Fall 2013

Michael Christmas '00SEAS, a Marine in Afghanistan, writes home

Geochemist Peter Kelemen thinks a solution to global warming could lie beneath our feet

How do you stop genocide before it starts? Legal theorist James Stewart, a former war-crimes prosecutor, has revived a forgotten strategy

David Benefield's poker face

Columbia welcomes incoming freshmen from around the world

Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy, speaks about climate change

Introducing a satirical, Yiddish alternative to the "bible of psychiatry"

Chamber music at St. Paul's Chapel

By John Hollander '50CC, '52GSAS

Genetic-sequencing techniques may soon make it feasible for scientists to catalog all the viruses in our mammalian compatriots

There's strong evidence that forgetfulness in old age may be reversible

Columbians making headlines

Wm. Theodore de Bary ’41CC, ’53GSAS, ’94HON discusses his book The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community

By Thurston Clarke '72BUS

By Victor S. Navasky

By Daniel Alarcón '99CC

Two books by Phillip Lopate '64CC

A new institute run jointly by Columbia and Stanford has announced its first seed grants for high-tech journalism projects

Introducing the Harlem Biospace business incubator

Columbia Journalism School celebrates its centennial 

Daniel Radcliffe was spotted on College Walk — not in Hogwarts robes, but 1940s tweed!

The gifts will help fund two new buildings on Manhattanville campus

Martin Chalfie and Wafaa El-Sadr named University Professors, and other campus news

The Columbia statistics professor will oversee the operation of five schools in his new position

The University's largest service organization serves more than eight thousand low-income children and adults

The Maison Française toasts its centenary