
The lifestyle of Chinese families has changed drastically in the past ten years, especially the way of parenting. Regarding the ways of fulfilling needs, Chinese families have gradually moved from desktop to mobile.
On June 24, Professor Jane Gaines from Film Department at Columbia University was invitied to deliver a public lecture on how to make Chinese cinema great again at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.
The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University is requesting paper proposals to present for its conference series “Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es: Movement, Space, and Religious Difference,” which will convene first in Amman and then in Tunis.
Open Call for Participation: Encountering Qusayr ’Amra. Building Expenditure? The Second Janet Abu-Lughod Seminar, led by Khaled Malas
On June 23, Dean Mary Boyce, from The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science of Columbia University, and three leading Columbia Engineering Professors Shih-Fu Chang, Jingyue Ju, and Yuan Yang visited Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.