Summer 2007

A shy freshman learned how to make friends the hard way

Alice Neel made art on her own terms; but as a new film by her grandson Andrew Neel '01CC suggests, her family paid a price

Mike Gravel '56GS, former Democratic senator from Alaska, runs for president

Edward Mendelson on W. H. Auden

Electrical engineering professor Dan Ellis creates a "life log"

A new paper on "superstar cities," and more

A drought as severe as the 1930s Dust Bowl could ignite conflicts over water, scientists say

An astronomer offers an explanation for mysterious putts of light on the lunar surface

Columbia researchers study the placebo effect

Partners in Power, by Robert Dallek '64GSAS

Prohibition in New York City, by Michael A. Lerner '89CC

By Karen Russell '06SOA