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Brain

Winter 2016-17

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Your Beautiful Brain

Dispatches from the frontiers of neuroscience.

Features

Science & Technology

The Secret Life of Volcanoes

Can a Columbia-led expedition to South America uncover the forces that drive one of its largest volcanoes?

Arts & Humanities

Syncopated Sisters

Tap-dance entrepreneurs Chloe and Maud Arnold are ready to click with a new generation — and heal the world through rhythm and shoes

Arts & Humanities

Being There

In more ways than one, Columbia professor Sarah Sze is the artist of the moment

Arts & Humanities

Policing the Police

A Q&A with Columbia law professor Jeffrey Fagan on police accountability

College Walk

Arts & Humanities

Chord Curriculum

A musician-writer makes music to think by

Arts & Humanities

The Manahata Project

Honoring the island's first inhabitants

Arts & Humanities

Bittersweet

Two scholars of Harlem take in the view from Sugar Hill

On Campus

Let’s Go Clubbing

Activity-minded students indulge their special interests

On Campus

The Short List: Winter 2016

Things to do on and around campus

Explorations

Science & Technology

Chemists Discover Key to Improving Solar Power

Solar cells can be manufactured at a lower cost using crystals called perovskites instead of silicon

Health & Medicine

Some Credence to Clear-Water Revival

The Hudson River is the cleanest it's been since 1984

Science & Technology

Climate Change Fuels Significant Increase in US Forest Fires

Wildfires have been consuming forests in the western US at a devastating pace

Science & Technology

Revealing the True Hunting Habits of Yankee Whalers

Scientists are getting clearer picture of the ecological impact of the 19th-century whaling industry

Health & Medicine

Study: “Wheat Sensitivity” is Real

(It may affect more than just celiac sufferers)

Health & Medicine

Data Mining Reveals Risky Drug Combos

Two of the most commonly prescribed medications can cause cardiac arrest if combined

Arts & Humanities

Penn Station in a Brand-New Light

Vishaan Chakrabarti has a plan to turn Penn Station into a public space as majestic as Grand Central Station

Science & Technology

Study Hall: Winter 2016

Research briefs

Network

Alumni

Ask an Alum: Amy Schapiro

A Q&A with the leader of Women Techmakers

Arts & Humanities

A Virtual Museum Tour

Mabel O. Wilson ’91GSAPP guides you through the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Alumni

Products with a Purpose

Diana Sierra '12SPS is the founder of social enterprise Be Girl

Alumni

Reporting Reimagined

Peter Klein ’93JRN always wanted to be a foreign correspondent 

Alumni

That’s Amaro

Brad Thomas Parsons ’95SOA is an amiable man with an unusual motto: “Stay bitter”

Alumni

Mary Bassett, Claudia Rankine, and Other Alumni in the News

Arts & Humanities

"Measures" at the Storm King Art Center

Josephine Halvorson's sculptures were recently on display

Books

Books

Book Review: “4 3 2 1”

By Paul Auster ’69CC, ’70GSAS

Books

Book Review: “Mischling”

Affinity Konar's new novel is at once marvelous and strange

Books

Book Review: “His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt”

Joseph Lelyveld's book is a meticulously researched examination of the last eighteen months of the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Books

The Shock of the New

Oscar-winning screenwriter and New York Times best-selling author Graham Moore ’03CC discusses his new novel

Books

Book Excerpt: “The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads”

A professor at Columbia Law School, Tim Wu examines how industries increasingly vie for and commodify our attention

Bulletin

On Campus

Columbia Dedicates New Manhattanville Campus

The new campus is designed to have no barriers — either between academic disciplines or between Columbia and the West Harlem community

On Campus

Fellowship Program to Combat Anti-Black Racism

The Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity is designed to "advanced fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies"

On Campus

Wellness Center to Open in 2017

Two Columbia doctors have been appointed to lead the new community Wellness Center in Manhattanville

On Campus

Medical Campus Renamed for Herbert and Florence Irving

Columbia University and NewYork-Prebyterian Hospital have renamed their shared medical campus in honor of Herbert and Florence Irving

On Campus

De Menocal Appointed Science Dean

Peter B. de Menocal ’92GSAS has been appointed dean of science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

On Campus

Homecoming Victory

The Lions football team beat Dartmouth in dramatic fashion at this year’s Homecoming game

On Campus

You Never Forget Your First Lifesaving Invention

A new program called Hk Maker Lab is part of Hypothekids, a science-education initiative for underserved youth in New York City

On Campus

Trustees Elect Abigail Black Elbaum, Mark T. Gallogly

Columbia welcomes two new Trustees

Finals

Arts & Humanities

The Mane Event

"You’ve got to stop swallowing your pride"

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