Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Included in this assault are Dartmouth's 47 point loss to Texas A&M, Columbia's 40 point defeat by Georgetown, and Harvard's own 44 point drubbing at the hands of George Washington...
Yale (1-5, 5-13) and Columbia (0-6, 3-15) round out this weekend's action with a head-to-head battle for the cellar-dweller position Friday night...
...three years, I might stunt my growth. Harvard does not seem concerned about that. The system does not fret about developmentally stunted students. In this way, we are antithetical to Brown which encourages its student body to indulge in its pangs to learn about road-less-traveled type subjects. Columbia is also very different; the student body spends the first two years learning a highly structured Core and only later decides upon a major which consumes only one quarter of its courseload...
...neurons in the spinal cord and the brain. Like a strong scent carried by the wind, the protein encoded by the hedgehog gene (so called because in its absence, fruit-fly embryos sprout a coat of prickles) diffuses outward from the cells that produce it, becoming fainter and fainter. Columbia University neurobiologist Thomas Jessell has found that it takes middling concentrations of this potent morphing factor to produce a motor neuron and lower concentrations to make an interneuron (a cell that relays signals to other neurons, instead of to muscle fibers, as motor neurons...
...discovery of the CREB amplifier, more than any other, links the developmental processes that occur before birth to those that continue long after. For the twin processes of memory and learning in adult animals, Columbia University neurophysiologist Eric Kandel has shown, rely on the CREB molecule. When Kandel blocked the activity of CREB in giant snails, their brains changed in ways that suggested that they could still learn but could remember what they learned for only a short period of time. Without CREB, it seems, snails--and by extension, more developed animals like humans--can form no long-term memories...