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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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Illustration by Michael Witte of Jack Kerouac presenting a book typed on a scroll of paper to his editor
Arts & Humanities

The Road Not Taken

Jack Kerouac's On the Road turns 50

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Arts & Humanities

The Fixer

Can editor Franklin Foer rescue the New Republic?

People building a boat in a workshop, photographed by Vernon Doucette
Arts & Humanities

Working Skiffs

Against the tide, the kids in Joe Youcha's workshop are carving out their futures

W.H. Auden in 1939
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Executor Privilege

Edward Mendelson on W. H. Auden

"Hartley and Andrew" by Alice Neel
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Moving Picture

Alice Neel made art on her own terms; but as a new film by her grandson Andrew Neel '01CC suggests, her family paid a price

A partial building design pictured in Low Library was created by architecture students and now is displayed on the lower level of Avery Hall through the end of April (Mark Bearak '08GSAPP).
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Learning to Truss

As part of the architecture school’s 125th anniversary, graduate students created two structures in Low Library to demonstrate a novel building approach

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Colonel of Truth

André Malraux at Columbia

Illustration by Mark Steele of a game show
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Blonde Knockout

Dr. Joyce Brothers '53GSAS wins big

Photo by Paul Calhoun of Chinese laundry workers in Chinatown on lunch break in the 1980s
Arts & Humanities

A Museum Grows in Chinatown

Columbians tap their roots to bring a community’s history to the world

Painter Jacob Collins in studio, photographed by Sarah Shatz for Columbia Magazine
Arts & Humanities

A Brush With the Past

Painter and teacher Jacob Collins '86CC steps outside the art establishment to give a lesson in reality

Young Robert Moses standing in front of a map of New York City
Arts & Humanities

Bob the Builder

A series of exhibitions and symposia offers new perspectives on the city that Robert Moses built

Kiran Desai
Arts & Humanities

A Proud Inheritance

With storytelling in her blood, novelist Kiran Desai '99SOA wins the Man Booker Prize

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