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20 Years of Modeling the Brain
Larry Abbott, Ken Miller, and Daphna Shohamy at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute
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20 Years of Modeling the Brain

At Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, scientists have spent the past two decades using computational models to predict neural behavior

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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals
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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

Clearing the Path to Parenthood
Illustration by Sophi Gullbrants of a couple looking at an embryo

Clearing the Path to Parenthood

Physicians are racing to find new treatments for infertility and recurrent miscarriages. But how far can they push the biology of reproduction?

How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever
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How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever

How William Stewart Halsted became the father of modern surgery.

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Why Our Planet is a Breeding Ground for Emerging Diseases
Columbia epidemiologist Simon Anthony inspects a vampire bat in the Brazilian rainforest
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Why Our Planet is a Breeding Ground for Emerging Diseases

Experts say habitat destruction and climate change are factors

Understanding the Three Types of Loneliness
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Understanding the Three Types of Loneliness

Gerontologist Linda P. Fried discusses the unique mental stress of social isolation on the elderly

How COVID-19 Exposed the Ugliness of Health Injustice
A city bus driver in Detroit wearing a face mask
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How COVID-19 Exposed the Ugliness of Health Injustice

The virus was said to be an indiscriminate killer. The numbers say otherwise

The Unique Challenges of Fighting COVID-19 in Africa
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The Unique Challenges of Fighting COVID-19 in Africa

A Columbia-based center deploys strategies learned from fighting HIV and Ebola

Future Nurses on Call
A Columbia University nurse videoconferencing
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Future Nurses on Call

Columbia nursing students and faculty nurse practitioners confront a new reality

How to Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts
Columbia epidemiologist W. Ian Lipkin at home desk
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How to Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts

Top virus hunter W. Ian Lipkin develops a plan for a global disease-alert system

Engineers ...and Librarians! to the Rescue
A man wearing a COVID-19 face shield produced by Columbia Engineering
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Engineers ...and Librarians! to the Rescue

Columbia staff and students get creative in combating a shortage of face masks

Staying Sane in a Pandemic-Stricken World
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Staying Sane in a Pandemic-Stricken World

A Columbia psychologist and anxiety expert explains the impulse to “panic buy,” and how to satisfy our need to feel in control

Toxic Alzheimer’s Proteins Exposed in New Detail
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Toxic Alzheimer’s Proteins Exposed in New Detail

Findings from Columbia researchers may open the door for new preventive treatments

Columbia Alumni Associations in Asia Offer Aid and Support
Jianfei Zhu, Yuan Wang, and Yimei Lu from the Columbia Alumni Association prepare a shipment of PPE in Shanghai to send to Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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Columbia Alumni Associations in Asia Offer Aid and Support

Members of Columbia’s vast Chinese alumni network recently donated PPE and cash

Armed With Overdose Meds, Columbia Students Save Lives
Columbia Public Health student Sonalee Rau on the street in Manhattan
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Armed With Overdose Meds, Columbia Students Save Lives

In the span of less than a year, five students have administered naloxone to overdose victims

Pandemic Highlights Urgent Need for Long-Term Vaccine Development
David D. Ho, center, with fellow ADARC scientists Yaoxing Huang and Sho Iketani (Samantha Casolari / Bloomberg Businessweek).
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Pandemic Highlights Urgent Need for Long-Term Vaccine Development

Pioneering AIDS researcher David D. Ho joins fight against COVID-19

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