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.

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.

This semester, we’re bringing back Science 101, Bwog’s semi-regular advice column geared towards science students! In this edition, Science Editor and Environmental Biology major Sydney Wells explains all the different biological science majors at Barnumbia.

Last Friday, with the Columbia Center for Archaeology, Dr. Lamya Khalidi presented her research on human adaptation to the changing climate in the Afar Lowlands of Ethiopia during the early to late Holocene.

Alisha and Linus looked at some amazing rare manuscripts (and you can, too!).

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 Thursday, January 26, Columbia Climate School hosted Dr. Nyeema Harris as part of the Emerging Voices in the Geosciences and Society Seminar Series. Professor Harris gave a talk about how human presence has impacted animals, specifically carnivores, across complex landscapes.

A spotlight from the Biomedical Engineering Department featured thoughts on how to improve disease diagnostics and the University’s approach towards science.

At the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department colloquium’s Radical Hypothesis Lecture, Daniel Apai spoke about the Nautilus project, an idea that seeks to redefine and improve space observation.