The new Columbia Initiative in Cell Engineering and Therapy (CICET) has appointed Michael Sadelain as the inaugural director.

Staff Writers Khushi Chhaya and Lorelei Gorton attended Sing for Science: Simpson’s Neuroscience, which featured Psychology professor Dr. Kevin Ochsner and voice actor Hank Azaria, who voiced Moe the Bartender on The Simpsons (and many other characters).

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The first speaker of the Barnard Cognitive Science Symposium series was Dr. Horowitz, a Psychology Professor and the Head of Barnard Dog Cognition Lab.

Professors Dan Steingart and Lauren Marbella collaborated to lead a team that could greatly improve battery performance and more.

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Who was involved in producing the food you ate this morning? Are you wearing plastic today?

This past Tuesday, the World Leaders Forum hosted Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in a conversation about energy transition titled “Norway and the Age of Energy.”

On September 19, Bwog News Editor Emma Burris and Staff Writer Lorelei Gorton attended the Voyager Golden Record Experience, an interdisciplinary exploration of humanity’s place in the cosmos. 

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Last Thursday, Staff Writer Amélie Acevedo attended a virtual seminar on aging, aimed at discussing recent trends in mortality rates in the US and UK over the past decade. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the once-assumed continuous progress in life expectancy feels increasingly uncertain.

On Wednesday, September 18, Sunrise Columbia hosted a presentation and dialogue on their newly released report, “Complicit Columbia: How Fossil Fuels Fund Columbia Climate Research.”  

On Tuesday, September 17th, Staff Writer Zane viewed one of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lectures, hosted by Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, on an intriguing and increasingly relevant subject titled “Plugged into Adolescence: Brains, Bytes, and Behavior in Teen.”

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On Monday, September 9, guest writer Pramit Ghatak attended Columbia University’s School of Journalism’s panel discussion titled “AI & Local News: Challenges and Opportunities for Journalism in NY.” The panel focused on the increasing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the news industry.