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29 March 2018
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Can You Criticize Science (or Do Science) Without Looking Like an Obsessive? Maybe Not.

We need to normalize the pursuit of accuracy as a good-intentioned piece of the scientific puzzle.

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19 March 2018
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Cuomo, don’t leave these kids hanging

DAILY NEWS - Vincent Schiraldi, Patrick McCarthy

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/cuomo-don-leave-kids-hanging-article-...

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16 March 2018
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CELSS Call for Spring Proposal

C.E.L.S.S.
COLUMBIA EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY IN T H E SOCIAL SCIENCES
 
CELSS Grants for Graduate Students’ Dissertation Chapters
 
The Columbia Experimental Laboratory in the Social Sciences (CELSS) provides funding to support
PhD dissertation chapters that utilize experimental data. Applications are accepted both for studies
conducted in the lab and for studies conducted online.
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12 March 2018
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Just Relations: Wakanda forever and the power of ‘Black Panther’

Article by Chigao Sun Times

By now, we all know the hit film “Black Panther” has struck a collective chord, offering a complex and compassionate rendering of people of African descent through the lens of Afro-futurism.

Afro-futurism, a term coined by scholar Alondra Nelson, describes artistic engagement where people of African descent break free of racialized limitations by creating new possibilities through art, literature, music and film; with people of color as central agents for human flourishing.

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08 March 2018
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY ANNOUNCES THE RUTH BENEDICT LECTURES

“I AM THE PEOPLE”: REFLECTIONS ON POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

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06 February 2018
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A probation explosion keeps too many chained

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
 
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16 January 2018
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MICHAEL WOODFORD NAMED AS A 2017 RISE AWARDEE

Columbia University Office of the Executive Vice President for Research announced the names of six teams receiving funding through Research Initiatives in Science and Engineering (RISE), one of the largest internal research grant competitions within the University. The annual award provides funds for up to six interdisciplinary faculty teams from the basic sciences, engineering, and/or medicine to pursue blossoming and extremely creative research projects. Each team’s award is worth $80,000 per year for up to two years.

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16 January 2018
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3RD MOST VIEWED RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT OF 2017 ON AEA WEBSITE

We are proud to announce that Prof. W. Bentley MacLeod, Prof. Miguel Urquiola and PhD alum Evan Riehl's research, The Big Sort, which examines implications of college choice on career and earnings, came in as the 3rd most viewed page of the American Economics Association's list of the 2017's research highlights.

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09 January 2018
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The surprising power of tax stimulus to the housing market

MICHEAL BEST PUBLISHED IN MICROECONOMIC INSIGHTS

Economist Micheal Best wrote an essay for Microeconomic Insights that focuses on a forthcoming paper in the Review of Economic Studies entitled "Housing Market Responses to Transaction Taxes: Evidence From Notches and Stimulus in the U.K."

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12 December 2017
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Five ways to fix statistics

ANDREW GELMAN CO-AUTHORED A PIECE IN NATURE ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF PUBLISHING FLAWED STUDIES

Political Scientist and Statistician Andrew Gelman joined with other prominent statisticians in calling for reforms to address the publication of flawed studies with unreplicatable conditions.

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