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Fall 2003

Brian Dennehy on the Fall 2003 cover of Columbia Magazine

Expanding Context: The Arts at Columbia

An essay by School of the Arts dean Bruce W. Ferguson.

Features

Hollywood Transgressor
Arts & Humanities

Hollywood Transgressor

Catching up with Kathryn Bigelow

Art on Campus
Arts & Humanities

Art on Campus

Touring the Wallach Gallery 

Documenting the Edges
Arts & Humanities

Documenting the Edges

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini release American Splendor

Surfacing into Daylight
Arts & Humanities

Surfacing into Daylight

Visiting the Midnight’s Children Humanities Festival

Reflections from Brian Dennehy
Arts & Humanities

Reflections from Brian Dennehy

The actor remembers his time at Columbia

A Conversation: Bollinger & Rushdie
Arts & Humanities

A Conversation: Bollinger & Rushdie

Columbia's president speaks with the Indian expatriate writer

Columbia and the Artist
Arts & Humanities

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

The Art of Healing
Health & Medicine

The Art of Healing

Listening to patients’ stories develops empathy

Making Art History at Columbia
Arts & Humanities

Making Art History at Columbia

Meyer Schapiro and Rudolf Wittkower

Columbia Jazz Ensemble
Arts & Humanities

Columbia Jazz Ensemble

A campus music group performs at Smoke

Learning a Pedagogy of Love
On Campus

Learning a Pedagogy of Love

An essay by Martha S. Jones

Jazz ’til Dawn
Arts & Humanities

Jazz ’til Dawn

A profile of Katharine Digman ’03CC

Roadhouse Raga
Arts & Humanities

Roadhouse Raga

The musical worlds of Aaron Fox

A Playwright of Ideas
Arts & Humanities

A Playwright of Ideas

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

Making Art a Day Job
Arts & Humanities

Making Art a Day Job

Alumni are having post-MFA success

Kara Walker’s Contradictions
Arts & Humanities

Kara Walker’s Contradictions

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

College Walk

Subway Face-lift
On Campus

Subway Face-lift

Four subway stations serving the Morningside Heights community are being refurbished

Giving Voice to Grief After 9/11
On Campus

Giving Voice to Grief After 9/11

The Guys, first a play and now a movie, is based on a series of conversations that began a week after 9/11

Finding Iraq’s Missing Treasures
On Campus

Finding Iraq’s Missing Treasures

Two Columbians are leading an effort to preserve the nation's cultural heritage

Mona Lisa Smiles on Columbia
On Campus

Mona Lisa Smiles on Columbia

Screen time for Havemeyer Hall

The School Opens
On Campus

The School Opens

Columbia’s new elementary school at 110th Street and Broadway recently opened its doors

Science Course Tested for Core Curriculum
On Campus

Science Course Tested for Core Curriculum

Faculty will consider what would be one of the Core’s most significant changes ever

Sports Highlights
On Campus

Sports Highlights

New head coaches, and more

Merging the Spheres
On Campus

Merging the Spheres

At Columbia we are extremely fortunate to have an exceptionally fine School of the Arts

Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action
On Campus

Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action

The decision upheld a principle that President Lee Bollinger had spent the last six years defending

Columbia Seeks Room to Grow
On Campus

Columbia Seeks Room to Grow

Leading architects join campus expansion effort

Columbia Leaders Visit South Asia
On Campus

Columbia Leaders Visit South Asia

During a trip through India and Bangladesh, University leaders met with officials, villagers, health workers, and researchers

Explorations

It’s a Small World After E-mail
Science & Technology

It’s a Small World After E-mail

The Small World Project investigates the "six degrees of separation" concept

Automated Empathy
Science & Technology

Automated Empathy

Computer scientists seek to improve voice prompts

Estrogen’s Role in Cancer
Health & Medicine

Estrogen’s Role in Cancer

Researchers produced two key findings about cancer-causing estrogens

Columbia Researchers May Help Slow Spread of SARS
Health & Medicine

Columbia Researchers May Help Slow Spread of SARS

W. Ian Lipkin and Thomas Briese presented at the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) prevention seminar

Network

Young Lion
Peter Cincotti
Arts & Humanities

Young Lion

Review: Peter Cincotti

Books

The Worst Shôgun
Books

The Worst Shôgun

Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion, by Donald Keene ’42CC ’50GSAS

Female Odysseus
Books

Female Odysseus

Sappho’s Leap by Erica Jong ’63BC ’65GSAS

Bittersweet Journey
Books

Bittersweet Journey

Marching Home: To War and Back with the Men of One American Town by Kevin Coyne

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