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• Buffeted "quants" Are Still in Demand

  ReutersUK - 2008-12-21

  By Phil WahbaNEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Last week, New York University and Carnegie Mellon sent a new class of math whizzes out into a profession that is both blamed for the financial collapse and charged with preventing it happening again.Many of these so-called quantitative analysts, or "quants," graduating from...

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• Buffeted "quants" Are Still in Demand

  Reuters - 2008-12-21

  By Phil WahbaNEW YORK (Reuters) - Last week, New York University and Carnegie Mellon sent a new class of math whizzes out into a profession that is both blamed for the financial collapse and charged with preventing it happening again.Many of these so-called quantitative analysts, or "quants," graduating from elite...

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• Columbia University CIESIN Deploys Bluenog ICE

  - 2008-10-28

  Bluenog, an enterprise software and solutions company, today announced that Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network CIESIN has started deploying Bluenog ICE, the industry's first integrated suite of content management ECM or CMS , portal , and business intelligence ...

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• AstraZeneca and Columbia University Medical Center Sign Strategic Research Collaboration in Neurosciences; Focus on New Approaches to Treat Depression & Anxiety

  - 2008-10-15

  WILMINGTON, Del. and NEW YORK, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AstraZeneca and Columbia University Medical Center today announced a new research collaboration to examine how neurogenesis -- the creation of new neuronal cells - in adults might offer novel approaches to treating depression and anxiety. For more than...

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• ESDC green lights Columbia plan, schedules hearing

  - 2008-09-10

  The Empire State Development Corporation announced that the ESDC Board of Directors has adopted the Columbia University General Project Plan and authorized a public hearing for the university's proposed expansion. The $6.28 billion project, which is to be funded entirely by the university, will add up to 6.8 million square...

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• profits & passions: Michelle Coletti

  - 2008-09-08

  The dysfunction that can claim families claimed Michelle Coletti's. At 18, she gained legal custody of her 11-year-old brother, Michael. She was working full time by then, going to school and had her own place. She gained custody of Michael, who had been in a foster home, the moment she...

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• The Daily Record News Briefs: August 21, 2008

  - 2008-08-21

  RBA seeks ATHENA nominations The Rochester Business Alliance's Women's Council is seeking nominations for its 23rd annual ATHENA Award, which recognizes area businesswomen for professional, personal and community service achievements. An international program, the ATHENA Award program actively supports and celebrates women leaders, organizers...

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• Teachers College at Columbia University has received a $5 million gift from the GE Foundation to partner with 10 public schools in Harlem

  - 2008-08-07

  TEACHERS COLLEGE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has received a $5 MILLION gift from the GE Foundation to partner with 10 public schools in Harlem. The partnership will help develop science, technology, engineering and mathematics instruction at the Harlem schools.

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• Columbia University and Morningside Heights

  - 2008-08-01

  Columbia University and Morningside Heights. Susi, Michael V. Arcadia Publishing 2007 127 pages $19.99 Paperback Postcard history series LD1248 Along with a bountiful number of portraits of men sporting truly amazing mustaches, this collection of period effluvia includes significant commentary in...

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• Finding His Faith

  - 2008-07-21

  So much has been made about Barack Obama’s religion. But what does he believe, and how did he arrive at those beliefs? In 1981 Barack Obama was 20 years old, a Columbia University student in search of the meaning of life. He was torn a million different ways: between...

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• Brazil's Piraha grasp numbers without words: study challenges theories linking language, thought

  - 2008-07-19

  One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do, especially if you don't even have a word for it. That's the situation of the Piraha people, denizens of Brazil's Amazon rainforest who have no term for the number one or for any other exact quantity, a new study finds. ...

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• Canterbury hits market

  - 2008-07-16

  The Canterbury, a 49-unit renovated Beaux Arts elevatored apartment building on the Upper West Side, is on the market for sale through Eastern Consolidated. Eastern's Brian Ezratty, vice chairman, with Deborah Gutoff and Ronda Rogovin, senior directors, and Scott Ellard, financial analyst, are spearheading the marketing initiative on behalf...

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• David S. Brown, Richard Hofstadter

  - 2008-07-01

  David S. Brown, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006) 291 pp., bibliography, list of students, index, cloth, $27.50, ISBN 0-226-07640-7. In March 1965, a delegation of distinguished historians, organized by University of Chicago scholars Walter Johnson and John Hope Franklin, gathered in Atlanta...

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• 'Noose' professor fired, accused of plagiarism

  - 2008-06-25

  NEW YORK AP -- A Columbia University professor who drew widespread attention when a noose was discovered hanging from her office door has been fired over allegations of plagiarism. Administrators at Columbia's Teachers College said in a letter to faculty Monday that Madonna G. Constantine also obstructed the...

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• 1968 Ad

  - 2008-06-22

  Tom Hayden was not a student at Columbia University. Still, at two o'clock on the morning of April 26, 1968, he found himself "joining a silhouetted wave of students surging across Columbia's grounds and entering, with a key volunteered by a graduate student, the darkened shell of Mathematics Hall." (1)...

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• Blake Slonecker, "The Columbia Coalition: African Americans, New Leftists, and Counterculture at the Columbia University Protest of 1968"

  - 2008-06-22

  The Columbia University protest of 1968 marked the loudest and most widely noted American student protest in a year distinguished by such unrest. This article reframes the protest through the lens of movement culture and analyzes the ties between different social movements. Activists at Columbia were a motley coalition of...

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• Charles Tilly, 1929-2008

  - 2008-06-22

  CHARLES TILLY, OUR ESTEEMED COLLEAGUE AND LONGTIME MEMBER of the editorial board of Social Research, died on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Chuck joined the Graduate Faculty of the New School in 1984 as Distinguished Professor of Sociology and History, and in 1990 became University Distinguished Professor, a position he held...

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• Science & the public

  - 2008-06-21

  Researchers at Columbia University are turning the idea of agriculture on its side--literally--by imagining farms in the city. Learn about their plans and what they hope to accomplish in Janet Raloff's blog posts.

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• Community Leaders Forge New Approach to HIV Prevention as Part of M-A-C AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative

  - 2008-06-18

  Twelve S. Africans Bring Columbia University, UCLA Fellowship Training to Local AIDS Programs; Gather in Johannesburg to Discuss Stigma, Gender Inequality M*A*C AIDS Fund Marks $125M in Global Giving JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- HIV among imprisoned juveniles, teenagers and the Muslim community headlined a discussion of community...

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• Kennethpark Architects

  - 2008-06-18

  Kennethpark Architects proudly welcomes Lawrence Shum, director of design, to our team. Shum is responsible for creating and supervising design direction. Joining us from Rockwell Group, Shum's role was a senior designer for Studio Red. He earned a bachelor's degree in architecture from Pratt Institute and a masters degree...

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