The study was designed to provide more comprehensive data about homicide rates among Black women, said Bernadine Waller, the paper’s lead author and a research fellow at Columbia University.
The Afternoon of Science series at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons continued Feb. 5 with presentations from Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics faculty.
“To find that Black women were murdered at a rate of six times that of white women was really pretty shocking,” says lead study author Bernadine Waller, a research fellow at Columbia University.
Kevin Gardner has been named chair of the Department of Pathology & Cell Biology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and pathologist in chief of NewYork-Presbyterian.
“We're behind in people understanding and really recognizing that [long COVID] does actually happen in children,” said Dr. Melissa Stockwell of Columbia University, who co-authored the report.
A study led by Columbia and Cornell researchers finds, surprisingly, that anticoagulants do not prevent recurrent strokes in people with one type of heart condition.
A group of students from VP&S and Mailman spent a day in Albany, meeting with legislators and other policymakers to lobby on issues of importance to the students.
