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Clifford Chanin at the 9/11 Museum
Arts & Humanities

How Do You Memorialize a Mass Tragedy?

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Clifford Chanin ’77JRN, ’80SIPA keeps the events of that day in the public consciousness

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16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

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My Medievalist Mentor

A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation

Jeff Bridges and Barbara Streisand on Columbia University campus in The Mirror Has Two Faces

Columbia in the Movies

22 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

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Books
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Reading List: Summer 2017

New and noteworthy releases from alumni and faculty

Erika Dilday
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Film Forum

An interview with Erika Dilday ’93JRN, ’94BUS, executive director of the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem

NYC skyline
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New York through New Eyes

Justin Davidson '90GSAS, '94SOA on the places that capture the “myth and magic and possibility” of the city he calls home

Wallach Art Gallery
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Room with a View

The Wallach Art Gallery relocates to Manhattanville

Dove on microphone
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Disturbing the Peace

Standup comedians sit down for a conference

Brain Index installation
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Intelligent Designs

The human brain becomes art on the wall

Illustration
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A Life in Comics: The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green

How a Butler librarian became Columbia’s first curator for comics and cartoons.

Illustration of book in prison cell
Arts & Humanities

Opening Minds Behind Bars

What happens when you bring college classes to incarcerated men and women?

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"South Shore, Staten Island"

Photographer Joseph Michael Lopez's street scenes are on view at the Museum of the City of New York

KGB Bar
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Better Read Than Dead

MFA grads meet up for an exchange of words

Lynn Nottage
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Labor of Love

With her latest play, Sweat, School of the Arts professor Lynn Nottage turns hard work into high art

Columbia vintage campus map
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History's Burden

Taking a close look at Columbia's links to slavery

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