Spring Break is over—time to get back to the books! This is Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. As always, email science@bwog.com if you want your event featured.

Welcome back to Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. As always, email science@bwog.com if you want your event featured.

On Friday night, Staff Writer Isa RingswaldEgan attended the Archeology Department’s Professor Francesco de Angelis’s presentation of the past two years of archeological research at Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli, Italy.

Welcome back to Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. As always, email science@bwog.com if you want your event featured.

On Wednesday, Charlie Bonkowsky attended “Decoding Dark Matter with Stellar Streams from Beyond the Milky Way,” a colloquium presented by Dr. Sarah Pearson, a Hubble Fellow at NYU.

On Monday, Staff Writer Emily Yi attended a colloquium hosted by the Physics Department, in which panelists from a range of quantum backgrounds discussed the present and future of quantum research. 

Welcome back to Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. As always, email science@bwog.com if you want your event featured.

On Tuesday morning, Staff Writer Catherine Sherman attended the first virtual seminar of a two-part series hosted by Columbia Global Centers in Mumbai. This seminar invited experts to discuss the current state of global plastic pollution and pose potential methods to reduce plastic-related environmental and health harms in the future.

On Wednesday, Charlie Bonkowsky attended “Dwarf Galaxy Archaeology with the Rapid Neutron-capture Process,” a colloquium presented by Dr. Alex Ji of the University of Chicago.

On Friday, February 10, staff writers Lily Mooney and Claire De La Roche visited SIPA’s Kellogg Center for an event envisioning the challenges and steps toward building a food-secure world.

Welcome back to Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. As always, email science@bwog.com if you want your event featured.

At the Zuckerman Institute on Thursday, researchers and Columbia professors Dr. Rudy Behnia and Dr. Shuran Song spoke about their respective fields of animal vision and computer perception, and how we can apply those ideas to neuroscience as a whole.

Welcome back to Science 101, Bwog’s semi-regular advice column geared toward science students! In this edition, Science Editor Sydney Wells explains the different chemistry majors at Barnumbia.

On Tuesday afternoon, Staff Writer Isa RingswaldEgan attended a lecture by the French department featuring author, engineer, and philosopher Malcom Ferdinand. He presented his work on pesticide contamination in the Antilles in his lecture, “Writing in the Toxic Ruins of Slavery: the Case of Chlordecone Contamination of Martinique and Guadeloupe.”

Welcome back to Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. As always, email science@bwog.com if you want your event featured.