Winter 2013-14

Mamadou Diouf, director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia, remembers Nelson Mandela — and tells us why the world will, too

Manmeet Kaur and Prabhjot Singh are building a community-health network in East Harlem

Bill de Blasio '87SIPA rallied the five boroughs with his message of two New Yorks. He wasn’t the first Columbian to bring the city together

A short story by Parul Kapur Hinzen '89SOA

Jazz piano great Dick Hyman '48CC keeps on ticking — and tinkling

Ericka Blount Danois ’04JRN and J-school professor Samuel Freedman toast the publication of their books

Andrea Gilli, an Italian visiting scholar, lectures at Columbia's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Arthur C. Danto, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia, died in October at the age of eighty-nine

Columbia scientists have done something that until now only snake-oil salesmen claimed was possible

Physicians soon may be able to determine more reliably if a man’s prostate cancer requires quick attention

Engineering professor Patricia Culligan has a solution to New York's rain-drainage problem

Columbians making headlines

By James Franco ’11SOA

By E. Douglas Bomberger

By Boris Kachka '97CC, '98JRN

By James McBride '80JRN

A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery, by Rachel Adams

We talk with professor Farah Jasmine Griffin about her book Harlem Nocturne

By Sarah Sze

By Craig Steven Wilder '94GSAS

By David Rakoff '86CC

The Global Center in Paris cohosts literary fest

The fundraising event exceeded the previous year's inaugural effort by roughly $1 million

The University shares results from the Columbia Portraits survey 

The mayor-elect speaks at the Earth Institute summit

Columbia’s medical campus in Washington Heights is about to undergo a major transformation

The military program returns to campus

Columbia has acquired the archive of one of America's most treasured cartoonists