Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 5:48pm
Four firetrucks rushed to the west side of 116th and Broadway at around 5:30 p.m. after a passer-by thought he or she smelled natural gas coming out of a manhole.
Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 2:05am
When Kim’s Mediapolis closed on Monday, it left a hole in the fabric of a neighborhood centered around students. But by the end of October, the empty storefront on Broadway between West 113th and 114th Streets will be filled with the glittery cosmetics and costumes of Ricky’s.
Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 1:57am
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) quickly shifted from the scheduled topic of pay equity to the topic of the day—financial strife on Wall Street—at Barnard on Monday afternoon.
Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 1:40am
Mourners overflowed into the balcony at the memorial service held in St. Paul’s Chapel Monday for Columbia architecture professor Paul Spencer Byard.
Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 1:37am
A student-referendum protocol that would allow students to vote to express their opinions on controversial issues made its way through the Engineering Student Council Monday night with some resistance.
Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 1:19am
While much attention was devoted to Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) during her press conference on Monday, eyes were also on new Barnard president Debora Spar as she marked her first major event as the college’s head.
Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 1:17am
For his groundbreaking work on climate change, geochemistry professor and researcher Wallace Broecker, CC ’53, won the prestigious Balzan Award for science achievement last week.
Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 12:59am
In the post-Beijing-Olympics world, where even the weather can be controlled, our awareness of the rapid and unimaginable advances in science has been heightened. This “fringe” science is cutting-edge and free from mainstream theories: a field that makes the unthinkable real.
Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 12:49am
What did curator Massimiliano Gioni mean when he titled the New Museum’s current exhibition “After Nature”? The ambiguous phrase speaks primarily to the apocalyptic feel permeating many of the works, which depict haunting images of the intersection between nature and mankind.
Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 12:45am
Talking Titans
