Summer 2017

Sharon Robinson '76NRS delivers on her father's legacy

A Q&A with President Lee C. Bollinger on turning academic breakthroughs into solutions

New York Times food writer Melissa Clark '90BC, '94SOA invites everyone to the table

How a Butler librarian became Columbia’s first curator for comics and cartoons.

The Wallach Art Gallery relocates to Manhattanville

The human brain becomes art on the wall

Standup comedians sit down for a conference

How to talk when we talk about science

Past winners of the Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching raise their glasses to the profession

Since the US Supreme Court ruling, an unprecedented amount of money has poured into American elections

What looks like an ant, acts like an ant, smells like an ant, and yet is not an ant?

The Middle East, like many arid regions, is expected to get even drier this century as a result of global warming

A mysterious disorder that affects more than one million Americans is linked to abnormal levels of certain gut bacteria

Can machines be curious and expressive? Researchers at Columbia’s Creative Machines Lab think so

The epidemic of prescription-drug abuse that has ravaged the US is fast becoming a global problem

Scientists have begun experimenting with putting data onto nature’s original hard drive

People with type 2 diabetes may soon find it easier to manage their condition

By the time donor organs are harvested, packed in ice, and transported to where they are needed, many are no longer usable

Justin Davidson '90GSAS, '94SOA on the places that capture the “myth and magic and possibility” of the city he calls home

An interview with Erika Dilday ’93JRN, ’94BUS, executive director of the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem

Jeffrey Glassberg ’93LAW is the founder and director of the North American Butterfly Association

Columbians making headlines

By Morgan Parker ’10CC

By Dan Egan ’12JRN

Samuel Freedman interviews Alia Malek ’06JRN, author of “The Home That Was Our Country”

By Michael Rosenthal ’67GSAS

By Diksha Basu ’14SOA

The Columbia men’s tennis team won its fourth consecutive Ivy League championship

The civil-rights icon and longtime Democratic congressman from Georgia delivered a rousing speech at the School of International and Public Affairs

The Columbia medical researcher and pioneer in the field of tissue engineering has been named a University Professor

After twenty years as dean of the School of General Studies, Peter Awn says the time is right to step aside

The initiative will support research projects that have the potential to make profound contributions to society

Jeannette Wing has been named the Avanessians Director of Columbia’s Data Science Institute and Professor of Computer Science

Columbia pledges to achieve reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions under its first campus sustainability plan