Features
The Great Debaters
As a professor at Rutgers, champion debater William Neal Brown '50SW would face his most daunting opponent — Malcolm X
Sound Stages
Irene Taylor Brodsky '97JRN made an award-winning documentary about her deaf parents. Now, as a mother, she is gaining a new understanding of the subject
From the Bronx to Battery
Bronx native Jerome Charyn’s new novel, Johnny One-Eye, captures the spirit of Manhattan in the ’70s — the 1770s, that is
College Walk
Airfare for the Common Man
Artist and peace activist Namira Salim '96SIPA buys a ticket to space
Smoke Rising
Sam Dana had been listed as dead for nearly 34 years before the National Football League realized that he was alive
Explorations
Pay for Peace
A Columbia political scientist concludes that UN peacekeeping missions are overwhelmingly successful
Fiscal Discipline
A study makes the case for a frequently maligned mortgage type
Eye, Robot
An engineering professor has developed small, snakelike robots to help surgeons handle tools in tight quarters
Closing in on Breast Cancer
Oncologists demonstrate how a mutated gene associated with breast cancer contributes to runaway cell growth
Divisions of Labor
Columbia scientists shed light on a mystery involving cell reproduction