• Backstory: 1965 Chicago native and poet Gwendolyn Brooks taught at Columbia College from 1963 to 1969. more...
• What if I Bomb in Front of My Mom? Can you teach someone to be funny? It depends on who you ask. more...
• No Regrets: A Q & A with Sheldon Patinkin Robert K. Elder interviews Sheldon Patinkin, who steps down after 29 years as chair of Columbia's Theater department. more...
• Mixing It Up Kid Sister, Flosstradamus, and the Cool Kids are the next wave of Chicago hip-hop artists aiming to break big. more...
• Porfolio: Fashion Design Slide shows of current lines from three successful graduates of Columbia's Fashion Design program, plus new looks from some of our students poised to enter the field. more...
• Spot On: Stephanie Kuehnert ('03/'06) “I had to go to dark places … I just felt so close to these characters. I wanted to do them justice. The story worked so well in my head, and I wanted it to do the same on paper.” more...
• Spot On: Jorge Ortega ('94) Entrepreneur, community organizer, instigator—call him what you will; Jorge Ortega knows how to get things going. more...
• Various Artists / Chompilation more...
• Heather Perry and the ___________s / These Appetites more...
• The Curious Mystery / Rotting Slowly more...
• Andy Shaw Band / Ways of the World more...
• The Pet Lions / Soft Right more...
• Under Construction: Media Production Center more...
• Audio Arts and Theater Departments Appoint New Chairs more...
• Hair Trigger, Fictionary, Chronicle Win Awards more...
• TV Department Scores YouTube Hit with Sexperts more...
• Faculty and Staff Launch Grassroots Scholarship Initiative more...
• Lecture Series to Focus on 21st-Century Media Arts more...
• Photography Faculty Awarded 2009 Guggenheims more...
• ESB Institute’s Congo/Women Exhibit Heads to the U.N. more...
• Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy more...
• Miles from Nowhere more...
• Trigger City more...
• Dear Alumni, Letter from Josh Culley-Foster, National Director of Alumni Relations. more...
• Vision: A Question for the President Vision: A Question for the President, Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D. more...
• Spot On: Sarah Opila ('89) "When kids were taking out coloring books, I was already drawing lines and planning space." more...
• Spot On: Dan Asma ('92) Dan Asma remembered the blood—gallons and gallons of blood cascading over the elevator doors, splashing down the hallway, engulfing everything. more...