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Images from Columbia University's Battle of the Bands
On Campus

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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Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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Aftershocks

Former University president George E. Rupp, now president of the International Rescue Committee, on the relief effort in Haiti

Illustration of a scientist looking through a microscope as the White House spies on him with a giant eye
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Defending the University

Government interference. Watchdog groups. Ingrained orthodoxies. Jonathan R. Cole says they’re putting one of America’s greatest resources at risk

Hilda Hodge Jones, Christopher S. Jones, and Mary O'Neil Mundinger
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Nursing Dean Mundinger Honored for 24 years of Leadership

She was honored by more than 250 friends and colleagues in academia and health care at Low Library on November 9

Raphael Graybill
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College Senior Will Take Rhodes to Oxford

Raphael Graybill chooses between two highly coveted scholarships 

Charlie Rose and Eric Kandel
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Celebrating Eric Kandel at 80

Architect José Rafael Moneo outside the Northwest Corner Building at Columbia University
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Northwest Corner Building Takes Shape

Yoani Sanchez, photographed by Victoriano Izquierdo
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Cuban Dissident Blogger Honored by Columbia

Yoani Sánchez maintains a political blog that few Cubans can access. Yet she's read by 14 million people worldwide

Kian Tajbakhsh
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Iran Jails Columbia Urban Planning Scholar Kian Tajbakhsh

Tajbakhsh ’93GSAPP, who was scheduled to begin teaching at GSAPP this past semester, was arrested in Tehran on July 9

Chinese yo-yo
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Spin City

A evening with Columbia's "whip-rolling" Chinese Yo-Yo Club

Illustration by Jeff Faerber of Joseph Stiglitz holding wrench
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Timely Measures

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz proposes a different way to measure economic growth.

Collage illustration by Keith Negley of newspapers flowing out of pipes
On Campus

Freeing the Flow

President Lee C. Bollinger on why the idea of a free and independent press — and Internet — should be our principal export

Roar-ee the Lion, Columbia University's mascot, in the 1920s
On Campus

Year of the Lion

How Roar-ee became Columbia's golden-maned mascot

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