Fall 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Columbians making headlines

By Carmela Ciuraru '96JRN

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

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

Selected and edited by Richard M. Cook

By Michael Murray (Frederic C. Beil)

By Ned Zeman '88JRN and Rachel Hadas

By Karen Russell '06SOA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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