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Fall 2014

Fall 2014

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Start Me Up

At the Columbia Startup Lab, the ideas keep on clicking.

Features

Arts & Humanities

Streams and Echoes

The long musical journey of Chou Wen-chung '54GSAS

On Campus

Rewired: Tim Wu’s Fantastic Foray

Law professor Tim Wu, the coiner of “net neutrality,” entered New York’s lieutenant-governor race to change politics. Will politics change him?

Arts & Humanities

Heavy Heart, Empty Heart

Remembering the poet John Berryman in his centennial year

Arts & Humanities

The Professor’s Last Stand

Columbia historian Eric Foner is giving his lectures to the public — and to posterity

College Walk

On Campus

Cloak Room

The University holds its twenty-second white-coat ceremony, celebrating the initiation of a new class of future physicians

Alumni

Driving Lessons

Remembering Kenneth Waltz

Arts & Humanities

Grapes of Goth

A Columbia College senior gets a taste of medieval winemaking

Explorations

Health & Medicine

Researchers Find Synaptic Link to Autism

Neurobiologists have made a discovery that may help explain why people with autism are prone to epilepsy and often oversensitive to noise and social experiences

Health & Medicine

Study of Ashkenazi Jews Opens Genomic Window

Columbia researchers have identified many previously unknown mutations common among the isolated group

Network

Alumni

Ai-jen Poo, Beau Willimon, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

Books

Books

Book Review: "Cover" and "What We See When We Read"

By Peter Mendelsund '91CC

Books

Book Review: "All Our Names"

By Dinaw Mengestu '05SOA

Books

Book Review: "The Wrong Carlos"

By James S. Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project

Books

Bard in the USA

We talk with James Shapiro '77CC, the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature, about his book Shakespeare in America

Books

Book Review: "No Book but the World"

By Leah Hager Cohen '91JRN

Books

Book Review: "The Late Starters Orchestra"

By Ari L. Goldman ’73JRN

Bulletin

On Campus

In Brief: Fall 2014

President Lee C. Bollinger’s term extended, and other campus news

On Campus

Amale Andraos Appointed Dean of GSAPP

Andraos is a principal at WORKac, an architecture and design firm known for combining elements of manmade and natural environments

On Campus

Thirteen New Global Projects Receive Seed Grants

The University announces the latest recipients of grants from the President’s Global Innovation Fund

On Campus

Media Institute Opens

The Brown Institute opens its doors at Columbia Journalism School

On Campus

Sportsmanlike Conduct

Freshman Lions football players spend three weeks volunteering in local parks and schools

On Campus

First-Class Finish

The Columbia Secondary School graduates its first class

On Campus

Goldstein to Head New Genomics Institute

David Goldstein, a prominent geneticist at Duke University, will soon join Columbia as a professor of genetics and development

On Campus

Deans of Social Science, Humanities Appointed

Alondra Nelson and Sharon Marcus take on new roles

Finals

On Campus

Miracle of the Mines

The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science marks its sesquicentennial

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