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A B C D E F G H Columbia Blue 1 Blue View: Part I 4 2 Exponential Education 10 3 Columbia Days 26 Core, 44 4 Uncommon Education 5 Giants Among Us 54 High-Impact and Hands-On: 64 6 Science and Engineering Research 7 Columbia College 72 Watching over Low Plaza is Alma Mater, Columbia Engineering 78 a bronze sculpture by 8 , famous for his statue of at the Community, Columbia Style 84 in Washington, DC. 9 Alma Mater is also the subject of many Columbia legends, Traditions 96 including that the 10 first student in every new class to find the hidden owl on the statue will be the class Blue View: Part II 110 valedictorian. 11

A1 Columbia at a Glance 116 Want to know where this is on campus? You can find all the places shown in photographs throughout this book on the campus map on the inside front cover. Just look for the location code on each photo. Call it blue sky thinking, a bolt of blue As a Columbian you are inspiration, or rhapsody in blue. Everything you part of an extraordinary community of students need to realize your personal, professional, — more eclectic than you can dream of yet, more at home together and doing-good-in-the-world ambitions is here. than you can imagine. Our students are united in their sense of adventure and desire to Learning from today’s iconic thinkers and welcome the unknown, the unexpected, the leaders not just in books but in person. Living overlooked, and seek out new ideas, new in a city driven by the smartest, newest ideas. information, and new possibilities. Adding your personality, friendship, and inspiration to one of the most diverse and interesting student bodies on any campus. Reveling in “Roar, Lion, Roar!” traditions and spirit both grand and quirky.

Earning lifetime intellectual confidence through a legendary Core Curriculum. Thriving in an engineering curriculum that fosters an interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial approach to solving the world’s grand challenges. Joining dozens of clubs, finding that small handful of interests that will be true passions now and throughout your life.

Having the freedom to reach for any goal on a campus, in a city, in a community where shaping society, culture, and the world happens every day. Dive into the Columbia Blue.

2 D2 3 1 Blue View: Part I

E3 4 A gift from Columbia President in honor of his father and patterned loosely on Rome’s Pantheon, Low Library has the largest all-granite dome in the . No longer a library, Low now houses the Visitors Center and the Office of the President; its impressive rotunda is used for campus events.

5 D2 6 is Columbia’s student center. Lerner is home to the Center for Student Advising and Undergraduate Student Life offices including Multicultural Affairs, as well as student group advising and the Office of Financial Aid and Educational Financing. It also includes student lounges, two dining venues, a black box theater, 7,000 undergraduate mailboxes, two computer labs, offices for student organizations, and numerous event spaces, including a 1,100-seat auditorium and a 400-seat cinema.

7 is the centerpiece of the Columbia University , one of the ten largest systems in the nation. Housing close to one- third of the Libraries’ on-site collections, Butler Library includes nearly 1,000,000 rare books and 26 million manuscripts, and the world-famous Research Office and collection. Several books and screenplays have been written here, including Nobel Prize-winning novelist ’s The Black Book and alumnus ’s Oscar-nominated script for the film Capote.

C3 8 9 2 Exponential Education

E3 10 11 Every aspect of the Columbia experience opens doors to an ever-deeper set of opportunities. Each of these beginnings is the tip of the iceberg, the first domino, the catalyst in an education with unending exponential power that builds throughout a Columbian’s life. Call it Columbia to the power of infinity.

Take Move into your residence Major in with Take part in COÖP’s pre- first semester with 20 students hall room in John Jay with a minor in Visual Arts. orientation bike tour, where from all over the country and views of campus and midtown after a four-day trip through the the world. Manhattan. Pitch your idea for a brand-new , you ride over company at Columbia the Bridge Engineering’s Fast Pitch with 49 new friends. competition.

Cheer on friends running the NYC Marathon, visit the MoMA after class, study in Central Park, eat chicken Be part of a community where, and from a street vendor — Intern at Google in the YouTube as one student said, “Everyone call New York City home. Business Development is capable of saying something department. Delve into virtue, justice, that will blow your mind with suffering, evil, friendship, family, insights.” Impact community clients loss, and power through some of locally and around the world the greatest works of literature with your senior design project. of all time.

Open the door to a steady stream of opportunities: research with a Nobel Laureate, perform on Broadway, question Be befriended, challenged, and and Bill Gates supported by fellow Columbians Use the internship experience Expand the way you see the at a campus lecture, tour for the next four years and you gain with a start-up created world in ways that will impact the Guggenheim, and eventually join a Columbia Alumni network by a Columbia alum to start your every other class you take find your dream job through of more than 300,000. own venture in your hometown. as well as your career and life. connections you make here.

Described as one of fairs, and staged Going to Columbia the great urban spaces performances like gives you a kind of in America, Low Plaza the King’s Crown dual citizenship — you was built to resemble Shakespeare Troupe’s are a Columbian and a Greek amphitheater. annual productions. a New Yorker. Each in Fittingly, it’s ideal itself is a life changer. for outdoor concerts, The combination? Unequaled.

12 13 Columbia In 1754 Columbia University was founded as King’s College by of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.

The Fu Foundation Columbia School of College Engineering and Applied Science

Undergraduate Programs 6,000 More than 82 undergraduates; one of the Columbia students can 80% Nobel Prize winners are most diverse student bodies choose from more than of undergraduate Columbia alumni, faculty, or in the country. 150 study abroad programs. classes have fewer than former faculty. More Nobel 20 students. Laureates have graduated from or taught at Columbia About than any other university 12+ in the . 100 conservatory-caliber arts 6 to 1 Programs of Study, from majors and programs. ratio of students Earth and Environmental to faculty. Engineering to Creative 146 Writing to Urban Studies. Almost faculty in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 400 3 to 1 which studies and sets the nation’s direction of research research opportunities ratio of students in science and technology 60+ reserved for Columbia to faculty in the physical policy, global security, social majors in the humanities Engineering undergraduates sciences. policy, and the humanities. and social sciences. through the Student Its founders include Benjamin Research Involvement Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Program. 60,000+ and George Washington. 22 undergraduate majors in all branches of alumni network. the biological, natural, and physical sciences. 22 libraries. 18 A university alumni members of the National network of more than Academy of Engineering. 50+ 300,000 engineering majors and minors. 54 members of the National Academy of Sciences.

14 “ Columbia has broadened my intellectual horizons, exposed me to the most diverse and unique individuals and communities, challenged me to step out of my comfort zone, and ultimately introduced me to an incredible world of opportunities that surpass any expectation I could have ever had.” patricia k., La Paz, Bolivia; Financial and Political Science

More than 500 13 1,200 clubs and organizations. 20+ residence halls. Graduate and Professional US patents issued From the Columbia Schools across research areas over University Society of College of Dental the past 20 years. Hip-Hop to America Reads, College of Physicians and from the Alpine Racing Surgeons Team to the King’s Crown 12+ on-campus dining Shakespeare Troupe, from Columbia halls and cafés. the Scientists and Engineers Columbia 100 Mailman School of for a Better Society to the new start-ups founded Journal of Politics & Society, School of Architecture, Planning by Columbia students, and Preservation from the Chicano Caucus alumni, and faculty. School of the Arts to Bach Society — you’ll First School of Arts and Sciences find not one club per interest -rights advocacy group School of Engineering and area but dozens with as on any college campus. Applied Science More than much vibrancy and diversity School of International and as our students. Public Affairs 200 School of Nursing research institutes and First School of Social Work centers, including African American a wide range of world-class advocacy group laboratories. 60+ , comedy, on a multiracial campus. dance, film, music, 4 Affiliate Institutions and theatre clubs and organizations. Jewish Theological Seminary First Teachers College college literary magazine. Union Theological Seminary

31 NCAA Division I teams, 40+ club and 40+ intramural sports.

15 Columbia as Engine of Innovation Northwest Corner Building The newest building on campus, A map of the labs, lecture halls, and landmarks where ideas and inventions certified LEED Gold, is an from anthropology to FM radio began. interdisciplinary science and engineering building that is home to labs and classrooms, a library and a café.

Havemeyer Hall

Harold Clayton Urey did the Nobel-winning research here that led to his discovery of .

Mathematics Hall

This former home of the Engineering School once featured a full-size steam locomotive inside in honor of such early Columbia Engineering greats as steam power pioneer John Stevens (1768).

Miller Theatre

The legacy of alumni Rodgers and Hammerstein, who changed the face of American musical theatre starting with Columbia’s , continues here.

Watson Laboratory

Computer history was made here: the first true computer, first Furnald Hall supercomputer, first personal computer. Internationally influential Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca lived here. Hamilton Hall

Lionel Trilling, one of the most public of the twentieth century’s public intellectuals, wrote The Liberal Imagination (1950) , author of the while he was a professor here. groundbreaking text The End of Poverty, who is widely considered to be the leading international economic adviser of his generation, directs the Earth Institute.

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Where the atom was first split in the US is a National Historic Landmark.

Horst Störmer, who shared the Nobel in physics for discovering “a new form of quantum fluid,” is a member of Columbia’s physics department, which makes its home here, and applied physics department. Nobelist Isidor Rabi’s discovery Mudd Hall here of nuclear magnetic resonance led to the Professor James Im’s process for and MRI. developing high-quality silicon film began here and is playing a crucial role in developing the latest generation of flat-screens Lamont-Doherty Earth Uris Hall for a wide array of electronic Observatory devices. , Nobel Laureate in , Economics, helped create a new “Grandfather of Climate Science,” branch of economics here. coined global warming in his definitive ocean research.

William Ewing helped establish Fayerweather Hall global monitoring and Schermerhorn Hall the theory of . , winner of a 2011 for : ’s fruit fly Abraham Lincoln and American experiments here earned a Nobel Slavery — bringing unforeseeable and launched modern genetics. twists and a fresh sense of improbability to a familiar story — revolutionized teaches here. the study of anthropology here.

International Affairs Building Nobel Laureate, professor, and Mozart’s famous librettist, — , was the first known as the father of the theory professor of Italian Literature of optimum currency areas — at Columbia. teaches here.

Edmund S. Phelps — winner of the Nobel in Economics for his work putting “people as we know them” back into economic models — teaches here.

Working in Professor Pupin’s Columbia Medical basement lab, Edwin Armstrong invented FM radio. Center

John Dewey, arguably America’s shared a Nobel for greatest philosopher, who was research that transformed responsible for changing the way the understanding of educators think about education, and learning. taught here for 25 years. Nobel Laureate mapped the genes that govern the sense of smell.

17 Columbia as Culture of Connection

Columbia is an in-person kind of place — Mercedes De Luca ’79SEAS, entrepreneur and Vice President and a crossroads of connections where there is no General Manager of e-commerce at Sears, distance at all between those on their way speaks at a Society of Women Engineers to living lives of impact and influence and campus event. those already doing so. Here are just some of the people who recently visited campus and connected with students.

U.S. Trust division executive for the Northeast and Metro New York markets and one of ’ “100 Most Powerful Women in the World” Lisa Carnoy ’89CC President of the speaks at the annual Republic of Chile Senator John McCain John Jay Awards speaks at Columbia Dinner. College Class Day. President of Bolivia speaks at the World Evo Morales Leaders Forum. Former Supreme Court speaks at the World Justice Sandra Day Leaders Forum. O’Connor speaks on civil rights in an “Age of Terrorism” at .

President ’83CC Warren Buffett and speaks on campus Bill Gates appear at the ServiceNation Founder and together in a special Presidential Forum Convener of the hour-long community in Global Peace Initiative forum filmed by CNBC Auditorium. of Women Dena for global broadcast. Merriam speaks CNN anchor Anderson to students as part Cooper speaks to of the Columbia students at a School of Undergraduate Journalism talk. Scholars Program speaker series.

President Bill Former Clinton speaks on Secretary-General, World AIDS Day Science educator Nobelist, and Columbia at a symposium Bill Nye speaks professor sponsored by ’94CC, about nuclear speaks at the annual Columbia’s Mailman former president and issues and changing World Leaders Forum, School of Public CEO of the NAACP, climates as part which also features the access Health. speaks at Columbia President of Argentina, advocate and of a panel hosted College Class Day and the President of Serbia, anthropologist Paul by the Columbia has dinner afterward and the Prime Minister Farmer speaks at the University Coalition with students. of Nepal. Earth Institute. for . 18 Secretary of State Technology visionary and delivers investor David S. Rose, a keynote address on whom Businessweek criminal justice reform at describes as a “world an annual policy forum conquering entrepreneur,” IIon Joseph ’96SEAS, run by former New York headlines TEDxColumbia, ’05SEAS, from the City mayor and current hosted by Columbia Lawrence Livermore professor of professional Engineering. National Laboratory, practice . and Harry Warren ’94GSAS, from the Panel discussing Naval Research electric cars includes Laboratory, present Doherty Senior Scholar talks at the Plasma in the Lamont-Doherty Physics Colloquium. Earth Observatory and adjunct President and CEO of Armen A. Avanessians professor of Earth International ’83SEAS, global head and Environmental Media Networks and of quantitative, rules- Sciences Roger former president based and indexing Anderson and chief of MTV Networks businesses at Goldman executive of Fisker International Robert Widely recognized as Sachs, speaks at Automotive Tony Bakish ’85SEAS one of the “Fathers of Columbia Engineering Posawatz; moderated speaks on “Creativity the Internet,” Leonard Class Day. by Kathleen Deveny of Commerce and Kleinrock lectures magazine. Countries: A GLOCAL on “A Brief History of Model” at Columbia the Internet and Its Engineering. Dynamic Future” at Columbia Engineering’s Department of You Computer Science.

New York Times op-ed and former chief restaurant critic Best-selling novelist , Top Chef talks to Masters host Kelly students about writing Choi, and restaurant as part of the Columbia entrepreneur Keith Undergraduate Goggin, all Columbia Scholars Program Actor and activist Journalism School speaker series. Anna Deavere Smith alumni, talk about food talks about her play, journalism. Let Me Down Easy.

Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at the World Salman Rushdie Leaders Forum about speaks about her time as a political and imagination at prisoner in Burma. the inauguration of Psychologist Howard Columbia’s Institute for Gardner speaks on Religion, Culture, and At a forum on creative “What Is Good Work Public Life. and How Can I Achieve writing, acclaimed It?” at the Columbia British novelist Zadie Undergraduate Smith discusses Scholars Program contemporary speaker series. challenges of authors and storytellers. 19 Columbia as Living Laboratory The world’s city, home to major institutions in innovation, culture, media, science, education, health, politics, finance, and technology. Our New York is a neighborhood, a classroom, a leader, a community, a testing ground, a cultural wonderland, a source of inspiration, a home, a friend, an indispensable resource.

See Medea at the Japan Society with your Literature Humanities Explore the five seminar boroughs of NYC classmates and on bicycle for your professor. NYC history class.

Have lunch with alums at Chelsea Help write scripts Market to learn while interning about their social at MTV in Times media and tech Square. incubator.

Work with New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to Meet with a client design new running for office playgrounds as part of your throughout internship the city. at a political consulting and strategy firm.

Eat the best cannolis in the city at the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy.

Lead a team designing a roof for a synagogue in Brooklyn. Intern in the global investment research division of Climb to top of the on . Brooklyn Bridge to test its wires with your Civil Engineering class.

20 8 million people, an amazing See the New York percentage of whom are Philharmonic play at Lincoln experts, visionaries, Center for Music and global leaders. Humanities and visit the Frick Collection for Art Humanities. Teach math and physics to elementary school 40 students through Broadway theatres. Columbia’s Double Work with Discovery Center. physician scientists to conduct research at the Neurological 1,000s ICU at Columbia’s Attend Medical Center. TEDxColumbia of restaurants. SIPA Engineering conference featuring experts in technology and the intersection of other fields. 1,700 parks and playgrounds, hundreds of neighborhoods. 150 museums and countless galleries. Conduct research at the Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory at the New York Botanical Get an internship at Garden in the the United Nations 1,000s Bronx. working with the UN Development of internships offered Programme on through the Center for energy issues. Career Education.

Jam with fellow 100s Columbians at & of service and Supper Club on research NYC-Columbia Broadway near partnerships. campus. Every language, every dream, every possibility.

21 Columbia as Global Reach Dozens of campus initiatives bring the world to Columbia. Several hundred study abroad opportunities and research projects take our students and faculty around the globe.

Here’s what makes us global:

● An international student body (more than 150 countries represented) ● A cosmopolitan faculty Columbia University ● Our World Leaders Forum Columbia gives students ● The Earth Institute a home in the most global city in the world — where the world ● Global Core requirement comes to you and you go to ● One of the most comprehensive the world. area-studies programs in the United States

● Study abroad on 5 continents, in regions from Asia to North Africa and the Middle East to the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands, as well as at sea

● Partnerships with communities, governments, and institutions around the world

● Global research for all majors, including hands-on engineering and social entrepreneurship

● We not only bring global leaders to campus, we educate them — graduates who are heads of state, policy makers, and forces for good in countries around the world.

22 Index W orld Leaders Forum Study Abroad C ountries Represented Global Centers Approximately 20 World Columbia students can choose by Students Columbia has an ever-growing Leaders Forum events per year from more than 150 programs With more than 8,000 network of research centers bring remarkable leaders to in more than 100 cities around undergraduate and graduate located in cities around campus for lively, uninhibited the globe. Approximately students from over 150 the world, including , dialogue. A few past one-third of Columbia countries and places of origin, ; , ; participants include Presidents undergraduates study abroad Columbia ranks as one of , ; , , Mohammad Ashraf for a semester or a year. the top US and Jordan; , Kenya; Ghani of Afghanistan, Benigno This does not include summer universities in international , Chile; , Aquino III of the Philippines, programs, fellowships, enrollment. Turkey; and , Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, and global field studies . Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah that are part of classes or Gbowee, and the Dalai Lama. research projects.

23 Columbia as the Start of Great Things Just a few of the Columbians whose time here allowed them to make their mark, make history, and make the world better.

Arts & Letters Academics & Theorists Pixley ka Isaka Seme, founder of , former , writer, scientist , historian the African National Congress of New York , Grammy-winning , scholar of Chung Un-chan, South Korea , civil and human classical pianist mythology rights activist, writer , , , philosopher, educator , former President of , , , economist Media & Publishing the Center for the Advancement members of band Ellen V. Futter, President of Daniel Alarcón, writer of Women the American Museum of Roone Arledge Jr., sports Béla Bartók, Grammy Natural History broadcasting pioneer, former Presidents Award-winning composer , urban theorist Chairman of ABC News Dwight D. Eisenhower , film director, , mathematician who Marcus Brauchli, Managing Barack Obama first woman to win coined the term googol Partner, North Base Media Franklin D. Roosevelt Best Director Anthony W. Marx, President & CEO and former Executive Editor of Academy Award of , , architect former President of Amherst Jamal Dajani, producer Science & Technology , Grammy College Joseph Lelyveld, former Executive James F. Albaugh, Boeing Award-winning classical , former President Editor of Commercial Airplanes former composer of of Music, first Andrés Martinez, former Editorial President and CEO , Tony- and President of Lincoln Center Page Editor of The Los Angeles Edwin Armstrong, inventor of Emmy-winning actor , former President of Times FM radio , filmmaker Barnard College, professor of , Chief Creative Officer, Richard Axel, Nobel Prize for , Golden anthropology Co-president of Entertainment Medicine Globe-winning actor , historian Group, Guggenheim Media (The Peter DiMaggio, lead engineer for , Oscar- Hollywood Reporter, Billboard) construction on U.S. Embassies and Emmy-winning Business & , publisher in Moscow, Berlin, and film producer Entrepreneurism , Senior National , aviator , poet Warren Buffett, investor Correspondent for , founder of , Golden , CEO Good Morning America modern robotics Globe-winning actress William Campbell, Intuit CEO , Chief , paleontologist, Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist , Chairman of Anchor and Chief Political evolutionary biologist , lyricist Viacom Correspondent for ABC News , founder of IBM , musician James P. Gorman, Elizabeth Trotta, former NY Bureau Gregory H. Johnson, Air Force , writer CEO Chief of The Washington Times, Colonel (Ret.), NASA astronaut , writer , entrepreneur contributor for Michael Massimino, engineer and , filmmaker Kai-Fu Lee, founder and CEO of Alexandra Wallace, Senior Vice former NASA shuttle astronaut , Beat poet, Innovation Works and former President, NBC News Robert Millikan, Nobel physicist pioneer founding President of Harvey Seeley Mudd, engineer, , Grammy Politics & Advocacy founder of Harvey Mudd College Award-winning musician , former Cleveland , Congresswoman, William Barclay Parsons, chief , Emmy-winning Browns owner, CEO of leader of the women’s engineer of the first line of the television writer, producer, MBNA Bank movement NYC subway and director Robert J. Stevens, former Lockheed , first female Michael Pupin, inventor of the , Pulitzer Martin CEO Secretary of State Pupin coil Prize-winning playwright S. Robson Walton, Chairman of , first African Hyman Rickover, inventor of the Federico García Lorca, Wal-Mart Board of Directors American woman elected to nuclear submarine poet Congress Eugene H. Trinh, first Chinese- Ursula K. Le Guin, writer International Leaders , mayor of Los Angeles Vietnamese American astronaut Kate McKinnon, actress and , Italy , Supreme in Space comedian , Namibia Court Justice Terrence McNally, Tony , UN weapons inspector , former Chairman Sports Award-winning playwright Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazil of System , Hall of Famer , poet , Belgium , former Senator and Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis champion , EGOT José Ramos-Horta, East Timor Governor Sandy Koufax, baseball and Pulitizer Prize-winning , Estonia Jr., first African Hall of Famer composer V. K. , China American Attorney General , founded Ricardo Scofidio, architect , leader of the Tiananmen Ben Jealous, former President and U.S. Olympic Committee , writer Square protests of 1989 CEO of the NAACP , Olympic fencer Robert A. M. Stern, architect , Tanzania , Civil Rights Cristina Teuscher, Olympic gold- Twyla Tharp, choreographer Mary Robinson, Ireland Movement figure medal swimmer Christine Wang, architect , former Attorney , former NFL player General

24 Barack Obama Jenji Kohan ’83CC Edwin Armstrong ’91CC Toomas Hendrik Ilves 44th President of 1913SEAS Emmy-winning television ’72CC the United States Inventor of FM radio writer, producer and director President of Estonia

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Eric Holder Jr. Herman Hollerith Maggie Gyllenhaal ’59Law ’73CC 1890SEAS ’98CC Supreme Court Justice Former US Attorney General Founder of IBM Oscar nominee

V. K. Wellington Koo 1908CC Michael Massimino Richard Rodgers ’23CC and Cristina Teuscher Diplomat, former ’84SEAS Oscar Hammerstein II ’16CC ’OOCC acting premier NASA shuttle astronaut Composer and lyricist Olympic gold-medal swimmer of the Republic of China

5 34 9 90+ Founding Presidents and Supreme Court Pulitzer Prize Fathers of the Prime Ministers. Justices. Winners. United States.

25 3 Columbia Days

E3 27 The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Students flock to the Columbia alum ’34CC once Low Plaza steps — to sunbathe, socialize, said Columbia is a place of “doubled magic,” and study — making it, in the words of a leading architect, where “the best things of all human history a true “urban beach.” and thought [are] inside the rectangle” on the Columbia campus and “the best things Our students are part of an unparalleled mix of the moment [are] outside the rectangle of of Ivy League university and world-class city. Columbia” in the City of New York. Students Clockwise: here experience that doubled magic on ● Mike L. An Industrial a daily basis. On the next few pages, some of Engineering major from Illinois who them share highlights from a day in their lives recently started his day at the local farmer’s market on campus and in the city. and spent the evening designing a temporary pop-up space for an art society in .

● Sarah S. An English major from and a film and television actress who recently arranged the press junket she was doing for a movie so she wouldn’t miss her favorite literature class.

● Jonathan R. A Mechanical Engineering major from New Jersey who does lab work on supersonic flow in the morning and heads to his internship at Atlantic Records in the afternoon.

● Donia A. An Economics major from Egypt whose day recently started with a class on global economics and ended with one on ethnography, with a Vogue internship in between.

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Donia A. Jonathan R.

29 Time to Discover Amanda O. Hometown: Garden City, NY Columbia College Major: Biochemistry 9:00 am Wake up and head to Dodge Fitness Center for a workout.

Noon Grab a sandwich with my lab mate Corey at Milano Market on 10:15 am 113th Street before lab Walk over to meeting (hands down 11:00 am Hamilton Deli to best sandwiches in Next stop: Cornish get my usual egg and the area). Lab in the Northwest cheese and an iced Corner Building coffee for breakfast; to check data from 1:00 pm chitchat with previous day’s Ribosome team weekly Steve the owner for experiment on meeting with Professor a few minutes. D-amino acid tRNA Cornish pairing effects in the and Professor Ruben ribosome. Progressing Gonzalez for an update on an independent on the project. project started last summer in preparation for first author 2:40 pm publication. Molecular Biology with Professor Ron 4:00 pm Prywes; excited to Off toMoMA finally be covering to see the the translational new Warhol exhibit machinery in class. with a friend.

6:00 pm Time for a class called “Ignorance,” with Professor Stuart Firestein, chair of the Department of Biology. (It’s anything but: he invites professors to speak on ideas they wonder about and 10:00 pm question in their own Quick cookie and tea 9:00 pm fields.) Guest lecturer this break with suitemates. Columbia Community week is Professor Eitan Grinspun of Columbia’s 10:30 pm Outreach meeting to plan the university’s Department of Computer Reading Descartes’s Science, who talks about Meditations on First largest annual day of service (approximately his Hollywood animation Philosophy for a paper work. He provided some I’m working on. 1,000 volunteers). I am the co-coordinator. breakthrough techniques for Disney on Tangled and worked on visual effects for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

30 31 Paris-Bound Engineer Sidney P. Hometown: Tully, NY 8:07 am Columbia Engineering Head out for my morning run through Major: Riverside Park. The breeze off the Hudson is especially nice.

12:45 pm 10:30 am I grab a quick lunch I’m off to (mandarin orange and Contemporary chicken salad with Civilization. We’re soup du jour) at Ferris discussing Rousseau’s Booth Commons and conception of the bump into a couple of amour propre and how friends before running it pertains to human off to.... inequality and the social . 1:00 pm ...my meeting 2:10 pm with my adviser. My favorite class of the I’ll be conducting day: Introduction to biomedical research Electrical Engineering. in Paris this summer Today, Professor and I want to make David Vallancourt sure that all of my discusses how the travel documents are Sallen-Key Bessel squared away. filters we have been learning about can be used in anything from electric guitars to 5:00 pm 9:30 pm electrocardiograms. Board meeting for Grab a quick bite to Engineers Without eat at JJ’s Place Borders. This year, I’m before heading to serving as the president Engineering Student of EWB on campus. Council meeting. From vibrational analysis Tonight, we’re of grain processors in discussing a resolution Soroti, Uganda, to to reorganize distribution systems club finances and in Bizdad, Morocco, restrict extraneous we have a lot to discuss. expenditures.

10:00 pm I relax for a bit in my room by editing papers for the Journal 11:45 pm of Global Health. I make my way down to one of the residence hall lounges to play a few tunes on the piano before heading to bed. The music of Chopin and Ravel makes for a soothing conclusion to a day well spent.

32 33 Afternoon and Noon A Programmer 6:00 am Drop by my adviser’s office Wake up and walk to Evening Acts to talk about proposing Decodes Her Day Levien Gym for volleyball Emily N. my thesis. practice. I meet my team Kesi N. in the locker room where Hometown: Ridley Park, PA 1:00 pm Hometown: Russellville, KY we blast Missy Elliott Columbia College Hop the train to Brooklyn Columbia Engineering while getting dressed. We Major: English and for my internship at TADA! are excited to play our Ivy I assist in staging a musical Major: Computer Science League rivals this weekend. Drama and Theater Arts written and performed by first through fifth graders. 12:00 pm Today we’re teaching the Faculty House 5:00 pm lunch with choreography to Little Shop Tony Award-winning my Mandarin class. of Horrors. musical 1:30 pm on Broadway, including talkback Skype with my manager at Boeing with Varsity Show . I am working as an alum . intern in for the summer and we discuss my 7:55 pm software project. I will be Arrive at rehearsal for the working with a team that 3:30 pm Varsity Show. We’re doing develops survival radios Check out bikes a song about the new for Air Force pilots who through a campus bike Ferris Booth Commons encounter emergencies. share with a friend and dining hall, but don’t tell bike to our favorite anyone! Varsity Show has 2:00 pm spot in Central Park, a century-plus tradition Java course. Next the waterfall above of secrecy! assignment: programming the reservoir. the card game blackjack. 10:00 pm 8:30 pm Time for my Resident 7:00 pm Back to my dorm to Adviser meeting to plan Attend the National 11:30 pm finish cryptography the next social event. Society of Black Curl up with my homework. Engineers board meeting. copy of Ulysses and But first, a caramel I am the Professional finish my reading for dazzler sundae at the Relations chair this year. tomorrow’s class. local Häagen-Dazs.

34 Times Square, a.k.a. 40th and West 53rd New York’s famous Streets from south to Theater District, north. A bonus benefit cuts a swath through of being a Columbia midtown Manhattan student is free and between Sixth and hugely discounted Eighth Avenues from tickets, as low as $5, to east to west, and West major Broadway shows.

35 An urban wonder and historic treasure just a few blocks from campus — Central Park is 843 acres and 2.5 miles of paths for strolling, running, and biking, as well as gardens, green lawns, and playing fields. It is also home to Shakespeare in the Park and its very own zoo.

36 Sustainable 8:00 am 8:00 am Dodge Fitness Center Educational Prepare for student Entrepreneur’s Aria with my friend to get Change teaching with my sixth in a morning workout — grade class at P.S. 333. Alexis H. Columbia’s Strength One Day at a Time My research interests Hometown: Seattle, WA Training PE class made Terrell W. are very tied to education Columbia College me realize that I love so I’m hoping that to lift weights. Hometown: Baltimore, MD my certification helps Major: Earth and Columbia College me be a more effective Environmental Sciences 9:30 am Major: Ethnicity and graduate researcher. Meet with the 2:30 pm Environmental Science Race Studies 9:00 am Head to the Teachers thesis coordinator — Teach lesson on using College library for I’m thinking of writing powerful figurative a meeting with the research my senior thesis on language for poetry head for my research and sustainable writing unit. assistant position at the development, Earth Institute. specifically regarding 11:00 am impact investing. Head to work study job with the Office of 5:30 pm Multicultural Affairs. Home to cook dinner for my suite. I live in 1:00 pm the Community Health To the Intercultural House. We’re a Special Resource Center, Interest Community, where I live, to catch up 11:00 pm and we do communal with friends. Skype call with the board meals every night, made members of Aware Mobile in our full kitchen in the 4:15 pm App, the start-up I helped Columbia residence halls. Comparative Ethnic expand and am doing Studies Senior Thesis business development for. 8:00 pm 6:00 pm Seminar. The app provides Down to the Dinner at Ferris Booth a directory of campus Metropolitan Opera Commons with friends resources and uses real- for Carmen with followed by Notes and time crowdsourced data to my Music Hum class. Keys (co-ed a cappella promote campus safety. group) rehearsal.

37 An Engineer’s Masterly Plan Mary B. Hometown: Beaverton, OR Columbia Engineering 10:08 am Major: Operations Research Wake up and shower ... take my time getting ready for class over my morning cup of coffee.

1:00 pm After CC class, head 11:00 am to the world-famous Head to Hamilton waffle truck Wafels Hall for Contemporary and Dinges, which is Civilization. We have parked on 113th and a very interesting Broadway almost discussion about every Monday. Enjoy contemporary a bacon and syrup revolutions in relation waffle and lounge 2:00 pm to the readings we did with my best friend by Robespierre about Have a quick meeting on the steps of Low the French revolution. Library while talking with my career about what upcoming counselor in the Center concerts we want to for Career Education. see in the city. This summer I’m participating in the Columbia Experience Overseas program 3:15–5 pm and will be interning I intern in SoHo at in Singapore. We talk a start-up consulting about what to expect firm, working on and make sure that my projects with passport and visa are a division of the all in place. United Nations. The best part about SoHo is people watching!

9:00 pm At the Bacchanal 5:30 pm meeting, the club that Back up to campus, hosts the big campus- grab a quick dinner 9:30 pm wide concert in the at Ferris Booth Run to the springtime, we discuss Commons before Engineering Student the artist we want to my next class. Council meeting. bring to campus this 6:10 pm I am the president year. In the past we’ve Go to my Intro to of the Council had , Accounting and this year. During Vampire Weekend, Finance class, where tonight’s meeting Macklemore, and we learn about we pass a resolution Of Montreal playing the causes and about dining halls right on the steps of implications of the on campus. Low Library. Epic. financial crisis 12:00 am of 2008. 11:00 pm Study break/Skype Work on a problem date with Mom set for Probability and (it’s only 9:00 pm at 10:45 pm Statistics. home in Oregon). Head back to my suite in , where fresh brownies are waiting for me. (One of my suitemates loves to bake!)

38 39 11:00 am 10:10 am Around the World Attend my History of An Economist’s Head over to Schermerhorn in a Few Hours the U.S.-Mexican Border Playlist for my Global Economy class, where we discuss course with Professor Sunil Destiny S. how the horse impacted Nathan C. Gulati, who is also president Hometown: Idabel, OK the Comanche empire Hometown: Hillsborough, CA of the US Soccer Federation; Columbia College and its influence along Columbia College Professor Jeffrey Sachs the border. is guest lecturing on Major: Middle Eastern and Major: Economics/ the economic implications Asian Languages and Cultures 4:00 pm Juilliard Exchange of . I walk to ’s senior seminar 1:30 pm class, Culture in the As a participant in the Modern Arab World. Columbia-Juilliard Exchange, 4:00 pm 6:00 pm Today we discuss the I take a short subway ride Head to Prentis Hall Run to my Music music of Umm Kulthum to Lincoln Center on on for my Humanities class in and her legendary a weekly basis (backpacking Recorded Sound class Dodge Hall. This week status throughout my cello over the turnstile) with Terrence Pender. we are focusing on the Arab world while for a lesson with my cello It’s an innovative Handel’s Messiah. My also considering the teacher Richard Aaron. class that teaches me professor is hilarious role music played in how to produce my own and entertaining in recent political events 10:00 pm music in a professional the way she makes in Egypt. Rehearse with String studio space. Music Humanities fun Theory, a 5-person cello ensemble I helped co-found and interesting for 12:30 pm everyone in the class. my first year, in John Jay Descend the staircase Lounge, in preparation of JJ’s Place for some for a performance for 9:00 pm late-night wings and fries. the Chinese Student Club’s Attend a Native I also help myself to the annual Lunar Gala. American Council self-serve Jamba Juice bar. meeting to discuss plans for the annual 12:15 am Bury myself in my Columbia Pow Wow. Financial Econ problem set in Schapiro Lounge with my best friends.

40 A quick subway Center, the Film the New York Public ride from campus Society of Lincoln Library for the is Lincoln Center, Center, Jazz at Lincoln Performing Arts, the world’s leading Center, The Juilliard and the School performing arts center School, Lincoln of American Ballet. and home to a dozen Center Theater, The It’s commonplace for world-renowned Metropolitan Opera, Core professors to groups, schools, and New York City incorporate class trips organizations: Ballet, New York to relevant Lincoln the Chamber Music City Opera, New York Center performances Society of Lincoln Philharmonic, into their seminars.

41 Editor’s Agenda Colin S. 10:00 am Wake up and shower. Hometown: Greenwich, CT Finish a discussion Columbia College post for my Urban Studies seminar the Major: Political Science following day.

12:30 pm 11:00 am Return to campus and Visit the New York get lunch with my Times building, where friend Akhil, the Managing Board a Financial Engineering of the Columbia Daily major. We reminisce Spectator enjoys about the summer a personal tour of the we spent together in offices and newsroom. Scotland as part of an Many alumni of our internship program campus through Columbia’s work for The Times, Center for Career , Education. and other major outlets.

4:00 pm Stop by Hamilton 2:10 pm Hall to photograph Attend my Political the Chair of 6:30 pm Science senior seminar the first-year Core 5:30 pm Stop by Lerner Hall, called Community class Literature Go to the Rotunda the campus student Organizing. Humanities, as part in Low Library for center, to print out My professor leads of a story for the a lecture event with class readings and to a conversation magazine Columbia the former Treasury pick up a package, about power and its College Today. Secretary. I was invited consisting of a hiking role in American to attend the lecture pack for my upcoming politics, especially through Professor spring break trip concerning inequality, Sunil Gulati’s Global to Panama with my marginalized groups, Economy class floormates. and labor organization. that I took last spring.

7:00 pm Grab a quick dinner at Chipotle with the Art Director for the Spectator’s weekly 7:30 pm magazine The Eye. Attend a Columbia College Young Alumni meeting as the senior 10:00 pm representative to the Return to my floor committee’s executive where I relax with my 9:00 pm board. We discuss fun friends. Relaxation Hold my weekly events in the city and (which usually means staff meeting at the networking sessions procrastination) Spectator where we for seniors and recent often occurs in the continue planning graduates. form of playing golf for the Spectator’s (we actually bought upcoming fund-raising an artificial putting dinner featuring green) and having Arianna Huffington of a dart-throwing The Huffington Post competition in one as our guest speaker. of our rooms.

42 43 4 Common Core, Uncommon Education

D4 45 Columbia University’s Core is the nation’s The Core is taught by oldest and most renowned Core program — leading scholars in all disciplines across and it defines our graduates. All undergraduates the university. Here, American historian and Professor participate in either the Columbia College Core Caterina Pizzigoni Ask Columbians leads a discussion in or the Engineering Core. her Contemporary about the value of their Columbia education Civilization class. and the Core is likely the first thing they will mention. They will tell you how the Core has given them an exceptional advantage at every turn.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870, borders Central Park along between 80th and 84th Streets. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. The Met is another example of the way Columbia’s resources extend to the city. Core papers, studies, and discussions frequently focus on original artists’ works that can be explored in the Met. Students also have opportunities to intern with the museum.

46 Dog-eared, flagged, A few of the authors, Rights of Woman; and highlighted — ideas, and texts that Alexis de Tocqueville, you’ll read the books will become part Democracy in America; and study the art, of what you know Charles Darwin, music, societies, and through the Core. On the Origin of Species scientific discoveries Niccolò Machiavelli, and The Descent of Man; that define human The Prince; Jean- Friedrich Nietzsche, history as much as Jacques Rousseau, On the Genealogy of they shape the world The Basic Political Morals; W. E. B. Du today. Writings; Adam Bois, The Souls of Black Smith, The Wealth of Folk; , Nations; Simone de To the Lighthouse; Beauvoir, The Second , The Iliad; Sex; David Hume, , Bacchae; An Enquiry Concerning , The Aeneid; Human Understanding; Dostoevsky, Crime and Immanuel Kant, Punishment; Dante, Grounding for the Inferno; Toni Morrison, Metaphysics of Morals; Song of Solomon; Mary Wollstonecraft, Sappho’s Lyrics. A Vindication of the

Here’s what makes the program unique.

Interdisciplinary & Challenge & Timeless & Foundation & Innovative Community Defining Freedom The Core began with a single Rather than general The habits of mind developed Students who are drawn course called Contemporary education requirements, you in the Core cultivate to Columbia have an Civilization that is still take a single set of courses a critical and creative interdisciplinary way of a cornerstone of the program. in small, discussion-based intellectual capacity that approaching their entire Today the Core also includes seminars. All students graduates call on long after lives. They find the Core Frontiers of Science; encounter the same texts college, in the pursuit and an incredible intellectual Literature, Art, and Music and issues at the same time fulfillment of meaningful foundation but it also Humanities; University so the critical dialogue lives. Whether you meet exposes them to different Writing; and Global Core takes place not only in a graduate from last year or fields, varying points of view, and language requirements. the classroom but all fifty years ago, he or she and disparate visions, freeing Immersing students in over campus. Students will have wrestled with them from intellectual multiple disciplines so they challenge their thinking many of the same enduring silos. They get to forge their can make connections and deepen their insights books and themes — the own paths and make across the world of ideas together at every turn. same ideas next year’s first- the impact they want. is a key part of the Core’s The Core becomes a common year Columbians will tackle. power. The Core prepares base of knowledge that For almost 100 years, the students to engage their allows for greater depth Core’s purpose has been to majors with a capacity to of discussion in all classes build a timeless basis for think within and beyond throughout a student’s intellectual flexibility and a specific discipline, providing four years. confidence that defines them with a breadth of every Columbia graduate. knowledge that promotes innovative thinking.

47 A Few Core Books

48 49 Columbia College Core Curriculum Through a variety of disciplines, the Core asks students to grapple with radically different ways of looking at the world, exploring enduring themes such as virtue, justice, suffering, evil, friendship, family, loss, guilt, pride, loyalty, storytelling, power, representation, time, space, gender, and sexuality in works by authors as varied as Homer, Jane Austen, Frederick Douglass, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Literature Humanities Art Humanities Foreign Language University Writing Music Humanities Requirement Frontiers of Science Science Requirement Physical Education Contemporary Civilization Global Core Requirement Requirement

Hannah P. Alex M. Joe P. Melissa H. Weston, MA New Orleans, LA Pelham, NY Aurora, IL Earth and Environmental Mathematics Political Science Film Studies Science “I knew I wanted to major “It’s not a uniform “You’re talking about “I think sometimes people in math and physics when experience where everyone essential texts and don’t understand that even I came here. I was very learns to think exactly groundbreaking ideas. though the Core is a specific excited about the Core alike. You’re expected to When you’ve got this kind set of courses, it enhances alongside the ability to do be an individual, to have of diversity, you’ll always the freedom you have a very serious science major. your own ideas, your own get into ; you’ll to try out different I was really into the idea questions.” always see things from areas. I have friends who of this thought-out way of different perspectives, wanted to be English or becoming well-rounded especially when you’re history majors who became instead of just me randomly Anna Rose B. part of a community where science majors after taking choosing classes.” New York City, NY everyone is capable of Frontiers of Science. I have English saying something that another friend who thought “Our professor always will blow your mind.” she wanted premed but says, ‘There is no one right now she’s a philosophy answer.’ And then he asks major because she took questions to which you David C. Literature Humanities and desperately want to know Edison, NJ Contemporary Civilization. the answer. So we spend Economics and Political The Core fosters a lot of a lot of time in class — and Science different sparks.” out of class — helping each “The Core is one of the other. He’s adamant about reasons I applied to not indoctrinating us, so he Columbia. I’m taking helps us develop our own courses outside my major — theories.” in art and music, literature and philosophy and science — and that helps me think in more complicated ways about my major. I’m not the Regardless of their major our students can person I was when I started study the arts through the Core. I’ve changed the Core as well as the way I think, the way take abundant courses I write, the way I see in the visual arts, music, theatre, film the world. And I did it on and dance. In a city my terms.” known for its arts and culture, the arts are also a significant part of extracurricular life.

50 The Core + So Much More One First-Year Student’s Schedule Core classes make up approximately one-third of your schedule at Columbia, leaving time each year — even your first — to explore other areas or start coursework in your desired major.

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11 am 11 am 11 am Frontiers of Discussion: Science Lecture America Since 1945

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2 pm 2:10 pm 2:10 pm Literature Literature Humanities Humanities 2:40 pm 2:40 pm America Since America Since 3 pm 1945 1945

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Nathalie B. ● Courses (Core) Hometown: Charlottesville, VA ● Courses (Elective) Columbia College ● Internship Major: History and Political Science

51 Columbia Engineering Core Curriculum The Engineering Core includes roughly half the Columbia College Core classes, science and math courses, and a first-year, hands-on design course.

The Art of Engineering Physics Art Humanities or Music Chemistry Literature Humanities, Humanities Computer Science Contemporary University Writing Economics Civilization, or Global Core Physical Education Calculus

Min Y. Diogo I. Megan A. Mike S. Singapore Bellerose, NY Ann Arbor, MI Cincinnati, OH Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Civil Engineering and Operations Research “The Art of Engineering, “I think the Core is such Minor in Architecture “Most engineers just don’t which you take your first a great way to incorporate “I’ve talked to people at have the opportunity year, is why I really fell Columbia College and companies in the field. to these really in love with Columbia Columbia Engineering They want to hire people important topics like what is Engineering. The concept students right off the bat. who are more than just justice? What does personal of the class is perfect — an I’m taking University robots. They want people happiness mean? You have introductory engineering Writing right now. I am who can see the big picture, to defend your ideas to your course that includes improving my writing, who can do the high-level classmates, who may have a semester-long group which is so important technical work and put interpreted the text in ways project where you work because especially it in a broader context. completely different than on a real engineering nowadays, engineers need A Columbia education is built you did. You learn how to problem.” to know how to write. for that kind of person.” understand where they’re I’m also in a classroom with coming from, so you (The Art of Engineering is students who aren’t just in an introduction to all nine really diversify the way you engineering departments engineering but are majoring Vikas A. think about things. Then and fundamental engineering in politics and languages and Seattle, WA you can apply that to your principles. This happens dance and art. You see all Computer Science and through a series of lectures, engineering. I feel like I’m demonstrations, and these different ideas butting Industrial Engineering and leaps and bounds ahead guest speakers.) up against each other. I just Operations Research of other engineers because think it’s awesome.” “As a tap dancer, it was really of the Core.” exciting for me to take Music Humanities as part of the Engineering Core because I could learn about the different interpretations of rhythm, phrasing, and groove in various cultures, and apply that to my craft.”

A cornerstone of the find solutions to real design. “Build” New Columbia Engineering engineering problems. York City in Civil Core is The Art of Write new firmware Engineering. Combine Engineering, which is to hack an HP 20b computer engineering, taken during the first calculator. Design and chemical engineering, year. A key part of the operate the “Smart and economics to course is a small-group Grid.” Use applied develop renewable project in which physics and math to energy sources for students work to explore electric guitar automobiles.

52 Engineering Core + So Much More One First-Year Student’s Schedule Engineering and liberal arts core classes make up approximately half of your schedule over your four years at Columbia, leaving time each year — even your first — to explore electives, minor in a liberal arts area, or start coursework in your desired major.

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2:30 pm 2:30 pm Work in Columbia Work in Columbia Laboratory for Laboratory for 3 pm Unconventional Unconventional Electronics Electronics

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Allison D. ● Courses (Columbia College Core) Hometown: Potomac, MD ● Courses (Columbia Engineering Core) Columbia Engineering ● Research Project Major: Electrical Engineering

53 5 Giants Among Us

E4 54 55 At Columbia you’re part of knowledge in the , Professor making — yours and the world’s. The beauty of Mathematics and Physics, founder of being on this campus is that today’s of the , author of thought leaders, genius innovators, and The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the literary lions want to teach. Cosmos, and world- These giants in renowned theoretical physicist, teaches their fields, who keep open office hours and Frontiers of Science and Introduction to teach and mentor undergraduates, have a way Quantum Mechanics. of inspiring their students to take their own giant steps.

Faculty in all disciplines teach on the Morningside Heights campus. 80% of Columbia courses have fewer than 20 students, and nearly all are taught by professors rather than teaching assistants. A great rapport can be struck between students and teachers, who often get to know their students well. Those connections can last throughout the undergraduate years and well beyond.

56 Jeffrey Sachs Director of the Earth Institute; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and

Undergraduate Course Sustainable Development

Professor Sachs is the director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary- General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. Sachs is also President and co-founder of Millennium Promise Alliance.

“ Columbia faculty and researchers lead the most cutting-edge ventures in environmental and sustainable development, and our students are integral to this work.”

57 Farah Griffin Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies; former Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies

Undergraduate Courses Literature Humanities (Core); African- Survey I and II; Remapping the Black South; Recent undergraduate adviser for thesis titled “Nonwhite Women as Transformational Agents in Disney Animated Films.”

The author of several books, Professor Griffin writes and speaks extensively on American and African American literature, music, history, and politics.

“ I love working with undergraduates — helping them discover their talents and capacity for intellectual growth. I love sharing my enthusiasm about the study of literature and music with them. I learn so much from my students. It enhances my own reading, research, and writing.”

58 Klaus Lackner Professor Lackner is Sunil Gulati Professor Gulati, a popular Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel developing a revolutionary Lecturer lecturer in the field of Professor of Geophysics, device — modeled on tree Department of Economics international economics, Earth and Environmental leaves — that reduces is the president of the Engineering; dioxide in the air. He is Undergraduate Courses US Soccer Federation and Director of Lenfest Center a pioneer in the clean use Global Economy; has been instrumental for , of fossil fuels and other Principles of Economics; in developing the world’s The Earth Institute solutions to climate change. Sports Economics biggest game in the United States. Undergraduate Courses “It is great to work Alternative Energy with undergraduates “I get to believe in and live Resources; Energy, , because they can look the fountain of youth and Material Systems at new ideas without 28 times every semester. preconceived notions. Seeing the world as we They can challenge you, saw it when we were in and force you to get college is a fantasy for things right because you most people. Being a really have to explain faculty member at a place it well and can’t resort like Columbia allows to shortcuts.” me to live that fantasy every day.”

59 Golden Globe winner and Amber Miller Professor Miller leads Professor Oscar nominee James Dean of Science for the Columbia’s Experimental School of the Arts Schamus is both practitioner Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Cosmology group, which Film and academic. He teaches Professor of Physics is capturing snapshots film history and theory and of microwaves emitted just Undergraduate Courses is the former CEO of Focus Undergraduate Mentor after the Big Bang. She is Film Theory I; Features. He has collaborated Supervises undergraduate a member of the Council on Seeing Narrative as screenwriter and producer researchers working on Foreign Relations and was with director Ang Lee cosmology experiments chief science adviser to the on eleven films, including and on a variety of related NYPD Counterterrorism Brokeback Mountain. technology development Bureau. projects. “Columbia undergraduates “In the laboratory and as aren’t afraid to ask the a mentor it is great fun big questions. They want to provide students with to know ‘why’ as well access to some of the as ‘what.’ And those are most exciting research the kinds of questions at the cutting edge of that are best answered cosmology and to help through discussion, them see that they so it’s always a challenge have things to contribute being in a classroom even as beginning with them.” undergraduates.”

60 Shree Nayar T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science; Co-Director of the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center; Director of the Computer Vision Laboratory (CAVE)

Undergraduate Course Computer Vision

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Nayar is a research pioneer and inventor in computational cameras and advanced vision systems. His work has had significant impact on the practice of digital imaging, computer graphics, and robotics. He recently launched an effort to create an inexpensive, build-it- yourself digital camera, called BigShot, that can be distributed to children around the world to teach them about science, engineering, art, and culture.

“ I enjoy having undergraduates in my research lab. They come with a fresh pair of eyes, great enthusiasm, and an intense curiosity. Through the questions they ask, they make us think twice about what we do. Since they are unbiased about research, they are also more inclined to think out of the box.”

61 Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy

Undergraduate Courses Literature Humanities (Core); Philosophy and ; History of Philosophy

A Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of Columbia Great Teacher Award, Professor Mercer was drawn to teach Core courses by her interest in how philosophy, history, and art intersect. She recently served as chair of Literature Humanities, one of the cornerstone Core courses.

“ My own research has been very significantly influenced by the Core and teaching undergraduates here. I am editing a new book series for Oxford University Press. The idea of including interdisciplinary reflections in the series developed straight out of my work in the Core with students and fellow faculty.”

62 The Nobel Prize was awarded Gordana Vunjak- Professor Vunjak-Novakovic William R. Kenan Jr. Professor to Professor Chalfie for Novakovic is director of Columbia’s of Biological Sciences; the introduction of green Mikati Foundation Professor Laboratory for Stem Cells former chair of fluorescent protein (GFP) of Biomedical Engineering; and Tissue Engineering. the Department of as a biological marker. GFP Professor of Biomedical She focuses on regenerative Biological Sciences; has become one of the Engineering and Medical medicine and technologies shared 2008 Nobel Prize essential research tools in Sciences (in Medicine); that save and improve lives in Chemistry the biological and Director, Laboratory — her lab has successfully biomedical sciences. for Stem Cells and Tissue grown replacement bones Undergraduate Courses Engineering; and heart muscle from Biological Research Skills; “The very best Co-director, Craniofacial human stem cells. Genetics undergraduates, and Regeneration Center; Columbia has many member, National Academy “I gain a lot from working of these students, are of Engineering with undergraduates just fun to work with. — mentoring some of They are eager to learn Undergraduate Courses our greatest talent to and get excited about Biological Transport discover what they the material, whether & Rate Process; want to do in science. in class or the lab. Projects in Biomedical Undergraduates are also Sharing the excitement Engineering often the most creative of discovery is one of in their ideas — knowing the great joys of doing , they are braver.” research, and introducing undergraduates to this excitement is very rewarding. I also enjoy watching students become independent.”

63 6 High-Impact and Hands-On: Science and Engineering Research

F2 64 65 In labs, in partnerships with New York City, and Professor of Biology in global fieldwork — research at Columbia is Brent Stockwell’s lab, where his team about solving huge problems like climate change is discovering novel cell death pathways involved in cancer and and hunger, as well as investigating enduring neurodegenerative mysteries like the origin of the universe. diseases. It’s about impacting the world with new technologies, new social media, new During a recent spring break, Earth and ways of looking at the human body, and Environmental Science Professor and Lamont- new animation techniques. Doherty researcher Getting involved Nicholas Christie-Blick led his students on an in research here is no Ivory Tower eight-day expedition to investigate the dynamic exercise. It’s faculty and students actively processes that formed Death Valley. working wonders.

Research Robotics

Social Change

66 Chemistry Professor Virginia W. Cornish ’91CC supervises undergraduate research each year. Her specialty is the interface of chemistry and biology, bringing together modern methods in synthetic chemistry and DNA technology to expand the synthetic capabilities of living cells.

67 68 “ My students don’t sit on the sidelines. They Electrical Engineering Professor Ken Shepard at the Bioelectronic expect to do critical work in the world. Systems Lab, where he and his team combine They want to do the real work of science expertise in chemistry, biology, and integrated and engineering. And we deliver.” circuit design to build micrometer-scale patricia culligan, arrays of sensors that Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics can detect biological molecules or select strands of DNA.

Some students are Almost guaranteed research $1 experiences for 4 undergraduate scholars 400 billion programs designed to research positions 4 years bring high-ability future reserved exclusively in annual research. at time of admission. scientists and engineers to for undergraduates Columbia and support through Columbia their research goals. Engineering’s Student Research Involvement 100s 82% Program (sample projects: of labs led by anthropogenic climate admit rate to medical prizewinning faculty change and the Arctic school, almost twice the working with students 22 oscillation, brain imaging national average. top-ranked science majors have generated of psychological from the traditional 1,000 different patents. disorders, DNA cloning, to the most cutting-edge electrophysiological interdisciplinary areas measurements and signal of study. processing, modeling 50%+ and simulation of genetic incoming students plan networks, nanotechnology to major in science for solar energy and or engineering, creating 16 fuel cells, space physics, engineering majors, with an active community microwave heating students and faculty doing of inquiry. and plasma sources, world-class research. tissue engineering of cartilage-bone interface, virtual worlds and ).

69 Science and Engineering Research: Opportunities Abound There are labs at Columbia doing cutting-edge research in nearly every subfield of every discipline. Not only are there plenty of research opportunities on the Morningside Heights campus, but the many satellite campuses and affiliates of Columbia make it virtually impossible to not find the right lab. Along with the Medical Center, there are the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the NASA Goddard Institute, and Nevis Physics Laboratories, to name just a few.

Sheldon K. Sarah G. John R. Danielle B. Toronto, Canada Dallas, TX Mukilteo, WA Woodbridge, CT Chemical Physics, Premed Biomedical Engineering Astrophysics Environmental Biology “Since the beginning of “For my senior design project, “I am currently working “I was drawn to my sophomore year, I have my team and I have been on my senior thesis with Environmental Biology been working at Professor developing an iPad app to Professor Jules Halpern on because of the amazing Kenneth Eisenthal’s lab in help children with autism gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). research opportunities the Chemistry Department. better recognize emotions. GRBs are jets of gamma-ray available through The work we do focuses As part of the project we photons emanating from the Department on studying the properties have been collaborating supernovas in the death of Ecology, Evolution, of metal nanoparticles closely with the New York of massive stars and are and Environmental with powerful femtosecond Psychiatric Institute and among the most energetic Biology. The department . These lasers are so Franklin Lakes Middle phenomena in the universe. is associated with the powerful that they can School. Franklin Lakes The hope is to try to Center for Environmental actually remove electrons has a very comprehensive understand the physical Research and Conservation from air! Even as an autism program. They have processes that produced (CERC) through the Earth undergrad, I have been been kind enough to these high-energy Institute. CERC is a research able to contribute allow us to visit and meet photons and the nature consortium that connects significantly, even their students, as well of the medium around the Columbia University, submitting a publication as allow their students the collapsing star.” the American Museum of recently as the second opportunity to try out Natural History, the New author.” our app.” York Botanical Garden, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the EcoHealth Alliance.”

70 Science & Engineering Professor of Physics 6,000-pound balloon- QUIET (the Q U Library in the Amber Miller borne telescope Imaging Experiment), Northwest Corner researches the origin launched into the a telescope in northern interdisciplinary of the universe stratosphere over Chile, and the science and by observing the Antarctica to capture Sunyaev-Zel’dovich engineering building. cosmic microwave snapshots of the light Array, telescopes The “NoCo” Building background from the emitted by the hot based in Owens Valley, includes the state-of- Big Bang. She leads plasma leftover from California, and shown the-art library and Columbia’s E and B the Big Bang. EBEX in the photo above. labs as well as a lecture Experiment (EBEX), complements two of hall and café. which consists of a Miller’s other projects,

71 7 Columbia College

E4 72 73 From understanding the forces of globalization One of Rodin’s bronze to grasping life through the prism of castings of The Thinker appropriately stands a gene or a molecule, to expressing human before the entrance of Philosophy Hall. The building houses several yearning through the arts — in all of the areas departments, including Philosophy, English and calling out for intellectual attention at the Comparative Literature, and French and highest levels, Columbia assembles strengths Romance Philology. unique among the very best universities. Columbia College is the epitome of having your cake and eating it, too — all the benefits of a premier liberal arts college and all the reach of one of the most exciting research universities in the world.

A renowned college More than 80 areas Classes and joint of arts and sciences, of study from creative programs with Columbia’s distinguished by writing to sustainable prestigious graduate and a singular, intensive development professional schools, Core Curriculum. to astrophysics. including law, business, Close contact with medicine, arts, journalism, prizewinning, and international and -breaking faculty. public affairs, as well as other institutions like Students can easily The Juilliard School. access advisement and mentoring to help Typical class size them apply for national 10–19. and international fellowships like the Hundreds of research Goldwater, Marshall, opportunities fueled Rhodes, and Fulbright by huge resources programs. (major grants, top Classes taught in faculty mentors, 50 foreign languages premier facilities, and , each year. partnerships with other Professor of English and Comparative NYC and global research Literature and institutions). Students the often publish in top Professor in the Humanities, with his journals and present at Literature Humanities conferences worldwide. seminar students.

74 Areas of Study African-American Studies Dance German Literature and Cultural Philosophy American Studies Drama and Theatre Arts History Physics Ancient Studies Hispanic Studies Political Science Anthropology East Asian Studies History Political Science-Statistics Applied Mathematics Ecology and Evolution History and Theory of Architecture Portuguese Studies Archaeology Economics Human Rights Psychology Architecture Economics-Mathematics Information Science Regional Studies-East/Central Art History Economics-Philosophy Italian Cultural Studies Europe Art History and Visual Arts Economics-Political Science Italian Literature Religion Economics-Statistics Jazz Studies Russian Language and Culture Astrophysics Education Studies Russian Literature Biochemistry English Latin American and Caribbean Russian Literature and Culture Biology Environmental Biology Studies Slavic Literature and Culture Biophysics Environmental Chemistry Linguistics Business Management Environmental Science Mathematics Chemical Physics Ethnicity and Race Studies Mathematics-Statistics Statistics Chemistry Evolutionary Biology of the Human Medicine, Literature, and Society Sustainable Development Classical Studies Species Medieval and Renaissance Studies Urban Studies Classics Film and Media Studies Middle East, South Asian, and Urban Teaching Comparative Literature and Society Financial Economics African Studies Visual Arts Computer Science French Modern Greek Studies Women’s and Gender Studies Computer Science-Mathematics French and Francophone Music Studies Creative Writing Studies Neuroscience and Behavior

Preprofessional and Joint Degree Programs ● Premedical, Dental, and Law ● International Affairs Five-Year ● Law — the AILE (Accelerated ● Juilliard Joint Program — earn Programs Program — earn BA and Interdisciplinary Legal a BA at Columbia College MIA degrees in five years Education) — earn BA and JD and an MM from Juilliard in ● The Combined Plan Program at Columbia College and degrees in six years at Columbia five years or six years with Columbia Engineering — Columbia’s School of College and Columbia School depending on area of study. earn both a BA at Columbia International and Public Affairs of Law. Through the Juilliard Exchange College and BS at Columbia and Public Administration. Program, Columbia students Engineering in five years. also can be invited to ● Public Policy and Administration cross-register for weekly Five-Year Program — earn instrumental, composition, BA and MPA degrees in five and vocal instruction with years at Columbia College the Juilliard faculty. and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and Public Administration.

A Few Examples of Research Fellowships and Programs ● Biology and Biomedical ● English Summer Undergraduate Richmond B. Williams Traveling Research Fellowships Fellowships

● Political Science and History ● Music Edwin Robbins Summer The Rapaport Prize Research Fellowships ● All Fields ● East Asian Studies John W. Kluge Research Weatherhead Undergraduate Fellowships Training Grants

75 With the entire first- year class encountering the same texts at the same time, it’s not unusual to see students poring over the same books in residence hall lounges and cafés — various groups weighing in on each other’s conversations.

76 Fearless, Forward-Thinking Graduates Becoming a fearless, forward-looking global citizen, thinker, change agent, and leader is what a Columbia education is all about, as alumni like those below will tell you.

Rhodes Scholar Marshall Scholar Global Banker Passionate “I came as a first-year from “Many of the most exciting “I graduated from Columbia Playwrights the state of Montana, opportunities offered College with a major in “The guidance Columbia broadly interested in a liberal to me at Columbia were American Studies. Since offered us helped us find the arts education and pre-law, entirely unexpected. graduation, I have earned my courage and confidence to and left four years later a As a sophomore, I took MBA from Harvard Business go forward and chase our Rhodes Scholar. After my a class on colonial India to School and have worked dreams. Columbia will ask first year, I got an internship fulfill a Core requirement. in investment banking. a lot of you, but in doing in the I loved the class, and from Today, I work with clients so, the school goes out working on military and there I became interested and colleagues around the of its way to provide you defense issues. I also worked in colonial and postcolonial globe, from Tokyo to London, with every opportunity part-time from Columbia literature and history. São Paulo to Hong Kong. to find the answers.Most managing a state Attorney I began taking and My courses at Columbia important, Columbia will General’s race in Montana. Urdu classes and, in the changed my life. My favorite surprise you by showing Later I became a delegate spring of my junior year, I course was Contemporary you a completely new way to the Democratic studied abroad in , Civilization. Nothing has to think and feel about National Convention India. Last summer, I went ever challenged me like the world we live in…. and one of two interns in to Dublin on a fellowship that course. My Columbia We have seen our biggest the country working on from the Columbia English classmates were (and dreams come true with health care reform at the Department, where still are) the most brilliant, , a piece that U.S. Senate Committee I researched the influence opinionated, articulate, demanded from us the on Finance. In the fall of of Indian philosophy provocative folks I know.” utmost passion, dedication, my senior year, I learned on the Irish poet W. B. Lisa Carnoy and risk; all of these things I had been awarded both the Yeats — research that ’89CC we learned at Columbia, I incorporated into my U.S. Trust division executive the place that truly laid the and the Rhodes Scholarship. senior English thesis and for the Northeast and foundation for our lives as I felt very lucky, though positioned me so well for Metro New York markets, working artists.” I really have the dedicated a Marshall Scholarship.” Bank of America Merrill Lynch ’96CC and work of the Fellowships Anna Feuer ’93CC Office and Columbia faculty ’11CC Pulitzer Prize and to thank.” Research Assistant for the Tony Award winners for Raphael Graybill Council on Foreign Relations Next to Normal ’10CC Affiliated Fellow with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies,

77 8 Columbia Engineering

F2 79 One of a handful of top universities in the world with leading thinkers in engineering as well as every discipline and department. An unparalleled breadth of majors and minors, professional-level courses, hands-on design projects, research and internships in New York City and around the world, and Columbia’s legendary Core Curriculum — it’s a package you can’t find anywhere other than Columbia Engineering.

The nation’s third- 16 engineering Global Study and oldest engineering majors and an Internships: international school. engineering Core experience geared to Curriculum engineers and summer internships around the country through our Science, Technology, The top university in Engineering Program the country for revenue More than 20 minors (STEP). The Fu Foundation produced by patents in the liberal arts, School of Engineering and Applied Science held by faculty. plus innovative occupies a cluster interdisciplinary of buildings on the minors in emerging north end of campus. fields. Entrepreneurial spirit: The cluster includes the Schapiro Center a minor in Entrepreneurship for Engineering and A university that and Innovation, venture Physical Science has more Nobel Prize competitions for new ideas, Research (shared with the Graduate School of winners associated collaboration with the Arts and Sciences), with it than any Student Research Columbia Business School, the Seeley Wintersmith other university in Involvement Program and an entrepreneurship Mudd building, the Computer Science the Ivy League. (SRIP): an imperative to residential community. building, and the involve undergraduates Engineering Terrace. in major research Among the state-of- the-art facilities for unites all engineering engineers and scientists departments. is also the Northwest Undergraduates are Opportunities for classes, Corner Building — an interdisciplinary part of research teams joint programs, and science and engineering in labs and institutes research in partnership teaching and laboratory across campus and in with Columbia’s other complex that includes one of the world’s the city. world-class professional largest science library and graduate schools. collections.

80 Areas of Study Applied Mathematics Computer Engineering Engineering Management Systems Mechanical Engineering Applied Physics Computer Science Engineering Mechanics Operations Research Biomedical Engineering Earth and Environmental Financial Engineering Chemical Engineering Engineering Industrial Engineering Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Materials Science and Engineering

Engineering Core Classes Columbia Core Classes

● The Art of Engineering Art Humanities or Music Humanities ● Chemistry Literature Humanities, ● Computer Science Contemporary Civilization, or Global Core ● Economics University Writing ● Math Physical Education

● Physics

Engineering Minors Liberal Arts Minors Applied Mathematics Engineering Mechanics Anthropology History Applied Physics Entrepreneurship and Innovation Architecture Latin Biomedical Engineering Industrial Engineering Art History Middle Eastern, South Asian, Chemical Engineering Materials Science and Engineering Dance and African Studies Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering East Asian Studies Music Computer Science Operations Research Economics Philosophy Earth and Environmental Sustainable Engineering English and Comparative Literature Political Science Engineering French Psychology Electrical Engineering French and Francophone Studies Religion German Sociology Greek Statistics Hispanic Studies

Created with both education and interaction in mind, the Botwinick Multimedia Learning Lab is an innovative facility for computer- aided design with 50 state-of-the-art workstations, a full set of professional- grade engineering software tools, and a collaborative learning environment to help students engage in real-world interactions with community clients, Columbia Engineering faculty, and professional practitioners.

81 Alumni Engineered to Lead Columbia Engineers gain a deep understanding of engineering solutions as well as the world itself. They become leaders of their generation no matter what fields they ultimately choose.

Community Cardiovascular Space Explorer Financial Pacesetter Pioneer “Columbia not only provided Interdisciplinarian “At Columbia, I majored “As a National Science me with an outstanding “Coming out of high school, in computer science. I did Foundation Graduate education, but also with I didn’t want to be set apart undergraduate research with Research Fellow, I work with a sense that I could as an engineer. I wanted the Center for Computational embryonic stem cell-derived accomplish whatever to work with people from Learning Systems and heart cells to investigate I set out to do in life. different backgrounds, the Cardiac Biomechanics how we can mediate repair I could have never dreamed and I wanted to contribute Group. But the beauty of in the heart. The practical how fulfilling my life would to the community. Columbia was that it also applications of my work are be and how much I would I majored in operations allowed me to do more all in the near future, where enjoy my career. But I did research and minored in than engineering, which I hope we can make some know that deciding on economics and technological actually makes me a better significant contributions Columbia would be a terrific entrepreneurship. Today, engineer. I was a member to the already large body of start to whatever might lie I work for JPMorgan of the editorial board of the knowledge of cell therapy ahead. I believe that every analyzing complex systems, Columbia Spectator, an officer for cardiovascular diseases. opportunity I have had in working with people in every in a fraternity, designed As an undergraduate, I was my career was built on department across the bank, the electronics system for given the opportunity to the strong foundation that and staying aware of what’s a student-built race car, do a lot of independent work Columbia provided. happening in the world — was a teaching assistant in designing and carrying I have had the good fortune not just in finance. It’s for two master’s-level out experiments, writing to have flown on two space the perfect job coming out computer science courses, research papers, and traveling shuttle missions, and on of Columbia Engineering. and mentored an elementary to conferences and meeting each of them I paid tribute Columbia Engineering school student in the other researchers. Now that to Columbia. On my first lets you apply your passion, Harlem Robotics program.” I have earned my PhD, I am spaceflight in March 2002, your skills, in the real Chase Hensel continuing the work that I flew a Columbia world. You become a social ’10SEAS initially attracted me to Engineering flag on board innovator and a technical Cofounder & CEO, biomedical engineering.” space shuttle Columbia. entrepreneur.” Welkin Health Amandine That flag is now on display at Stephanie Hwang Godier-Furnémont the Engineering school.” ’10SEAS ’09SEAS Michael Massimino Associate, JPMorgan Biomedical Engineer ’84SEAS Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Engineering and former NASA Shuttle Astronaut

82 The undergraduate for design, CAD, The Carleton Strength mechanical FEM, and CFD. of Materials Laboratory, engineering The Mechatronics home to one of the laboratories occupy Laboratory gives country’s largest approximately 6,000 students the centrifuges, tests square feet of floor opportunity for corrosion monitoring space with basic hands-on experience for the main cable of instrumentation, with microcomputer- suspension bridges such as well as state-of- embedded control as the Brooklyn Bridge, the-art equipment. of electromechanical a National Historic Civil The Computer- systems. Engineering Landmark Aided Design Lab and one of our city’s has software tools hundreds of bridges.

83 9 Community, Columbia Style

D2 85 It starts with the people. Columbia is a place of great friendships, a place where connecting is a way of life. Being surrounded by so many incredible people all in one spot makes the global and the grand human and personal.

Justyna K., Kamsen L., Brianna G., Andra M., Staten Island, NY Hong Kong, Hong Kong Landover, MD Baia Mare, Romania

Adam S., Lawrence A., Martin H., Diana L., Encino, CA Somerset, NJ Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France Toronto, Canada

Deiby B., Andrew A., Paula G., Maddy K., New York, NY Orlando, FL San Antonio, TX Phoenix, AZ

Gillian R., Carolyn M., Chase L., Maya I., Evergreen, CO San Juan, PR Mt. Pleasant, UT Tokyo, Japan

86 Columbia guarantees its own village within Student photographers 99 Columbians housing for all four Manhattan. More Angela R. and multimedia project. years and about 95% than a place to live, Bennett H., in The goal was to of our students live on Columbia is a vibrant collaboration with “bring together campus. Columbia is residential community. Ryan B., a student people that make programmer, up Columbia’s independently uniquely diverse developed the student body.”

Phillip D., Elizabeth J., Juan E., Colleen S., Forestville, MD Old Westbury, NY Coral Gables, FL Bethesda, MD

Nilkanth P., Cindy Z., Penelope L., Alex J., Ramsey, NJ Indianapolis, IN Atherton, CA Shawnee Mission, KS

Mario L., Nettra P., Yaniris G., Keating M., New York, NY Phnom Penh, Cambodia Haymarket, VA West Hartford, CT

Eva S., Justin C., Cody H., Mark B., Washington, DC North Hollywood, CA Pittsford, NY Springs, CO

87 Communities Within Communities Residence hall life, small classes, research and project teams, clubs and causes — the campus events that bring everyone out exploring the city together create communities within communities. Your circles of community begin on our classic campus, and extend to the intimate, friendly neighborhood that surrounds us, on to the world-class city we are part of, and into the world itself. Times Square

Central Park

Book Culture bookstore at 113th Street Farmer’s Market at 116th Street

Riverside Park American Museum of Natural History

Tom’s Restaurant Cathedral of St. John the Divine

1 Train Columbia University Medical Center

Columbia Our Neighborhood

6,000 undergraduates share Columbia’s neighborhood is We share the neighborhood this beautiful place to live, study, Morningside Heights, which with several other colleges — play, work, research, and relax. stretches from 106th to 125th Barnard College, Manhattan Streets and is bordered by School of Music, Union and Central Park, Morningside Park, Jewish Theological Seminaries, and Riverside Park. and Bank Street College of Education — creating our own brand of New York City Rich in both American and college town. Columbian history and teeming with the energy of Columbia undergraduates, Morningside Heights is a charming residential enclave that is at once bustling and intimate.

Many undergraduate professors live in the surrounding neighborhood, making Columbia their home, too.

88 Flatiron District Brazil Uganda

Egypt

Brooklyn Bridge

SoHo France

United Arab Emirates West Village

Little Italy

India

Wall Street Chinatown China

Chelsea

Our City The World

The Columbia University There may be no easier way to Columbia is a microcosm of You’re prepared to be at home subway stop links you to every move to New York than to be the world and so is New York. anywhere in the world — other corner of the city. a Columbian with a ready-made As a student here you truly stay in New York, move to coveted place to live; a fantastic become a citizen of the world — London or Dubai, San Francisco circle of friends; an intellectual, with friends and connections or Washington, DC. And you civically engaged, nurturing on campus, in the city, and will already have a network New York is a city of community; automatic ties to around the globe. of Columbia alumni when you neighborhoods — accessible a vast cultural and professional get there. and magnificent all at the network; and transportation same time. to the entire city steps away You gain the knowledge from campus. and skills of an unparalleled At Columbia your community education. You gain an is the world. independence and a confidence from living in New York that no other city can provide.

89 Our Neighborhood, Our City “ What surprised me was how one family of students can own a part of New York. All day, all night, you’ll see friends and professors walking down Broadway. When you pull into the subway station at 116th and Broadway, the sign says Columbia, the walls are , and you get off and think, ‘This stop is mine.’ ” liz v., Scarsdale, NY; English and Art History

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90 Traditionally collegiate, Morningside Heights is a vibrant intellectual community. Students visit professors who live in nearby apartments for informal office hours, drop in at 24-hour eateries, and feel the bohemian buzz of the neighborhood that once drew Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Langston Hughes.

91 Home, Not Just Home Base When you’re completely engrossed in conversation with your new floormates as you look out over the city lit up by a million lights … When you’re sitting next to an amazing alum at one of the frequent residence hall dinners … When you’re having hot chocolate with suitemates while you help them pick out Halloween costumes … When you bump into a professor you had last term who wants to know all about what you’re up to — at times like these you will suddenly realize that Columbia is more home than home base and the people around you are more family than just friends.

“ Fifty years from now, this is the kind of thing we’ll remember: sitting in the hallway with a bunch of friends, talking about books until two in the morning.” tom s., Benicia, CA; History

John Jay Dining Hall Low Steps When you ask Columbia students where they like to spend their time, you’ll discover the true strength of our vibrant residential community. There are countless locations around campus that make our students’ college experience uniquely Columbian … spaces where Columbia students find and build their community, where they gather to relax, create, share, Joe Coffee MakerSpace and connect.

92 Students are free Columbia, become advisers make up to make endless familiar with the a Columbia family on choices about how Morningside Heights campus. Each residence involved they want community, and hall has a team of RAs to be in residential experience what the on nearly every floor life, knowing that greater community of and a Community Columbia has a strong New York City has to Adviser and network to support offer. From roommates professional staff to them. That network and floormates to create programs, plan begins with first-year Resident Advisers, events, and provide residential life teams professors and their opportunities for who focus on helping families, deans and students to be involved students be successful even alumni, many in life on campus. in their transition to friends, mentors, and

93 Five First-Year Residence Halls at the Heart of Campus Housing is guaranteed at Columbia and nearly 100% of our students choose to live on campus all four years. One of the reasons housing here is so appealing is the depth of variety and flexibility in living options. From traditional corridor and suite-style residence halls right at the center of everything to apartment buildings, townhouses, duplexes, and classic New York brownstones in the Columbia neighborhood. In their first year, students share a quintessential campus residence experience. Returning students have the added selection of housing that feels “off campus” without losing any connection to a rich and fulfilling community on campus. The balance between the city and the campus is a personal decision — one you can explore and change throughout your education.

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Broadway

“ Carman was the perfect hall for me my first year at Columbia. It was extremely social; everyone Alfred was always in the hallways and Lerner Hall lounges talking, watching TV, or just hanging out.”

Carman Hall

Recently renovated corridor- style double rooms — all first-year students with mixed- and single-sex floor options.

Sundial Butler Library “ My first-year experience in John Jay shaped my Columbia experience. It seemed every door was open each night with eager, bright people ready to make the most of college and NYC. I have 11th floor pride.”

John Jay Hall

Corridor-style building with singles and doubles for first-year students. Features John Jay Dining Hall on ground floor, JJ’s Place on basement level, Columbia Health Medical Amsterdam Avenue Services located on 3rd and 4th floors, and great views of either downtown Manhattan or Columbia’s campus.

94 As a first-year student, your home away from home begins in one of five different first-year residence hall communities — each with different styles and features. Beyond a built-in network of friends, mentors, and Furnald Hall support, you have a beautiful Recently renovated corridor- place to live in one of the style with single and double most exciting cities in the rooms for first-years and world. After your first year, sophomores. Close proximity to Lerner Hall and Butler Library your choices are even more and great campus views. varied, including the option of applying to Special Interest “ The quality of the facilities Communities. These unique and rooms in Furnald is top- residences — Jazz House, notch; it feels more like a hotel than a hall. Also, living with Wellness House, sophomores on my hall was very House, and several more — helpful when I needed advice give sophomores, juniors, Subway on what classes to take or which restaurants in the city are the and seniors a concentrated best. Having a single was great way to explore and immerse as a first-year.” themselves in one of their passions, presenting opportunities for students

Dodge Hall to connect with relevant faculty, administrators, alumni, and community leaders. Special Interest Communities “ Living with upperclassmen in Recently renovated corridor- Wallach helped me a great deal style and large suite-style ● A pplication Development as a first-year. It can be in rooms. Along with Initiative Wallach, which creates a great Hartley Hall, home to the ● Ca sa Latin@ study environment. But if you’re Living-Learning Center. ● C olumbia Pre-Health feeling social, all you have to ● C ommunity Health House do is walk out of your room and Low Library ● C reative Commons bother your neighbors.” ● G reenBorough College ● J azz House Walk ● M anhattan House ● M etta House ● P an-African ● P otluck House Hartley Hall ● Q House ● S tudents for Substance Recently renovated large Free Space duplex suites with singles and ● W ellness House doubles for first-years and “ Hartley was a great place to ● W riters House spend my first year at Columbia. sophomores. Home of the Living in such a comfortable Living-Learning Center. setting with upperclassmen really helped me learn the ins and outs of Columbia, and it was great to be so close to the action on campus.”

95 10 True Blue Traditions

D2 96 97 From the moment you enter the 116th Street gates singing “Roar, Lion, Roar” on the first night of orientation, you’re part of Columbia Blue — a body of traditions stretching back centuries yet reinvented and made new with each class. Unique to Columbia, our traditions are shaped by our history, our city, and the diversity of students who come here from all over the world.

Varsity Show, Opening Night “When I stepped out of the theater to grab some food I saw a thousand students spiraling up the Lerner ramps, waiting to go inside, all obviously taking a break from studying for finals.I thought of how unique this tradition was: Columbia’s big end-of-the-year bang was a musical in which the whole school comes together to poke fun at ourselves. I thought about how I had been running around the city all day, looking for the most specialized lighting equipment or set dressing. I thought about how incredibly talented everyone was that I had the good fortune to work with. More than anything, what made that moment so Columbia was the combination of tradition and freshness. It was the 116th time the students had assembled, but we were still presenting this new show.” will h., San Jose, CA; Math and English

The Varsity Show, an entirely student-run production, has been produced for more than a century. The Varsity Show helped launch the creative genius of Rodgers and Hammerstein as well as Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt.

98 Battle of the Bands Every spring, student bands compete in a Battle of the Bands. The Columbia alumni who formed Vampire COÖP, CUE, and ISOP Weekend first played at During the week prior to Orientation, first-year Columbia a Columbia Engineering College and Columbia Engineering students can choose to Battle of the Bands. Winning participate in one of our three pre-orientation programs bands go on to perform at the — the Columbia Outdoor Orientation Program (COÖP — Bacchanal spring concert, pronounced “coh-op”), the Columbia Urban Experience opening for headliners (CUE), and the International Student Orientation Program like Kanye West, Common, (ISOP). COÖP is designed to help build connections with Outkast, and Big Sean. other first-year and current students through a four-day outdoor camping experience led by experienced student guides and mentors. Through CUE, first-year students have enjoyed poetry slams, desserts at local cafés, visits to museums, rooftop movies, jazz concerts, and more. ISOP combines informational events, exciting city outings, and tight-knit mentoring with program leaders to help international students comfortably transition into the Columbia University community.

99 King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe The King’s Crown Troupe’s brand of Shakespeare has been called “nomadic” — the outdoor productions take President’s Annual Fun Run place at different locations Cohosted by Columbia Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical around campus. But the Education, the president’s 5K fun run draws students, troupe likes to say its brand faculty, and staff every fall. Starting on College Walk of Shakespeare is “too big for (116th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam), the course the stage.” All productions proceeds through Riverside Park along the Hudson River are free and cast every down to 96th Street with the finish line at the 116 Street student who auditions. promenade overlook.

World Leaders Forum José Manuel Barroso The World Leaders Forum is a year-round event series featuring lively discourse with heads of state, influential policy makers, renowned scholars, and thought leaders from around the world. Topics range from global health to sustainable development to diplomacy and governance. A few of the many remarkable past participants are European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Enrico Letta Shinzo Abe Letta, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

100 Live at Lerner A mainstay of campus life, this events series includes concerts, meals, and amusements. From indie bands to stand-up comedy, ice-skating excursions to cookie decorating, there is something for everyone and it’s always free.

Holi — The Hindu Festival of Every spring, Columbia’s Hindu Students Organization (HSO) hosts a Holi celebration. Holi, also called the Festival of Colors, is a Hindu holiday marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring. People traditionally celebrate by throwing colored powder at each other. HSO brought 1500 pounds of paint to the most recent festival in which students of all faiths participated.

101 Tree Lighting and Yule Log Ceremony Just before finals week in early December, meet at the Sundial for hot chocolate and a cappella music just before the illumination of the trees along College Walk. Immediately following the College Walk festivities is one of Columbia’s oldest traditions — the lighting of the Yule Log. The ceremony predates the American Revolutionary War. A troop of students dressed as soldiers carry the log from the Sundial to lounge, where readings, songs, and toasts celebrate the warmth and spirit of the season.

102 Snowball Fight on Low Steps First snowfall brings a sort of magic with it. An irrepressible playfulness erupts across campus, and somehow word Glass House gets out: it’s time to bundle up and gather on Low Plaza. Rocks Allegiances are formed and broken, skirmishes lead to On a Thursday night in battles, and suddenly it’s a free-for-all of flying snowballs. February, Lerner Hall — All under the watchful eye of Alma Mater. one of the main hubs on campus and featuring a multistory floor-to-ceiling window design — tranforms to the site of Glass House Rocks. Glass House Rocks is a student-organized party attracting more than 2,000 students. Columbia’s undergraduate student councils coordinate with free food and drinks and dance and music groups perform on the building’s distinctive ramps. In addition to watching the performances, students have had the opportunity to participate in improv sketches, play laser tag and whack-a-mole, pose for a -carpet photo shoot, and tumble in a moon bounce house.

103 Club Life As one alumna said, “Columbians expect to be involved.” You will meet other students like you — students who want to make an impact in their community, continue a familiar passion, or discover a new one. Clubs here are some of the most interesting, rewarding, close-knit, and fun micro communities you’ll ever be part of. Here are just a few of more than 500 student-run clubs and organizations, with new ones being created every year.

Academic Cultural Turath: The Arab Students Greek Life Organization at Columbia Barnard Columbia Architecture Acción Boricua Alpha Chi Omega Sorority University Society African Students Association Alpha Society Turkish Students Association Chandler Society for Ahimsa Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity Ukrainian Students Society Undergraduate Chemistry Armenian Club Alpha Kappa Alpha Fraternity United Students of Columbia-Barnard Economics Asian American Alliance Alpha Omicron Phi Sorority Council Society Asian Pacific American Alpha Fraternity Vietnamese Students Columbia Linguistics Society Awareness Month Beta Theta Pi Fraternity Association Columbia Neuroscience Black History Month Sorority Yiddish Club Society Black Organization of Soul Fraternity Columbia New Poetry Sisters Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Columbia University Black Students Organization Dance Gamma Phi Beta Sorority Environmental Biology Caribbean Students Columbia Ballet Collaborative InterFraternity Council Society Association Columbia Ballroom Dance InterGreek Council Political Science Students Celebration of Black Team Sorority Association (PSSA) Womanhood Week Columbia Tango Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity Society of Physics Students Chicano Caucus Columbia University Dance Sorority Undergraduate History Council Chinese Students Club Team Fraternity Club Bangla Columbia University Raas Sorority Club Zamana Columbia University Venom Multicultural Greek Council Columbia Iranian Students Step Team Omega Phi Beta Sorority Association Columbia University Swing Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Columbia Japan Society cuBHANGRA Panhellenic Association Columbia por Colombia Ho-Heup Drum Troupe Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Cuban and American Students Lion Dance Fraternity Association Onyx Fraternity French Cultural Society Orchesis Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Academic Competition Germanic Cultural Society Raw Elementz Psi Upsilon Fraternity American Institute of Grupo Quisqueyano Sabor Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Aeronautics and Haitian Students Association Taal Sigma Chi Fraternity Astronautics Hapa Club Sigma Delta Tau Sorority Team Hellas Gender & Sexuality Sorority Hong Kong Students and Sigma Lambda Beta Fraternity Scholars Society Pre-Law Society Sigma Lamda Gamma Sorority Parliamentary Debate Team Break the Silence Quiz Bowl Korean Students Association Sigma Nu Fraternity Latino Heritage Month Columbia Queer Alliance Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity Society of Automotive Everyone Allied Against Engineers Liga Filipina St. Anthony Hall Malama Hawai‘i Homophobia Multicultural International Gayava A Cappella Student Association GendeRevolution & Queer Bacchantae Native American Council Peers and Allies iQ Clefhangers Native American Heritage Film & Visual Arts Gospel Choir Month Proud Colors Artist Society Jubilation! Organization of Pakistani Q House Columbia University Film Kingsmen Students Queer Awareness Month Productions Metrotones Polish Student Society Smart Women Lead Columbia University National Nonsequitur Russian International Society of Women Engineers Undergraduate Film Festival Notes and Keys Association Take Back the Night Columbia University Photography Sharp Singapore Students V-Day Society S’madar Association Women in Politics Columbia University Television Uptown Vocal Southeast Asian League Women in Science at Columbia Ferris Reel Film Society Student Organization of Latinos Women’s History Month Postcrypt Art Gallery Taiwanese American Students Women’s International Business Society for the Advancement of Association Council Underrepresented Filmmakers Thai Student Association

104 105 Media & Publications Louis Armstrong Jazz Biomedical Engineering Service Performance Program Society 4x4 Literary Magazine Advocacy Coalition Ensembles Charles Drew Premedical African Diasporic Literary Afterhours Tutoring Morningside Opera Society Society America Reads Columbia-China Law and (Eastern European Artists Reaching Out Sounds of China Business Association and Eurasian Studies) Asian Youth Program Columbia Data Science Society The Blue and Barnard-Columbia Design for Columbia Pre-Law Society America Columbia University Columbia Journal of Literary Barnard-Columbia Mentor Application Development Criticism (CJLC) Program Initiative Columbia Political Review (CPR) Best Buddies Columbia Women’s Business The Columbia Review (Literary Political/Activist Big SIBS Society Magazine) Society Blue Key Society CU American Medical Students Columbia Science Review (CSR) Amnesty International Columbia Adaptive Sports Association Columbia Undergraduate Law Colleges Against Cancer Organization Institute of Electrical and Review Columbia Aquanauts Columbia Community Outreach Electronics Engineers Columbia Undergraduate Columbia/Barnard Earth Columbia Engineers Without Multicultural Business Journal of History Coalition Borders Association Columbia Undergraduate Columbia College Democrats Columbia University Dance National Society of Black Science Journal (CUSJ) Columbia College Republicans Marathon Engineers The Columbian (Yearbook) Columbia International Columbia University Global Society of Hispanic Consilience: The Journal of Relations Council and Brigades Professional Engineers Sustainable Development Association Columbia Urban Experience The Current (journal of Jewish Columbia Libertarians Community Lunch Studies) Columbia NAACP Religious/Spiritual Columbia Youth Adventurers The Federalist Paper Columbia Political Union Adventist Christian Fellowship Community Youth The Gadfly Magazine Columbia Students Association Ahimsa CUsmile (Philosophy) for Israel Apostolos Campus Ministry Emergency Food Pantry/The Helvidius: Journal of Politics & Columbia Students for Augustine Club Clothes Closet Society International Service Baha’i Club Golden Key International Honour University Columbia Students for Justice Baptist Campus Ministry Society The Proxy Magazine in Palestine Beit Midrash Habitat for Humanity Tablet Columbia UNICEF Bhakti Club Health Education Awareness Tectonic (Architecture) Columbia University Liberty in Canterbury Club League WBAR Radio North Korea Student Network Heights-to-Heights Tutoring WKCR-FM FeelGood CU Columbia/Barnard Hillel Hispanic Scholarship Fund International Socialist Columbia Buddhist Meditation Chapter at Columbia Organization Group J.E.E.P. Asian Youth Program LUCHA Columbia Catholic J.E.E.P. Big Sibs Scientists and Engineers for a Undergraduates J.E.E.P. College Road Music Better Society Columbia Sikh Student J.E.E.P. Computer Training Student Global AIDS Campaign Association J.E.E.P. ESL Classes Bach Society Students Against Mass Columbia Students for Christ J.E.E.P. GED/ABE Classes Barnard-Columbia Chorus and Incarceration Compass Christian Koinonia J.E.E.P. Heights to Heights Chamber Choir Students for Economic and Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) J.E.E.P. Job Road Bluegrass Band Environmental Justice Garin Lavi Kraft Food Pantry Chamber Music Ensembles Students for Sensible Drug Hindu Students Organization Let’s Get Ready! Policy InterVarsity Christian Mentoring Youth in NYC Columbia Classical Performers Students Promoting Fellowship One to One Tutoring Columbia Concerts Empowerment and Israel Va’ad Peace by PEACE Columbia Middle Eastern Music Knowledge (SPEaK) Jehovah’s Witnesses Project for the Homeless Ensemble Kesher Project Sunshine Harlem Hospital Columbia New Music Koach Project Tutors Columbia University Glee Club Preprofessional Korea Campus Crusade for Relay for Life Columbia University Marching American Institute of Chemical Christ Student Help for the Aging Band Engineers Korean Christian Students The Toddler Learning Center Columbia University Orchestra American Society of Civil Association Columbia University Society of Engineers Latter-Day Saint Student Hip-Hop American Society of Association Columbia University Wind Mechanical Engineers Muslim Students Association Ensemble Association for Computing Orthodox Christian Fellowship CU Guitar Ensemble Machinery Remnant Christian Fellowship CU Records Barnard-Columbia Sephardic Club Flute Choir Undergraduate Public Seudah Slisheet Japanese Gagaku Ensemble Health Society Shabbat Meals Klezmer Band University Bible Fellowship Latin American Ensemble Veritas Forum Women’s T’fillah Yavneh

106 Student Enterprises Respecting Ourselves and Others Through Education (ROOTEd) Columbia Bartending Agency SisterCircle and School of Mixology Students of Color Leadership Columbia Organization of Retreat (SOCLR) Special Interest Rising Entrepreneurs Undergraduate Recruitment Anime Club Columbia University Tutoring Student Initiatives Committee Chess Club and Translating Agency (student-led programs in CU Sign — Columbia Sign (CUTTA) conjunction with Language Club Inside New York guide administrative support) Theatre Columbia University Science Academic Success Programs Black Theater Ensemble Fiction Society Columbia Mentoring Initiative Chowdah Sketch Comedy Conversio Virium (CMI) Columbia Classical Performers Culinary Society Columbia University Scholars Columbia Musical Theatre Games Club Program Alliance Society Peer Counseling Committee on Global Core Columbia Players Committee on Instruction Columbia University Performing Skip Stop Commuter Committee on the Core Arts League Organization Community Principles Initiative Fruit Paunch Improv Troupe Society for International Days of Dialogue Hillel Theatre Arts Group Undergraduates Double Discovery Students King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe Transfer Alliance Organization LateNite Theatre U.S. Military Veterans of Student Government Freedom School NOMADS Columbia University Activities Board at Columbia Gay Health Advocacy Project Varsity Show Columbia College Student (GHAP) Council Global Recruitment Committee Community Impact Go Ask Alice! Engineering Student Council Intercultural Resource Center InterGreek Council (IRC) Multicultural Greek Council Multicultural Recruitment Interschool Governing Board Committee Student Governing Board Office of Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board

Activities Day, held on College Walk each fall, features hundreds of student clubs and organizations welcoming new members.

107 Lion Pride Whether you are a varsity athlete or an avid sports fan, Columbia has a proud history of achievement. An original member of the Ivy League, Columbia offers 31 NCAA Division I varsity sports, and 40+ club and 40+ intramural sports. From Ivy League Championships to several Olympians and Olympic medalists, Columbia has an exceptional program and tradition for serious players or any athlete or fan with a fierce love of the game.

Squash Sailing Swimming & Diving Shotokan Karate Tennis Ski Racing 45 Track & Field: Indoor Squash (Men) Olympians. Men’s Varsity Sports Track & Field: Outdoor Squash (Women) Volleyball Swing Dance Baseball Table Tennis Tae Kwon Do Cross Country Tennis Fencing Triathlon 109 Frisbee (Men) Golf Ultimate Frisbee (Women) individual : Heavyweight Volleyball (Men) Ivy League Rowing: Lightweight Volleyball (Women) Soccer titles in the past Water Polo (Men) Squash five years. Swimming & Diving Club Sports Tennis Aikido Track & Field: Indoor Archery Track & Field: Outdoor Badminton Wrestling Ballroom Dance Bowling 48 Brazilian Ju Jitsu NCAA individual Capoeira Cheerleading championships. Cycling Intramural Teams Equestrian (Co-ed, Men’s, and Women’s Figure Skating teams and tournaments in Go Ju Ryu Karate several of the following sports) Hiking Basketball 14 Women’s Varsity Sports Hockey (Men) Dodgeball Hockey (Women) Floor Hockey NCAA team Archery Kayaking Football championships. Basketball Kendo Indoor Soccer Cross Country (Men) Kickball Fencing Masters Swim Outdoor Soccer Field Hockey Moy Yee Kung Fu Racquetball Golf Racquetball Squash Lacrosse Road Runners Volleyball Rowing Rock Climbing Soccer Rugby (Men) Softball Rugby (Women)

“ I love Friday nights in February when the campus is serene, but you walk into for a basketball game, and there’s suddenly the blaring noises of referee whistles, the band playing, and the packed house yelling.” jim p., Coppell, TX; American Studies

108 From a 150+ year Homecoming in the tradition of rowing fall and Basketball excellence on the Mania in the winter. Hudson to our baseball Homecoming begins team’s recent repeat with a gourmet appearances in the barbecue buffet lunch NCAA Division I under the Big Tent and Baseball Tournament, a carnival followed the by the Lions facing have a rich history of longtime Ivy League competitive spirit. rivals. Basketball At no time of the year Mania, a packed rally, is that spirit more kicks off basketball in evidence than season.

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110 Located on the The stadium is part of banks of the Harlem the Baker Athletics and Hudson Rivers, Complex, home to Lawrence A. Wien Columbia’s football, Stadium was featured baseball, track and in Sports Illustrated field, crew, tennis, as one of the most lacrosse, field hockey, beautiful places in softball, and soccer the country to watch teams. a football game.

111 Where else but in a city that never sleeps will you find not only 24-hour libraries for night owls but also a 24-hour improv show each spring by the campus improv troupe Fruit Paunch?

E4 112 113 E4 114 Built in 1904 and designated a New York City landmark in 1966, St. Paul’s Chapel is nondenominational and provides a beautiful space for hundreds of events each year. Here one of our many student orchestras practices for an upcoming concert.

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