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Fall 2022

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The Simple Questions That Can Prevent a Suicide

Globally, someone dies by suicide every forty seconds. That’s why experts are training ordinary people to use the Columbia Protocol to potentially save lives.

Features

Arts & Humanities

Raising My Voice for Ukraine

How I found my own small way to take a stand against Russia's brutal war

Health & Medicine

You’re Not Imagining It: Seasonal Allergies Are Getting Worse

Columbia researchers explain why pollen counts are rising and suggest ways to fight back

Arts & Humanities

5 Media Organizations That Spotlight Underreported News

Alumni journalists are tackling human-rights issues and serving readers in practical ways

Arts & Humanities

How the Mankiewicz Family Got Their Hollywood Ending

How Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz ’92JRN brought a four-generation Columbia family all together

College Walk

Arts & Humanities

Screenwriter Ivan Rome Looks Homeward

As the inaugural recipient of the Bobby Kashif Cox Memorial Scholarship, the MFA student takes inspiration from his native Georgia

On Campus

The Troubling Legal Implications of Overturning Roe

Columbia law professors Olatunde Johnson and Carol Sanger assess a momentous Supreme Court decision

On Campus

Low Beach Gets a Makeover

Plus, a look at the iconic steps through the ages

Arts & Humanities

Honoring George Chauncey, a Scholar of Gay History

The Columbia professor recently won the coveted John W. Kluge Prize

Explorations

Science & Technology

Having Kids May Lead to Brain Damage, and Other Science News

Recent discoveries from Columbia researchers

Science & Technology

Jurassic Parka: How Dinosaurs Survived the Cold

New fossil discovery suggests dinos could tolerate chillier climates

Health & Medicine

The Primary Victims of Toxic Drinking Water

A recent Columbia study reveals major racial disparities in access to clean public water

Health & Medicine

Why a Warming Planet Endangers Every Child’s Health

Heat waves, floods, and other effects of climate change are putting kids at risk of illness and death

Science & Technology

Making Room for Tigers

Ecologists are studying new ways to protect the big cats’ need to roam

Science & Technology

Biomedical Engineers Can Now Watch Our Organs Talk to Each Other

In a plastic device the size of a credit card, tissues communicate with each other through a shared blood supply

 

 

Science & Technology

War Atrocities in Yemen Linked to US Weapons

Columbia Law School researchers have unveiled a disturbing connection between American arms and civilian deaths

Network

Books

What’s so Feminist About Fitness?

Journalist Danielle Friedman ’09JRN discusses the history of a multibillion-dollar industry 

Arts & Humanities

Maude Latour: Confessions of a TikTok Pop Star

How the singer-songwriter and Columbia graduate found her voice – and her audience

Alumni

Watch Out for That Special Chick at the Beach

With the NYC Plover Project, Chris Allieri ’00SIPA is protecting local shorebirds

Health & Medicine

4 Telemedicine Companies for Mental Health and More

Columbia alumni entrepreneurs are at the forefront of a booming industry

Alumni

American Seoul: Eric Kim’s Fresh New Take on Korean Cuisine

The food writer draws inspiration from his Korean heritage, his Atlanta childhood, and a few literary greats

Alumni

Advocating for the Autism Community from Within

What Jennifer Brunton ’06GSAS, coauthor of The #ActuallyAutistic Guide to Advocacy, wants people to know about neurodivergence

Books

Books

A Rust Belt City Revived by Immigrants

A review of City of Refugees, by Susan Hartman ’76SOA

Books

How a Peruvian Carpenter Led Hundreds of Christians to Judaism

A review of The Prophet of the Andes, by Graciela Mochkofsky ’96JRN

Books

Review: The Measure

By Nikki Erlick ’17GSAS

Books

Traveling with the Founding Fathers

Artist and author Adam Van Doren ’84CC, ’89GSAPP captures historic landmarks from Maine to Georgia

Books

The Lion’s Guide to Parenting

Six books from Columbia alumni that promise to make raising children just a little easier

Books

6 New Books for Fall

All by Columbia authors

Books

Can Psychic Visions Save Us?

In The Premonitions Bureau, Sam Knight ’04JRN tells the true story of a maverick psychiatrist who believed in the power of the paranormal

Bulletin

On Campus

Wafaa El-Sadr Appointed EVP for Columbia Global

She will oversee the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination

On Campus

Cynthia Rosenzweig Wins World Food Prize

The scientist was awarded the $250,000 prize for her achievements as the founder of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project 

On Campus

Celebrating Two Decades of Transformative Leadership under Lee C. Bollinger

At the end of this academic year, the Columbia president will bring to a close a historic era

On Campus

Meet Columbia's Five New Deans

These widely admired scholars have been chosen to fill crucial leadership positions

On Campus

Columbia Business, Engineering Schools Launch Dual Master’s for Tech Leaders

The degree program aims to prepare students for the technological demands of a rapidly changing workplace

On Campus

Columbia Climate School Announces First Faculty Hire

Kristina G. Douglass, an archaeologist and anthropologist, has been appointed an associate professor 

Backstory

Health & Medicine

How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever

How William Stewart Halsted became the father of modern surgery.

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