Spring 2013
The interconnected world of NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous
Features
Alumni
The Pickup Artists
What does trash tell us about ourselves? Anthropologist Robin Nagle '94GSAS put on the uniform and found out
Science & Technology
A Shot in the Light
NASA-backed scientists, led at Columbia by Amber Miller, are aiming a new telescope at a most distant target
Health & Medicine
Looking for the Telltale Gene
A new genetic test allows parents to peer into their unborn children's medical future. Are we ready for this knowledge?
College Walk
Arts & Humanities
For Our Eyes Only
Looking back at the career of Ernest L. Cuneo '27CC, sketch artist for the first James Bond film
Alumni
A Life in Full
Journalist Joshua Prager '94CC, a former quadriplegic, writes a healing memoir
Explorations
Science & Technology
Protecting the Grid from the Bomb
Columbia engineers investigate how to avoid a cascading nuclear disaster
Network
Books
Books
Fatal Flaws
A review of "The Injustice System" by Clive Stafford Smith '84LAW and "Manifest Injustice" by Barry Siegel '72JRN
Bulletin
On Campus
Nairobi and Rio Bring Global Centers to Eight
Columbia establishes two new overseas academic hubs
On Campus
Pulitzer Winner Named to Head Journalism School
The J-School welcomes Steve Coll, a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
On Campus
Columbia Portraits to Inform Alumni Programming
A new survey offers an opportunity for alumni to influence programs offered to graduates
On Campus
Yoruba Spoken Here: Ivies Share Access to Rare Language Courses
Introducing a novel course-sharing effort between Columbia, Cornell, and Yale
On Campus
Learn Africa, says Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee
The winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize spoke at the February 18 World Leaders Forum
On Campus
Staging History, as Kennedy Would Like It
Two playwrights share one of the nation's most generous prizes in creative writing