
Spring 2006

Kinetic sculptor Chuck Hoberman expands the boundaries of design
Few are aware that Norman Podhoretz's intellectual life began well before 1960
Nicholas Murray Butler served as Columbia’s president for 44 years and created the University in his own image. But there was another job he wanted
A bronze statue of Louis Kossuth stands at 113th Street and Riverside Drive
The Great Throwdini fills his audience with the adrenaline of anxiety and dread
Columbia physicians are rolling out a screening program that identifies high-risk patients with a blood test and ultrasound
Klaus Lackner is on the forefront of carbon sequestration
Sterling Nesbitt makes the discovery of a lifetime: a 210-million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown animal
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, by Ira Katznelson
If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, by Gregory Rabassa ’54GSAS
The University will establish a new facility for its expanding Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative
Caroline Bierbaum ’06CC became the most decorated female cross-country athlete in Columbia’s history
A memorial service was held on May 5
Wilson is the first African-American football head coach in Ivy League history
The Institute will participate in joint appointments and sponsor educational and cultural programs and activities
The first annual Distinguished Columbia Faculty Awards have been presented
The Roone Arledge Broadcast Lab opens
The American Academy in Rome and the Friends of Columbia University have established a fellowship program
Mark Weiner is founder and executive director of Emergency Communities
The Center for Jazz Studies cosponsors “New Orleans: Rebuilding the Musical City”
His findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Economics Association
The chairman and CEO of the New England Patriots received the NCAA’s highest honor for citizens