Winter 2016-17

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

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

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

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

Honoring the island's first inhabitants

Things to do on and around campus

A musician-writer makes music to think by

Two scholars of Harlem take in the view from Sugar Hill

Activity-minded students indulge their special interests

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

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

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

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

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

(It may affect more than just celiac sufferers)

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

Research briefs

Josephine Halvorson's sculptures were recently on display

A Q&A with the leader of Women Techmakers

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

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

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

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

By Paul Auster ’69CC, ’70GSAS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Columbia welcomes two new Trustees

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

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

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

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

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

"You’ve got to stop swallowing your pride"