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Images from Columbia University's Battle of the Bands
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Shake, Battle, and Roll

At Columbia’s Battle of the Bands, some 150 undergrads grooved to a mix of blues rock, R&B, indie, and folk rock from six student acts

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Beverly Gage, Molly Jong-Fast, MaryLouise Patterson, and Michael Meeropol at a Columbia University panel on McCarthyism

The New Red Scare

A recent panel featuring Molly Jong-Fast ’97BC, Michael Meeropol, and others looked at the McCarthy era and its lessons for today

Illustration of journalistic objectivity

Is Objectivity in Journalism Even Possible?

A Columbia panel holds a central principle up to the light

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Buddhist monks participate in an April 10 peace march in Mumbai, India (Arko Dattar/Reuters).

Tibet's Long Shadow

China’s bitter relationship with its highland province and the Dalai Lama

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Merit E. Janow
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Merit E. Janow Picked to Lead SIPA

The former WTO and Justice Department official is now dean of the School of International and Public Affairs

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GTMO Road Show

Guantánamo Now

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Nordic Nosh

The Department of Germanic Languages presents a symposium on "New Nordic Cuisine" in New York City

Butler Library
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Card, Discard

An upgrade to Butler Library's room 310 

Drama masks
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Staging History, as Kennedy Would Like It

Two playwrights share one of the nation's most generous prizes in creative writing

Leymah Gbowee
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Learn Africa, says Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee

The winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize spoke at the February 18 World Leaders Forum

Students
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Yoruba Spoken Here: Ivies Share Access to Rare Language Courses

Introducing a novel course-sharing effort between Columbia, Cornell, and Yale

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Columbia Portraits to Inform Alumni Programming

A new survey offers an opportunity for alumni to influence programs offered to graduates

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Manhattanville, Ready to Rise

Construction for the new Greene Science Center is underway

Steve Coll
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Pulitzer Winner Named to Head Journalism School

The J-School welcomes Steve Coll, a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

Opening of the Columbia Global Center in Nairobi
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Nairobi and Rio Bring Global Centers to Eight

Columbia establishes two new overseas academic hubs

Low Library
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The Agent Tango

An evening at the MFA Writing Program alumni/agents mixer in Low Library

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