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Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the collection of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953). 

Jaffee and his wife Joyce have donated his archives to Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and those who grew up on his subversive, entertaining comics can enjoy and study the remarkable output of his 70-year career. 

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NEW YORK, August 13, 2013 — The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University presents Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin’s “Selves,” curated by Emily Liebert. The exhibition will be open to the public from Wednesday, September 4 to Saturday, December 7, 2013.

Eleanor Antin, born in New York City in 1935, is an influential artist and writer. A pioneer of Conceptual art, she works primarily in the mediums of performance, photography, film, video and installation. Antin moved to San Diego in 1968…

Min and his team recently developed a new imaging technique to pinpoint exactly where and when cells produce new proteins.

As someone who studies inequality, Thomas DiPrete has no end of material to work with in modern-day America. DiPrete’s work encompasses social inequality and mobility, education, and gender. In his most recent book, \"The Rise of Women: The Female Advantage in Education and What it Means for American Schooling,\" written with Ohio State University sociologist Claudia Buchmann, he tackles the question of how and why women have overtaken men in college completion. “The landscape is a bit complicated, but the old reality of girls being behind boys when it comes to educational attainment…

The classic proverb says: If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will have food for a lifetime. Christopher Blattman’s research suggests that if you just give the man cash, he will buy a fishing pole and learn how to fish himself. Blattman, an assistant professor of international and public affairs and political science, recently completed a four-year study of a government-run program in northern Uganda that gave cash to groups of young people so they could learn a trade and start their own businesses. The results surprised him and convinced him that…

For two days in October, more than 20 executives of nonprofit groups in Harlem came together at Columbia Business School for a leadership training program.

You probably think you know how to wash your hands, but Elaine Larson could tell you for sure.

An infectious disease expert who has published more than 200 papers on hand hygiene, Larson is the go-to source for commonly asked questions such as whether anti-bacterial soaps work better than regular soaps (no), whether alcohol hand sanitizer is more effective than hand-washing (yes) and whether you should really wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice. (Not necessarily, just be sure to scrub between the fingers and under fingernails.)

The 1940s have always held a special allure for Griffin, who grew up hearing “stories about the era that just made it very interesting to me, very glamorous and mysterious,”

English professor Rachel Adams doesn’t exactly know when or why she became interested in freaks, but when it came time to write her dissertation—later her first book—the topic she chose was freak shows and the American cultural imagination.