Summer 2011

When Zhou Long won the 2011 Pulitzer for Music, he gained something more than artistic laurels

Legendary fencing coach Aladar Kogler teaches his students to play with sharp objects — their minds

Can Ken Podziba '91GSAPP make New York the next great biking city?

The 2011 Pulitzer Prize recipients clink glasses in celebration of their achievements in journalism, literature, and music

Happy hour in Havemeyer

Bel Kaufman '36GSAS, ninety-nine, on the importance of humor in dark times 

By Alan Michael Parker ’87SOA

Environmental engineer Kartik Chandran has developed an unusually efficient way to turn nitrogen and other organic compounds from human waste into biodiesel

If an entire nation is made uninhabitable by rising seas, what is owed to its people?

A study has uncovered alternative causes of the disease

By Sigrid Nunez '75SOA

Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother, By Simon Schama

By Robert Lipsyte '57CC, '59JRN

Lawyer and former reporter Stephanie Staal ’93BC, ’98JRN discusses her book Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life

By Carolyn Burke '71GSAS

How America’s Business Press Missed the Story of the Century, edited by Anya Schiffrin '00JRN

The gifts will endow positions for five Core instructors

Richard Hamilton wins Shaw Prize, and other campus news

Columbia will construct a five-story, 47,000-square-foot sports center at its Baker Athletics Complex 

University to resume Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC)

The Institute for Brain Development will be located on the Westchester campus of New York-Presbyterian Hospital

The scholar and translator of Japanese literature taught his last class in Kent Hall in April

About 100 Columbia alumni and friends gathered in the Mediterranean city to experience its art, architecture, history, music, and food 

A new exhibition celebrates 140 years of singing groups at Columbia