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Heat-related fatalities are projected rise steeply in Manhattan due to warming climate.

At Hathaway Brown School, an honors class called Global Scholars requires a student to pick a topic of study that has an international focus.

New York City has capped off a month of hate crimes - which included the vandalizing of Jewish families' homes on Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Columbia University football player grabbing an Asian student and using ethnic slurs against him, and the beatings of two gay couples in midtown - with an incident even more terrible than the ones that ... (more)

Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a fellowship that can only be awarded to White students from Iowa.

Wyandotte Community Theatre will perform its final production of the 2012 - 2013 60th anniversary season this month.

This time the painting was Monet's The Japanese Footbridge , an impressionist masterpiece depicting lush gardens and a lily pond.

When the American Psychiatric Association releases its new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -- DSM-5 -- this weekend, lots of journalists and commentators will refer to it as "psychiatry's bible." "Bible implies that it's been handed down by some deity as the absolute truth," says Michael First , a psychiatrist at Columbia ... (more)

A new report from the Columbia University Water Center, in conjunction with Veolia Water and Growing Blue, reveals that businesses and cities in some of America's most iconic regions are now under even greater risk of water scarcity .

This Forum brings together expertise in international law, humanitarian relief, diplomacy and military doctrine to explore the efficacy of post war tribunals and other international efforts to repair and reconstruct societies in the aftermath of civil wars and mass violence.

Miss Gruver, daughter of Michael and Mary Jane Gruver, Taberg, has an academic average of 98.70. She has completed several advanced classes, including AP English literature, AP physics, AP European history, Syracuse University Project Advance Calculus, Spanish 4, choir, and music theory 4. Based on her SAT scores, in which she scored a perfect 800 ... (more)

Columbia University is seeking to alter the 1920 charter of one of its graduate school fellowships which is still limited "to persons of the Caucasian race," though the fellowship has not been granted in years.

The Brick Theater, Inc., in association with Stephanie La ne, presents Lighthouse Triptych as part of Sound Scape, a festival of theatrical sound design, running June 8 at 5 p.m., June 9 at 6 p.m., June 13 at 7 p.m., June 16 at 8 p.m. and June 26 at 9 p.m. Lighthouse Triptych is a dance-music-theater performance inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel, ... (more)

Columbia University professor Joseph Massad has been at it for years, but for some reason, his latest op-ed for Al Jazeera finally made many people sit up and pay attention to Massad's relentless efforts to taint Israel and Zionism with preposterous Nazi-comparisons and claims of Nazi-collaboration. Popular columnist Jeffrey Goldberg tweeted ... (more)

Despite significant advances in neurology and imaging, researchers still don't have simple lab tests for diagnosing patients with mental disorders.

The two-hour live Town Hall event, Superstorm Sandy: A Live Town Hall, airs tonight on NJTV , New Jersey's public television network, THIRTEEN in New York City, WLIW21 in Long Island, and WHYY-TV in Philadelphia, and available online at SandyTownHall.org will feature experts fielding questions before live studio audiences at Monmouth University's ... (more)

"We have an obsession with quality control," says singer and guitarist Ezra Koenig over lunch at Toronto's Thompson Hotel.

After weeks of rolling without a winner, the Powerball jackpot has once again ballooned in time for its Wednesday drawing, an estimated $360 million jackpot considered the third largest Powerball jackpot and the... Arctic states have agreed to let nations that are located nowhere near the Earth's north to become observers to their diplomatic ... (more)

A Dutch sociologist has been awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias social sciences prize for her work in the field of globalization and urban sociology.

It buys a compound that is four and a third acres of lush gardens, fountains and 150 feet of oceanfront.

Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a 93-year-old trust earmarked for white students from Iowa.