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This year’s MFA thesis exhibition, an annual showcase for the work of students graduating from the Visual Arts program at the School of the Arts, returns to campus for the first time in more than a decade. The show, which opens April 22, will inaugurate the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery’s new home in the Lenfest Center for the Arts on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus.
Since it was founded in 1965, Columbia University School of the Arts has produced a stream of award-winning writers, playwrights, filmmakers, actors, directors and visual artists. While the school has never lacked for talent, it has long suffered from a paucity of square footage.
An innovative digital art installation on the ground floor of the new Jerome L. Greene Science Center on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus invites visitors to peer inside the brain and meet the neuroscientists who are working upstairs to unravel its complexities. The multiscreen floor-to-ceiling work, Brain Index, loops through large-scale models of the brain while telling the stories of individual researchers and their quests to push the boundaries of neuroscience.
At his 2002 inauguration, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger spoke about a great research university’s responsibility to address the challenges that face society. Yet without the space for students and faculty to pursue knowledge, he said, Columbia could not fulfill that essential civic mission. He committed the University to a long-term vision for a new and different kind of urban campus that would address expanding academic needs and enhance the urban fabric of the city and West Harlem.
Columbia University announced today that three acclaimed works will be awarded the 2017 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy:
Mike Pride, former editor of the Concord Monitor who helped guide the Pulitzer Prizes through their centennial year, will retire as administrator this summer.
The appearance of supermassive black holes at the dawn of the universe has puzzled astronomers since their discovery more than a decade ago. A supermassive black hole is thought to form over billions of years, but more than two dozen of these behemoths have been sighted within 800 million years of the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago.
An international team of astronomers has observed evidence of a star that whips around a black hole at a rate of nearly twice an hour. If confirmed, the finding could demonstrate the tightest orbital dance between a black hole and a companion star ever seen.
Dear fellow members of the Columbia community:
Once again, I must write to you about government action negatively affecting our University community. The differences between the new executive order on immigration and refugee policies issued today and the now superseded January order (about which I wrote earlier) may or may not prove significant in the ultimate judicial determination of the order’s legality.
Six years ago, Lynn Nottage received an email from a friend who shared that staying afloat financially was a daily struggle. It made Nottage “think a lot about just how close on a day-to-day basis we are to poverty.” Nottage’s new play, Sweat, is about some of the truth she found while exploring that thought.
In my nearly 25-year career as a faculty member and advocate for diversity—racial, gender, or otherwise—at Columbia, I have had the opportunity to be involved in many memorable moments on campus. This semester, which has been marked by a number of high-profile scholarly events in addition to the usual vigorous conversations around diversity and inclusion, has been particularly memorable.
Richard K. Betts, the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the political science department, is widely known as an expert on U.S. foreign relations and national security. He is director of Columbia’s Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the international security policy program at the School of International and Public Affairs.
Columbia University and Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith are pleased to announce that A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: A Radical Fairy Realness Ritual by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray is the 2017 winner of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History.
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Director of Outreach Programs, Columbia Engineering
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