Spring 2012

How did Jen Chung and Jake Dobkin, cofounders of Gothamist, turn a simple message board into the hottest news source in town?

Timothy Frye, director of Columbia’s Harriman Institute, explains what a weakened Putin means for Russia

Theater director Diane Paulus '97SOA takes on Porgy and Bess

By Norbert Ehrenfreund '50GSAS

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is at the forefront of regenerative medicine. Can her laboratory-grown body parts really work?

A literary Run for the Roses at the New School

The story of the stained-glass Lady Liberty at the journalism school

A Columbia class called "Ignorance" invites researchers to publicly expose the gaps in their knowledge

A discussion of Mormonism and American politics at Columbia’s Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life

By Bill Zavatsky '74SOA, '74GS

A new discovery brings scientists closer to understanding how the disease spreads

Columbia researchers propose what would be the city’s most ambitious land-reclamation project yet

Columbians making headlines

By Frederick Kempe '77JRN

By Ben Marcus

By Ayad Akhtar '03SOA

American Studies professor Andrew Delbanco discusses his book College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be

By James S. Kunen '70CC

By Heidi Julavits

By Jamal Joseph

Edited by Deborah A. Starr and Sasson Somekh

The Supreme Court Justice, who did pro bono work for the ACLU while teaching at Columbia from 1972 to 1980, returns to Morningside Heights

President Obama will address Barnard's 2012 graduating seniors

The Spectator goes digital, and other campus news

The “transformational dean” at the School of International and Public Affairs enters a new role

Eric Holder talks about the creation of a federal task forced aimed at rooting out the perpetrators of fraudulent lending and investing practices

Helen Gurley Brown gives $30 million for a new center that will support tech-savvy journalism

Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquires Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men archives

Columbia women take home the team title at the Ivy League championships

A piece of sculpture by School of the Arts professor Sarah Sze is a pack rat's fantasy

How the J-school's Pulitzer Hall got its name