Spring 2009

After 31 years in the ring, Paul Binder ’67BUS, founder and artistic director of the Big Apple Circus, has come full circle

Scientists are on the verge of learning how a mountain range trapped within the Antarctic ice sheet got there

By Jay Neugeboren '59CC

Man on Wire, the 2008 documentary coproduced by film professor Maureen Ryan '92SOA, wins an Oscar

“Eavesdropping on Supermassive Black Holes" at Pupin Hall

Welcome to the Postcrypt Coffeehouse in St. Paul's Chapel, the dark heart that has been giving Columbia its musical beat since 1964

Columbians at the Sundance Film Festival

Scientists say they've found a genetic link to a childhood seizure disorder that causes the face, mouth, and throat to go numb

Columbia students are using mobile phones to improve the collection of health-care data in Malawi

A clinical trial demonstrates for the first time that an antiviral gel applied topically could prevent male-to-female HIV transmission

New Perspectives on Lincoln and his World, edited by Eric Foner '63CC, '69GSAS

The Forgotten Struggle of Civil Rights in the North, by Thomas J. Sugrue '84CC

Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias, by Andrew D. Blechman '93JRN

Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks, by Daniel Esterman '65CC, Thomas Crow, and Hubert Damisch

A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem, by Patrick J. McCloskey '98JRN

We look back at a 1957 Columbia exhibition to Antarctica