Spring 2010

By Herbert Gold '46CC, '49GSAS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wetzsteon ’99GSAS, whom Richard Howard called “the most variously gifted of our young poets,” took her own life at the age of 42

Neuroscientists can now observe synaptic activity in live tissue with a new degree of precision

The findings suggest a new treatment strategy for a common ailment known as retinitis pigmentosa

Columbia scientists to traverse Haiti’s coast using sonar equipment to find clues about where the earth moved and may move again

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

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

Agreements that Changed the Modern World, by Frederik Stanton '96CC

By Robert Cohen '83SOA

Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley

Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, by Stephen H. Norwood '84GSAS

Columbia students offer business tips to Harlem entrepreneurs

The University is making sure that companies that produce apparel bearing its name and logo treat garment workers fairly

Student-run web site releases innovative peace plans

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

Faculty and students from across the University coordinate earthquake relief efforts

The network of studio spaces \will promote dialogue among architects and urban planners from around the world

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

The job includes planning a new consolidated science library in the Northwest Corner Building

Women’s basketball has breakout season

To mark the 75th anniversary of Butler Library, a permanent photo exhibition is taking shape on the building’s third floor