

Features

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

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

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

A Book-Sized World
A new exhibition this winter will feature a selection of Professor Thomas Roma's modest and intimate photographs
College Walk

That’s Healthfotainment!
We visit the set of The Dr. Oz Show, starring Mehmet Oz, professor of surgery at Columbia

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

Chasing God's Particle
Columbia physicists hope to soon observe the one elementary particle yet to be discovered of the 17 predicted by contemporary theory

BigShots, Small Shutterbugs
A camera from computer scientist Shree Nayar is designed to teach youngsters about science while they express themselves creatively
Books

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

Book Review: "Koestler"
The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell '85GSAS

Book Review: "Wrestling with Moses"
How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City. By Anthony Flint '85JRN

Book Review: "No Enchanted Palace"
The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. By Mark Mazower

Book Review: "Sound Kapital"
Beijing’s Music Underground. By photographer Matthew Niederhauser ’05CC
Bulletin

Nursing Dean Mundinger Honored for 24 years of Leadership
She was honored by more than 250 friends and colleagues in academia and health care at Low Library on November 9

Harden Elected to University Trustees
The health-care executive is among Columbia’s most active alumni

J-school Report: Local News Needs Handout
Newspapers' earnings are being siphoned away by Web sites that offer free news content and cheap advertising rates

Iran Jails Columbia Urban Planning Scholar Kian Tajbakhsh
Tajbakhsh ’93GSAPP, who was scheduled to begin teaching at GSAPP this past semester, was arrested in Tehran on July 9

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

College Senior Will Take Rhodes to Oxford
Raphael Graybill chooses between two highly coveted scholarships