Dissatisfied with contract negotiations and bargaining committee, GWC-UAW student-workers vote to reject tentative agreement
Dissatisfied with contract negotiations and bargaining committee, GWC-UAW student-workers vote to reject tentative agreement Kathy Fang / Staff Photographer Student-workers say that the contract fell short on unit recognition; compensation; health care; and access to third-party, neutral arbitration for discrimination and harassment cases. By Talia Abrahamson | May 2, 2021, 11:05 PM
The tentative agreement reached between Columbia and the Graduate Workers of Columbia–United Auto Workers’ bargaining committee failed to pass on April 30. Student-workers voted 1,093-970 with 63-percent participation to continue negotiating, a process that will likely require further mobilization throughout the summer and fall semesters.
Comprehensive cell atlas shows how COVID-19 can lead to organ failure and death
Scientists from several hospitals and research centers have shown what happens in individual cells of patients who died of COVID-19. In a study published in
Nature, the researchers describe how infected cells from multiple organs exhibited a range of molecular and genomic changes.
They also saw signs of multiple, unsuccessful attempts by the lungs to repair themselves in response to respiratory failure, which is the leading cause of death in COVID-19 patients.
You really feel the tragedy of the disease when you see that result. The lung tries everything at its disposal, and it still can t fix itself. This was a very emotional study. We are grateful to the patients and families who agreed to donate tissue for COVID-19 research to help advance understanding of this devastating disease.
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The Broadway Haven Players cast at the curtain call for “The Music Man” (photo by Michael Hernandez’17)
The Broadway Haven Players, the theater company at Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, will perform a play live online for the first time. Performances of “Enron” from May 6 to 8 are open to the CUIMC community; tickets are available via EventBrite (pay what you can).
Auditions for the spring show were conducted online in March. “Enron” is the work of British playwright Lucy Prebble and follows the real-life story of how a leading energy company rose to power, culminating in one of the largest corporate scandals in history. Medical student Zach Verne, VP&S Class of 2024, will direct the performance.
New study reveals mechanisms that result in lethal COVID-19
A new study is drawing the most detailed picture yet of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lung, revealing mechanisms that result in lethal COVID-19, and may explain long-term complications and show how COVID-19 differs from other infectious diseases.
Led by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, the study found that in patients who died of the infection, COVID-19 unleashed a detrimental trifecta of runaway inflammation, direct destruction and impaired regeneration of lung cells involved in gas exchange, and accelerated lung scarring.
Though the study looked at lungs from patients who had died of the disease, it provides solid leads as to why survivors of severe COVID may experience long-term respiratory complications due to lung scarring.
Onscreen text reads:
The woman begins to sing the National Anthem.
Woman singing: O say can you see.
Screen cuts to view of the New York City skyline during the day.
Woman singing: By the dawn s early light.
Screen pans to Central Park.
Onscreen text reads: Vocal performance by Grace Victoria D’Haiti, Barnard College, 2021.
Screen pans over the Manhattan skyline, the Empire State Building, cuts to the skyline at night.
D’Haiti singing: What so proudly we hailed at the twilight s last gleaming.
Screen cuts to
The Thinker and other sculptures.
D’Haiti singing: Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight.