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Lee C. Bollinger announces a new set of Columbia University Sustainability Principles that will serve as the cornerstone of an ongoing University-wide initiative that must involve our entire community.
Japanese-born, Harlem-based visual artist Tomo Mori has turned the Miller Theatre lobby into an immersive landscape, surrounding viewers with a waterfall of designs and digital images. Her site-specific work, Concerto Encircling, on view for the 2016-17 season, uses a cut-and-paint mosaic process. The artist has covered deep blue walls with transparent vinyl pieces and daubed paint-saturated sponges into designs to continue the colorful imagery across the lobby’s glass doors. Mori has created another work, Sakura Sanctuary, on the lobby’s southern wall, evoking the falling petals of cherry…
Columbia University announced that Abigail Black Elbaum (CC’92, BUS’94) and Mark T. Gallogly (BUS’86) have been elected to its Board of Trustees. Their terms began September 6, 2016.
“We are very fortunate at Columbia to have a group of highly accomplished individuals who generously give their time, energy and considerable wisdom to the governance of the University by serving on its board as trustees,” said Chairman Jonathan Schiller (CC’69, LAW’73). “Abby and Mark precisely fit this description, and I am enormously excited that they will become part of our board. I am looking…
When in June the Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas that upheld affirmative action in college admissions, the decision was widely hailed as a decisive victory recognizing the value of diversity in higher education. For Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger, who has been a highly visible public advocate for admission policies that recognize historically rooted inequality in American society, the decision provided an unexpectedly welcome result.
Fifteen years after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, rebuilding the area known as Ground Zero is almost complete. Reflecting pools in the memorial plaza mirror the new One World Trade Center, which rises a symbolic 1,776 feet. There is also a museum and a transportation hub designed to look like a bird in flight.
A site-specific installation for Miller Theatre, Columbia University in collaboration with The Wallach Art Gallery
Harlem-based visual artist Tomo Mori will transform the Miller Theatre lobby into an immersive work surrounding viewers with a sponge-stamped waterfall of images, based on her cut and painted mosaic process, in which multi-color impressions will cover deep blue walls, while cut transparent vinyl pieces will continue the imagery across the lobby’s glass doors. In contrast to the ultramarine northern lobby, Mori will create “Sakura Sanctuary” on the southern wall, evoking the…
Dear Alma,
I think I saw Sigmund Freud’s signature in one of the books in the health sciences library on the Medical Center campus. Are many of the books from his library here?
—A Freudian
Dear Freudian,
In 1939, an Austrian rare book dealer put out a sale catalog that listed books on medicine, science and sexuality from the library of “a famous Viennese scientific explorer.”
Some 4,220 miles away, the librarian of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, which was then, as now, affiliated with Columbia University Medical Center, read that description. Jacob Shatzky, a…
Losing Helen: An Essay
By Carol Becker
Red Hen Press
In a slim, powerful memoir, Carol Becker, dean of The School of Arts, writes about the years and months leading up to the death of her 98-year-old mother and the mourning period that followed. Full of sadness, and laced with humor, the book is not structured chronologically, but by the four elements—fire, earth, water and air, each of which corresponds metaphorically to a different part of the end of her mother’s life. Faith plays a large role in Becker’s life and in her tribute to her mother, as she wrestles with the Judaism…
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger shares his thoughts on the significance of the Manhattanville campus. “This is a milestone for Columbia not only because we are building a future in our home community, but also because we’re doing so with the best urban planning principles and architectural designs that reflect both the shared values of city life and the fundamental need for a more sustainable society,\" said Bollinger.
HYPOTHEkids, a K-12 education initiative of Harlem Biospace in partnership with Columbia Engineering and Teachers College, introduces students to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by having them design, prototype and test a biomedical device.
Its Hk Maker Lab, a six-week summer program in Columbia’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, teaches the foundations of engineering and culminates in a pitch event to executives in the biomedical community.
Full article: news.columbia.edu/hypothekids
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery will have a new home on Columbia University's Manhattanville campus. Deborah Cullen, director and chief curator of the Gallery, discusses her vision inspired by the new location.
La-Verna Fountain, vice president for Facilities and Operations at Columbia University, discusses the job training and career opportunities the Manhattanville campus creates for the surrounding community.
Marcelo Velez, vice president for Manhattanville Development, discusses the University's commitment to sustainable urban design by maximizing energy efficiency, limiting carbon emissions and creating pedestrian-friendly spaces.
Renzo Piano, principal and founder of Renzo Piano Building Workshop describes the inspiration for the design of the campus.