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Summer 2009

Cover of Summer 2009 issue of Columbia Magazine

Pomp and Reduced Circumstance

In the current recession, new graduates are turning to their Columbia connections to find jobs.

Features

Fiction: "Expectations Great and Small"
Painting by William Ong of two hands sewing
Arts & Humanities

Fiction: "Expectations Great and Small"

By Binnie Kirshenbaum '80GS, chair of the Writing Division at Columbia University School of the Arts

Unbreakable
George Preston holding baseball bats, photographed by Daniella Zalcman
Arts & Humanities

Unbreakable

The home of art historian George Preston ’73GSAS contains all the wood you can handle

The Secret Sharer
Michael E. Leiter photographed by Katherine Lambert
Alumni

The Secret Sharer

In the struggle against terrorism, good intelligence is the government's most important weapon. Mike Leiter '91CC makes sure it gets into the right hands

Can We Talk About Overpopulation?
Illustration by Alex Nabaum of bird feeding worm to overcrowded nest
Health & Medicine

Can We Talk About Overpopulation?

As numbers soar, scholars revisit a thorny debate

College Walk

Radio Active
Illustration by Mark Steele of walkie talkies running a marathon
Science & Technology

Radio Active

Radio technology at Columbia from the early 20th century through today

Autograph Man
Illustration by Irena Roman of a writing desk with pencils, a typewriter, a signed baseball, and a framed picture of a baseball player
Arts & Humanities

Autograph Man

Writer Paul Auster '69CC, '70GSAS gives a reading at the Kraft Center for Jewish Life

Explorations

Getting to the Bottom of Depression
Neurons
Health & Medicine

Getting to the Bottom of Depression

A study suggests that some people with depression suffer because a structural abnormality in the brain prevents them from interpreting social cues from other people

Solar Solution
Solar panel
Science & Technology

Solar Solution

The U.S. Department of Energy awards Columbia researchers a $16 million, five-year grant to invent more-efficient solar cells

Desperate Moves
Photo of a street sign submerged in water from flood
Science & Technology

Desperate Moves

Because of climate change, human migrations could occur on an unprecedented scale by midcentury, according to a new report

Books

Review: "Radical Ambition"
C. Wright Mills riding a BMW motorcycle in 1958
Books

Review: "Radical Ambition"

C. Wright Mills, the Left and American Social Thought, by Daniel Geary

Review: "How We Decide"
Cover of How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
Books

Review: "How We Decide"

By Jonah Lehrer '03CC

Review: "Leonard Bernstein, American Original"
Leonard Bernstein conducts contralto Marian Anderson and the New York Philharmonic during a 1947 rehearsal at Lewisohn Stadium. (NY Philharmonic Archives)
Books

Review: "Leonard Bernstein, American Original"

By Burton Bernstein '54JRN and Barbara B. Haws

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