Features
Hamilton is in the House
Move over, Washington and Jefferson. Alexander Hamilton is the coolest Founding Father
The Next Move for Planet Earth
What game theory can teach us about climate-change negotiations
Power for the People
How one Columbia startup is helping low-income communities across New York generate a clean-energy revolution
The Cosmopolites
Journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian '08CC, '11JRN reflects on the meaning of citizenship in the twenty-first century
College Walk
Picturing Alzheimer's
Inside Arts & Minds, a nonprofit that provides art classes for dementia patients
The Laws of Subduction
The Marcus G. Langseth gathers seismic data under the ocean
Flash-Bach
Israeli cellist and musical innovator Matt Haimovitz is on a mission to bring classical music to unexpected places
Explorations
Data's Dividends
At Columbia’s Data Institute, teams of sociologists, economists, social workers, and data scientists are using computational methods to tackle life's big questions
Navigating Nairobi
Researchers have created the first map of Nairobi’s main transit system
Sinking Prospects
A new study predicts that the height and duration of floods along the East Coast will increase dramatically by 2100
With New Diagnostic Test, Viruses Have Nowhere to Hide
Scientists have developed a diagnostic tool could speed up the detection and treatment of infectious diseases from common influenza to Dengue fever
In an Ancient Workshop, Discovering Modern Ideas
Graduate students are gaining insights into the mindset of Renaissance craftsmen by reproducing their wares
Front-Row Seats to the Death of a Galaxy
Two supermassive black holes in the constellation Virgo are likely to smash together in about one hundred thousand years
What Exxon Knew
The company spent tens of millions of dollars between 1998 and 2005 on public-relations campaigns that questioned climate science
The Case of the Big Rock in the Wrong Spot
Geologists working in the Cape Verde islands have found evidence to back up a controversial theory
Can Computers Predict who Develops Mental Illness?
An automated speech-analysis program predicted with 100 percent accuracy which of thirty-four teens and young adults would develop schizophrenia
Network
Court Order
Thomas Sprankling ’12LAW was hired to clerk for Supreme Court justice Anthony M. Kennedy in the 2016 term
Smart Money
Two Columbians were recipients of this year’s MacArthur Fellowships, commonly known as “genius grants”
Making a Splash
Rower Clemens Auersperg ’14CC and swimmer Katie Meili ’13CC recently competed in major events
Nurse First
Theresa Brown ’88GSAS wants to deconstruct the notion that “nurses are just an appendage of doctors”
Books
Custer's Latest Stand
T. J. Stiles ’91GSAS discusses his latest foray into nineteenth-century America in Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Bulletin
Double Discovery Program Marks 50 Years
The program celebrated fifty years of helping local high-school students prepare for college
New GS Dean for Student Veterans
Marine Corps veteran David Keefe has joined the School of General Studies as the senior assistant dean of student-veteran initiatives
Presidential Perspectives
Columbia hosted an especially impressive and diverse list of international heads of state and dignitaries at its annual World Leaders Forum
Theory Center Opens in Renovated Pupin Hall
Columbia string theorists, supersymmetry sleuths, and dark-matter detectives now have a modern facility
Columbia Receives Mellon Foundation Grant for Center for Spatial Research
The interdisciplinary center will pursue urban research that connects the humanities, architecture, and data science
SIPA Establishes Center on Indian Economic Policies
The School of International and Public Affairs has launched a new center to promote economic growth in India through research and analysis