Columbia University

Host Randy Cohen speaks with co-founder of WORKac, professor and dean emeritus of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation Amale Andraos; and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Former Vice President for Design Excellence of the New York Chapter of the AIA and co-founder WORKac Dan Wood on what inspires them and what inspired them to build WORKac.

Lawyer Michael Sparer works on health policy at Columbia’s Mailman School: “Public health in a certain sense is about balancing, the rights we have as individuals with the needs of society to preserve, protect, and promote the health of the population.” Not a bad approach to democracy in general. Sparer tells us about Roachdale, Indiana, basketball, and his dad Edward Sparer.

The SUNY Chancellor discussed higher education concerns during a visit to the SUNY Plattsburgh campus this week.

An outspoken critic of the Israel-Hamas war was arrested in Vermont. The state’s Congressional delegation is condemning the arrest.

Jelani Cobb is the dean of Columbia University’s school of journalism and a staff writer for “The New Yorker.” “When people ask what I think is the foundational institution of democracy, I always say: the public library.” Cobb tells us about David Levering Lewis and the Queens Public Library.

Poet, theologian, and host of the On Being Studios podcast “Poetry Unbound” Pádraig Ó Tuama enjoys a particular pencil but is not a fanatic: “I use anything to get the idea down. I have written with pens and pencils; I have written on the back of sick bags on airplanes.” Computers. Cellphones. No crayon, but he’s not above it.

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