Winter 2015-16

Move over, Washington and Jefferson. Alexander Hamilton is the coolest Founding Father

What game theory can teach us about climate-change negotiations

How one Columbia startup is helping low-income communities across New York generate a clean-energy revolution

Journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian '08CC, '11JRN reflects on the meaning of citizenship in the twenty-first century

Climber Sasha Digiulian, 22, is the first woman to conquer Trail of Eiger’s "Murder Wall"

Inside Arts & Minds, a nonprofit that provides art classes for dementia patients

The Marcus G. Langseth gathers seismic data under the ocean

Israeli cellist and musical innovator Matt Haimovitz is on a mission to bring classical music to unexpected places

Might there be a story in Columbia football?

A controversial sculpture receives a restoration

At Columbia’s Data Institute, teams of sociologists, economists, social workers, and data scientists are using computational methods to tackle life's big questions

Researchers have created the first map of Nairobi’s main transit system

A new study predicts that the height and duration of floods along the East Coast will increase dramatically by 2100

Research briefs

Scientists have developed a diagnostic tool could speed up the detection and treatment of infectious diseases from common influenza to Dengue fever

Graduate students are gaining insights into the mindset of Renaissance craftsmen by reproducing their wares

Two supermassive black holes in the constellation Virgo are likely to smash together in about one hundred thousand years

The company spent tens of millions of dollars between 1998 and 2005 on public-relations campaigns that questioned climate science

Geologists working in the Cape Verde islands have found evidence to back up a controversial theory

An automated speech-analysis program predicted with 100 percent accuracy which of thirty-four teens and young adults would develop schizophrenia 

Thomas Sprankling ’12LAW was hired to clerk for Supreme Court justice Anthony M. Kennedy in the 2016 term

Two Columbians were recipients of this year’s MacArthur Fellowships, commonly known as “genius grants”

Rower Clemens Auersperg ’14CC and swimmer Katie Meili ’13CC recently competed in major events

Theresa Brown ’88GSAS wants to deconstruct the notion that “nurses are just an appendage of doctors”

By Margo Jefferson '71JRN

By Siddhartha Mukherjee

By Melvin I. Urofsky ’61CC, ’68GSAS

By Thomas Vinciguerra ’85CC, ’86JRN, ’90GSAS

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

The program celebrated fifty years of helping local high-school students prepare for college

Marine Corps veteran David Keefe has joined the School of General Studies as the senior assistant dean of student-veteran initiatives

Columbia hosted an especially impressive and diverse list of international heads of state and dignitaries at its annual World Leaders Forum

Columbia string theorists, supersymmetry sleuths, and dark-matter detectives now have a modern facility

The interdisciplinary center will pursue urban research that connects the humanities, architecture, and data science

The School of International and Public Affairs has launched a new center to promote economic growth in India through research and analysis