Fall 2016 issue

A cartoonist draws from his experience

Things to do on and around campus

How do you write a children’s book?

A scholar of immigration looks at some borderline claims

Neiman Center artists hijack a high-rise

Converting carbon dioxide into stone appears to be a safe way of sequestering carbon emissions

What are the chances of life existing on another planet? 

Columbia Public Health researchers uncover a disturbing finding

Biofluorescence in marine animals is much more common than previously recognized

Research briefs

Democrats’ and Republicans’ opinions on education-policy issues have been converging

The earthquake will come. No one can say when. But scientists warn that it could be huge

A new finding could give insight into autism and ADHD

Negin Farsad '02GSAS, '04SIPA, author of "How to Make White People Laugh," is challenging stereotypes with comedy

From Mary T. Bassett ’79PS and others

Two alumni entrepreneurs are helping to reduce infant mortality rates in Uganda

Several Columbians in the television industry received Emmy nominations this year

Columbia College's Double Discovery Center brings low-income high schoolers to campus

A former Olympic diver has been hired to lead the Columbia Lions diving program

Columbia supports a $60 million initiative to promote freedom of speech and of the press in the digital age

The Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at CUMC was dedicated on June 10

The first-ever Columbia Alumni Association STEM Day was held on June 12 in Lerner Hall

Janna Levin '88BC tells the epic story behind the scientific quest to detect gravitational waves

Yasmine El Rashidi's novel details three tumultuous decades in Egypt

Imbolo Mbue's debut novel tells the story of two families in New York City at the dawn of the 2008 recession

Laurence Leamer ’69JRN, ’69SIPA discusses his book about Morris Dees, the man who shut down the largest Ku Klux Klan organization in the US

What do we talk about when we talk about pop music? David Hajdu explores in a new book

Who hasn’t dreamed of winning the New Yorker caption contest?