Spring 2013
 
      
      
                   
      
      
                   
      
      
                              What does trash tell us about ourselves? Anthropologist Robin Nagle '94GSAS put on the uniform and found out
 
      
      
                              A new genetic test allows parents to peer into their unborn children's medical future. Are we ready for this knowledge?
 
      
      
                              NASA-backed scientists, led at Columbia by Amber Miller, are aiming a new telescope at a most distant target
 
      
      
                              Looking back at the career of Ernest L. Cuneo '27CC, sketch artist for the first James Bond film
 
      
      
                              Journalist Joshua Prager '94CC, a former quadriplegic, writes a healing memoir
 
      
      
                              Columbia engineers investigate how to avoid a cascading nuclear disaster
 
      
      
                              A review of "The Injustice System" by Clive Stafford Smith '84LAW and "Manifest Injustice" by Barry Siegel '72JRN
 
      
      
                              Columbia establishes two new overseas academic hubs
 
      
      
                              Two playwrights share one of the nation's most generous prizes in creative writing
 
      
      
                              The winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize spoke at the February 18 World Leaders Forum
 
      
      
                              Introducing a novel course-sharing effort between Columbia, Cornell, and Yale
 
      
      
                              A new survey offers an opportunity for alumni to influence programs offered to graduates
 
      
      
                              The J-School welcomes Steve Coll, a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize