PrezBo sent out an email this morning announcing the creation of a large, University-wide task force to help the University plan for new scientific advances in various disciplines towards the creation of personalized/precision medicine. According to the Personalized Medicine Coalition, personalized/precision medicine is “the use of new methods of molecular analysis to better manage a […]

Columbia releases all announcements on Friday mornings, including one from a few minutes ago that states that effective immediately, CC and SEAS (and a similar email was also sent out to GS students)  “will no longer provide registration credit (R credit) on academic transcripts to note that a student has participated in an internship.” Columbia […]

Some people think us youths are destroying America, and some think we’re saving it. Michelle Obama just thinks we’re “knuckleheads.” (TIME) We must be doing something wrong though, seeing as we spread disease like its our job. (CNN) Meanwhile, NASA continues to unlock the secrets of the universe one by one. (ajc.com) Speaking of secrets of […]

We only scratched the surface the last time it went digging around the CUNIX servers. Here are some more of your COMS W1004 homepages that remind us of the Internet’s early days.  

Be sure to grab a copy of The Blue and White, on campus now. For this issue’s At Two Swords’ Length (ATSL), Editor-in-Chief Torsten Odland, CC ’15, and Senior Editor Luca Marzorati, CC ’15 may or may not be members of law enforcement.  Affirmative by Torsten Odland  You’re damn right I’m a cop! What makes you […]

We really love keeping you up to date on all of the student government councils on campus. There’s ESC…CCSC…JCCC…SGA (obviously)…but wait, what about the other one? This Monday’s SGA meeting was all about one of the acronyms you probably don’t hear as much, GSSC, and how to change that. Bwogger and lover of abbreviations/GS Lauren […]

Columbia University’s own theoretical physicist and “World Science U” founder Brian Greene was recently a guest on The Colbert Report, where he gave Stephen Colbert a crash course in Einstein’s relativity theory, and explained why anyone would even want to teach (or learn about) science on the Internet anyway. Enjoy the clip below, or check it […]

Orgo Night previewed this past Tuesday night in a totally free event held on Low Steps, a clear spoof on the West End Preview. Bwog’s own #1 Band Fan Claire Friedman checked that out, reluctantly. I wrapped a scarf around my neck and pulled on a hat, turning to tell my roommate that, “I just […]

Oh, Republican Party. You and your emails. (The Nation) Columbia’s resident Olympian Sasha Cohen might be hoping for the U.S. to win in Sochi, but naturally she’s betting on South Korea and Russia. (People) Pussy Riot is still under attack. (CNN) When good movies are left to mediocre critics, unfortunately “it’s still obnoxious hokum.” (BuzzFeed) Damn. (YouTube) […]

Late last night, Bwog was ushered into the back room of Havana, usually reserved for drunken revelry and awkward hook-ups, for a different sort of party—The 120th Annual Varsity Show’s West End Preview. Although it still had its share of awkward premises and jokes that fell flat, we should note that we’re going to be […]

Bwog was just tipped that there is a manhole on fire on the corner of 113th and Broadway. As of now, the street is closed off. Residents along 113th street smell smoke, and firetrucks are on the scene. We’ll update as we hear more.

PSA: Lena Dunham is judging Quarto’s nonfiction writing contest this semester. We repeat, Lena Dunham. Regardless of your taste/distaste for her, she’s at the very least “a voice of a generation” (yes we quoted that line. Of course we quoted that line), and we know there was at least one week in 2012 when Girls […]

The results from the SGA grant proposal are in: the Diana roof will now be open full-time for “recreational purposes.” Although a seemingly simple concept, opening the room actually requires installing a ten-foot high fence, which will cost between $50,000 and $60,000. It’ll be partly subsidized by the Barnard administration, but the project, the first […]

Charlyne Yi, she of House, Knocked Up, and Paper Heart fame, is coming to Columbia! In Live at Lerner’s first “evening” program of 2014, she’s speaking/making you laugh for two hours tonight at 8 in Lerner Party Space. In case you didn’t know (as if), she’s cool and hilarious and once hung out with Fred […]

Midterms slowly destroying your soul? Rejuvenate it at some of this week’s local cultural happenings, brought to you by resident artiste and arts editor Madysen Luebke. Ongoing: That’s  right, V-Day is finally here with their annual performance of The Vagina Monologues.  However, this time the performance has a controversial cast of all “self-identified women of color.”  So […]