By Danny McAlindon | Illustrations by Davide Bonazzi
January 6, 2022
The work of Anne Taylor and her team honors the courageous past of women faculty, maintains a flourishing present, and keeps a determined eye on the challenges that remain.
Computer modeling of the omicron wave by Mailman's Jeffrey Shaman suggests case numbers may subside as quickly as they climbed, peaking by mid-January in New York City.
Anthony W. Ferrante Jr., MD, PhD, a longtime faculty member at Columbia, has been appointed associate director of research at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center.
Babies born during the pandemic’s first year—even to moms who did not have COVID during pregnancy—scored slightly lower on a screening test of social and motor skills compared to pre-pandemic babies.
In the marijuana industry, “the science is very far behind the marketing and the public consumption,” said Margaret Haney, director of the Cannabis Research Laboratory at Columbia University.
Vasan, a Columbia physician and epidemiologist, will become the 44th commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, effective March 2022.
