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Spring 2010

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The Night Hunter

Steve Duncan '02CC tracks down history in dark, dangerous places. Then he shoots it.

Features

Seven Years: A Short Story
Painting by Patti Mollica of athletic equipment and boxes outside of apartment door
Arts & Humanities

Seven Years: A Short Story

By Herbert Gold '46CC, '49GSAS

Every Day Is Bird Day
Phil Schaap
Arts & Humanities

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
Kelly Niknejad
Alumni

Dateline: Iran

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

X-Ray Specs
Scientist in lab behind telescope
Science & Technology

X-Ray Specs

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

Defending the University
Illustration of a scientist looking through a microscope as the White House spies on him with a giant eye
On Campus

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
Water-color painting of the Cort Theatre by Philip Bannister
Arts & Humanities

Preview From the Bridge

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

Aftershocks
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
On Campus

Aftershocks

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

Aliments of Style
Illustration by Mark Steele of Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson teaching her Columbia course Food and the Social Order
On Campus

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)
Cover of "Silver Roses" by Rachel Wetzsteon
Arts & Humanities

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
David Sulzer in his Columbia laboratory
Health & Medicine

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
Van Gogh's Sunflowers as seen through the eyes of a person with age-related macular degeneration, at left, and the same painting seen through the eyes of a person with retinitis pigmentosa
Health & Medicine

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
Seismology map of Haiti's coast
Science & Technology

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
Columbia engineering students and local high schoolers examine solar panels to be installed at Frederick Douglass Academy in Upper Manhattan
Science & Technology

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
Cover of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn
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"
Cover of "Great Negotiations" by Frederik Stanton, with photo of Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev
Books

Book Review: "Great Negotiations"

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

Book Review: "Amateur Barbarians"
Cover of Amateur Barbarians by Robert Cohen, with photo of a lion on couch
Books

Book Review: "Amateur Barbarians"

By Robert Cohen '83SOA

Book Review: "The Publisher"
Henry Luce in 1937 with Columbia law professor, Newsweek columnist, and disillusioned Brain Truster Raymond Moley
Books

Book Review: "The Publisher"

Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley

Book Review: "The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower"
Columbia students stage a mock book burning in 1936 to protest Nicholas Murray Butler's decision to send a delegate to the University of Heidelberg's 550th anniversary celebration
Books

Book Review: "The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower"

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

Bulletin

Engineering Business Smarts
Rebecca Rodriguez address local entrepreneurs at Harlem's La Pregunta Arts Café.
On Campus

Engineering Business Smarts

Columbia students offer business tips to Harlem entrepreneurs

Universities’ Boycott Wins Garment Workers Right to Unionize
Columbia sweatshirt at campus bookstore
On Campus

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

Planning for Peace
Graduate students Gal Bar Dea, Heather Gilmartin, and Lennaro Crain lead the group Students Participating in Resolving International Tensions
On Campus

Planning for Peace

Student-run web site releases innovative peace plans

New Fellowship for Oral History
Sybil Sheinwald
On Campus

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
People sifting through rubble in downtown Port-au-Prince after the 2010 Haitian earthquake
On Campus

Helping Haiti

Faculty and students from across the University coordinate earthquake relief efforts

Architecture School Launches Studio-X Global Network
An installation art piece at Studio-X New York
On Campus

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
Harmen Bussemaker receiving a Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award in 2010
On Campus

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
Jane Winland
On Campus

Jane Winland to Direct Science and Engineering Libraries

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

Big Bounce Back
Judie Lomax playing basketball
On Campus

Big Bounce Back

Women’s basketball has breakout season

Finals

Stacked
Construction of Butler Library in 1932
On Campus

Stacked

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

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