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Over the summer Idniel Paula headed to Nobel laureate and University Professor Eric Kandel’s neuroscience lab, donned a white coat and peered through a microscope. His daily routine resembled that of many experienced scientists but not of a typical 16-year-old high school student.

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of Amale Andraos as the next dean of the University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

On mornings in July, a group of very large and fit Columbia students arrived on West 205th Street to spend their first days in New York with preschoolers. Towering over the four- and five-year-olds, a half dozen freshman football players—the shortest was 6 foot 3 inches—read stories to the children, helped them with arts and crafts, taught them the alphabet letter-by-letter, took them to the park and on field trips around the city.

Beginning in the 1920s, Jewish men and women, as members of the Soviet avant-garde of state photographers and photojournalists, transformed how people in the Soviet Union visualized, conceptualized and thought about their country, the war and the world around them, according to Professor Rebecca Kobrin of the Harriman Institute.

BRAINYAC: The Zuckerman Institute’s Brain Research Apprenticeships in New York at Columbia.

While Columbia has long revered Prof. Wm. Theodore de Bary (CC’41, GSAS’53) as one of its own, America now regards him as a national treasure.

A group of Columbia University’s students give back to the community by helping clean and restore Riverside Park. 

Columbia University celebrates the opening of The Startup Lab. President Lee C. Bollinger thanks the Dean of Columbia College James Valentini, the Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business Glenn Hubbard, the Dean of Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science Mary Boyce, the Dean of SIPA Merit Janow, as well as the head of Columbia Entrepreneurship Richard Witten for coming together and establishing a unique partnership to open the Lab. Forty five teams of recent Columbia graduates will begin working there in the nearest future.

Damon Phillips remembers finding the "Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz" in his parents’ record collection with its 46-page booklet of liner notes about the music when he was about 10 years old. “I just sat there on the floor with those albums,” he recalls. “It was the first time I had read something trying to explain jazz. It planted a seed.”

Mae Ngai’s interest in the history of immigration and labor began when she was a high school student in the 1960s.

Rosalia Polanco, who plans to attend Davidson College in North Carolina in the fall, expects to become the first college graduate in her family. Her classmate Jonathan Montalvo, winner of a prestigious scholarship, will study physics and English at Middlebury College. Their fellow student Christian McArthur has chosen Harvard from a list of acceptances that included MIT, Columbia and Princeton. All three are members of the first graduating class at Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering, a New York City public school affiliated with the University and modeled after academic…

Mike Pride, the former editor of the Concord Monitor who led his small New Hampshire newspaper to national prominence and served as co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, has been named administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.

Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering, leads a team that is developing new imaging methods for the living brain.