Frontiers of Science is a new one-semester course that integrates modern science into Columbia's famous Core Curriculum. The course includes lectures and seminar sections. On Mondays throughout the semester, four of Columbia's leading scientists will present a mini-series of three lectures each. During the rest of the week, Senior Faculty and Columbia Post-Doctoral Science Fellows (research scientists selected for their teaching abilities) will lead seminar sections of twenty-two students to discuss the lecture and its associated readings, plan and conduct experiments, and debate the implications of the most recent scientific discoveries. In 2004-5, topics include the evolution of human language, brain dynamics, global climate change, the nanoworld, and biodiversity. The principal objectives of Frontiers of Science are to engage students in the process of discovery by exploring topics at the forefront of science and to inculcate or reinforce the specific habits of mind that inform a scientific perspective on the world.

Nobel Laureate Horst Stormer will give two lectures entitled "Small Wonders, The World of Nano-science" as part of Frontiers of Science.

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