paul lives on long island and commutes daily to manhattan, where he works at columbia university. paul learned he had usher syndrome while attending college when he was 19 years old. at this point in his life, he has only a pinhole of vision left and uses a cane to assist him with travel. with usher syndrome, your vision is always changing, especially as you get older. some of these changes will have a significant impact on your life. i call these changes hits. for example, in your teen years, you start to experience night blindness where you lose the ability to travel independently or safely at nighttime. narrator: lauren is 13 and, like others with usher syndrome, is experiencing early night blindness. often, this is exhibited by a child tripping or bumping into things or, in general, being viewed as clumsy. i did notice that what i thought was her balance wasn't where it should be and that she seemed to be having some trouble seeing peripherally, but what was happening again now is, the ophthalmologists, too, were not seeing what i was seeing and basically were just telling me,

in barnard's case, the other school is right across the street -- columbia university. >> there are columbiawere not allowed to attend columbia. they weren't allowed to vote, either. nowadays, most schools are co-ed, meaning they accept both male and female students. but even though many doors have been opened to women, barnard is here to open more. >> well, i think that barnard has just a very long history of providing leadership opportunities for women and really pushing women out there in the working worlds. and that's true, i think, from a number of the women's colleges. >> and here's the proof -- only 2% of all college grads come from women's colleges, but listen to this. 20% of the women in congress came from single-sex colleges. graduates from women's colleges are twice as likely to earn phds, and they are more likely to go to medical school. of the 50 top-ranking women in business, an amazing 30% came from -- you guessed it -- women's schools. dean fondiller told me that at a college like barnard, women get used to being leaders, and that carries them forward into science, government

ppppp harlow takes a look at one of columbia university's most popular classes... risk m.ement. --reporter pkg-as follows -- (nats)a jam-packed house for a grad course at columbia in, of all things, financial this class, can you please ke make up your mind shortly? who are still trying to hope to be the future titans of wall street...(nats)what could be their golden what could be (nats)what could be their golden tiiket: studying quantitative risk management in the school's financial engineering program. (reporter): "what's the demand like for this class?" &p"oh, it's huge. the first two weeks of the semester, loads of students are sitting in the aisles, standing up. we can't take all the students".their textbookssmight as well be news clippings and baaance sheets from the financial crisis."if sooeone gave us the books of lehmannbrothers or bear stearns, then, i think, knowing what we know now, we could very well have realized something was wrong". "aig, i mean, they had a lot of credit default swaps. they were leveraging a lot too."(nats)to get that first job-- more than p

albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the new school in columbia universityd is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line teacher. a teacher, educators, researchers, writers, consultant, speaker. she is like a mother, auntie, big sister, all in one, for me. she has taught in canada, the caribbean, and the u.s. and has been involved in the development of teachers for two decades. she consults on anti-racist inclusion very and equitable education. she assists school districts and schools to continually restructure themselves for equitable outcomes for all students. the initiative put that puts race -- she designed the initiative tt puts race on the table. she is the virtual scholar for teaching for change. she is the author of "reality check," a major report o

scott small of columbia university. >> the spread idea is right.ould mean you might be able to prevent the spread and progression of alzheimer's which is really quite interesting. >> brains of people with alzheimer's contain tangles of a protein called tau thought to play a role in memory loss. they genetically engineered mice with tau in their brains and mapped its spread over 22 months. as the mice aged, tau spread from cell to cell destroying them as it moved. >> there was no -- an appreciation that tau is this executioner. it's the abnormality that really results in cell death and cell dysfunction. >> study co-author karen duff sauce says the findings raise hope for new therapies that would block tau. >> we are fascinated by the idea that it can spread from cell to cell and that allows us a range of interventions that can catch it as it's leaving one cell into another. >> it could take five more years of research before conclusions can be drawn. one red flag. there have been many approaches to fighting alzheimer's that seem to work in mice but

by the students of william archibald dunning back in the early part of the 20th century at columbia university. woodward would have been very happy for me to undertake a study of alabama during reconstruction. i began outlining what i might do with that. but at the same time two other things were going on. one was, of course, the sit-ins in greensboro, north carolina starting in 1960. the spillover in baltimore, which was a border state city at the time. the schools had been integrated under the leadership of david fisher's father, who was the superintendent of the baltimore school system, but many other facilities in baltimore and other parts of maryland were still segregated. this still was the jim crow era, although the end of the jim crow era. of course the civil rights movement had generated a lot of hostility and violence in the south especially in 1961 during freedom riders going through alabama and mississippi. i began to think twice about whether i wanted to go down and spend six months or a year in alabama county court houses and the state archives driving around the state with a car

king was shot and there were riots and that was followed by columbia university went up and mark rudd and the whole gang took it over. i remember the oregon primary and seeing bobby denky make that concession. we won. the first time the kennedys had lost an election. i was as close to him as i am to you. he brought his dog up and everything from california. very gracious to gene mccarthy who beat him. in the next week we were out of california because reagan had a disfavorite son. i was watching -- i was at home on the east side of new york and i got a call from jeff bell, and he said bobby kennedy's been shot. i called vice president nixon mr. nixon, and david and julie were over there and they'd been watching and nad already told him. and so from there i went to the convention in chicago for nixon after our convention. and i was p in chicago in the 19th floor of what we call the comrade hilton hotel after we'd been gassed down the street watching out the window. i was by myself comes after that. we all went to the windows and i saw the police come down balboa, michigan and balboa. t

scott small of columbia university. >> the spread idea is right, it would mean you might be able to prevent the spread and progression of alzheimer's which is really quite interesting. >> reporter: brains of people with alzheimer's contain tangles of a protein called tau, thought to play a role in memory loss. researchers genetically engineered mice with tau in their brains brains and mapped s spread over 22 months. as the mice aged, tau spread from cell to cell, destroying them as it moved. >> there's no-- an appreciation that tau, at the very least, is this sort of excutioner. it's the abnormality that results in cell death and dysfunction. >> reporter: coauthor karen duff said the finding raised hopes for new therapies that might block tau. >> we are fascinated by the idea it can spread from cell to seld and that allows a hole range of interventions that can catch it as it's leaving one cell into another. >> reporter: can this be a new therapy? we ask the chief medical officer at the alzheimer's association. >> that might be a useful therapeutic pathway, but there are many steps that hav

he's glen hubbard, dean of columbia university's graduate school of business. >> the employment situation for january set forth many high fives in washington, but there's a problem with america's job machine. instead of momentum, at the pace of job growth over the past two years, it will take us two more years just to get back to the number of jobs we had in december 2007. but, of course, we have more people now who could be looking for work. the ratio of employment to population has dropped about five percentage points since mid 2009, and that isn't getting better. the drop in the unemployment rate in the past two years has come from the fall in labor force participation, not from jobs for a given population. that's bad news, and it doesn't have to be that way. memo to washington: how about delivering fiscal sanity, promoting innovation and investment, making credit available to job creators and easing regulatory burden on business? i'm glenn hubbard. >> tom: today's toughest assignment went to our suzanne pratt. she spent the morning playing at the toy world's big annual event: toy fair

in social welfare from columbia university. dr. matthew mitchell is senior research fellow for economics at the mercatus center. his primary interests include economic freedom, growth, fiscal policy, public choice, and institutional economics. dr. mitchell currently serves on the joint advisory board for the commonwealth of virginia. dr. mitchell received his ph.d. from george mason university. he received his undergraduate degrees from arizona state university and i have no idea what the school colors are so we'll move on. let me again explain our lining system. i think most of you were here before. it's a green, yellow, red system. green when you start, yellow when you have a minute left, and red when you're out of time. please try to wrap up your testimony when you see that red light. finish your thought. and then we'll have a chance to ask questions. so we'll start -- we'll go in the same direction. miss johnson, you're recognized. >> thank you, chairman cline and distinguished members of the committee. i greatly appreciate the

i was due to speak at the school of journalism at columbia university the next morning, which i did, to a very hostile audience, as you might expect. that night i was to be on the dick cabbott show. also, one of those times when i was in vietnam, i got a call about midnight before we were going to leave to come back. i was there with brice harlow and with some congressmen and governor schafer and another governor and about midnight haig called me and said i think it would be good if you went over talk to the president of cambodia tomorrow. i said i can't because i'm supposed to talk to the president of south vietnam and bring these people back tomorrow. he said, you didn't hear me. i said you're going tomorrow. mine code was witness. henry's was wood chopper. anyway, so during the night every couple hours somebody would come in with some papers from the back channel to get me what i was supposed to do when i got through. i went out and decided i should have someone with me so i took governor schafer with me. we went on and he saw this small jet. i was surprised that four soldiers wit

and it's gaining popularity on college campuses like new york's columbia university. >> it looks intenset looks like one of those monster red bull drinks. >> i would try it during finals week. >> it's making the rounds on national tv but now new health concerns prompted a federal safety investigation. with the fda saying it will review information brought to the agency's attention about this product. and that they'll consider whether regulatory action is warranted. it is an investigation welcomed by some who could do shot after shot. >> it could come with some toxicity. you could mix it with alcohol in a social setting. >> reporter: senator chuck schumer wants to see aeroshot taken off the market. >> it's very possible that snorting caffeine is dangerous, particularly to a 12-year-old. there are no age limits on the product and certainly dangerous when used in combination with alcohol. >> reporter: but aeroshot's inventor says it's no more dangerous than drinking coffee and, in fact, comes this controlled doses. >> we are confident that as they look at the product that they will confirm

scott mall of columbia university. >> if it's right, you might be able to prevent the spread of alzheimer'sch is interesting. >> brains of people with all hiemers, include a protein thought to play a role in memory loss. researchers genetically engineered mice with this in their brains and mapped its spread over 22 months. as the mice aged, it spread from cell to cell destroying them as it moved. >> there's no -- an appreciation that at the very least, it's an executioner. it's the abnormality that really results in cell death and cell dysfunction. >> co-author karen duff say it raises hope for new therapies that would block it. >> it can spread from cell to cell and that allows us a whole rapping of intrange of interventions. >> it could take five more years of research before conclusions can be drawn. one red flag, there have been many approaches that seem to work in mice but didn't translate to humans. clearly, much more research is needed. that's not giving up the hope of the scientists. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >>> roseanne barr is getting into presidential politics. she's seek

he previously directed the center of democracy at georgetown university, taught at columbia university and is the author of the book, "authoritarianism in syria." and recently the author of "a policy brief from the brookings institution called upgrading authoritarianism" which i think to this day is the single best resource in understanding how arab regimes have responded to challenge these faced from below. i asked each of our speakers to speak about ten minutes and i'll ask them questions from the podium and we'll have some dialogue back and forth for a while. i might have a few remarks of my own to contribute, i usually do. and then we'll open it up to questions from the audience. for now, hassam, the floor is yours. could you come to the podium. >> always. >> we're standing up? >> yes, it's easier. >>> thank you all for coming, thanks, mark for putting this together. an inviting us to this discussion. i'm hoping the best part of the discussion will be actually the discussion afterwards. the q&a. it is perhaps absolutely impossible for me to say anything that i would like to say in

joined by louis shoval in new york he is a sociologist professor at and invited professor at columbia university in chicago we have david psychotic he is a professor of philosophy at loyola university chicago and in los angeles we go to tony katz he's a tea party organizer and a radio talk show host all right gentlemen cross talk rose and if i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it tony in los angeles you got up early as for this program so i'm going to go to you first why why has the middle class been suffering so much over the decades is it government policies that have done this to the middle class or is the middle class itself it's changed its values its structure and this is just the way of capitalism much the way it works that's there's been a myth about the middle class for a century and it's just something that's changing. first of all it's good to be here and let's not engage a conversation where we're blaming capitalism capitalism is not the problem capitalism is what allows people to thrive and survive and grow and allows for opportunities i'm never going t

safe and being a professor of economics at lebanese american university and foreign member of columbia university center for capitalism and society is most recently published article co-written with nobel laureate edmund phelps is titled blaming capitalism for corporatism safety and before last week's davos world economic forum founder klaus schwab said capitalism in its current form is no longer fits the world around us larry summers also at davos claiming we need to reform capitalism your thoughts what are they going to agree with them the will we have right now does not really fit the world around us where i would disagree with them is that they seem to think that what we have is a capitalist system although it is very clear for anybody who looks at what's going on that it's really not a couple system it's much more of a corporate a system and by a corporate a system i mean it's a system where the government controls the workings of the market economy in a sense of deciding who gets to produce what in a sense of putting priorities on economic production beyond the overstep on the individual fr