Spring 2016

At Columbia’s DeathLab, the search for a cleaner, smarter alternative to burial is a deeply serious matter

The prolific writer recommends six great essayists he really thinks you should read

On the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize, we look back at award-winning photos that captured history

The Columbia Law professor discusses the Say Her Name movement and her fight for gender-inclusive racial justice

Undergraduates discuss the op-ed

A wrestler's love for ceramics

Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library has a pair of Tennessee Williams's reading glasses

Academics break down the acclaimed HBO drama

A Columbia study is the first to assess the risks posed by diminished snowfall across the Northern Hemisphere

Columbia book conservators recently restored and digitized a seventeenth-century anatomy text

Research briefs

Over the past decade, countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean have sold or leased millions of acres of state-controlled farmland to foreign interests 

Researchers found that boosting the productivity of the brain's "garbage-disposal system" may treat diseases

Columbia researchers created a database of the effects of different venoms on the human body

If you think snapping high-definition pictures on your smartphone is the pinnacle of digital photography, think again

Repeated errors may be crafty means of inflating income

Space voyager Mike Massimino ’84SEAS pushes students to the frontier of the possible

As Columbia film students in 2005, Moira Demos ’96CC, ’08SOA and Laura Ricciardi ’07SOA stumbled across a New York Times story with an incredible plotline

A Columbia alum has found the world’s biggest dinosaur

Diane Paulus ’97SOA makes theater history with her production of Waitress

When the 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced in April, four alumni were among the honorees

Founded by Sam Bodkin '12CC, Groupmuse matches party hosts with classical musicians

Hari Nef '15CC is the first openly transgender model to sign with IMG

Columbians listed on "40 Under 40" and "30 Under 30" lists

How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us, by Lee Goldman

By Roy J. Harris Jr.

By Geraldine Brooks '83JRN

By Rick Moody '86SOA

Jacques Pépin ’70GS, ’72GSAS discusses his twenty-sixth — and arguably most personal — cookbook

By Orhan Pamuk

Jocelyn Wilk appointed University archivist, among other news

The longtime adminstrator served as the executive vice president for University development and alumni relations from 2003 to 2010

The campaign, called Core to Commencement, is the first-ever fundraising and engagement campaign to be dedicated exclusively to Columbia College.

The archive contains the former New York City mayor's speeches, campaign materials, endorsements, position papers, and other documents

The total endowment amounts to $4 million

The Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art will be located in a newly renovated space in Schermerhorn Hall