Upcoming Events

The Environmental Health Sciences Department will host its weekly seminar on February 16, 2026. Collin Kather and Brittany Shea will be presenting, titles TBA. Join us in person in ARB 1101 or via Zoom. In-person attendance is only available to Columbia affiliates. Affiliates outside of Columbia are welcome to attend via Zoom.

Category is: confidence, creativity, and community. You’re invited to The Art of the Vogue, an immersive dance and high-energy workshop celebrating Black History Month through ballroom culture and voguing. This supportive space invites participants to explore self-expression and storytelling while learning how performance, identity, and the rich traditions of Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ communities intersect. Led by Jonovia Chase, Executive Producer of the Netflix film I’m Your Venus, the workshop will highlight how ballroom has shaped Black social justice movements and its cultural significance. In the session, you'll engage in guided movement, build runway skills through hands-on practice, and tap into presence and realness. Select clips from I’m Your Venus will deepen appreciation for this artform. All experience levels are welcome. This is a supportive and affirming space designed to encourage you to move, laugh, and serve with extra energy!  Jonovia Chase Bio Jonovia Chase is a multi-talented artist, producer, runway icon, and cultural force based in New York City. As co-organizer of House Lives Matter, she advances intersectional justice through advocacy and partnerships. She is a founding member of the Venus Pellagatti Xtravaganza House Project, which secured landmark status for the Jersey City home featured in Paris Is Burning and supports housing, healthcare, and education for trans and LGBTQ+ New Jerseyans. Chase is a member of the Kiki House of Juicy Couture and NYC Mother of the Legendary House of Xclusive Lanvin. Her work has been featured by ArtsWestchester, City Lore, the Hetrick-Martin Institute, the NYS Department of Health, and SESC São Paulo. She is executive producer of I’m Your Venus, co-curator of Fem Queen Honors at the Apollo Theater, and co-curator of Legendary Looks, named by The New York Times as the best art of 2025. Registration needed, CUID required. This event is part of The Graduate Initiative for Inclusion and Engagement and was designed with the needs of students from backgrounds historically facing barriers to higher education in mind, including BIPOC and first-generation students. All students are welcome.   What if I need accommodations? Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require accommodations to attend an event at Columbia University, please contact Disability Services (disability@columbia.edu or 212-854-2388) at least 10 days in advance of the event. Will my photo be taken? Photographs and video may be taken at this event. By taking part in this event, you grant the organizers full rights to use the resulting images and to maintain in perpetuity copies of such recording in the collections of Columbia University. If you do not wish to be photographed, please inform an event organizer. By registering and attending this event, you agree to abide by the Rules of University Conduct.

Injury Epidemiology Unit Seminar   Firearm Injury and Violence Risks among Asian Americans: National Survey and Photovoice to Inform Interventions   Hsing-Fang Hsieh, PhD, MPH Research Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity, School of Public Health University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Tsu-Yin Wu, PhD, Professor, Director of PhD Program, School of Nursing, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI   February 23, 2026 1-2pm   Also on zoom.   Location Hammer Health Sciences Building Room LL110 701 West 168th Street New York, NY 10032  

  The Twenty-four Hour Economy or Rolled-up Sidewalks: Trends in Work Timing and Their Causes We demonstrate nearly steady trends from 1973-2023 in the U.S. in the timing of when people work for pay, away from evening and night hours toward “usual” daytime hours. The trend is related to changes in rising educational attainment, to increased real incomes, and the increased wage premium for undesirable work times—evenings and nights—that we document. The trend exists in all major industries except retail, in which changes in technology biased work away from daytime hours. The trend was accelerated by the sharp increase in telework that occurred after the Covid pandemic, an increase that was especially concentrated during daytime hours. While we observe the same phenomenon in France from 1966 to 2010, we do not in the U.K. from 1974-2015, arguably because of the very sharp decline in unionization in the U.K. and the changes in retailing. Daniel S. Hamermesh is an economist whose research has concentrated on time use, labor demand, discrimination, academic labor markets and unusual applications of labor economics (to beauty, sleep and suicide). He authored Labor Demand, The Economics of Work and Pay, Economics Is Everywhere, Beauty Pays, Spending Time and a wide array of articles in labour economics in the leading general and specialized economics journals.