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Clifford Chanin at the 9/11 Museum
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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

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Columbia in the Movies

22 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

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Shelf Life

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Columbians Ahead of the Beat

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Laurie Hawkinson and the Art of Urban Architecture

The architect is involved in a pair of projects that aim to have a lasting impact on New York City.

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City in the Sky

A museum celebrates New York’s tallest buildings

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Making Art History at Columbia

Meyer Schapiro and Rudolf Wittkower

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Columbia and the Artist

We asked a few of Columbia’s uncounted alumni artists to reflect on how their student years turned them toward the lives they’ve lived since

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Reflections from Brian Dennehy

The actor remembers his time at Columbia

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Documenting the Edges

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini release American Splendor

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Hollywood Transgressor

Catching up with Kathryn Bigelow

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Kara Walker’s Contradictions

The artist is an associate professor in the School of the Arts

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Making Art a Day Job

Alumni are having post-MFA success

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A Playwright of Ideas

Kia Corthron writes plays that grow not out of stories or characters but out of issues

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