The New York Times reports that Steve Coll, a veteran of The Washington Post, will be the next dean of the Columbia Journalism School, the president of Columbia University announced on Monday. Coll was an editor at the Washington Post and a reporter at New Yorker Magazine. For the past five years, he ran… Read more »
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Columbia Professor Strips Down To Underwear, Shows 9/11 Footage During Bizarre Physics Lecture
A freshmen Frontiers of Science class at Columbia University got more than they had bargained for on Monday during what has to be one of the strangest lecture introductions ever captured on video. Physics professor Emlyn Hughes, who lists research at the Large Hadron Collider as his primary area of study, treated the unsuspecting first… Read more »
10 years later: Remembering Columbia
Ten years ago today, seven astronauts lost their lives when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere — six Americans and one Israeli: Rick D. Husband, mission commander Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist William C. McCool, pilot David M. Brown, mission specialist Laurel B. Clark, mission specialist Michael P…. Read more »
Network Morning Shows Ignore 10th Anniversary of Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
On February 1, 2003, seven astronauts on board Space Shuttle Columbia died during re-entry as they returned to Earth from the STS-107 mission. Friday was the 10th anniversary of the disaster, but none of the Big Three networks morning newscasts marked this somber occasion. ABC's Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, and NBC's Today understandably… Read more »