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Professor Alberro, the Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History and Department Chair at Barnard College, offered an open lecture at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage
This summer, Columbia University faculty has visited Rio de Janeiro to conduct research at the Instituto Moreira Salles and other institutions. This visit represents the first step in planning a conference and exhibit on the topic of “Brazil as Global Crossroads” to be mounted in Rio and in New York City.
Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and Curator of Architecture at the Museu of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, came to Rio de Janeiro for a week in July.
José Moya, Director of the Barnard College Forum on Migration and Director of the Institue of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, came to Brazil on a research duty.
As the Ministry of Education in Jordan continues the implementation of the first phase of a process aimed at developing curricula and textbooks, the views of education experts vary. Professor Safwan M. Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University, explained that the reform process of curricula seems superficial.
Graciela Montaldo, Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, was part of the Humanities group that came to Rio de Janeiro.
At the Thinking Big Workshop held recently at the Nairobi Center, Manilal Premchand Chandaria shared the values his family instilled in him.
Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi, hosted “Moving the Agenda Forward for Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Research in Southern and Eastern Africa”, on July 8th – 9th, 2015 in Nairobi Kenya. Partners included:
- Columbia University School of Nursing
- School of Nursing Sciences University of Nairobi
- Kamuzu College of Nursing of the University of Malawi
- Forum for University Nursing Deans in South Africa
- WHO Regional Office for Africa.
The aim of the research summit was to promote regional and international relationships for increasing clinical research capacity in nursing schools in Africa and to emphasize the importance of conducting research on priorities identified by regional nursing and midwifery research experts. The participants agreed that the summit achieved its objectives of reaching consensus on identifying nursing research priorities, gaps, and barriers as well as creating an international infrastructure for addressing them. They also agreed that implementing critical research priorities will require the continued efforts of each of the participants and well as government and non-public sector collaborators.
Jennifer Dohrn, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Columbia University Medical Center and Director of the Office of Global Initiatives and its World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Advanced Practice Nursing, made a brief visit to Jordan on July 12-15, 2015.
Columbia University’s C.V. Starr East Asian Library sets itself apart as the home of one of the major collections for the study of East Asia in the United States. Possessing over one million volumes of rich materials of various kinds and languages, the library is crucial to the pursuit of rigorous intellectual inquiry and provides a place for students and scholars to satisfy their curiosity about all things Chinese.
There are many campuses that claim to be, and no doubt are, environmentally friendly to one degree or another. Which universities and colleges stand out, though? What does a campus do to make their grounds and carbon footprint greener than the next school?
Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia Global Centers | Turkey are pleased to welcome three health professionals from Turkey.
Announcing the fifth recipient of the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Award in Palestine Studies, Areej Sabbagh-Khoury
High school students from Jordan and the region are invited to register for the Columbia GlobeMUN conference to be held in Istanbul on November 5 to 8, 2015.