Dr. Robert Pollack

Professor of Biological Sciences,

Affiliated with: Center for Science and Society

749 Fairchild Center
Mail Code: 2419
New York, NY 10027

242 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS

Only select publications listed below
Name Published Date
Abstract 2366 Glass Half Full or Empty: Illuminating the Human Transcriptome - Inspiring Underserved High School Students with an Experiential Biology Laboratory Research Experience 2024
A Letter from Our Director 2022-2023 2023
A Letter from Our Director 2021-2022 2022
Are there any good experiments that should not be done? 2022
Tricentennial Project 2022
A dangerous, wrong or unneeded experiment? Don’t do it 2021
Behind the Veil: 60th Reunion Speech, Class of 1961 2021
Where is the Overlap of Jewish Identity and Jewish Ancestry 2021
A Conversation With a Coronavirus 2020
Celebrating Conversation: The University Seminars at 75 2020
Conversations with Don Shriver 2020
Out of Many, One: Collaborating is the Way to Accelerate COVID 19 Vaccine Development 2020
The Importance of Being Modest 2020
THE UNIVERSITY SEMINARS AT 75: AN ONGOING EXPERIMENT IN CONTINUITY WITH NOVELTY 2020
On the Statistical Mechanics of Life: Schrödinger Revisited 2019
Opinion: Develop Organoids, Not Chimeras, for Transplantation 2019
Opinion: Ethical Boundaries Needed on the Uses of Synthetic DNA 2019
Opinion: How to Define Life 2019
Rethinking Our Vision of Success 2019
Address to the Columbia College Class of 1958 on their 60th reunion 2018
How Not To Talk About Race And Genetics 2018
Letter From the Director 2018
The Science of One Life at a Time 2018
University Seminars: Letter from the Director 2018
You'll Never Get a Job in America 2018
Civic Engagement and Life at the end of life: four stories that lead to questions 2017
RCSS Journal 2016-2017 Director's Letter 2017
Inducing stable reversion to achieve cancer control 2016
Knowing vs. Seeing: Philosophy and Experience 2016
Speech to the Fifty-Fifth Reunion of the Columbia College Class of 1961 2016
Trinity Church: “Can Faith Broaden Reason?” 2016
“What do college students & nursing home residents take away from a summer immersed in palliative care?” 2016
A Look at Our Chapel Windows 2015
Chapter 21: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science 2015
Cutting Eugenics Out of CRISPR-Cas9 2015
Eugenics lurk in the shadow of CRISPR 2015
Tenth Anniversary Celebration In Memory of Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete 2015
The New SETI Initiative: Is There Intelligent Live on Earth? 2015
WHAT’S FAITH Got to Do WITH IT? 2015
Commemoration of Robert Belknap 2014
PREFACE: GENESIS ENGINES – WHY BOTHER 2014
Report to the University Senate 2014
The Embodied Self 2014
Where in This World is the Human Soul? 2014
Who You Really Are 2014
Why Is There a Naked Girl on a Lion At the Entrance to Low Rotunda? 2014
CAN FAITH BROADEN REASON? 2013
Foreword: Our Changing Journey to the End: Death, Dying and Bereavement in 21st Century America 2013
Letter to the editor: Spectator fails to properly address Frontiers incident 2013
The Religion of Science: Conquering the Unknowable | Dr. Robert Pollack 2013
Being Jewish Is More Mind Than Matter 2012
Bemidbar: Grasshoppers, Almonds, and the Anthropocene 2012
Letter to the Editor 2012
Mindfulness at the End of Life 2012
Molecular Biology: the Short Life of a New Field 2012
One Candle, One Life, One Planet: The Jewish Festival of Hanukkah and the Deep Meaning of Small Differences 2012
Bob Pollack ’61 Addresses the 50th Reunion Class 2011
Locating the Soul in an Age of Molecular Medicine 2011
Race and the Genetic Revolution - Chapter 2 2011
Surrendering Secrets 2011
The Whole Megillah: Purim, Queen Esther and Mordechai 2011
Be Strong, Be Trusting: Reading Psalm 27 in Elul 2010
I am, therefore I think 2010
On the place of religion in the doctor-patient relationship 2010
Ruth the Moabite, David the King, and the Fallacy of Biological Judaism 2010
The Great Commandment, Tao, and the Survival of Humanity 2010
Attending to the pain of the dying: an agenda for science 2009
Ethics Informed by Awe 2009
NATURAL SELECTION, THE HUMAN GENOME AND THE IDEA OF RACE 2009
Our Biology Makes Us All Truly Equal 2009
Preface: Neuroscience and Free Will 2009
The Rose Window and the DNA Crystal 2009
WONDER AND KNOWLEDGE - The origin of the universe and the role of wonder in scientific discovery 2009
5.3 Increasing Scientific Literacy in Undergraduate Education: A Case Study from “Frontiers of Science” at Columbia University 2008
Inner Peace Symposium 2008
New York University: “Can Faith Broaden Reason?” 2008
Thoughts on Humane Genetics 2008
Editorial: Science, Religion and the Future 2007
"INTELLIGENT DESIGN," NATURAL DESIGN, AND THE PROBLEM OF MEANING IN THE NATURAL WORLD 2007
Jews & IQ—An Exchange 2007
Knowing our place 2007
Preface: Love and its Obstacles 2007
We have been around a long time 2007
Attending to the Pain of the Dying: An Agenda for Science 2006
Book Review- Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds 2006
Book Review: The God of Hope and the End of the World 2006
DNA, Evolution, and the Moral Law 2006
Hit By a Horse 2006
Mind and Reality: A multidisciplinary Symposium on consciousness 2006
Natural Design and Moral Constraints in Science 2006
THE PRICE OF SCIENCE WITHOUT MORAL CONSTRAINTS: German and American Medicine Before DNA and Today 2006
The Religious Obligation to Ask Questions of Nature and the State: Bonhoeffer on the Protection and Dignity of Human Life, in the Context of DNA-based Genetic Medicine Today 2006
A place for religion in science? 2005
Optimizing the Human Response to Natural Evil 2005
The Nature of Being Ashkenazic 2005
The Price of Science without Moral Constraints: German and American Medicine before DNA and Today 2005
Crafting a Consensus On Therapeutic Cloning 2004
Introductory Remarks 2004
Preface 2004
“WITNESS TO POWER: HOW THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DIETRICH BONHOEFFER SPEAK TO US TODAY” 2004