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Columbia Global Centers

Columbia Global Centers

The Columbia Global Centers network creates opportunities in research, scholarship, teaching, and service; engages...

Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi

Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi strives to enable the highest levels of knowledge and learning in and for Africa...

Center on Global Energy Policy

The Center on Global Energy Policy provides independent, balanced, data-driven analysis to help policymakers...

Center for Life Cycle Analysis

The mission of the center is to guide technology and energy policy decisions with data-based, well balanced and...

Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai

Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai develops programs and activities involving both students and faculty focusing on...

Studio-X Global Network

The label “Studio-X” refers to Columbia Graduate School of Architecture’s advanced laboratories for exploring the...

RESEARCH

Urbanizing Technology: The Mobility Complex

Led by Professor Saskia Sassen , this signature research project explores the challenges of...

Mapping Human Networks of Transnational Architectural Projects

This proposal requests support to fund a pilot research project studying the local impact of...

Badami

This project for conservation and heritage-based development of the historic town of Badami in...

The Istanbul Research and Documentation Project

The Istanbul Research and Documentation Project (IRDP) was conceptualized and founded by Professor...

Air Quality Monitoring

Many Nairobi residents are exposed on a regular basis to elevated concentrations of fine particle...

Regional Foodshed Resilience: An Interdisciplinary and International Practicum

This project is a three-year comparative Regional Foodshed Resilience practicum running in parallel...

INSTITUTES

Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS)

The Institute of Latin American Studies focuses on academic programs,...

Institute for Data Sciences & Engineering

Columbia University, in a partnership with New York City, launched the...

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory explores the origin, evolution, and future of...

Institute for Sustainable Development Practice

The Institute for Sustainable Development Practice offers governmental and non-...

The Earth Institute

The Earth Institute brings together people and tools needed to address global...

People

  • Richard Garfield

    Henrik H. Bendixen Professor Emeritus of Clinical International Nursing; Professor Emeritus of Clinical Population and Family Health; Special Lecturer in the School of Nursing

  • Laura J. Kurgan

    Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  • Kartik Chandran

    Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering

  • Nora Akawi

    Curator, Studio-X Amman

  • Elliott Sclar

    Special Research Scholar in the Center for Sustainable Urban Development in the Earth Institute; Special Lecturer in Architecture, Planning and Preservation and in Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

  • Ruth S. DeFries

    University Professor

  • Nickolas John Themelis

    Stanley Thompson Professor Emeritus of Chemical Metallurgy; Special Research Scientist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering

  • Sam Szoke-Burke

    Legal Researcher

  • Irwin Garfinkel

    Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems in the Faculty of Social Work

  • Vijay Modi

    Professor of Mechanical Engineering

  • Mario Gooden

    Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  • Li Hu

    Director, Studio-X Beijing

  • Selva Gurdogan

    Director, Studio-X Istanbul

  • Richard A. Plunz

    Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  • Nicola Twilley

    Co-director, Studio-X New York
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