DOCTORAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: The qualifying examinations for the doctorate. Open only to certified candidates for the Ph.D. and Eng.Sc.D. degrees.
Doctoral candidates in chemical engineering are required to make an original investigation of a problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry, the results of which are presented in their dissertations. No more than 15 points of credit toward the degree may be granted when the dissertation is accepted by the department.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
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• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
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• Instructor: Jeffrey T Koberstein
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• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
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• Instructor: Edward F Leonard
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• Instructor: V. Faye McNeill
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• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
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• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
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• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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• Instructor: Alan West
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• Instructor: Michael Burke
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• 1-15 points

DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• 0 points

KOR LIT & COLONIAL MODERNITY

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Theodore Hughes
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

SEM-PLANT PHYSIOLOGY & ECOLOGY

SEM-PLANT PHYSIOLOGY & ECOPHYS

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• R 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin L Griffin
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 59 Info
• 1-3 points

PORTFOLIO PRESENTATION WORKSHP

This is a course during which the mid-career executives who are enrolled as students in the Executive MPA program exhibit and share professional work they have managed or directly created during their first year in the program. Materials are presented to the faculty and students for criticism, analysis, and potential improvement.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph da Costa Nunes
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• Instructor: Kweli E Washington
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• Instructor: William B Eimicke
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• Instructor: Arvid J Lukauskas
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• 3 points

GRADUATE SEMINAR

Pass/fail only. All doctoral students are required to successfully complete four semesters of the mechanical engineering seminar MECE E9500.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Karen Kasza
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• 0 points

RESEARCH FOR THE JSD DEGREE

• Department: Law
• 10-12 points

DIRECTED RESEARCH

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Maria Diuk-Wasser
  h-index: 36 Info
• 1-9 points

RES-MICROBIOL & IMMUNOLOGY II

Open only to microbiology students.  Students doing dissertation research register for this course, as well as students who are rotating through laboratories of staff members.

• Department: Microbiology
• Instructor: Lorraine S Symington
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• 4-12 points

GUIDED STUDY IN RESEARCH I

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Adriana Arcia
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• Instructor: Bobbie Berkowitz
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• 3 points

GUIDED STUDY IN RESEARCH I

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Bobbie Berkowitz
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• Instructor: Walter O Bockting
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• Instructor: Mary W Byrne
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• Instructor: Dawn Dowding
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• Instructor: Kathleen T Hickey
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• Instructor: Judy Honig
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• Instructor: Haomiao Jia
  h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Elaine Larson
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• Instructor: Jacqueline C Merrill-Matzner
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• Instructor: Mary Mundinger
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• Instructor: Lusine Poghosyan
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• Instructor: Tawandra Rowell-Cunsolo
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• Instructor: Rebecca B Schnall
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• Instructor: Jingjing Shang
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• Instructor: Arlene M Smaldone
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• Instructor: Patricia Stone
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• 3 points

GUIDED STUDY IN RESEARCH I

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Jean-Marie Bruzzese
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• Instructor: Maureen George
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• Instructor: Michelle L Odlum
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• Instructor: Kenrick D Cato
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• Instructor: Eileen J Carter
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• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Supervised directed readings and literature review in areas relevant to a student's research program.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Joshua A Drew
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• 1-6 points

S ANTITRUST IN ACTION

• Department: Law
• 2 points

TOPICS IN METAPHYSICS

NOMINALISM

• Department: Philosophy
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISION

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• 0 points

S FEDERALISM

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Jessica J Bulman
  h-index: 14 Info
• 2 points

MOL PHARM: FR MEMBRANE-NUCLEUS

Required for all graduate students in pharmacology.
Prerequisite:
familiarity with basic biochemistry and molecular biology. Introduction to molecular approaches to target identification and drug development and delivery for cellular and subcellular processes that contribute to human disease. The principles of drug-receptor interactions; ion channels as molecular targets of neurohormones and drugs; structure and function of G-protein coupled receptors; cytoplasmic signaling molecules including receptor and non-receptor tyrosine kinases and serine-threonine kinases; neuro-psychopharmacology; the pharmacology of inflammation; and novel approaches to gene-targeted pharmacology. Integration of molecular processes and human disease including cancer, neuro degenerative disease; cardiovascular disease, and psychiatric disorders is stressed.

• Department: Pharmacology
• TR 10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

RESEARCH IN CMBS II

Open only to students in the Integrated Program.

• Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
• 3-12 points

S.MASS INCARCERATION

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Brett Dignam
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• 3 points

IMPLEMENTATION SCI-LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES

• Department: Population and Family Health
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashwin Vasan
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• 1.5 points

RSRCH ETHCS&RESP; CONDUCT-RSRCH

• Department: Population and Family Health
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John Santelli
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• 1-2 points

PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR ANALYSTS

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• M 11 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• 0 points

WORKS OF WINICOTT

WORK OF WINNICOTT

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• 0 points

RES DESIGN & MGMT IN GLOB HLTH

• Department: Population and Family Health
• R 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Cassie Landers
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• 1.5 points

PRIN/POLICY-GLOB HLTH/HUM SYS II

PRIN/POL-GLOB HLTH/HUM SYST II

• Department: Population and Family Health
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Wessells
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• 1.5 points

REDUCING MAT DEATH W SYS THINK

• Department: Population and Family Health
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Helen de Pinho
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• 3 points

Lessons Unlearned in Humanitarian Asst

Less Unlearn in Hum Asst

• Department: Population and Family Health
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Craig A Spencer
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• 1.5 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR

All matriculated graduate students are required to attend the seminar as long as they are in residence. No degree credit is granted. The seminar is the principal medium of communication among those with biomedical engineering interests within the University. Guest speakers from other institutions, Columbia faculty, and students within the Department who are advanced in their studies frequently offer sessions.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 0 points

RESIDENCY FOR DOCTOR-NURS PRACTICE

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Susan M Doyle-Lindrud
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• 5 points

DISSERTATION WORKSHOP

DISSERTARTION WORKSHOP

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eliza Zingesser
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

DNP RESIDENCY SCHOLAR

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Susan M Doyle-Lindrud
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• 0 points

DOCTOR OF NURSING PRAC I

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Debra Miller-Saultz
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• 2 points

FIELD EXP: DOCTOR NURS PRAC I

FIELD EXP: DOCTOR-NURS PR

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Susan M Doyle-Lindrud
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• 1 points

FIELD EXP:DOCTOR-NURS PRAC II

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Susan M Doyle-Lindrud
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• 1 points

SEM: DOCTOR OF NURSING PRAC I

SEM: DR OF NURS PRAC I

• Department: Nursing
• F 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline S Corcoran
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• Instructor: Debra Miller-Saultz
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• 1 points

THESIS RESEARCH

Independent nutrition research arranged in conjunction with one of the faculty.  This forms the basis for the M.S. thesis.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Sharon R Akabas
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• 3 points

ADV RESEARCH METHOD & ANALYSIS

An advanced seminar for doctoral students in public health and the social sciences. The course objective is to provide students with instruction and hands-on experience in applying methods of quantitative analysis to research problems in social sciences with an emphasis on public health, health care and health behaviors.Topics covered include formulation of research questions and hypotheses, issues in complex sample design, measurement of variables, specification and estimation of single equations and systems of simultaneous equations to model casual relationships. Combines didactic lectures and active participation of students in computer labs and class presentations. Requirements center on analysis of a single data base provided by instructors. Students devise a research study and work in small groups to investigate the problem with the class  data base.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• F 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter A Messeri
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• 3 points

Funding and Grantsmanship for Research and Career Development Activities

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

This course is offered to all Columbia University students, post-doctoral scientists, clinical fellows, new investigators, faculty, and administrators. Topics covered include: (1) Types of funding vehicles and review processes for research, career development, and training activities; (2) Different types of funding agencies (e.g. government agencies, foundations, voluntary health organizations, professional societies, and industry); (3) Clinical trials; (4) Gifts and development; (5) Planning and organizing a research proposal (NIH application used as a reference); (6) Planning and organizing career development and fellowship applications (NIH applications used as references); (7) University internal review procedures; (8) Identifying sources of funding; (9) Panel discussion with experienced researchers addressing the practice of seeking grant support; (10) and Presentation by a faculty member with significant experience as a reviewer of government and non-government grant applications.

• Department: Medicine
• R 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jaime S Rubin
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• 1 points

INDEP STUDY-CLIN DOCTORATE-NURS

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Susan M Doyle-Lindrud
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• 1-8 points

DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION

A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration for APAM E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Guillaume Bal
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Simon Billinge
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 75 Info
• Instructor: Allen H Boozer
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Mark A Cane
  Wikipedia h-index: 99 Info
• Instructor: Siu-Wai Chan
  h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Andrew Cole
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Qiang Du
  Wikipedia h-index: 67 Info
• Instructor: Alexander Gaeta
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: James Im
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• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
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• Instructor: Michael E Mauel
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Ismail C Noyan
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3-12 points

DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION

A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration for APAM E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Ismail C Noyan
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Richard M Jr. Osgood
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• Instructor: Aron Pinczuk
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• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Amiya K Sen
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• Instructor: Adam H Sobel
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3-12 points