
Fall 2015

Tissue engineers at CUMC are bending the idea of what's possible — by growing new cartilage and bone inside the body
Professor Elora Mukherjee and law students from Columbia’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic are fighting for asylum seekers held in detention — and winning
Columbia’s bounty of hidden art is beginning to see the light of day
When three architects decided to convert a Brooklyn warehouse into a state-of-the-art performance space, their plans didn't stop with the blueprints
Ancient Rome scholar Dan-el Padilla Peralta teaches the classics to formerly incarcerated adults
Maureen Ryan '92SOA is the new chair of the Columbia film department
The Morningside Opera staged a revival of Harry Lawrence Freeman's Voodoo at Miller Theatre
Helena Kauppila '10GSAS wants the dispersal of objects in her paintings to be as arbitrary as the scattering of stars in the galaxies
Benjamin Dean ’14SIPA, a fellow for Internet governance and cybersecurity, says they have little financial incentive to do so
A miniature car powered by microbes and evaporating water is the latest invention to come out of the laboratory of biophysicist Ozgur Sahin
Columbia geologists Christopher Lepre and Dennis Kent ’74GSAS assess a momentous discovery
Saharan silver ants, big brown bats, and dinosaur eels are among our best engineers
The month you were born helps determine your risk for asthma, ADHD, heart disease, and many other common medical problems
Leukemia is spreading among soft-shell clams through seawater, marking only the third instance that scientists have ever found of cancer cells migrating between organisms
Columbians had a big night at this year’s Tony Awards, with sixteen affiliated productions taking home honors
The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition, by Nisid Hajari '96GSAS
The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe, by Robert L. Klitzman
Heidi Grant Halvorson ’01GSAS discusses her book No One Understands You and What to Do about It
Two of Columbia’s most generous and long-standing benefactors recently announced several new gifts
Ann D. Thornton, a library-technology specialist, has been appointed Columbia’s head librarian.
Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquires the archive of Arthur Mitchell, the pioneering ballet dancer, artistic director, and choreographer Arthur Mitchell
The Barack Obama Foundation plans to develop an academic partnership with the University
The baseball team celebrates its championship-clinching victory over Dartmouth
Columbia Global Reports will release its first three titles this fall