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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

Arts & Humanities

Seven Years: A Short Story

By Herbert Gold '46CC, '49GSAS

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

Alumni

Dateline: Iran

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

Science & Technology

X-Ray Specs

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

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

Arts & Humanities

Preview From the Bridge

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

On Campus

Aftershocks

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

On Campus

Aliments of Style

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

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

Health & Medicine

New Chemical Illuminates Brain Activity

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

Health & Medicine

Stem Cells Restore Eyesight in Mice

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

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

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

Books

A Rose for Emily

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

Books

Book Review: "Great Negotiations"

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

Books

Book Review: "Amateur Barbarians"

By Robert Cohen '83SOA

Books

Book Review: "The Publisher"

Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley

Books

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

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

Bulletin

On Campus

Engineering Business Smarts

Columbia students offer business tips to Harlem entrepreneurs

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

On Campus

Planning for Peace

Student-run web site releases innovative peace plans

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

On Campus

Helping Haiti

Faculty and students from across the University coordinate earthquake relief efforts

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

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

On Campus

Jane Winland to Direct Science and Engineering Libraries

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

On Campus

Big Bounce Back

Women’s basketball has breakout season

Finals

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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