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The 20-year conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed an estimated 5.4 million people since the 1990s—making it the deadliest since World War II—and armed attacks by different groups occur every week. Séverine Autesserre (SIPA‘00), a member of Columbia's Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and a political science professor at Barnard College, is an authority on international intervention, conflict resolution, and Central Africa who has researched Congo and visited the nation often since 2001.

Shaky Ground is one of six short books to be published every year by Columbia Global Reports, an imprint recently launched to cover global issues by Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger.

The seminar in 401 Hamilton Hall focused on classic literary texts, including Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s Othello, and W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk. But this was no ordinary summer school class, and its students were not traditional collegians.

This video is about the summer engineering interns program at Columbia.

"Lifelong learning has become so essential. We can train you to pivot from your original career into a new, changing marketplace that expects skills to constantly adapt to, and align with, the demands of a dynamic business environment."

A mural has once again transformed the lobby of the University’s Miller Theatre. On its walls Dominican-born, Brooklyn-based Scherezade Garcia has created vivid panels that flow through the space like water. In Transit/Liquid Highway explores migrants’ willingness to face what Garcia calls the “liquid frontier,” the dangerous and unknown sea that stands between them and a new life.

Scherezade Garcia’s work inhabits a baroque universe. A natural storyteller, she uses drawing, printmaking, painting, installation, and other media to create contemporary allegories about history, colonization, and politics.

The buying and selling of citizenship has become a thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs and libertarians are renouncing America and Europe in favor of tax havens like Singapore and the Caribbean. But as journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian discovered, the story of twenty-first-century citizenship is bigger than millionaires seeking their next passport.

Scherezade Garcia’s work inhabits a baroque universe. A natural storyteller, she uses drawing, printmaking, painting, installation, and other media to create contemporary allegories about history, colonization, and politics. Found objects, including life jackets, inner tubes, suitcases, mattresses, tents, umbrellas, religious icons, and newspapers, are transformed within her work. She has explored the consequences of migration, beliefs about salvation, and both optimistic and cynical notions of paradise. A recurring theme in her works is the very difficult experience of migration, and the feeling…

Dear Alma,
I'm going to see the musical Hamilton if I can score a ticket. Can you tell me about young Alexander Hamilton’s connection to Columbia? — Broadway Bound

As chief of the Civil Rights Bureau at the New York Attorney General’s Office, Columbia Law School lecturer and alumna Kristen M. Clarke ’00 wields a host of state and federal laws to investigate and prosecute discrimination. Foremost among them: The landmark Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, a piece of legislation signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson to protect black voters at the polls.

Today, the law is still a key tool in efforts to ensure every U.S. citizen has full access to the political process despite recent efforts and judicial decisions paring back its reach. Clarke defended…