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Holly Evarts

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New York, NY, USA

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Director of Strategic Communications and Media Relations

About

I ensures that key internal and external audiences, including top-tier media outlets, know about faculty research and student achievements at Columbia Engineering. I develop and execute strategies for media relations in print, digital, broadcast, and social media to enhance the School’s reputation.

Latest Posts

Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person’s smile before the person actually smiles

Robot, can you say 'Cheese'?

Columbia engineers have built a new AI that shatters a long-held belief in forensics–that fingerprints from different fingers of the same person are unique. It turns out they are similar, only we’ve been comparing fingerprints the wrong way!

AI Discovers That Not Every Fingerprint Is Unique

Columbia Engineers design a robot hand that is the first device of its kind to join advanced sense of touch with motor-learning algorithms — it doesn’t rely on vision to manipulate objects

Highly Dexterous Robot Hand Can Operate in the Dark - Just Like Us

Columbia Engineers explore the benefits and drawbacks of 3D-printed food technology.

Honey, the 3D print-I mean, dessert-is ready!

In a significant advance for impactful technologies such as quantum optics and laser displays for AR/VR, Columbia Engineering’s Lipson Nanophotonics Group has invented the first tunable and narrow linewidth chip-scale lasers for visible wavelengths shorter than red.

High-performance Visible-light Lasers that Fit on a Fingertip

Columbia engineers invent a flat lens that exclusively focuses light of a selected color—it appears entirely transparent until they shine a beam of light with the correct wavelength onto it, when the glass turns into a lens.

Optical Magic: New Flat Glass Enables Optimal Visual Quality for Augmented Reality Goggles