February has already been an exciting month for Columbia Magazine, the one publication that reaches alumni of all of our schools. We welcomed Sally Lee, our new editor in chief, and the winter issue hit campus newsstands and more than 300,000 mailboxes worldwide.
This edition takes us from West Africa to Paris to Harlem and into outer space, profiling members of our community who are joining forces to address some of today’s biggest issues in quintessential One Columbia fashion.
In “The Ebola Web,” writer Paul Hond explores the ways Columbia alumni and faculty are working to curb disease transmission. Later in the issue, you can read about students who developed low-cost, technology-driven solutions to the Ebola crisis. Managing Editor Becca Shapiro takes an in-depth look at the Romare Bearden art exhibit. Astronomer Caleb Scharf discusses why we are now closer to knowing whether or not extraterrestrial life exists. And we feature essays on globalization by Indian writers who participated in the World Writers’ Festival hosted by the Columbia Global Center in Paris.
Sally, who joins us most recently from the United Nations Foundation and has vast editorial experience at a number of lifestyle magazines, is looking across schools for One Columbia stories. Right now, she’s working on a feature about the rules of professional networking and how opportunities at schools and through the CAA link our community. “The article will appeal not only to recent graduates — this is the issue tied to Commencement — but to readers of all ages who value career development,” she said.
Pictured above is an illustration by Michael Morgenstern that accompanies the magazine’s cover story on Ebola.
