News & Events

Director Ramaswami to Chair GRC

July 14, 2016

Anu Ramaswami, Charles M. Denny Jr. Chair Professor of Science Technology and Environmental Policy and the Director of the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, was recently elected Vice Chair of the … Read more

New Faces to the SRN and One Farewell

July 12, 2016

Faculty Please join us in welcoming Gabriel Chan and Cali Curley to the Network’s team of faculty! Gabriel Chan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. He will … Read more

SRN Successfully Presents First Year Progress to NSF

July 06, 2016

June 30 and July 1, 2016 Our cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation allows us to present them with our progress annually. PI’s Anu Ramaswami, Trish Culligan, and Ted Russell, … Read more

Professor Ramaswami Interviewed by John Batchelor Show

June 09, 2016

June 2, 2016 The recently commentary in Science by SRN Professors, Anu Ramaswami, Patricia Culligan, and Ted Russell prompted The John Batchelor Show to interview Ramaswami on what it means … Read more

PIs Ramaswami, Russell, and Culligan co-author commentary in Science on smart sustainable healthy cities

May 26, 2016

“We must move beyond data to the systems-level decisions that we as a society must make to transition toward a smart, sustainable, and healthy urban future,” says SRN lead PI … Read more

Professor Botchwey to Present at GIS and Health Symposium

April 27, 2016

The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), in partnership with the American Public Health Association (APHA) is hosting the 2016 GIS and Health Symposium “Mapping the Way to Healthy Communities”. Dr. Nisha Botchwey and Ph.D. … Read more

Paper Published in Journal of Infrastructure Systems

April 25, 2016

SRN Director, Anu Ramaswami, and researcher, Mark Reiner, recently published a paper in the Journal of Infrastructure Systems on What is Remedial Secondary Infrastructure? Implications for Infrastructure Design, Policy for Sustainability, and Resilience … Read more

Virtual Forum: Elliott, Motzny and Foster discuss Water-Wastewater and Stormwater-Green Infrastructure, Pt. 2

April 20, 2016

Join us Friday, 4/21, for a discussion on: Water-Wastewater and Stormwater-Green Infrastructure, Pt.2: Research on Environment, Health, and Well-Being for Urban Green Infrastructure Led by: Robert Elliott and Amy Motzny (Columbia University, Advisor: … Read more

Columbia Students and Faculty Complete First Detroit Collaboration

January 25, 2016

Written by Kirk Finkel and Richard Plunz, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation The Columbia University Urban Ecology Studio is an advanced design course for students in … Read more

SRN Faculty and Students to Present at Food-Energy-Water Nexus Conference in D.C.

January 15, 2016

The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) is hosting its 16th annual conference in Washington, D.C. on January 19-21.  This year’s topic is the Food-Energy-Water Nexus.  Participants will … Read more