Welcome to the RCSS at Columbia University

We are the Research Cluster on Science and Subjectivity (RCSS).  The RCSS is an organized around questions at the margin of a natural world described by facts and ideas that have survived disproof through scientific experiment, and the non-disprovable subjective experiences of a fully human life.  We are dedicated to the advancement of Science, Subjectivity, and Service.  The Cluster is headed by an Advisory Board chaired by Biological Sciences Professor  Robert Pollack.

Advisory Board to the Cluster on Science and Subjectivity

Lisa Dolling, Ph.D., Dean, College of Arts and Letters, Stevens Institute of Technology

Pilar Jennings, Ph.D, PhD Psychoanalyst

Anthony Lechich, M.D., Medical Director, Terence Cardinal Cooke Hospital

Marya Pollack, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University

Robert Remez, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Barnard College

Marcia Sells, J.D., Associate Vice President of Planning, Columbia University

William Sherer,  Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey

RCSS Director Bob Pollack in 1983, next to subway poster, 116 St. station.

RCSS Director Bob Pollack and Dr. Oliver Sacks, at a presentation by Dr. Sacks in the Faculty House, Columbia University.

Dr. Pilar Jennings and Reverend Donald Shriver, emeritus President of Union Theological seminary, at a meeting of the University Seminar on Memory and Slavery, Columbia University.

Harvard Medical Student Ashley Shaw with Amy Pollack at a student show of Amy’s work, Wien Hall, Columbia University

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and Reverend James Forbes Jr. after a session of a CSSR Symposium on the Limits of Love, Low Library Rotunda, Columbia University.