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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

Buddhist monks marching in Mumbai, India
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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Karen Poniachik at a World Economic Forum event in Santiago, Chile in 2007
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Global Center Established in Santiago, Chile

South America is likely to become a more common destination for Columbia researchers now

Rendering of Columbia's Campbell Sports Center
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Campbell Sports Center and Marsh Restoration Get Go-Ahead from City

Columbia will construct a five-story, 47,000-square-foot sports center at its Baker Athletics Complex 

Richard Hamilton in 1982
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In Brief: Summer 2011

Richard Hamilton wins Shaw Prize, and other campus news

English professor Sharon Marcus teaching a Contemporary Civilization class as part of Columbia's Core Curriculum
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$5 Million Match Established by Lavine and Lenfest for Core Curriculum

The gifts will endow positions for five Core instructors

Columbians on a recent CAA-sponsored trip to Barcelona, Spain, are pictured here in architect Antoni Gaudi's Parc Guell
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CAA Hosts Barcelona Trip

About 100 Columbia alumni and friends gathered in the Mediterranean city to experience its art, architecture, history, music, and food 

Kyra Caldwell jumping over a hurdle
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Lions Collect Record Number of Ivy League Championships

Donald Keene teaching his final class on April 26, 2011.
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After 73 Years at Columbia, Keene Retires to Japan

The scholar and translator of Japanese literature taught his last class in Kent Hall in April

Jeffrey Lieberman and Catherine Lord
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New Autism Center Will Foster Columbia, Cornell Research Collaborations

The Institute for Brain Development will be located on the Westchester campus of New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Rear Admiral Herman Shelanski, at left, escorts President Bollinger and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus onto the deck of the USS Iwo Jima
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Columbia to Naval ROTC: Welcome Back

University to resume Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC)

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Sing, Lion, Sing

A new exhibition celebrates 140 years of singing groups at Columbia

Fencers Jeff Spear and Dara Schneider
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The Untouchables

Legendary fencing coach Aladar Kogler teaches his students to play with sharp objects — their minds

Cartoon of anthropomorphized molecules clinking martini glasses
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Chemical Bonding

Happy hour in Havemeyer

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