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Turkuler Isiksel was born in Turkey but left to attend university in Edinburgh, later receiving her Ph.D. from Yale. Trained as a political theorist, she now teaches in the Department of Political Science and is the James P. Shenton assistant professor of the Core Curriculum. She is also a member of the Committee on Global Thought. Columbia News asked her to explain the situation after the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has left the country in disarray. Erdogan has declared a three-month state of emergency, which would allow him and his cabinet to draft new laws and…

Thomas Trebat, an economist and political analyst, is director of the Columbia Global Centers, Rio de Janeiro. A former Latin America analyst on Wall Street, he now travels extensively in Brazil to build the University’s connections with partner institutions in government and academia. Trebat is also an adjunct professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs where his research focus is the role of the state in the Brazilian economy.

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Chandran has been collaborating with research groups in Brazil focused on facilitating energy efficient wastewater treatment there. Through this approach, sewage treatment plants can discharge better water quality to receiving water bodies such as Guanabara Bay, where sailing events for the 2016 Olympic Games will be held. Additionally, such improvements to water quality can be achieved while emitting lower amounts of greenhouse gases. Recently Chandran led a team of Columbia students, who developed bioprocess technologies to enhance the capacity of the Alegria sewage treatment plant, which discharges…

Chicago, the city beautiful. Courtesy of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library.

Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library’s American Viewbooks Collection provides pictorial documentation of the growth of cities and towns across the United States from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. The collection's more than 4,000 titles were published in a variety of formats, including printed books, photographic albums and accordion-fold booklets.

“The viewbooks present a sweeping vision of the changing American landscape,” said Carole Ann Fabian, Avery’s director. “The…

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Associate Vice President for Strategic Policy and Program Implementation

Years at Columbia

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