

Features

2010: An Artspace Odyssey
Exploring the mixed-media landscape of this year's MFA thesis exhibition

Autism, Unmasked
The causes of autism are multiple and mysterious, but Columbia scientists say the disorder's secrets will soon be revealed

Poland's Bitter Spring
Professor John Micgiel looks at the aftermath of a plane crash that killed Polish president Lech Kaczynski and scores of other dignitaries
College Walk

Rules of the Game
Sunil Gulati ’86GSAS, president of the US Soccer Federation, gives his economics class a golden goal

Chairman of the Boardwalk
Edward McGinty '06SOA helps HBO's Boardwalk Empire capture Atlantic City in the 1920s
Explorations

What Holds Us Together?
Physicist Elena Aprile is close to spotting dark matter

Wired for Trauma
Epidemiologist Sandro Galea discovers that altered genes may trigger post-traumatic stress
Books

Brush Up Your... Marlowe?
Reviews of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro '77CC and Shakespeare and the American Musical by Irene G. Dash '72GSAS

Book Review: "A Fine Romance"
Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, by David Lehman '70CC, '78GSAS

Book Review: "The First Tycoon"
The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T. J. Stiles '91GSAS
Bulletin

University Opens Newest Global Centers in Paris and Mumbai
The expansion is part of the University’s ongoing effort to “deepen our engagement with scholars, ideas, and challenges across the globe”

Public-Health Expert Bobbie Berkowitz Chosen as New Nursing Dean
She starts her new job September 1

Guardian Exec Emily Bell to Lead New Digital Journalism Center
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism will be launched this fall

Libraries Land New Film, Arts, and Human-Rights Collection
Columbia acquired archives that will benefit key areas of scholarship at the University