

Features

Every Day Is Bird Day
After 40 years at WKCR, jazz guru Phil Schaap '73CC is still riffing like there’s no tomorrow

Dateline: Iran
There have been no Western news bureaus in Tehran in a generation, so Kelly Niknejad opened one. Virtually

X-Ray Specs
Columbia astrophysicist Chuck Hailey is building a telescope to view stars so hot they’ve never been seen

Defending the University
Government interference. Watchdog groups. Ingrained orthodoxies. Jonathan R. Cole says they’re putting one of America’s greatest resources at risk
College Walk

Preview From the Bridge
A Columbia theater-arts professor revives Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge

Aftershocks
Former University president George E. Rupp, now president of the International Rescue Committee, on the relief effort in Haiti

Aliments of Style
In Professor Priscilla Ferguson's Food and the Social Order class, the fork is mightier than the pen

Remembering Rachel Wetzsteon (1967—2009)
Wetzsteon ’99GSAS, whom Richard Howard called “the most variously gifted of our young poets,” took her own life at the age of 42
Explorations

New Chemical Illuminates Brain Activity
Neuroscientists can now observe synaptic activity in live tissue with a new degree of precision

Stem Cells Restore Eyesight in Mice
The findings suggest a new treatment strategy for a common ailment known as retinitis pigmentosa

Seismologists Monitoring Continued Quake Threat Near Haiti
Columbia scientists to traverse Haiti’s coast using sonar equipment to find clues about where the earth moved and may move again

Solar Heat Made Affordable
Huiming Yin, an assistant professor of engineering, has invented a device that could make sustainable energy available to more U.S. households and businesses
Books

A Rose for Emily
An interview with Jerome Charyn ’59CC, author of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel

Book Review: "Great Negotiations"
Agreements that Changed the Modern World, by Frederik Stanton '96CC

Book Review: "The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower"
Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, by Stephen H. Norwood '84GSAS
Bulletin

Universities’ Boycott Wins Garment Workers Right to Unionize
The University is making sure that companies that produce apparel bearing its name and logo treat garment workers fairly

New Fellowship for Oral History
Attorney Sybil Shainwald ’72GSAS, a pioneer of women's health law, endows a $100,000 fund to provide fellowships for students in Columbia's oral history program

Helping Haiti
Faculty and students from across the University coordinate earthquake relief efforts

Architecture School Launches Studio-X Global Network
The network of studio spaces \will promote dialogue among architects and urban planners from around the world

Seven Faculty Honored for Exceptional Teaching
Stefan Andriopoulos, Harmen Bussemaker, Julie Crawford, Lydia Goehr, Steven Goldstein ’76CC, ’86GSAS, Ruben Gonzalez Jr., and David Scott all received awards

Jane Winland to Direct Science and Engineering Libraries
The job includes planning a new consolidated science library in the Northwest Corner Building