Winter 2007-08
 
      
      
                     
      
      
                   
      
      
                     
      
      
                   
      
      
                              As a professor at Rutgers, champion debater William Neal Brown '50SW would face his most daunting opponent — Malcolm X
 
      
      
                              Irene Taylor Brodsky '97JRN made an award-winning documentary about her deaf parents. Now, as a mother, she is gaining a new understanding of the subject
 
      
      
                              Bronx native Jerome Charyn’s new novel, Johnny One-Eye, captures the spirit of Manhattan in the ’70s — the 1770s, that is
 
      
      
                              Artist and peace activist Namira Salim '96SIPA buys a ticket to space
 
      
      
                              Sam Dana had been listed as dead for nearly 34 years before the National Football League realized that he was alive
 
      
      
                              A Columbia political scientist concludes that UN peacekeeping missions are overwhelmingly successful
 
      
      
                              A study makes the case for a frequently maligned mortgage type
 
      
      
                              An engineering professor has developed small, snakelike robots to help surgeons handle tools in tight quarters
 
      
      
                              Oncologists demonstrate how a mutated gene associated with breast cancer contributes to runaway cell growth
 
      
      
                              Columbia scientists shed light on a mystery involving cell reproduction