Students in "SciComms for ChemE" turned research into comedy videos with the help of NYC-based comedians. Read more about the course and its Video Competition here: bit.ly/4h6RyND #ScienceCommunication #ChE #ChemE #ChemicalEngineering @columbiaseas.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Kristin Myers was recently featured on The TechEd Podcast, discussing her work building digital twins for women's health and reflecting on advances in engineering research in the field. Listen to the podcast: techedpodcast.com/columbia/

Digital Twins & Engineering Technology in Women's Health - Dr. Kristin Meyers, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University - The TechEd Podcast

Digital twins, AI, wearable sensors and computational modeling are reshaping medicine. Dr. Kristin Myers explores how engineering is now solving some of women's health's most complex challenges.

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Congrats to Engineering researchers Kyle Bishop & Kara Lamb, who were awarded U.S. DOE grants under the Genesis Mission to advance AI-driven discovery. Also awarded was Columbia physics professor Norman Christ. Read more: https://bit.ly/3RU3yrw

In an op-ed for the Financial Times, the director of the Columbia Fusion Research Center Carlos Paz-Soldan makes the case that the US should fund fusion properly or risk losing the global race to make it a reality. bit.ly/4fylWyb

The US needs a new Manhattan Project for fusion energy

If we are to outpace China and own the future of this technology, we must fund it properly

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As wildfires continue spreading across eastern Canada, orange skies & smoky air have become a familiar part of summer in North America. Air quality expert @vfmcneill.bsky.social of @columbiaseas.bsky.social & @climate.columbia.edu explains our new normal and how to stay safe: https://bit.ly/4wSmi9H

🔬Postdoc Profile: @lingting-shi.bsky.social (elhamazizi.bsky.social & @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social groups) Discover Lingting's research on tumor-immune interactions and computational cancer biology in a new article spotlighting her research at IICD > cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/postdoc...

Columbia Engineering is leading a new ARPA-H-funded effort to transform maternal-fetal monitoring during childbirth. bit.ly/4vGiuHu Image credit: @arpa-h.bsky.social

The Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC) hosted its annual review in June, gathering researchers from 11 universities, industry, and government partners. bit.ly/4fqBlR3

New 📘 in @pnas.org: A new visualization method developed by IICD researchers in the Blumberg grp could improve the analysis of high-dimensional datasets and help scientists identify new cell types: bit.ly/4eZqbCF @columbiaseas.bsky.social @columbiacancer.bsky.social @pseudomanifold.topology.rocks

$11.5 million for a single World Cup final ticket raises an obvious question: How did the price get so high? bit.ly/4pr7E70

Xuanjing Chu grew up on sci-fi. Now she's making quantum computing an engineering reality. The mechanical engineering PhD student in James Hone's lab built a self-calibrating platform to test candidate superconducting qubit materials. Published in Physical Review Applied. https://bit.ly/4yaWk2N

Ibrahim Odeh, chair of our Construction and Engineering Management Program and director of the Construction Concentration at Columbia SPS, shares in a new Q&A how AI, digital transformation, and climate resilience are reshaping construction, and how higher ed must adapt. https://bit.ly/4gUaaAc

How do the eyes and brain work together to create vision? New research in PLOS Biology challenges old assumptions about the visual system. A team led by @nuttidanuttida.bsky.social built a brain-based neural network modeling vision, pointing toward leaner, adaptive AI. https://bit.ly/4gnF6ZH

"Open source models are very capable, and the ability to charge a big premium for AI is going to diminish." DSI Member and @columbiaseas.bsky.social Vice Dean of Computing and AI @vishalmisra.bsky.social weighs in for @wsj.com on the emerging AI price wars: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

The AI Price War Is Here, Piling Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic

Startups and tech giants alike are mixing and matching AI models to avoid the premium prices charged by industry leaders

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🚨📰Our 2026 Department Newsletter is here!📰🚨 🔗 Read about some of our faculty, staff, students, researchers, and alumni’s remarkable accomplishments from this past academic year here: tr.ee/g4Zb5l8y09. #ChE #ChemE #ChemicalEngineering @columbiaseas.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Today we welcome the 21st president of Columbia University, Jennifer L. Mnookin. As she becomes part of our community, join her for a look at Columbia’s spirit of discovery. Read President Mnookin's message: https://president.columbia.edu/news/first-day-message-president-jennifer-l-mnookin

A First Day Message From President Jennifer L. Mnookin | Office of the President

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Congrats to Associate Professor Tal Danino, who has been named a 2026 Lotus Award recipient by the Pershing Square Foundation — part of $6 million in new funding supporting eight pioneering ovarian cancer researchers across the U.S. Read more: https://bwnews.pr/4xfn5Tp

Looking for fresh insights from leading researchers during Tech Week? Join us on June 2 for an afternoon exploring how research, engineering, and entrepreneurship come together to drive innovation. bit.ly/49VzjpY

Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Engineering in the US · Luma

Join the Hellenic Institute of Advanced Studies and Columbia University and the Athens Global Center for an afternoon exploring how cutting-edge research,…

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In a paper published today in Nature Neuroscience, researchers led by Nima Mesgarani have shown for the first time that brain-controlled hearing technology can help people single out one conversation in a crowd in real time.

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Hearing aids amplify all incoming sound, and so struggle with noisy surroundings. Brain-controlled hearing tech from Nima Mesgarani, Vishal Choudhari & team could lead to a new generation of hearing systems that help people single out a voice in a crowd. youtube.com/shorts/TONWQ...

Hearing aids amplify all incoming sound, and so struggle with noisy surroundings. Brain-controlled hearing tech from Nima Mesgarani, Vishal Choudhari & team could lead to a new generation of hearing systems that help people single out a voice in a crowd. youtube.com/shorts/TONWQ...

Can Mind-Reading Tech Help People Hear Better?

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⏰ Reminder: Apply soon! IICD Intensive Workshop on Generative AI & Optimal Transport for Single-Cell Data Integration @ Columbia 📅 July 6–10, 2026 (NYC) 🎯 Grad students & postdocs 🚨 Deadline: April 10 (5 PM ET) 🔗 bit.ly/IICDWorkshop2026

Congrats Ioana Lia, @columbiaseas.bsky.social PhD student in @elhamazizi.bsky.social & @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social groups, on an IICD Travel Award to attend @fusionconf.bsky.social, presenting “Multi-omics characterization of tumor-microbe spatiotemporal interactions."

Tropical thunderstorms can destabilize solar-powered grids. New research, published today in Nature Communications from Markus Schläpfer's lab, shows that parked electric vehicles can balance these fluctuations without massive infrastructure projects. bit.ly/41S4m1u

Byron Cook, founder of Amazon’s Automated Reasoning Group and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, will share how Amazon Web Services (AWS) is combining the power of generative AI with formal reasoning in the next Lecture Series in AI. https://bit.ly/4v9zerD

Join us on May 5 for the 2026 PRI Innovation Forum — a one-day conference in partnership with the Preparedness & Recovery Institute, focused on scalable solutions and sustainable partnerships for hyperlocal public health preparedness and response. Register by April 24: https://bit.ly/47F5Csc

Can AI really understand literary nuance? A team led by Computer Science prof. Kathleen McKeown tested today's LLM models using unpublished short stories, evaluated by the short story authors themselves. The result? A clearer picture where AI still falls short. https://bit.ly/4chOFXm

Join @datascicolumbia.bsky.social for DAX 2026 on April 14! Explore AI innovations, hear expert panels on privacy, safety, & governance, and see live demos at the Innovation Showcase. Build your AI network. Secure your seat: dax2026.eventbrite.com @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Congratulations to Noah Bergam (Blumberg lab) from @columbiaseas.bsky.social on receiving an IICD Travel Award to attend the ALT 2026 (Algorithmic Learning Theory) conference for a presentation of “Compressibility Barriers to Neighborhood-Preserving Data Visualizations,” a paper he co-authored.

IICD hosted “Next Generation Cancer Research – AI and Computation” on March 16, bringing together experts to explore how AI is reshaping oncology. From single-cell analysis to generative models, the future of cancer research is computational. 🔬💻 Read more: bit.ly/40PHlvR

We’re 3 days out from the deadline. Applications for the Gotham Foundry NYC Advanced Materials Pitch Day close this Friday, March 27! This program is designed to help early-stage scientific innovators master the art of the technical pitch. Apply today: bit.ly/4sqSrms gothamfoundrynyc.org