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Ebola virus

Winter 2014-15

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The Ebola Web

Columbians race to stop an epidemic.

Features

Science & Technology

Whose Galaxy Is It?

As astronomers discover a universe flush with potentially life-supporting planets, it seems more and more likely that we are not alone

Arts & Humanities

A Man of Twists and Turns

One Greek poet. One African-American artist. One intrepid professor. How Robert O’Meally brought Romare Bearden back to Harlem

Arts & Humanities

Continental Drift

Fresh from Columbia’s World Writers’ Festival in Paris, four Indian writers reflect on their engagement with the West

College Walk

Alumni

Crossover Dribble

NBA star Troy Murphy '15GS bounces to Columbia

Science & Technology

A Secret History

Science and technology historian Matthew Jones breaks down the history of snooping

Arts & Humanities

Talking Heads

Katherine Dieckmann of Columbia's School of the Arts makes a documentary about the Mekons

Health & Medicine

The Smile Sessions

Andrea Smith '05DM is the clinical director of the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic

Arts & Humanities

"When Depressed"

A poem by Jay Neugeboren '59CC

Explorations

Health & Medicine

Necessity’s Inventions: Design Challenge Takes Aim at Ebola

Engineering students look for solutions to a public-health crisis

Network

Alumni

Rivka Galchen '06SOA, Carl Cofield '14SOA, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

Books

Books

Book Review: "The Culinary Imagination"

Americans have never spent less time in the kitchen preparing the daily meals that feed our families. And yet culturally, our interest in food has never been stronger

Books

Book Review: "Panic in a Suitcase"

By Yelena Akhtiorskaya '09SOA

Books

Book Review: "Nora Webster"

By Colm Tóibín

Books

Book Review: "Impolite Conversations"

On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion, by Cora Daniels '94JRN and John L. Jackson Jr. '00GSAS

Books

Jersey Boy

Richard Ford, a Columbia humanities professor, discusses his book Let Me Be Frank With You

Books

Book Review: "The Unspeakable"

By Meghan Daum ’96SOA 

Bulletin

On Campus

Straight to the Tippity Top

The Lenfest Center "tops off" their new construction

On Campus

Third Giving Day Raises $11 Million

The event drew 10,452 gifts from alumni and friends in all fifty US states and fifty-three countries

On Campus

Fund Created to Honor David Rosand, 1938-2014

Columbia lost one of its most celebrated scholars last summer

On Campus

Amelia J. Alverson Chosen to Lead Development and Alumni Relations

The job puts her in charge of some of the University’s most visible efforts to connect with its 313,000 graduates

On Campus

NeuroTechnology Center Will Create New Tools for Studying the Brain

A group of scientists and engineers with experience designing advanced research tools has come together 

On Campus

Goldberg Named EVP for University Life

Suzanne Goldberg, a Columbia law professor and a nationally recognized expert on gender and sexuality law, has been appointed to the new position

On Campus

Students Respond to Racially Charged Grand-Jury Decisions

More than two hundred students of color lay down on College Walk in a peaceful demonstration

On Campus

University Names Precision-Medicine Director

Tom Maniatis directs a new initiative

Finals

On Campus

Bake, Lion, Bake!

A 1942 Columbia cookbook resurfaces

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