Podcast Categories: Science & Medicine

This is this collection of lectures for the Intro Bio course taught at Columbia in the 2011-2012 academic year. Lectures 1-23 correspond to the fall semester while 24-48 correspond to the spring semester. Prerequisites: One year of college chemistry, or a strong high school chemistry background. Recommended as the introductory biology course for biology and related majors, and for premedical students. Fundamental principles of biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics. Cellular biology and development; physiology of cells and organisms. For supplementary materials, please reference the website for the first semester (https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu/access/content/group/BIOLC2005_001_2011_3/indexo.html) and the second semester (https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu/access/content/group/BIOLC2006_001_2012_1/misc2012/main-menu.html). If you have any questions, please contact the course administrator at: pnt2102@columbia.edu

The astrophysics program at the University of Chicago began with the building of the Yerkes Observatory, in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, where the entire Department was located. By the mid-sixties it had become clear that ties to the intellectual community on campus needed to be strengthened, and there was a shift of the center of mass from Wisconsin to Chicago. All of the academic programs are now on campus. Yerkes still provides laboratory facilities, contains the bulk of the library astronomy holdings outside of Crerar, and offers access to research telescopes and instruments for prototyping and instruction.