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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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