Welcome back to Columbia and to Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. We hope you are surviving this second wind (so to speak) of severe weather! Have anything you’d like to discuss regarding STEM on campus? Email us at science@bwog.com. 

Asian Americans in Focus: Data, Narrative, and Action

• Monday, February 23, 5:30 pm to 7 pm. 
• Pulitzer Hall (Lecture Hall). Registration required.  
• This panel, by Columbia’s Asian American Initiative, will showcase several existing projects that are researching national and local data on Asian Americans, discussing implications for policy and action. More information.

Edwidge Danticat: We’re Alone

• Wednesday, February 25, 6 pm to 7:30 pm.
• Buell Hall. Registration required.
• This event features Edwidge Dancat, Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, as she discusses her new book, We’re Alone. This novel traces Danticat’s own life history, including themes of environmental catastrophe and the traumas of colonialism. More information. 

Premodern Information Overload

• Thursday, February 26, 12:30 pm to 2 pm.
• Online. Registration required.
• In the 21st century, we are accustomed to being overwhelmed by information. This event, hosted by Columbia’s Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life, seeks to expand our understanding of information overload through a  transhistorical lens. This event ties in religious sciences and discusses how they impact the history of information management. More information.

Additional Note: Bwog is looking for Columbia University students who participate in research on or around campus who would be interested in being interviewed. Email maggie@bwog.com if you or someone you know is interested!

Science Fair via Madeline Douglas