Summer 2014

Beau Willimon’s sharp-toothed drama House of Cards might circle Washington, DC, but the political hunt started at Columbia

The global lust for ivory threatens to silence the African elephant forever. Can a hidden remnant of the Cold War help stem the slaughter?

A surprising number of Americans cycle in and out of poverty. Columbia researchers have embarked on an ambitious study to find out why

Fiction by Kristopher Jansma ’06SOA

Susan Gibbs ’89SIPA and Dan McSweeney ’07SIPA watch the SS United States take off again

George Estreich, author of The Shape of the Eye, spoke at the Heyman Center's event “Parenting, Narrative, and Our Genetic Futures"

A yearlong citywide celebration of James Baldwin commemorates — and contemplates — the man and his work in what would have been his ninetieth year

Columbians build and refine media-project proposals in hopes of winning one of eight grants from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation

Columbia researchers have achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how blood flow is regulated in the brain

Human-caused climate change could have an unprecedented effect on marine life

Columbians making headlines

By Laura Cantrell '89CC

By Teju Cole '03GSAS

By Stephen Sestanovich

By Peter Pennoyer '80CC, '84GSAPP and Anne Walker '00GSAPP

By Karen Russell '06SOA

We talk with Claire Shipman ’86CC, ’94SIPA, co-author of The Confidence Code

Ruby Robinson, a Columbia Engineering senior, got a surprise at her school’s Class Day graduation ceremony in May

Muscota Marsh, a new public park along the Harlem River, opens in northern Manhattan

Granary Books, a small New York City–based press, has produced some 125 artist books over the past three decades

Lester is a legal scholar who is currently the acting dean of UC Berkeley’s law school

The Lions baseball team won its second straight Ivy League Championship 

Six of Columbia’s track-and-field athletes won Ivy League titles at the 2014 Outdoor Heptagonal Championships

Columbia Engineering is undertaking a series of major renovations to the Seeley W. Mudd Building

Columbia remembers poet Alfred Joyce Kilmer 1908CC, among other students and alumni who died in World War I