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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.
A few years ago biochemist Brent Stockwell became concerned that his traditional methods of teaching—comprised of textbook readings, in-class lectures and tests—weren’t effectively reaching his students. So the professor of biological sciences and chemistry began tweaking his undergraduate course called “Structure and Metabolism.”
ABOUT BRENT STOCKWELL
- Position
- Professor, Biological Sciences and Chemistry
- Years at Columbia
- 2004-present
- History
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Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2010-2016
Member, Columbia’s Herbert…
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…
Dear Classics Buff,
Anthon (CC’1815, LLD’1831) was a major American figure in the field of classics during the 19th century although his reputation has since receded into history. The current Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature is James E.G. Zetzel, an expert in Latin literature of the first century BC.
Anthon was a prolific scholar, publishing textbooks for all levels ranging from grammar school students to professors. In addition to his fulltime teaching at Columbia, he also ran Columbia Grammar School.
Brendan O’Flaherty was a teenager in Newark, N.J. in the 1960s, when the city was engulfed by racially charged political battles and violence. In 1967, racial tensions and allegations of police brutality sparked five days of riots that left 26 dead and hundreds injured, leaving the once-vibrant core of New Jersey’s largest city with enduring scars.