Spring 2006

Brian Greene unravels the fabric of the universe

A Columbia archive helps history find a voice

Kinetic sculptor Chuck Hoberman expands the boundaries of design

Few are aware that Norman Podhoretz's intellectual life began well before 1960

No one knows the streets of New York like John Tauranac

An alumna recalls a lesson in community

Nicholas Murray Butler served as Columbia’s president for 44 years and created the University in his own image. But there was another job he wanted

In a new show of experimental theater called Gravid Water, actors and improvisers meet onstage to perform a series of unrehearsed scenes

A bronze statue of Louis Kossuth stands at 113th Street and Riverside Drive

The Great Throwdini fills his audience with the adrenaline of anxiety and dread

Columbia physicians are rolling out a screening program that identifies high-risk patients with a blood test and ultrasound

Klaus Lackner is on the forefront of carbon sequestration

Sterling Nesbitt makes the discovery of a lifetime: a 210-million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown animal

Buried by The Times:The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, by Laurel Leff

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, by Ira Katznelson

If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, by Gregory Rabassa ’54GSAS

Melville: His World and Work, by Andrew Delbanco

The University will establish a new facility for its expanding Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative

Caroline Bierbaum ’06CC became the most decorated female cross-country athlete in Columbia’s history 

A memorial service was held on May 5

Wilson is the first African-American football head coach in Ivy League history

The Institute will participate in joint appointments and sponsor educational and cultural programs and activities

The first annual Distinguished Columbia Faculty Awards have been presented

The Roone Arledge Broadcast Lab opens

What progressives can learn from religion

The American Academy in Rome and the Friends of Columbia University have established a fellowship program

Mark Weiner is founder and executive director of Emergency Communities

The Center for Jazz Studies cosponsors “New Orleans: Rebuilding the Musical City”

His findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Economics Association

The chairman and CEO of the New England Patriots received the NCAA’s highest honor for citizens