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Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism to open up the campus to its Morningside Heights community, uniting architecture and landscape, interior and exterior, into a spectacular glass-clad building.

For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. When Walls was young, her restless family had lived like nomads, moving from one Southwestern desert town to another and sometimes living in primitive mountain camps.

Ruth Ellen Fitch has traveled worlds beyond the Harrishof Street house in Roxbury where she grew up during the fifties and sixties.

The recent elections in Iran, and subsequent challenges to their legitimacy, have been a matter of enormous internal conflict in Iran, and of seemingly endless debate in the rest of the world.

Published Thursday 5 November 2009 05:45pm EST. Reading books, solving problem sets, and taking exams are part of life for college students.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln hosted its Robert E. Knoll lecture Thursday, hosting speaker Achsah Guibbory, who is an Ann Whitney Olin professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Fashion is indulging a rock 'n' roll fantasy. Hot designers Alexander Wang and Balmain are two of the look's leading proponents, tempting the most affluent fashionistas to flirt with insolvency: Wang's black leggings run $425, and Balmain's jeans go for more than $2,000. But at those prices, stocking up on the fall merchandise becomes highly ...

With rigorous academic schedules, Boston University students and their peers at other schools are no strangers to stress.

It's possible that Stern senior Andrew Wong has interned for more clothing designers than the designer labels in your closet.

Published Wednesday 28 October 2009 12:35am EST. The Diana, pictured here, will open next semester as Barnard College's long-awaited student center.

Published Sunday 25 October 2009 11:03pm EST. The use of swipe access to enter Columbia buildings has long been a controversial issue.

In her memoir "The Glass Castle," Jeannette Walls wrote about being a Barnard College student in a class that covered the root causes of homelessness.

"The Curious Case of Jia Junpeng, or The Power of Symbolic Appropriation in Chinese Cyberspace," by Yang Guobin, an associate professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, is the most interesting investigation of Chinese Internet use -- as play and as protest -- that I have yet read.

Some lessons in university life are learned outside the walls of lecture halls, as Cheryl Mendelson discovered this past August, when her son left for Yale University dormitories.

Rydal-raised Jillian Apfelbaum is among producers of " Black Dynamite ," a laugh- and action-packed parody/homage of 1970s blaxploitation films in which a pimp named Black Dynamite must scour the underworld to avenge the death of his brother, who was killed by none other than The Man.

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In the painting, a girl sits on a rope swing in a woodland clearing, ankles crossed primly.

Published Tuesday 13 October 2009 12:36am EST. Barnard's endowment has begun to rebound after falling due to last year's financial crisis.

When The Glass Castle was published in 2005, readers who knew Jeannette Walls as the feisty gossip columnist on MSNBC were astonished by details in the memoir of her impoverished childhood and erratic parenting.

Published: Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 12:43 p.m. Fresh from performing at the first Ringling International Arts Festival in Sarasota, New York City choreographer Deganit Shemy brings her contemporary dance company to Gainesville for a performance.