Winter 2009-10

From parks to books to a floating pool, Ann Buttenwieser ’84GSAPP brings New Yorkers to their own shores

Peter H. R. Green became the go-to doc for a shadowy illness by learning to diagnose celiac disease

President Lee C. Bollinger on why the idea of a free and independent press — and Internet — should be our principal export

A new exhibition this winter will feature a selection of Professor Thomas Roma's modest and intimate photographs

By Victor LaValle '98SOA

We visit the set of The Dr. Oz Show, starring Mehmet Oz, professor of surgery at Columbia

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly '86GSAS returns to Columbia 

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz proposes a different way to measure economic growth.

A evening with Columbia's "whip-rolling" Chinese Yo-Yo Club

Columbia physicists hope to soon observe the one elementary particle yet to be discovered of the 17 predicted by contemporary theory

Amphibious Architecture lights up local waterways

A camera from computer scientist Shree Nayar is designed to teach youngsters about science while they express themselves creatively

Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne '90CC with an essay by Oliver Sacks

The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell '85GSAS

How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City. By Anthony Flint '85JRN

The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. By Mark Mazower

Beijing’s Music Underground. By photographer Matthew Niederhauser ’05CC

She was honored by more than 250 friends and colleagues in academia and health care at Low Library on November 9

The health-care executive is among Columbia’s most active alumni

Newspapers' earnings are being siphoned away by Web sites that offer free news content and cheap advertising rates

Tajbakhsh ’93GSAPP, who was scheduled to begin teaching at GSAPP this past semester, was arrested in Tehran on July 9

Yoani Sánchez maintains a political blog that few Cubans can access. Yet she's read by 14 million people worldwide

Raphael Graybill chooses between two highly coveted scholarships 

How Roar-ee became Columbia's golden-maned mascot