2007-2008
Faculty Advisory Board
Ron Prywes, Chair
Frances Champagne
Paul Currie
Shlomo Hershkop
Laura Kaufman
Patricia Lindemann
Matt Palmer
Lorenzo Polvani
Samuel Sia
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Stefan Westerhoff
Christoph Wiedenmayer
Sarah Woolley
Support
Office of the President
Lee Bollinger
Office of the Provost
Alan Brinkley
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Zvi Galil
Department of Biological Science
Michael Sheetz
Department of Computer Science
Henning Schulzrinne
Department of Physics
Erick Weinberg
2005-2006
Faculty Advisory Board
Ron Prywes, Chair
Shlomo Hershkop
Jingyue Ju
Gail Kaiser
Laura Kaufman
Mikhail Khovanov
James Manley
Lorenzo Polvani
Michael Shelanski
Samuel Sia
Carol Troy
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Stefan Westerhoff
Christoph Wiedenmayer
Chris Wiggins
Shou-Wu Zhang
Support
Office of the President
Lee Bollinger
Office of the Provost
Alan Brinkley
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Zvi Galil
Department of Biological Science
Michael Sheetz
Department of Computer Science
Henning Schulzrinne
Department of Physics
Erick Weinberg
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About the Journal
The Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal is a peer-reviewed, professional-level, open-access academic publication that is committed to publishing manuscripts of the highest scholarship resulting from significant scientific research or outstanding scientific analysis. Each paper published in the CUSJ undergoes a double-blind peer review process facilitated by the Journal's Editorial Review Board and a faculty review by a member of the Faculty Advisory Board. Publication in the CUSJ is highly competitive.
The CUSJ has two primary goals. First, the CUSJ aims to (1) publish works of the highest scholarship authored primarily by undergraduates. Second, the CUSJ aims to (2) educate students about the academic publication process, both from the inside as a member of the CUSJ staff and from the outside as a submitter to a scientific journal with academic standards that are as rigorous as any professional-level scientific publication.
Authors published in the CUSJ retain all rights to their work except the right to publish (or submit for publication) that work, in part or whole, in any other another undergraduate-level publication. CUSJ email addresses for authors are provided for correspondence purposes only and do not in any way indicate a prior or current relationship with the CUSJ.
Students
Get Involved!
The CUSJ will be accepting applications to join the Journal as a teammember during the first weeks of the Fall 2006 semester. Refer to this page for information.
Students have much to gain in getting involved as a staff member; seeing the publication process from the inside builds an invaluable foundation for later dealings in the academic publication space. With this experience, Columbia students become well equipped with CUSJ experience to foray into and be successful in any publication-related industry or occupation.
Benefits of Publishing with the CUSJ
Any undergraduate student studying science in some fashion will have undoubtedly at some point noticed the high degree to which the entire research process revolves around the publication of that research. Publication not only presents a concise but detailed summary of research pursued in a certain area, but also contributes to the body of scientific knowledge that allows technology to progress forward and medical advances to be made.
As a result of this focus on the publication process, there is much to be gained in getting published as a undergraduate in the CUSJ. Graduate schools and businesses involved in the sciences recognize the work that goes into preparing a publication for submission: organizational, time management, writing, and analytical skills are all involved. When a student's efforts result in a paper that has been recommended for publication in a double-blind peer-reviewed and faculty reviewed journal such as a the CUSJ, these schools and employers recognize the superior scholarly achievement you have attained by mastering all of these skills.
Faculty
The Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal is committed to the highest professional standards in its publication and method of operation. To this end, the Journal has garnered the support of significant campus entities and a Faculty Advisory Board as detailed on this website's home page. (information concerning the Symposium is here).
The CUSJ is an excellent outlet for students to gain recognition for significant research performed in the lab of a Columbia faculty member. Current full-time students in any of Columbia's undergraduate schools and students who attend other undergraduate institutions but have performed significant research on Columbia's campus are eligible to submit a manuscript. A competitive submission to the CUSJ will involve significant collaboration between the primary student-author and that student's research mentor.
Students who publish in the CUSJ will retain all rights to their work except the right to publish in another undergraduate level journal. Additionally, the staff of the CUSJ expects that each student will not submit their works to be concurrently reviewed by another undergraduate level journal.
The CUSJ recognizes its position as an undergraduate level journal. While the works published in the CUSJ will be of the highest professional quality, the CUSJ staff understands that a lab's ultimate goal is to publish in a journal such as Science, Nature, or the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Therefore, in the event that a student is working on a large project we expect that manuscripts submitted to the CUSJ will not focus on the project as a whole (recognizing the sometimes massive collaborative nature often present in one publication), but will be centered on the undergraduate's role in the project. These papers will as a result be original works that will assist not only the student preparing the manuscript but also the Columbia community in recognition of graduate-level scholarly excellence by an undergraduate student in the sciences.
Please direct questions concerning these policies to cusj@columbia.edu.
Frequently Asked Questions
COLUMBIA UNDERGRADUATE SCIENCE JOURNAL
How often does the CUSJ publish, and who publishes the CUSJ?
The CUSJ publishes annually in the Spring semester by the Columbia University Libraries.
What rights do the authors published in the CUSJ retain?
Authors published in the CUSJ retain all rights to their work except the right to publish (or submit for publication) that work, in part or whole, in any other another undergraduate-level publication.
What kind of papers does the CUSJ publish?
The CUSJ publishes manuscripts that are of the highest scholarship, well-written, informative, original, and are primarily authored by undergraduates, resulting from at least a semester or a summer of scientific research. While papers published in the CUSJ are professional-level and contribute to the body of scientific research as a whole, manuscripts published in the CUSJ would not be suitable for publication in journals such as Nature or Science based either on their undergraduate authorship or research quality.
Oftentimes, papers published in the CUSJ are manuscripts that detail a portion of a much larger project and focus on the work completed by an undergraduate student instead of the project as a whole, or are papers reflective of truly independent-study projects crafted by their undergraduate authors.
Who is eligible to submit to the CUSJ?
Currently, the CUSJ publishes manuscripts authored by those students who have an affiliation with Columbia as undergraduate students (either current or recently-graduated, post-baccalaureates included) or those who have completed significant research at Columbia.
In which databases does the CUSJ appear?
The CUSJ is indexed by Google Scholar, the Directory of Open-Access Journals, the Public Knowledge Project, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, the Columbia University Libraries, and is under review for inclusion in PubMed Central. The CUSJ is archived institutionally by Columbia University and is a member of Stanford's LOCKSS trans-institutional archival system. Additionally, a Google search will often find our first-authors.
Does publishing in the CUSJ preclude publication in other professional-level journals (e.g. Nature, Science)?
Authors published in the CUSJ retain the right to submit their manuscript to any non-undergraduate publication after it appears in the CUSJ (e.g. Nature, Science). However, if that manuscript appears in the CUSJ, these professional-level publications often consider that manuscript as already published (we have confirmation from Neuron that this is the case).
What if I want to submit a manuscript about a project but my PI (1) has already submitted it to another journal, or (2) will submit it to a journal this year or the next?
If a note is provided to cusj@columbia.edu at the time of submission, the CUSJ will review the submitted manuscript but will not publish it until the appropriate issue (we will delay its publication by 1 or 2 issues). This allows the undergraduate student involved to gain valuable experience by learning about the CUSJ's double-blind peer review process through submitting a manuscript to the CUSJ, a professional-level journal, without jeopardizing its publication as a whole in a professional-level journal.
When will I hear back after I submit?
The CUSJ will get back to you as soon as possible. Given that we review a large number of papers and employ a true peer-review in a very short time-frame, it is difficult for us to provide specific “acceptance” dates. Generally, however, we will get back to you regarding the first round of review in the first months of the spring semester and the final review in March or April.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SPRING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Who can submit to the CUSURS?
Students who have completed scientific research and are currently attending a undergraduate institution within the Tri-State area are eligible to submit an abstract for consideration in the CUSURS.
Are presented abstracts published in the CUSJ?
Abstracts selected for presentation are published under the umbrella of the CUSJ as the Proceedings of the Columbia University Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium on the CUSJ's CUSURS Official Publication Site.
Who will I meet at CUSURS?
You will meet top researchers and professors from Columbia, IBM, and the New York City area. Additionally, you will meet top undergraduate researchers in the Tri-State area and those who are involved with the CUSJ at Columbia.
Where is the CUSURS located and when does it happen?
The CUSURS is an annual event held at Columbia University in March or April of the spring semester.
Who supports the CUSURS?
The Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal and the Columbia University Engineering Student Council.
If I am accepted to present, will I give a poster presentation or a powerpoint presentation?
All students with abstracts accepted for presentation will prepare a poster. Selected students will present with PowerPoint in front of the group.
Contact
General: cusj@columbia.edu
Editors-In-Chief: editor.in.chief @ cusj.com
Chief Executive Officer: ceo @ cusj.com
Associate Editors: associate.editor @ cusj.com
EVP Production: evp.production @ cusj.com
EVP Technology: evp.technology @ cusj.com
EVP Communications: evp.communications @ cusj.com
EVP Internal Affairs: evp.internal.affairs @ cusj.com
EVP Campus Outreach: evp.campus.outreach @ cusj.com
EVP Innovation: evp.innovation @ cusj.com
EVP Development: evp.development @ cusj.com |
2007-2008
Editors-In-Chief
Daniel Amrhein, Undergraduate
Luke Ward, Graduate
Chief Executive Officer
Irene Chen
Associate Editors
Journee Isip
Asya Izraelit
Jennifer Piscionere
Tim Penucci
Sakellarios Zairis
Executive Vice-Presidents
Rathi Srinivas, Outreach
Calvin Zhou, Comm.
Chuck Burton, Development
Eric Huh, Internal Aff.
Madeleine Gondek-Brown, Innovation
Daniel Silovitz, Production
Eliav Bitan, Publishing
Editorial Review Board (2006-2007)
Louis Abramson
Yasmin Afsar
Lauren Alfano
Neal Amin
Ripla Arora
Oladapo Atitebi
Katharine Atterbury
Amy Baohan
Richard Barzaga
Susan Basile
Yoni Bentov
Dana Berg
Mary Blair
Vamsy Bobba
Andrea Castañeda
Isaac Chan
Alex Cheng
Megan deBettencourt
Itena Dhrami
Nancy Diao
Daniel Duzdevich
Angela Fan
Margaret Frank
Katarina Galic
Michael Giordano
Shira Goldstein
Madeleine Gondek-Brown
Joshua Gordon
InSang Han
Sara Hasbun
Meshach Heenatigala
Layla Houshmand
Wei-Jen Hsieh
Jenny Hsu
Omar Jabado
Joseph Kaptur
Adinah Katz
Lori Khrimian
Mikhail Klassen
Michael Kortrey
Angela Kou
Olga Kovalerchik
Anshul Kundaje
Kerry Li
Raymond Lim
Jessica Lin
Emi Ling
Thomas Lipkin
Eric Lloyd
Katherine Lobosco
Robert Maidhof
Vanessa Mewani
Weiyi Mu
David Murphy
Matthew O'Rourke
Jessica Pan
Ashley Pandolfi
Tim Pennucci
Kelsey Price
Noam Prywes
Rajesh Ramakrishnan
Angela Rasmussen
Kelley Remole
Joanne Rispoli
Sumeet Sarin
Gabriel Schubiner
Ali Shafei
Daniel Shapiro
Rachel Shiovitz
Max Shutran
Daniel Silovitz
Mona Soliman
Rathi Srinivas
Samuel Sternberg
Kimmy Szeto
Tom Tan
Eren Tekin
Matthew Tomey
John Tseng
Shilpa Vadodaria
Megan Verma
Gary Walsh
Luke Ward
Hannah Wasserman
Nicholas Weiler
Ian Wheeldon
Cristina White
Arun Wiita
Teresa Wojtasiewicz
Sunling Yang
Richard Yoon
Sakellarios Zairis
Ming Zhong
Yvette Zimering
Executive Committee
Jay Chen
Kelly Dash
Robert Deiches
Eric Huh
Ahmed Khan
Brian Lambson
Derek Lawson
Nishant Paralkar
Michael Woodley
Kevin Yeroushalmi
2005-2006
Founding Editor
Gabriel S. Morris
Associate Editors
Chris Brooks
Dan Flynn
Adam Kaufman
Josh Levine
Ian Wheeldon
Symposium Coordinators
Sakellarios Zairis
Calvin Zhou
Editorial Review Board
Ripla Arora
Yoni BenTov
Segev BenZvi
Mary Blair
Elizabeth Caygill
Carey Chen
Jay Chen
Alex Cheng
Diana Dakhlallah
Katherine Fenz
Maryana Furmansky
Madeleine Gondek-Brown
Joshua Gordon
Neil Gray
Matthew Guido
Julia Heck
Omar Jabado
Ahmet Kizilay
Sergei Koulayev
Anshul Kundaje
Raymond Lim
Thomas Lipkin
Eric Lloyd
Gavriel Mullokandov
Matthew O’Rourke
Ashley Pandolfi
Jennifer Piscionere
Girish Rao
Angela Rasmussen
Sumeet Sarin
Eileen Sun
Kimmy Szeto
Matthew Tomey
Nicholas Weiler
Arun Wiita
Teresa Wojtasiewicz
Richard Yoon
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