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… Commencement Commencement 2019 Viola Davis as the keynote speaker for Barnard's 127th Commencement. … empathy and the courage to fight for change. Davis is the first African American actress to win an Oscar, Tony, and … a demand” and offered alarming statistics about “women being under siege,” placing emphasis on reproductive rights, …

… Agent to Romance Novelist Tee O’Fallon ’86 on crimes and the heart By Marie DeNoia Aronsohn Barnard Magazine Barnard … is de rigueur in the romance fiction business, but first come the complications. “The skeletal structure of all … O’Fallon took to the idea then and there. “My boyfriend, being a very thoughtful guy, buys me a purple leather-bound …

… Art and Science Collide at the ‘Ecological Imaginary’ Exhibition Sixteen students from … Mark I, a task for which she is now credited as one of the first three computer programmers.  “Hopper received countless … [because] science is unpredictable. Science is about being open to change and being adaptive. My artwork …

… for Small Groups or Pairs Active Learning Strategies for the Whole Class Active Learning Guide Active Learning … learning of educational objectives, not merely ‘being active’ (Li, Lund & Nordsteien 2021). This approach to … one student appointed as a leader of their group. In the first round (“focus groups”), each group of students is given …

… Fall 2021 Public Service & Advocacy Moving Forward As the deputy secretary of transportation, Polly Trottenberg ’86 … of the incredible history there.” What resulted from that first brush with urban policy and planning is a public … maybe once in a generation. It will make — if the bill as being discussed passes — tremendous investments in transit …

… Soul Providers The Barnard Organization of Soul Sisters (BOSS) celebrates 50 … , a group that celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first official act this February. From its start, the group … both their intelligence and potential. Sometimes, being a black woman at Barnard can be difficult, says Alicia …

… Announces New Trustees With a new semester underway, the community also welcomes seven new Board of Trustees … Island Medal and the Columbia Alumni Medal, as well as being recognized by the League of Women Voters and the Girl … shaping their public agendas across all issue areas; she first served as deputy mayor to Antonio Villaraigosa and was …

… 2021 Congratulations to Professor Séverine Autesserre for being awarded the 2021 Emily Gregory Teaching Award! Named for the first female full professor at Columbia University, the Emily …

… I’m bracing for a fresh wave of it, with a new novel on the way about a damaged, talented girl named Rainey Royal and … and she didn’t.) But I wasn’t prepared in 2009, when my first story collection, Normal People Don’t Live Like This, … began writing fiction at the age of 40, after years of being a journalist. I repeated what Madeleine told her …

… Inspired by Jane For the author of The Jane Austen Project, turning the age that … knowing that it was my true home, as much my destiny as being a novelist. It seemed a terrible place to be poor, and … of 1984: the center of the world, full of possibility. At first I was too busy adapting to my new workplace and …