Winter 2012-13

Critic John Simon offers his personal reflections on Jacques Barzun '27CC, '32GSAS, one of the twentieth century’s foremost public intellectuals

A murder in Riverside Park changed the lives of a group of Columbia undergrads. Did it change literature as well?

Central American migrants risk their lives on the journey north through Mexico

By Nalini Jones '01SOA

The Columbia marching band gets organized

Speakers discuss planet fitness at the 2012 State of the Planet Conference.

A "Harlem Renaissance" in Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library

By David Yezzi '95SOA

A new study suggests that type 2 disease progresses in a different way than previously thought

Columbia researchers have created the first forecasting system for influenza outbreaks 

Columbians making headlines

By Madeleine Albright '68SIPA, '76GSAS, '95HON

By Noo Saro-Wiwa '01JRN

By Victor LaValle  '98SOA (Spiegel & Grau)

By Paul Lockhart '90GSAS

By Mark Jacob and Stephen H. Case '64CC, '68LAW

By Thomas E. Rinaldi '10GSAPP

Paul Elie ’91SOA discusses his book Reinventing Bach

By Aman Sethi '09JRN

The leader of Burma's pro-democracy opposition party visits Morningside

The scholars won awards for chemistry and economics

He will remain at the school as a professor

In the aftermath of the hurricane, students from across the University joined in relief efforts or organized their own

The executive vice president and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia leaves for a new role

The sum is five times as large as the University’s previous record for annual-fund gifts in a twenty-four-hour period

Columbia recently received one of its largest gifts in its history

President Obama visits areas stricken by Sandy