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

Will making the pre-meds of tomorrow take more humanities classes save them from soulless despair? Worth a try… (NY Times) A mobile medical facility in Las Vegas is devoted to instantly curing your hangover. Can we lure it to College Walk? (Las Vegas Review-Journal) Secret Service agents have a wild night in Colombia before a […]

The architecture firm behind the new geochemistry building at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has won three design awards at the 2009 Sustainable Design Awards (building pictured at right).  Xerox’s new CEO, the first African American women CEO of a Fortune 500 company, is also a Columbia graduate. Her degree? Master’s in engineering. Three more Columbia […]