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David and Helen Gurley Brown Gift to Create Institute for Media Innovation
Columbia and Stanford will receive $30 million from longtime Cosmopolitan magazine editor to establish the new institute at her late husband's two alma maters. 

ON EXHIBIT
The Silent Strength of Artist Liu Xia
Columbia hosts the only U.S. exhibit of Chinese artist Liu Xia's photographs. The wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, her work is forbidden from display in China. 

RESEARCH
Watching the Engine of Life at Work, in Real Time
Professor Ruben Gonzalez is watching ribosomes—the minute particles in cells that make proteins—to study how and why they malfunction and cause disease.

ON CAMPUS
Faculty Q&A With Dean Carlos Alonso
Carlos Alonso, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, believes it may be time to "change drastically our understanding of what one can do with a doctoral degree."

GLOBAL
Expert Insight on Kim Jong Un and North Korea's Future
Professor Charles Armstrong is ideally placed to decipher what's going on in North Korea now that Kim Il Sung's grandson has been elevated to leader.