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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

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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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Sean C. Solomon
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Geophysicist Sean C. Solomon Appointed Director of Lamont-Doherty

Solomon is internationally renowned for his studies of Mercury, Venus, and Mars

Vice provost Andrew Davidson, pictured with nursing dean Bobbie Berkowitz, is leading an effort to increase the racial and gender diversity of Columbia faculty
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University Announces New Effort to Increase Faculty Diversity

Columbia is setting aside $30 million to recruit professors from groups traditionally underrepresented in American higher education

James J. Valentini chatting with students at the Dean's Scholarship Reception in February 2012
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Valentini Named College Dean

James J. Valentini, a chemistry professor and former department chair, has been appointed the 16th dean of Columbia College

Barack Obama
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Dreams from My Mater

Barack Obama '83CC gives Barnard's 2012 Commencement address

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Trivial Pursuits

The local bar with a notoriously competitive trivia night

Barack Obama at the Fortune magazine Most Powerful Women Summit in 2010
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Barnard, this is the White House Calling

President Obama will address Barnard's 2012 graduating seniors

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In Brief: Spring 2012

The Spectator goes digital, and other campus news

Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Columbia in 2012
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Without Precedent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Honored at Law School

The Supreme Court Justice, who did pro bono work for the ACLU while teaching at Columbia from 1972 to 1980, returns to Morningside Heights

"Hermes 1" sculpture by Sarah Sze
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Mess, Mess, Mess . . . Art

A piece of sculpture by School of the Arts professor Sarah Sze is a pack rat's fantasy

Illustration of Vladimir Putin
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Russian Resolution

Timothy Frye, director of Columbia’s Harriman Institute, explains what a weakened Putin means for Russia

The Columbia Journalism school building in 1912
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The Writing on the Wall

How the J-school's Pulitzer Hall got its name

John Coatsworth
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SIPA Dean John Coatsworth Appointed Provost

The “transformational dean” at the School of International and Public Affairs enters a new role

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