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The Teacher and the Trappist
Professor Ted de Bary muses on his acquaintance with fellow Columbian and Philoxlexian, Thomas Merton.
In The City Of New York
The Art of Pleasing
How Arlene Shuler ’77GS, ’78LAW, president and CEO of New York City Center, transformed herself — and the stage on which she once danced.
News
Columbia Campaign expands to raise $5 billion by end of 2013
“The success of the Columbia Campaign shows there’s more potential than we realized for fulfilling our hopes and ambitions for this University, so we have to keep going,” says President Bollinger.
- Kravis pledges $100 million for B-school’s move to Manhattanville
- CUMC receives $50 million Vagelos gift for medical education building
- Van Sickle succeeds Feagin as head of development and alumni relations
- Columbia hires first librarian for Jewish studies
- Fields of dreams
- Engineering school to create 20 new endowed professorships
Reviews
White Space on the Map
Anthony Brandt tells complex tales of heroism and folly in The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage.
Finals
College Intrigues
Beginning in February, Butler Library will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the University Archives with a yearlong Columbia University: 100 Years of Collecting exhibition.
"Many agricultural scientists agree with Dickson Despommier on a crucial point: that farming can be made sustainable only with high-tech growing methods."
—FROM “NEW CROP CITY”
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