

Features

To Deter and Protect
Harold Brown ’45CC, ’49GSAS, who served as secretary of defense under Jimmy Carter, discusses the threats of the Cold War and their lessons for today

Street-Beat Confidential
Journalist Juan González has been writing about wrongs for thirty-five years. What's he got today?

Shards of Love
Sharon Olds, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, takes us through the windows of her broken marriage

Without Walls
A jaunt through the boundless visual worlds of six young, successful Columbia artists
College Walk

Safe at Home
At twenty-seven, General Studies sophomore Joey Falcone is the oldest Division I ballplayer in the country

Nordic Nosh
The Department of Germanic Languages presents a symposium on "New Nordic Cuisine" in New York City
Explorations

Charting the World's Energy Future
Former White House energy adviser Jason Bordoff leads the new Center on Global Energy Policy

Mass Extinction Pinned to Volcanism
A new study provides the best evidence yet that fiery eruptions caused a mass extinction two hundred million years ago
Books
Bulletin

B-school Receives $100 Million Pledge from Ronald O. Perelman
The entrepreneur's gift will support the school's move to Manhattanville

Merit E. Janow Picked to Lead SIPA
The former WTO and Justice Department official is now dean of the School of International and Public Affairs

Flex, Stretch, Pump, Press
Columbia opens its new five-story, 47,700-square-foot sports center at the Baker Athletics Complex

Sports: A Spring to Remember
Lions triumph in tennis, baseball, crew, fencing, archery, wrestling and more

In Brief: Summer 2013
Stuart Firestein and Shih-Fu Chang win teaching awards, and other news

Christian S. Stohler Appointed Dean of Dental College
The accomplished University of Maryland medical researcher comes to Columbia

“A Mind Always Learning”
President Lee C. Bollinger speaks to 14,000 new graduates at commencement

Virtual Cuba
Journalist Yoani Sánchez on the tools of resistance in her country: memory sticks, recordable CDs, portable hard drives

Mary Cunningham Boyce Named Engineering Dean
The MIT nanotechnology and materials expert comes to Columbia
Finals

Foto Finish
Welcome to the photo archive of El Diario/La Prensa, New York's oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper