Winter 2011-12

By Josh Weil '04SOA

If scientists expect to cure cancer they need to take bigger risks, says Columbia biochemist Brent Stockwell

The young playwright Katori Hall '03CC unlocks her voice in a controversial play about Martin Luther King Jr.

Historian Valerie Paley '11GSAS gives a heads-up on her makeover of the New-York Historical Society's permanent exhibit

A new University policy could completely ban smoking on campus

Chris Riccobono '07BUS launches a unique menswear line

Milda De Voe '01SOA launches Pen Parentis as part of Lower Manhattan's post-9/11 revitalization

By Jeffrey Harrison '80CC

The device requires just a drop of blood from a finger prick and reveals its diagnosis in fifteen minutes

Columbia researchers study the impacts of an alternative-to-incarceration program for single mothers

The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America. By Jonathan Gill '86CC, '99GSAS

By Paul Shaw '80GSAS

By Joshua Cody '06GSAS

We talk with Steven Millhauser '65CC, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer, about his book We Others: New and Selected Stories

By Julie Otsuka '99SOA

Columbia opens its newest Global Center in Turkey

One of Columbia’s most generous benefactors has given the University its largest gift ever for the arts

Alumni and parents will join Columbia faculty to explore the history, art, architecture, and culture of the city that bridges two continents

Columbia has earned the best returns on its investments over the past eight years

He will assist dean Feniosky Peña-Mora with faculty hiring, promotions, tenure, teaching assistants, and how space is allocated and renovated

The CAA is the University’s broadest alumni network, connecting nearly 300,000 Columbians from all schools

Remembering Václav Havel