FEATURED STORY Q&A with Alvin Roth: The Ultimate Matchmaker
Alvin Roth can be described as any of the following:
karate enthusiast, high school dropout, and most
recently, Nobel Prize winner. An eclectic blend of
characteristics but all true of Roth, who in October
was awarded the prestigious Sveriges Riksbank
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred
Nobel, an honor he shares with Lloyd S. Shapley
of University of California, Los Angeles.The Genius Behind This MacArthur Fellow
As a young graduate student and only 25, Maria
Chudnovsky coauthored a proof of a longstanding
mathematical theorem on perfect graphs—a problem
posed more than 40 years ago that no one could
crack. Making Sense of MOOCs
Columbia Engineering Jumps into the Market
of Massive Open Online Courses ![]()
Data Driven Alumni: The Faces Behind Data Sciences
Profiles of a sampling of the School’s alumni who are utilizing their interdisciplinary backgrounds in the arts and literature, research and development, social policy, high tech, computer science, and machine learning to gain a foothold in the burgeoning field.
