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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

Arts & Humanities

Fiction: "Expectations Great and Small"

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

Arts & Humanities

Unbreakable

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

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

Health & Medicine

Can We Talk About Overpopulation?

As numbers soar, scholars revisit a thorny debate

College Walk

Science & Technology

Radio Active

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

Arts & Humanities

Autograph Man

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

Explorations

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

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

Science & Technology

Desperate Moves

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

Books

Books

Review: "Radical Ambition"

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

Books

Review: "How We Decide"

By Jonah Lehrer '03CC

Books

Review: "Leonard Bernstein, American Original"

By Burton Bernstein '54JRN and Barbara B. Haws

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