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Spring/Summer 2015

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The Hippocratic Overture

Students at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons are getting ready to practice. Will it make them better doctors?

Features

Arts & Humanities

After the Deluge

A New Orleans-born writer reflects on the ten-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the toll the disaster is still taking on his city

Science & Technology

The New Rules of Networking

Social-networking evangelist Sree Sreenivasan '93JRN has advice for new graduates: link in, tweet on, and connect often

Science & Technology

Seeds of Hope

In Uruguay, Columbia scientists are working on a forecasting system to help farmers cope with climate change

College Walk

Arts & Humanities

Capturing the Emperor

Barak Goodman's latest film, a six-hour adaptation of The Emperor of All Maladies, has been the documentarian's most intricate assignment yet

Arts & Humanities

Some Enchanted Evening

Introducing the first annual “Columbia Songbook,” a celebration of show tunes written by faculty and alumni

Alumni

A Doctor's Living Legacy

Gene­-Ann Polk Horne '68PH and Harlem Hospital

On Campus

Happy Hour at the Salad Bar

Meet Christina Lee, Columbia’s first full-­time dietitian

Arts & Humanities

The Controversy of Art

Victor Navasky, founding member of the Committee to Protect Journalists, on Charlie Hebdo

Explorations

Science & Technology

Face­-to-­Face Dialogues Seen as Key to Breaking Down Bigotry

A Columbia study has found that people opposed to same-sex marriage will often reverse their stance after a single conversation with a gay canvasser

Health & Medicine

New Hope for Those with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The illness, once dismissed as the “yuppie flu,” has long frustrated scientists seeking to explain its etiology

Network

Alumni

Good Chemistry

The American Chemical Society bestowed its highest honor on Jacqueline Barton ’74BC, ’79GSAS, ’10HON

Alumni

Up, Up, and Away

NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra ’13BUS will return to the International Space Station for the first time since 2009

Alumni

Project Greenlight

Anna Stork '11GSAPP, Andrea Sreshta '11GSAPP, and Jonny Cohen in the news

Books

Books

Book Review: “Get in Trouble"

By Kelly Link '91CC

Books

Book Review: “If the Oceans Were Ink”

By Carla Power '95JRN

Books

Book Review: "Dead Wake"

By Eric Larson '78JRN

Books

Book Review: "Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry"

By Jeffrey A. Lieberman, with Ogi Ogas

Books

Book Review: "Girl at War"

By Sara Nović '14SOA

Books

Notes of a Literary Partisan

We talk with literary and cultural critic Morris Dickstein '61CC about his book Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education

Books

Book Review: “Hissing Cousins”

By Marc Peyser '87JRN and Timothy Dwyer

Bulletin

On Campus

In Brief: Spring/Summer 2015

Michael W. Doyle named University Professor, among other news

On Campus

Philanthropists Give $5 Million for Chinese­-History Center

The Tang Center for Early China is being established with a $5 million endowment gift from Oscar and Agnes Tang

On Campus

University Bestows Inaugural Global Freedom of Expression Prizes

The prizes were given March 11, at the close of a two­-day conference hosted by Columbia’s Global Freedom of Expression and Information initiative

On Campus

School of Continuing Education gets New Dean

Jason Wingard, formerly the chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs, begins his new deanship on July 1

On Campus

Score, Lion, Score: Columbia Hires New Athletic Director, Football Coach

Introducing Peter Pilling and Al Bagnoli

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