Topic: Oliver Sacks
isnare | 2010-01-09 11:40:57
Last year, I worked with a particularly gifted student applying to Hunter College High School (she got in, by the way). She was only 11 years old, but she had a fully adult level of reading comprehension and a desire to tackle interesting, sophisticated, and challenging material. At the same time, she was still a child and books written about ...
Getty Images | 2009-06-04 00:01:18
NEW YORK - JUNE 3: Neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks speaks at Columbia University June 3, 2009 in New York City. Dr. Sacks, who was appointed Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center in 2007, is the author of ...
AP Features | 2008-04-02 17:34:24
Five universities and museums throughout New York City will host the first World Science festival this spring. From May 28 to June 1, the festival will feature a dozen Nobel laureates, along with researchers, artists and writers at 15 venues around New York. Co-founder Brian Greene, a Columbia University physicist, said the five-day event will meet the need for a ...
