Spring 2011

Columbia tree-ring scientists journey to a remote forest in Cambodia to search for clues about the demise of a lost civilization

With rebellion sweeping the Arab world, Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, discusses the prospect for real change

By Julie Wu '96PS

At Columbia’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, weather meets feather, beak meets beaker, and the past becomes a forecast

The improbable origins of poet Keith O’Shaughnessy's first book

Recalling Australia's worst-ever natural disaster

Community Impact celebrates 30 years of service

Szabolcs Marka is developing a virtual mosquito net with infrared light vibrating at wavelengths that will irritate the insects

Columbia filmmakers collect prizes for some of 2010’s most daring and original films

Architects Patrick Lausell '09GSAPP and Paola Marquez '09GSAPP win competition to design Atlantic City Holocaust memorial

The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953, by Robert Dallek '64GSAS

A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Jonathan Schneer '78GSAS

John F. Mariani ’73GSAS, a columnist for Esquire and Bloomberg News, discusses his book How Italian Food Conquered the World

Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall — from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, by Frank Brady '76SOA

By John Szwed

The Northwest Corner Building gets praised for its accessible, community-friendly design