Summer Research Program for Science Teachers
New York City, NY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Summer Research Program offers a series of seminars for Program Participants and Alumni. DVDs of the lectures are free of charge to Program Participants and Alumni.

Others may obtain DVDs of the lectures by sending $10 for EACH requested lecture. Please mail your request and payment to: Summer Research Program, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, Room 11-444, New York, New York 10032.

Make check or money order payable to: Columbia U., Dept. of Physiology and be sure to specify if you prefer a VHS copy. DVDs/VHS tapes are shipped by USPS Priority Mail. Please allow up to 2 weeks for delivery.

All recordings between 1993 and 2004 are recorded in VHS format and will be converted to DVD unless otherwise specified.

  1. Feeding the Next 2.6 Billion People, Dr. Dickson Despommier - Recorded: August 20, 2007 (55 minutes)
  2. Exploring Antarctica: Then and Now (1966-2006), Dr. Samuel C. Silverstein - Recorded: August 6, 2007 (65 minutes)
  3. Preparing for Megadisastors: Why the U.S. Remains Unprepared & What Can Be Done Now, Dr. Irwin Redlener - Recorded July 16, 2007 (79 minutes)
  4. Climate Change: State of the Science, Dr. Radley Horton - Recorded: July 9, 2007 (52 minutes)
  5. Drug du Jour: A Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking, Dr. Carl Hart - Recorded: August 21, 2006 (52 minutes)
  6. Urban Sustainability: From Cradle to Grave, Dr. Dickson Despommier - Recorded: August 7, 2006 (73 minutes)
  7. How Your Brain Works.....or NOT!, Dr. Darcy Kelley - Recorded: July 31, 2006 (47 minutes)
  8. Exploring Antarctica's Highest Peaks, Dr. Samuel C. Silverstein - Recorded: July 17, 2006 (54 minutes)
  9. The Evolving Avian Flu Story, Dr. Ralph Richart - Recorded: July 10, 2006 (69 minutes)
  10. Human Population, Dr. John Bongaart - Recorded: August 22, 2005
  11. Vertical Farming, Dr. Dickson Despommier - Recorded: August 15, 2005 (57 minutes)
  12. Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections, Dr. Ian Lipkin - Recorded: August 1, 2005 (81 minutes)
  13. Historical Research on Individual and Group Decision Making in Grasslands Agriculture, Sabine Marx & Roberta Balstad - Recorded: August 1, 2005 (73 minutes)
  14. Understanding Cognitive Events Using fMRI, Dr. Joy Hirsch - Recorded: August 16, 2004 (93 minutes)
  15. Sparks of Discovery: From Lab Bench to Patient's Bed...and Back Again, Drs. Stephan Mayer & Marek Mirski - Recorded: August 9, 2004 (99 minutes)
  16. Poilly-le-Fort, May 1881. The Anthrax Experiments of Pasteur, Chamberland and Roux, Dr. Richard Kessin - Recorded: July 19, 2004 (55 minutes)
  17. Living With Electromagnetic Fields. Are Cell Phones Safe?, Dr. Martin Blank - Recorded: July 19, 2004 (53 minutes)
  18. Where Do New Infectious Diseases Come From?, Dr. Dickson Despommier - Recorded: August 11, 2003 (85 minutes)
  19. Paradigms Found & Paradigms Lost, Dr. Nicholas Turro - Recorded July 28, 2003 (71 minutes)
  20. How Superman Sees the Stars, Dr. David Helfand - Recorded July 7, 2003 (70 minutes)
  21. Stem Cells: Science, Policy, and Ethics, Dr. Gerald Fischbach - Recorded August 19, 2002 (90 minutes)
  22. Bioterrorism: The Invisible Enemy, Dr. Phyllis Della-Latta - Recorded August 5, 2002 (67 minutes)
  23. The Effects of Temperature on Respiration: What Can Biosphere 2 Teach Us About the Forests of New York and New Zealand?, Dr. Kevin Griffin - Recorded: July 29, 2002 (63 minutes)
  24. Polar Bears Don't Play Nintendo: Enrichment Programs in Modern Zoos, Dr. Don Moore - Recorded: July 22, 2002 (62 minutes)
  25. The West Nile Virus: Deja Vu All Over Again, Dr. Dickson Despommier - Recorded: July 8, 2002
  26. Watching the Mind at Work, Dr. Joy Hirsch - Recorded: August 20, 2001 (72 minutes)
  27. The West Nile Story, Dr. Dickson Despommier - Recorded: August 13, 2001 (78 minutes)
  28. How Humans Defend Against Bacterial Infections, Dr. Samuel Silverstein - Recorded: July 30, 2001 (82 minutes)
  29. Reflections on Dolphin Communication & Cognition, Dr. Diana Reiss - Recorded: July 16, 2001 (78 minutes)
  30. How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Genome Project, Dr. Joel Buxbaum - Recorded: July 9, 2001 (84 minutes)
  31. Symbiosis Ecology of Reef-Building Coral, Dr. Andrew Baker - Recorded: August 21, 2000 (67 minutes)
  32. Viruses: Friend or Foe, Dr. Hamish Young - Recorded: August 14, 2000 (86 minutes)
  33. Self Assembled Nano Scale Materials, Dr. Charles Michael Drain - Recorded: July 31, 2000 (67 minutes)
  34. Gene Therapy, Dr. Ronald Crystal - Recorded: July 24, 2000 (66 minutes)
  35. X-Ray Vision for the 21st Century, Dr. David Helfand - Recorded: July 17, 2000 (77 minutes)
  36. Beta Oxidation of Unsaturated Fatty Acids, Dr. Horst Schulz - Recorded: July 10, 2000 (51 minutes)
  37. The Science of Substance Abuse Treatment, Dr. Herbert Kleber - Recorded: August 16, 1999 (109 minutes)
  38. The Cage Effect: From the Gas Phase to the Molecular Solvent Cage to the Supra Molecular Cage to the Super Duper Molecular Cage, Dr. Nicholas Turro - Recorded: August 2, 1999 (65 minutes)
  39. The Genome Project, Dr. Isidore Edelman - Recorded: July 26, 1999 (71 minutes)
  40. The World View From One Billionth of an Inch: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Molecular Adsorbates, Dr. George Flynn - Recorded: July 19, 1999 (65 minutes)
  41. HLA: Autoimmunity in HIV, Dr. Ned Braunstein - Recorded: July 12, 1999 (75 minutes)
  42. Astronaut Training, NASA Astronaut Fernando (Frank) Caldeiro - Recorded: August 18, 1998 (50 minutes)
  43. How Trichinella Spiralis Makes Itself At Home, Dr. Dickson Despommier - Recorded: August 10, 1998
  44. Synapse Formation in Developing Mouse Brain, Dr. Carol Mason - Recorded: August 3, 1998
  45. Antioxidants, Bioflavonoids, and Chalcones, Dr. Nanette Wachter-Jurcsak - Recorded: July 27, 1998 (81 minutes)
  46. White Blood Cells: How They Travel and How They Eat, Dr. Samuel Silverstein - Recorded: July 20, 1998 (82 minutes) NOTE: 1st 8 minutes audio loss
  47. Electromagnetic Fields in the Environment: An Update, Dr. Martin Blank - Recorded: July 13, 1998
  48. Disorders in Cell Circuitry in Human Cancer, Dr. I. Bernard Weinstein - Recorded: July 6, 1998 (76 minutes)
  49. The Evolution of Galaxies in Different Environments, Dr. Jacqueline Van Gorkom - Recorded: August 11,   1997 (67 minutes)
  50. Cytoskeletal Control of Intercellular Organelle Movement, Dr. Liza Pon - Recorded: August 4, 1997 (37 minutes)
  51. The Second Brain, Dr. Michael Gershon - Recorded: July 21, 1997 (98 minutes)
  52. The Tree as a Focal Point for Environmental Education, Dr. Dickson Despommier - Recorded: July 14, 1997 (93 minutes)
  53. Understanding the Chemistry of Electronic Materials, Dr. Stacey Bent - Recorded: July 7, 1997 (55 minutes)
  54. A New View of the Radio Universe, Dr. David Helfand - Recorded: August 12, 1996 (81 minutes)
  55. Using Computer Graphics to Study Protein Structure & Function, Dr. Barry Honig - Recorded: July 29, 1996 (67 minutes)
  56. Why Large Earthquakes Occur at Subduction Zones, Dr. Chris Scholz - Recorded: July 22, 1996
  57. Generating Male and Female Brains, Dr. Darcy Kelley - Recorded: July 15, 1996 (81 minutes)
  58. Repair of Double Strand Breaks in Mammalian Cell DNA, Dr. Hamisch Young - Recorded: August 7, 1995 (86 minutes)
  59. Earthquakes Happen When Expected and Not Expected, Dr. Leonardo Seeber - Recorded: July 10, 1995 (108 minutes)
  60. Parasite Control of Host Genomic Expression, Dr. Dickson Despommier - Recorded: August 15, 1994 (91 minutes)
  61. Fifty Years of Protein Phosphorylation, Dr. David Brautigan - Recorded: July 25, 1994
  62. Looking at Atoms & Molecules on the Surface of Materials, Dr. Brian Bent - Recorded: July 11, 1994 (42 minutes)
  63. Diseases Associated With Mitochondria, Dr. Eric Schon - Recorded: August 12, 1993 (82 minutes)
  64. Developmental Neurobiology, Dr. Carol Mason - Recorded: August 2, 1993