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Speaker Series with Scholars

John Ma, Professor of Classics, teaching a class of alumni

2017 Scott Rudd

The Columbia Undergraduate Scholars Program (CUSP) provides named scholars with enhanced academic and cultural opportunities.

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Past Presentations

Robert O’Meally: 'This Music Demanded Action': The Challenge of the Core
Monday, August 29, 2016

George Michelsen Foy: Finding North: How Navigation Makes us Human
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Gareth Williams: Navigating Life: The Odyssey
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Dimitris Christopoulos: Is it Really a Crisis or Just Another EU Failure? Contradictions and Dangers of the Dominant European Discourse on Migration.
Monday, October 10, 2016

David Helfand: Navigating the Misinformation Age
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Kaitlyn Parkins: “Cool Jobs” Nocturnal Navigators: Understanding Migration Patterns of New York City's Birds and Bats
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Jeff Kluger and Alan Stern: Cosmic Navigation
Monday, November 14, 2016

Greg Milner: Time To Go
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Steve Bellovin: Software and the Problem of Complexity
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Allison Cuneo: “Cool Jobs”
Monday, March 6, 2017

Lincoln Paine: A Map and a Sense of Time: A Guide to Navigating the Global Past
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Kathy Nagel: Olfactory Navigation in Fruit Flies
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Beau Shaw: Navigation, Education, and Democracy in Plato's Republic
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Professor Gareth D. Williams: What's the Score with the Core? — "CUSP/ASP Annual NSOP Lecture"
Friday, August 31, 2018

Professor Bernard E. Harcourt: On the American Counterrevolution: The Long View of History in Politics and Law — “CUSP Inaugural Lecture”
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Gareth Williams: The Core and More: The What, Why and How of a Columbia Education
Friday, August 30, 2019

Ravi Kailas and Cathy Guo: The Striver vs. The Witness: An Entrepreneur's Search for Value
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

J. Ralph: Evolocean
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Katja Maria Vogt: Disagreement and Relativism
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Scott B. Kaufman: The Light vs. The Dark Triad of Personality
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Brad Garton: Computer Music: A Dissonance of Disciplines
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Jonny Podell: Consciousness Is the New Rock 'N' Roll
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Jason Flom: Why I Care About Criminal Justice
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Linda P. Fried: Public Health's Success - Our Longer Lives - Requires Changing Public Health
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Robert G. O'Meally: Antagonistic Cooperation: Dissonance, Jazz and American Culture
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Venkat Venkatasubramanian: How Much Income Inequality Is Fair?
Monday, March 2, 2020

To learn more and/or register for these events, contact us at ccalumni@columbia.edu