Fall 2009

Classic Jester covers headline the first exhibition at the Columbia Alumni Center

Famous for trying to teach a chimp to speak, psychology professor Herb Terrace is now studying how monkeys think

North Korea has sealed itself off from the world, but cracks are beginning to show. What does it all mean — and what should the U.S. do next?

On the road with the poet laureate of Queens

The story of Low Library's starry ceiling

Celebrating the legacy of the "real" Alice in Wonderland

Betsy McCaughey '76GSAS, a central figure in America's culture war, interprets the health-care bill

Suicides among U.S. Army personnel today are at their highest levels since the military began keeping records 30 years ago

Geochemists look at shells of single-celled plankton buried under the Atlantic Ocean to estimate past carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere

New research suggests that women with early-stage ovarian cancer may not need to undergo hysterectomies

A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein '61CC

America in the Eyes of the Farm Security Administration, by Stu Cohen

A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, by Olivia Gentile '03JRN

Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, by Constance Rosenblum '67JRN

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line, by Geoffrey Heal

The event will feature refreshments, giveaways, prizes, and more

The University’s Community DentCare Network receives a $250,000 donation from Yankees slugger Alex Rodríguez

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder '73CC, '76LAW was the guest of honor at the opening reception for the Columbia-Barnard Jam Weekend

Kristine A. Billmyer, a scholar of sociolinguistics, comes to Columbia from the University of Pennsylvania

A new curriculum teaches med students to interview patients about their medical history while, at the same time, the students receive training in core areas

For three weeks in July, fourteen gifted teens from underserved communities in New York City spent their days in Columbia classrooms

The interior of the six-floor building has been retrofitted with audiovisual technology and modern amenities

Since 1980, the Shubert Foundation has provided support to Columbia arts students working low- or nonpaying internships

A three-year, $716,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help archive information that's in danger of disappearing from the web

The young, alumna scientists have been honored for their extraordinary achievements 

The exchange program will help civil engineering students from each institution to work in both the United States and Europe

Looking back at Sha Na Na, the doo-wop revival band that started as a Columbia singing group.