An outside perspective is extremely useful in analyzing ways to make a good program even better. “That is why I am grateful for the Engineering Council’s willingness to use their insights to strengthen the School and its programs,” said Dean Zvi Galil. [More]

Aaron Ciechanover, the 2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, discussed his research on protein degradation to an audience of more than 300 students, faculty and invited guests at a special lecture sponsored by the School. Dr. Ciechanover, of the Faculty of Medicine at the Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, shared last year’s Nobel prize in Chemistry... [More]

CVN students can be anywhere in the world that has access to the Internet. Since its debut in 1986, when the “V” in CVN actually meant using a video cassette, Columbia’s distance learning network has adapted new technologies to evolve into an electronic learning tool rated “Best of the Web” three times in a row by Forbes Magazine. [More]

After graduating from Columbia with an M.S. in mechanical engineering, Charles Hoberman ’85 spent countless hours thinking about how to construct objects that would self-transform. In an “ah-ha” moment in 1987, his mind’s eye created linkages that could fold together compactly like a ball or expand to create a sphere of hinged geometric shapes. [More]