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Fall 2011

Fall 2011

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The Long Night

Tackling the scourge of sex trafficking, from the big screen to the big street.

Features

Science & Technology

New Crop City

Can Dickson Despommier’s radical vision for urban agriculture take root in the United States?

Arts & Humanities

Why We (Should) Read Trilling

Literary critic Lionel Trilling ’25CC, ’38GSAS been written off as out of date. Here's why he matters more than ever

Arts & Humanities

The Looming Towers

Urban photographer Camilo José Vergara '77GSAS documented the Twin Towers as they rose and became pillars of the city below them

College Walk

On Campus

Poster Children

Street vendor Michael Wells on Columbia's favorite dorm-poster icons

On Campus

Ten Years After

On the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, Columbia professors look back at the catastrophic event

Alumni

Hacking It

Techies at Columbia and beyond hone their coding skills at HackNY events

On Campus

Ghost Upon the Floor

A 19th-century mantelpiece in Butler Library has seen a lot of history

Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Me and Kenneth"

By J. D. Scrimgeour '86CC, '87GSAS

Explorations

Health & Medicine

A Step Toward Stem-Cell Therapy

Researchers have discovered a new way to create embryonic stem cells that contain a sick person’s unique DNA

Science & Technology

Parks and Re-creation: African American Village Unearthed

Anthropologists dig up artifacts from Seneca Village, one of Manhattan's early African American settlements

Science & Technology

Old-School Tools

The Homo erectus used advanced tool-making methods at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study

Health & Medicine

Dentists Join Fight Against Diabetes

Researchers at the College of Dental Medicine have found that dentists can play a significant role in fighting a major public-health crisis

Health & Medicine

The Power of Forgetting

A study demonstrates how the Internet is changing the way our brains work

Network

Alumni

Alisa Weilerstein, Howard W. Buffett, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

Books

Books

Book Review: "The Rules of the Tunnel" and "Strange Relation"

By Ned Zeman '88JRN and Rachel Hadas

Books

Book Review: "Swamplandia!"

By Karen Russell '06SOA

Books

Book Review: "Nom de Plume"

By Carmela Ciuraru '96JRN

Books

Book Review: "Great Soul"

Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle for India. By Joseph Lelyveld '60JRN

Books

Book Review: "Sugar in My Bowl"

Real Women Write About Sex. Edited by Erica Jong '63BC, '65GSAS

Books

Book Review: "Alfred Kazin's Journals"

Selected and edited by Richard M. Cook

Books

Book Review: "Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind"

By Michael Murray (Frederic C. Beil)

Bulletin

On Campus

In Brief: Fall 2011

The Northwest Corner Building wins a Merit Award, and other campus news

On Campus

Global Center Established in Santiago, Chile

South America is likely to become a more common destination for Columbia researchers now

On Campus

James J. Valentini Steps in as Interim College Dean

His appointment on September 2 came just one week after the unexpected resignation of Michele Moody-Adams

On Campus

Old York Archive Living on at Avery

A family of real-estate developers has given Columbia one of the largest collections of historical materials on New York City ever privately assemble

On Campus

CAA Helping Alumni on the Job Hunt

The Alumni Association is providing online job-search tools, holding more networking events, and will soon offer discounted career coaching

On Campus

Jordan’s King Abdullah Speaks of Reform

The king spoke as part of Columbia’s annual World Leaders Forum

Finals

On Campus

The Art of Giving

An exhibit at Wallach Gallery looks at the visual messaging of New York charity organizations of 100 years ago

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