Fall/Winter 2017

VP&S News

2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

For weeks, a new dog had been waking up P&S faculty member Joachim Frank early each morning, but during Nobel Week 2017, a ringing telephone was his wakeup call.

Zika: Not Just Yesterday’s News

Zika virus may have left the headlines, but research on it has continued at P&S since the first stories broke about the virus and its effects on fetuses.
Zika virus.

Deciphering the Columbia Seal, Motto, and More

This year is the 250th anniversary of the founding of Columbia’s medical school in 1767.
Seal of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Anniversary Soundtrack: “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and “Hit the Road, Jack”

The 250-year anniversary of P&S has been celebrated in big and small ways all year. Two of the leading events were an April outing to a Yankees game and an October bike ride to raise money for cancer research.

Anniversary Soundtrack: “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and “Hit the Road, Jack”

The Rockefeller Connection in the Medical Center’s Beginnings

In 1928, P&S and Presbyterian Hospital opened the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center at 168th Street, catalyzing the academic medical center movement.
Typed letters from the early 20th century.

Early Ophthalmological Instruction in New York

A small donation received this summer documents what may be the earliest known ophthalmological instruction in New York—and perhaps the nation.
Lectures on the Diseases of the Eye by Edward Delafield, MD.