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Fall 2010

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Surveyors on the New Silk Road

Columbia social workers are pulling back the curtain on AIDS in Central Asia, where the epidemic is spreading faster than anywhere else in the world.

Features

Science & Technology

Oil + Water

Oil industry expert and geophysicist Roger N. Anderson on the technical aspects of the Gulf of Mexico disaster

Arts & Humanities

The Ballad of Kitt & Yorkey

How did Next to Normal, a musical about bipolar disorder written by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, ever make it to Broadway?

Alumni

You and Whose Army?

Lt. Col. Jason Dempsey ’08GSAS takes on conventional wisdom about politics in the military

Arts & Humanities

Aguas Calientes: A Short Story

Fiction by Lauren Grodstein '97CC, '01SOA

College Walk

Alumni

Second to None

Inspired by David McCullough's biography, George Baker '69CC, '73LAW revels in impersonating John Adams

Science & Technology

Future Shock

A controversial form of stem-cell research is well under way

Arts & Humanities

Remembrance: Jack Beeson

A former student pays tribute to the master composer

Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Opuntia littoralis"

By Moira Egan ’92SOA

Explorations

Health & Medicine

New Gel Reduces Women’s Risk of HIV

Women soon may be able to better protect themselves using a gel created by epidemiology professors Salim S. Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim

Science & Technology

Creating a Better Biofuel

Engineering professor Scott Banta looks for a cost-efficient replacement for gasoline

Science & Technology

Children and the Poor Hurt Worst by Gulf Spill

One in five people say they earn less money now than before the spill, and eight percent say they lost their jobs. Households with incomes under $25,000 were most affected

Network

Alumni

Karen Russell, Gerry Lenfest, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

Books

Books

Book Review: "Perfect Reader"

By Maggie Pouncey '00CC, '08SOA

Books

Atlantic & Pacific

Two new books evoke the lingering lessons of World War II

Books

Book Review: "Norman Podhoretz: A Biography"

By Thomas L. Jeffers

Books

Book Review: "Lay the Favorite"

A Memoir of Gambling, by Beth Raymer '08SOA

Books

Murder in Berlin

An interview with Craig Nova ’69SOA, author of The Informer.

Bulletin

On Campus

The Curtain Rises on a Rich Season for Miller Theatre

The 2010–11 season offers a broad sampling of music through five intriguing series

On Campus

Breaking Character

Fifty participants in the World Economic Forum’s Global Leadership Fellows Programme came to Columbia for a weeklong series of intensive drama workshops

On Campus

"Columbia" Wins Design and Editorial Prizes

The magazine receives awards for the Fall 2009 cover and more

On Campus

New York’s Highest Court: Manhattanville Development Can Move Forward

Columbia plans to construct 16 buildings for science, business, the arts, University housing, and other uses on about 17 acres of land north of 129th Street 

On Campus

Philanthropist Dawn M. Greene Passes Away at 88

Mrs. Greene continued a tradition of philanthropy in education, the arts, and medicine begun by her late husband, Jerome L. Greene ’26CC, ’28LAW

On Campus

Financial-Aid Benefactor John W. Kluge, 1914—2010

An extraordinary businessman and Columbia University’s greatest benefactor, Kluge died on September 7 at his home outside Charlottesville, Va

On Campus

Our Nuclear Summer

Students explore world-politics issues at the Hertog Global Strategy Initiative summer program

On Campus

Designer Kenneth Cole Sponsors Community-Engagement Program

The fellowships will prepare students to solve challenges faced by local communities

On Campus

Defender of the “Obscene”

Columbia’s libraries have acquired the papers of Barney Rosset, who brought major works by Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs to American readers for the first time

Finals

Alumni

Angelheaded Hipsters

James Franco becomes Allen Ginsberg ’48CC

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