Summer 2016

A Q&A with historian and public-health expert David Rosner about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan

How the creator of the hit TV shows Weeds and Orange Is the New Black smoked the doubters and got the last laugh

Today, there are thousands of LGBTQ groups on college campuses around the world. In 1966, there was only one

NCAA Ivy League baseball champs past and present meet on their home turf

Who’s going to win the presidential election?

Colm Tóibín reflects on literary master Henry James's voice

Women deans talk about barriers past and present

The return of Sanford Greenberg and Art Garfunkel

The majority of our brain cells have to last an entire lifetime

 Research briefs

Columbia cardiologists are collaborating with the NBA to identify athletes at risk for sudden cardiac death

Could a laser-powered cloaking device make planet Earth invisible to extraterrestrial invaders?

Are warnings about the sodium content of the modern American diet greatly exaggerated?

A new technique could revolutionize the treatment of some inheritable diseases.

The Senior Design Expo showcased the creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving skills of engineering students

Columbia faculty and students are leading a major excavation of the site aimed at learning more about the villa's workers

Allison Janae Hamilton ’10GSAS was a finalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition

Laurinda Spear's landscape architecture firm Aquitectonica designed the grounds of Miami's Pérez Art Museum

Eat Offbeat is a catering company that employs refugees as cooks

When the 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced in April, four alumni were among the honorees

The hip-hop musical phenomenon — co-produced by Jill Furman ’97BUS — made Broadway history when it was nominated for a record-breaking sixteen Tony Awards

Fencer Nzingha Prescod ’15CC is twenty-three years old and already an Olympic veteran

Meet a few of the Columbians behind some of 2016's top-office seekers

Columbians making headlines

By Siddhartha Mukherjee

By Charles Bock

By James McBride '80JRN

New and noteworthy releases from alumni and faculty

Former US Army captain Matt Gallagher ’13SOA discusses his novel Youngblood

By Emma Cline '13SOA

Bill Campbell was a beloved alumnus, football coach, trustee, and former Chair of the Trustees

Columbia has launched a new research and education initiative that focuses on how climate change affects our access to basic resources

The former Philadelphia mayor joins the School of International and Public Affairs as a professor of professional practice

Several Lions teams triumphed this year

Wanda M. Holland Greene ’89CC, ’92TC has been elected to the Trustees of Columbia University

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical won Columbia’s 2016 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History

President Lee C. Bollinger has agreed to lead Columbia through 2022