<p>Columbia Blue A B C D E F G H Riverside Drive <a href="/tags/Columbia_University/" rel="tag">Columbia University</a> <a href="/tags/116th_Street_(Manhattan)/" rel="tag">116th Street</a> 114th Street in the City of <a href="/tags/New_York_(state)/" rel="tag">New York</a> 115th Street</p><p>1 1 Columbia Alumni Casa Center Hispanica Bank Street School of Kraft Knox Hall Education Center Union Theological Seminary Barnard <a href="/tags/College/" rel="tag">College</a> <a href="/tags/Manhattan/" rel="tag">Manhattan</a> School of Music </p><p>Subway</p><p>2 Subway 2 <a href="/tags/Broadway_(Manhattan)/" rel="tag">Broadway</a></p><p>Bookstore Northwest Furnald Lewisohn Mathematics Chandler Intercultural Corner Building Resource Alfred Lerner Journalism Havemeyer Center Hall Earl</p><p>Dodge Miller Carman Dodge Gym Pupin Theatre Jewish Theological <a href="/tags/110th_Street_(Manhattan)/" rel="tag">110th Street</a> 113th Street 112th Street 111th Street 111th Seminary</p><p>Sundial 3 Butler University Teachers 3 Low <a href="/tags/Library/" rel="tag">Library</a> Uris Schapiro Library Hall College College Walk</p><p>Buell Avery Fairchild Mudd</p><p>Hamilton St. Paul’s <a href="/tags/Engineering/" rel="tag">Engineering</a> <a href="/tags/John_Jay/" rel="tag">John Jay</a> Kent Schermerhorn Chapel Terrace</p><p>Philosophy Fayerweather Wallach Hartley Computer 4 Science 4 Amsterdam Avenue</p><p>Casa Italiana School of Social Work Law School St. Luke’s Hospital 122nd Street 122nd 120th Street 120th 119th Street 118th Street International 121st Street Aff airs</p><p>Cathedral of St. John the Divine 5 5 Faculty House</p><p>President’s Morningside Drive House Morningside Park</p><p>A B C D E F G H <a href="/tags/Columbia_blue/" rel="tag">Columbia Blue</a> 1 Blue View: Part I 4 2 Exponential Education 10 3 Columbia Days 26 <a href="/tags/Common_(rapper)/" rel="tag">Common</a> 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 <a href="/tags/Daniel_Chester_French/" rel="tag">Daniel Chester French</a>, famous for his statue of <a href="/tags/Abraham_Lincoln/" rel="tag">Abraham Lincoln</a> at the Lincoln Memorial Community, Columbia Style 84 in Washington, D.C. 9 Alma Mater is also the subject of many Columbia legends, Columbia Moments: 100 including that the 10 fi rst student in every new class to fi nd the Tried and True Blue hidden owl on the statue will be the class valedictorian. 11 Blue View: Part II 106 A1</p><p>Want to know where this is on campus? You Columbia at a Glance 112 can fi nd 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. E3 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 of any campus. Reveling in “Roar, Lion, Roar!” traditions and spirit both grand and quirky. </p><p>Earning lifetime intellectual confi dence through a legendary Core Curriculum. Creating real-world solutions through the fi rst-year engineering design course. Joining dozens of clubs, fi nding that one club that will be a true passion now and throughout your life. </p><p>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.</p><p>D2 2 3 Named after former Columbia President <a href="/tags/Seth_Low/" rel="tag">Seth Low</a> and patterned loosely on the Classical Pantheon, Low Library has the largest all- 1 granite dome in the <a href="/tags/United_States/" rel="tag">United States</a>. No longer Blue View: a library, Low houses the Visitors Center Part I and the O ce of the President, and is used for campus events.</p><p>E3 4 5 <a href="/tags/Alfred_Lerner_Hall/" rel="tag">Alfred Lerner Hall</a> is Columbia’s student center. Lerner is home to the Center for Student Advising and the O ce of Multicultural A airs, as well as student group advising and the O ce of Financial Aid. It also includes student lounges, two dining venues, a black box theater, pool and game room, 7,000 undergraduate mailboxes, two computer rooms, o ces for student organizations, and numerous event spaces, including a 1,100-seat auditorium and a 400-seat cinema.</p><p>D2 6 7 <a href="/tags/Butler_Library/" rel="tag">Butler Library</a> is the centerpiece of the Columbia University <a href="/tags/Library/" rel="tag">Libraries</a>, one of the ten largest <a href="/tags/Academic_library/" rel="tag">academic library</a> systems in the nation. Housing close to one-third of the Libraries’ on-site collections, Butler Library includes more than 600,000 rare books and 28 million manuscripts, and the world-famous <a href="/tags/Oral_history/" rel="tag">Oral History</a> Research O ce and collection. Several books and screenplays have been written here, including Nobel Prize- winning novelist <a href="/tags/Orhan_Pamuk/" rel="tag">Orhan Pamuk</a>’s The Black Book and alumnus <a href="/tags/Dan_Futterman/" rel="tag">Dan Futterman</a>’s Oscar- nominated script for the fi lm Capote.</p><p>C3 8 9 2 Exponential Education</p><p>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.</p><p>Take Literature <a href="/tags/Humanities/" rel="tag">Humanities</a> Move into your residence Major in <a href="/tags/Computer_science/" rel="tag">Computer Science</a> 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. Impact community clients <a href="/tags/Hudson_Valley/" rel="tag">Hudson Valley</a> you ride over the locally and around the world <a href="/tags/George_Washington/" rel="tag">George Washington</a> Bridge with with your senior design project. 49 new friends.</p><p>Cheer on friends running the NYC Marathon, visit the Intern at Google in the YouTube MoMA after class, study in Business Development <a href="/tags/Central_Park/" rel="tag">Central Park</a>, eat chicken Be part of a community where, department. and <a href="/tags/Rice/" rel="tag">rice</a> from a street vendor — as one student said, “Everyone Call <a href="/tags/New_York_City/" rel="tag">New York City</a> home. is capable of saying something Pitch your idea for a brand new Delve into virtue, justice, that will blow your mind with company at Columbia suffering, evil, friendship, family, insights.” Engineering’s PitchFest. loss, power through some of the greatest works of literature of all time.</p><p>Open the door to a steady stream of opportunities: research with a Nobel Laureate, perform on Broadway, question Be befriended, challenged, <a href="/tags/Warren_Buffett/" rel="tag">Warren Buffett</a> and Bill Gates supported by fellow Columbians Use the internship experience Expand the way you see the at a campus lecture, tour the for the next four years and you gain with a start-up created world in ways that will impact Guggenheim, and eventually join a Columbia Alumni network by a Columbia alum in your home every other class you take as find your dream job through of 250,000. city to start your own venture. well as your career and life. connections you make here. </p><p>Described as one of fairs, and staged Going to Columbia the great urban spaces performances like is a kind of dual in America, Low Plaza the King’s Crown citizenship — you are was built to resemble Shakespeare Troupe’s a Columbian and a a Greek amphitheater. annual productions. New Yorker. Each in Fittingly, it’s ideal itself is a life changer. for outdoor concerts, The combination? Unequaled.</p><p>12 13 Columbia “ Columbia has broadened my intellectual In 1754 Columbia University was founded as King’s College by <a href="/tags/Royal_Charter/" rel="tag">royal charter</a> of horizons, exposed me to the most diverse and 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. unique individuals and communities, challenged me to step out of my comfort The Fu Foundation zone, and ultimately introduced me to an Columbia School of College Engineering and incredible world of opportunities that surpass Applied Science any expectation I could have ever had.” patricia klaric, La Paz, Bolivia; Financial <a href="/tags/Economics/" rel="tag">Economics</a> and Political Science Undergraduate Programs 5,800 Nearly 79 $1 Billion 500 13 undergraduates; one of the Columbia students can 80% Nobel Prize winners are Columbia annually to the University clubs and organizations. 20+ residence halls. Graduate and Professional most diverse student bodies choose from almost 200 of undergraduate alumni, faculty, or former in research funding. From the Columbia Schools in the country. study abroad programs. classes have fewer than faculty. More Nobel Laureates University Society of Hip- College of Physicians and 20 students. have graduated from or taught Hop to America Reads, Surgeons at Columbia than any other A science and engineering from the Alpine Racing School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Nearly university in the <a href="/tags/Ivy_League/" rel="tag">Ivy League</a>. faculty generating Team to the King’s Crown 12+ on-campus dining School of the Arts A student to faculty Shakespeare Troupe, from 12+ halls and cafés. School of Arts and Sciences ratio of the Scientists and Engineers 100 conservatory-caliber arts more School of Business for a Better Society to the Programs of Study, from majors and programs. School of Dental and Oral Surgery Journal of Politics & Society, Earth and Environmental 6 to 1 143 School of Engineering and income from the Chicano Caucus Applied Science Engineering to Creative faculty in the American Academy to Bluegrass Band — You’ll First School of International and Writing to Urban Studies. Almost of Arts and Sciences, which studies find not one club per interest <a href="/tags/Gay/" rel="tag">gay</a>-rights advocacy group Public Affairs and sets the nation’s direction of from area but dozens with as on any college campus. School of Journalism research in science and technology 400 3 to 1 much vibrancy and diversity School of Law policy, global security, social research opportunities in the physical patents as our students. School of Nursing policy, and the humanities. 60+ reserved for Columbia sciences. than any other university. School of <a href="/tags/Public_health/" rel="tag">Public Health</a> Its founders include Benjamin majors in the humanities Engineering undergraduates School of Social Work Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and First and social sciences. through the Undergraduate George Washington. African American advocacy Research Involvement More than group on a multi-racial Program. 35,000+ 60+ <a href="/tags/A_cappella/" rel="tag">a cappella</a>, comedy, campus. Undergraduate 200 dance, film, music, 4 Affiliate Institutions alumni network. 22 20 research institutes and and theatre clubs and <a href="/tags/Barnard_College/" rel="tag">Barnard College</a> majors in all branches of organizations. members of the National centers, including a Jewish Theological Seminary the biological, natural, and Academy of Engineering, 13% of wide range of world-class First Teachers College physical sciences. 22 libraries. Columbia Engineering faculty laboratories. college literary magazine. Union Theological Seminary 250,000 (one of the highest percentages University alumni network. of any engineering faculty). 31 NCAA Division I teams, 40+ 45+ club and engineering majors and 40+ intramural Sports. minors. 45 members of the National Academy of Sciences. 14 15 <a href="/tags/Pupin_Hall/" rel="tag">Pupin Hall</a></p><p>Columbia as Knox Hall Where the <a href="/tags/Uranium/" rel="tag">uranium</a> atom was first split in the U.S. is a National <a href="/tags/Paul_Lazarsfeld/" rel="tag">Paul Lazarsfeld</a> and Robert K. Historic Landmark. Engine of Innovation Merton shaped the field of mass communications research and Horst Stormer, who shared the A map of the labs, lecture halls, and landmarks where ideas and inventions established <a href="/tags/Sociology/" rel="tag">sociology</a> as a bona Nobel in physics for discovering from anthropology to FM radio began. fide discipline here. “a new form of quantum fluid,” is a member of Columbia’s Departments of Physics and <a href="/tags/Havemeyer_Hall/" rel="tag">Havemeyer Hall</a> Applied Physics, which makes its home here. Harold Clayton Urey did Nobelist Isidor Rabi’s discovery Mudd the Nobel-winning research here of nuclear magnetic here that led to his discovery resonance led to the <a href="/tags/Laser/" rel="tag">laser</a> Professor James Im’s process for of <a href="/tags/Deuterium/" rel="tag">deuterium</a>. 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 for a wide array of electronic Observatory Uris Hall devices. <a href="/tags/Wallace_Smith_Broecker/" rel="tag">Wallace Smith Broecker</a>, Grandfather of Climate Science, Mathematics Hall <a href="/tags/Joseph_Stiglitz/" rel="tag">Joseph Stiglitz</a>, Nobel Laureate in Economics, helped create a new coined “global warming” in his definitive ocean research. This former home of the branch of economics here. Engineering School once featured William Ewing helped establish a full-sized steam locomotive global <a href="/tags/Earthquake/" rel="tag">earthquake</a> monitoring and inside in honor of such early the theory of <a href="/tags/Plate_tectonics/" rel="tag">plate tectonics</a>. Columbia Engineering greats Schermerhorn Hall as steam power pioneer John Fayerweather Hall <a href="/tags/Thomas_Hunt_Morgan/" rel="tag">Thomas Hunt Morgan</a>’s fruit fly Stevens (1768). experiments here earned a Nobel <a href="/tags/Eric_Foner/" rel="tag">Eric Foner</a>, winner of a 2011 and launched modern genetics. <a href="/tags/Pulitzer_Prize/" rel="tag">Pulitzer Prize</a> for <a href="/tags/The_Fiery_Trial/" rel="tag">The Fiery Trial</a>: Abraham Lincoln and American <a href="/tags/Margaret_Mead/" rel="tag">Margaret Mead</a> revolutionized Slavery — bringing unforeseeable the study of anthropology here. <a href="/tags/Miller_Theatre/" rel="tag">Miller Theatre</a> twists and a fresh sense of improbability to a familiar story — The legacy of alumni Rodgers and teaches here. Hammerstein, who changed the face of American musical theatre International A airs starting with Columbia’s Varsity Building Show, continues here. <a href="/tags/Casa_Italiana/" rel="tag">Casa Italiana</a> Nobel Laureate, Professor, and <a href="/tags/Economist/" rel="tag">Economist</a> <a href="/tags/Robert_Mundell/" rel="tag">Robert Mundell</a> — <a href="/tags/Watson_(computer)/" rel="tag">Watson</a> Laboratory Mozart’s famous librettist, <a href="/tags/Lorenzo_Da_Ponte/" rel="tag">Lorenzo Da Ponte</a>, was the first known as the father of the theory of optimum currency areas — Computer history was designed professor of Italian Literature at Columbia. teaches here. here: the first true computer, first Furnald Hall supercomputer, first personal Edmund S. Phelps — winner of computer. Internationally influential Spanish the Nobel Laureate in Economics poet and dramatist Federico for his work putting “people as we know them” back into economic Garcia Lorca lived here. <a href="/tags/Philosophy_Hall/" rel="tag">Philosophy Hall</a> <a href="/tags/Hamilton_(musical)/" rel="tag">Hamilton</a> Hall models — teaches here. Working in Professor Pupin’s <a href="/tags/Lionel_Trilling/" rel="tag">Lionel Trilling</a>, one of the most Columbia Medical basement lab, Edwin Armstrong public of the twentieth century’s invented FM radio. Center <a href="/tags/The_Earth_Institute/" rel="tag">The Earth Institute</a> public intellectuals, wrote The Liberal Imagination (1950) while <a href="/tags/John_Dewey/" rel="tag">John Dewey</a>, arguably America’s <a href="/tags/Eric_Kandel/" rel="tag">Eric Kandel</a> shared a Nobel Jeff rey Sachs, author of the he was a professor here. greatest philosopher, who was for research that transformed ground-breaking text The responsible for changing the way understanding of memory End of Poverty, who is widely educators think about education, and learning. considered to be the leading taught here for 25 years. international economic advisor of Nobel Laureate <a href="/tags/Richard_Axel/" rel="tag">Richard Axel</a> his generation, directs The Earth mapped the genes that govern Institute. the sense of smell.</p><p>16 17 Columbia as Culture of Connection </p><p>Columbia is an in-person kind of place — Mercedes De Luca James Albaugh SEAS Technology visionary SEAS ’79 alumna, ’74, Civil Engineering, and investor David S. entrepreneur, and President, Boeing Rose, who Businessweek Panel discussing a crossroads of connections where there is no former CIO of Yahoo!, Commercial Airplanes, describes as a “world electric cars includes speaks at a Society speaks at Columbia conquering entrepreneur,” Doherty Senior Scholar distance at all between those on their way of Women Engineers Engineering Class Day. headlines TEDxColumbia, IIon Joseph SEAS in the Lamont-Doherty campus event. hosted by Columbia ‘96 and ‘05, from the Earth Observatory Engineering. to living lives of impact and influence and Lawrence Livermore and Adjunct National Laboratory Professor of Earth those already doing so. Here are just some of and Harry Warren Ph.D. and Environmental ’94 from the Naval Sciences Roger Research Laboratory Anderson and Line the people who recently visited campus and present talks at Director for General the Plasma Physics Motors’s Chevy Volt connected with students. Colloquium. electric car Tony Managing Director Armen A. Avanessians Posawatz; moderated President of MTV of Bank of America SEAS ’83, partner at by Kathleen Deveny of Networks International Merrill Lynch and one <a href="/tags/Goldman_Sachs/" rel="tag">Goldman Sachs</a> & Co., <a href="/tags/Newsweek/" rel="tag">Newsweek</a> magazine. <a href="/tags/Robert_Bakish/" rel="tag">Robert Bakish</a> of <a href="/tags/Forbes/" rel="tag">Forbes</a>’ “100 Most speaks at Columbia SEAS ’85, speaks on Powerful Women in the Engineering Class Day. “Creativity Commerce World” Lisa Carnoy and Countries: A Widely recognized CC ’89, speaks at the GLOCAL Model” at as the “Father of the annual John Jay Dinner. Columbia Engineering. Internet,” Leonard Kleinrock lectures Former President of on “A Brief History of the Republic of Chile Senator John McCain the Internet and Its speaks at Columbia <a href="/tags/Michelle_Bachelet/" rel="tag">Michelle Bachelet</a> Dynamic Future” at College Class Day. speaks at the World Columbia Engineering’s President of Bolivia Leaders Forum. You Department of Former Supreme Court Evo Morales Computer Science. Justice Sandra Day speaks at the World O’Connor speaks on Leaders Forum. civil rights in an “Age of Best-selling author Terrorism” at Columbia of Awakenings and Law School. renowned neurologist <a href="/tags/Oliver_Sacks/" rel="tag">Oliver Sacks</a> joins the President Barack faculty as a professor Former New York Obama, CC ‘83, Times food critic Frank Warren Buffett and at Columbia University speaks on campus Bruni, “Top Chef Bill Gates appear Medical Center and a at the ServiceNation Columbia Artist. Masters” host Kelly together in a special Best-selling novelist Presidential Forum Founder and Choi, and restaurant hour-long community <a href="/tags/Erica_Jong/" rel="tag">Erica Jong</a> talks to in <a href="/tags/Roone_Arledge/" rel="tag">Roone Arledge</a> Convener of the entrepreneur Keith forum filmed by CNBC students about writing Auditorium. Global Peace Initiative Goggin, all Columbia for global broadcast. as part of Columbia of Women Dena School of Journalism Undergraduate CNN anchor Anderson Merriam speaks alumni, talk about food Scholars Program Cooper speaks to to students as part journalism. speaker series. students at a School of of the Columbia Journalism talk. Undergraduate Scholars Program Fashion designer speaker series. and philanthropist Actor and activist </p><p>President Bill Kenneth Cole kicks Anna Deavere Smith Writer Salman Rushdie Former <a href="/tags/United_Nations/" rel="tag">United Nations</a> Clinton speaks on off the Kenneth Cole presents talk about speaks about <a href="/tags/Religion/" rel="tag">religion</a> Secretary-General, World AIDS Day Fellows program, her new play, Let Me and imagination at Nobelist, and Columbia at a symposium where selected Down Easy. the inauguration of professor <a href="/tags/Kofi_Annan/" rel="tag">Kofi Annan</a> sponsored by Columbia students will Psychologist Howard Columbia’s Institute for <a href="/tags/Ben_Jealous/" rel="tag">Ben Jealous</a> CC ’94, speaks at the annual Playwright, essayist, take related courses Gardner speaks on Columbia’s Mailman Author John Irving Religion, Culture and president and CEO of World Leaders Forum, poet, dissident, and and complete funded “What is Good Work School of Public reads from Last Night Public Life. the NAACP, speaks which also features the former President of summer internships and How Can I Achieve Health. in Twisted River, his at Columbia College President of Argentina, Czechoslovakia Václav with community- It?” at Columbia twelfth novel, signs Class Day and has the President of Serbia, Anthropologist Dr. Havel spends seven based organizations, Undergraduate books and answers dinner afterward with and the Prime Minister Paul Farmer speaks at weeks on campus as businesses, and Scholars Program student questions. students. of Nepal. The Earth Institute. artist-in-residence. nonprofits. speaker series.</p><p>18 19 New York City: 8 million Your Living Laboratory people, an amazing See the New York percentage of whom are Philharmonic The world’s city, home to major institutions in innovation, culture, media, play at Lincoln experts, visionaries, and science, education, health, politics, fi nance, and technology. Our New York is a Center for Music global leaders neighborhood, a classroom, a leader, a community, a testing ground, a cultural Humanities and visit the Frick wonderland, a source of inspiration, a home, a friend, an indispensable resource. Collection for Art Humanities. See “Medea” at the Teach math and Japan Society with physics to your Literature elementary school 40 Humanities students through Broadway theatres Explore the five seminar Columbia’s Double boroughs of NYC classmates and Work with Discovery Center. on bicycle for your professor. physician NYC history class. scientists to conduct research at the Neurological 1,000s Have lunch with ICU at Columbia’s Attend Help write scripts alums at Chelsea Medical Center. TEDxColumbia of restaurants Market to learn while interning Engineering about their social at MTV in Times conference media and tech Square. featuring experts incubator. in technology and the intersection of other fields. 1,700 parks and playgrounds, dozens of neighborhoods</p><p>Work with New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to Meet with client 150 design new running for o� ice playgrounds as part of your museums and countless throughout internship at a galleries the city. political consulting Conduct research and strategy firm. at the Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory at the Botanical Gardens Get an internship at in <a href="/tags/The_Bronx/" rel="tag">the Bronx</a>. Eat the best the United Nations 1,000s working with cannolis in the the U.N. of internships off ered city at the San Development Gennaro Festival through the Center for Programme on in Little Italy. Career Education <a href="/tags/Energy/" rel="tag">energy</a> issues. </p><p>Lead a team designing a green roof for a synagogue in Jam with fellow 100s <a href="/tags/Brooklyn/" rel="tag">Brooklyn</a>. Columbians at <a href="/tags/Smoke_(jazz_club)/" rel="tag">Smoke</a> <a href="/tags/Jazz/" rel="tag">Jazz</a> & of service and Intern in the Supper Club research NYC-Columbia global investment Lounge on partnerships research division Broadway near Climb to top of the of Goldman Sachs campus. on <a href="/tags/Wall_Street/" rel="tag">Wall Street</a>. Brooklyn Bridge to test its wires with your Civil Engineering class. Every language, every dream, every possibility</p><p>20 21</p><p>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.</p><p>Academics & Theorists <a href="/tags/Alan_Greenspan/" rel="tag">Alan Greenspan</a>, former Chairman Ricardo Scofidio, architect Science & Technology <a href="/tags/Jacques_Barzun/" rel="tag">Jacques Barzun</a>, historian of <a href="/tags/Federal_Reserve/" rel="tag">Federal Reserve</a> System <a href="/tags/Upton_Sinclair/" rel="tag">Upton Sinclair</a>, writer James F. Albaugh, Boeing <a href="/tags/Joseph_Campbell/" rel="tag">Joseph Campbell</a>, scholar of <a href="/tags/Judd_Gregg/" rel="tag">Judd Gregg</a>, former Senator and Robert A. M. Stern, architect Commercial Airplanes President <a href="/tags/Janice_Min/" rel="tag">Janice Min</a> mythology <a href="/tags/Governor_(United_States)/" rel="tag">Governor</a> Twyla Tharp, choreographer and CEO <a href="/tags/Tony_Kushner/" rel="tag">Tony Kushner</a> Edwin Armstrong CC ’90 <a href="/tags/Eric_Holder/" rel="tag">Eric Holder</a> John Dewey, philosopher, educator Eric Holder, Jr., first African- Christine Wang, architect Edwin Armstrong, inventor of FM CC ’78 EN 1913 Editorial Director, CC ’73 <a href="/tags/Milton_Friedman/" rel="tag">Milton Friedman</a>, economist American Attorney General radio Pulitzer-winning playwright Inventor of FM radio Hollywood Reporter U.S. Attorney General Ellen V. Futter, President of the Benjamin Jealous, President and Richard Axel, Nobel Prize for American Museum of Natural CEO of the NAACP Media & Publishing <a href="/tags/Medicine/" rel="tag">Medicine</a> History <a href="/tags/James_Meredith/" rel="tag">James Meredith</a>, civil rights Daniel Alarcón, writer <a href="/tags/Amelia_Earhart/" rel="tag">Amelia Earhart</a>, aviator <a href="/tags/Jane_Jacobs/" rel="tag">Jane Jacobs</a>, urban theorist movement figure Roone Arledge, Jr., sports <a href="/tags/Joseph_Engelberger/" rel="tag">Joseph Engelberger</a>, founder of <a href="/tags/Edward_Kasner/" rel="tag">Edward Kasner</a>, mathematician who <a href="/tags/Michael_Mukasey/" rel="tag">Michael Mukasey</a>, former Attorney broadcasting pioneer, former modern robotics coined the term ‘googol’ General Chairman of ABC News <a href="/tags/Stephen_Jay_Gould/" rel="tag">Stephen Jay Gould</a>, paleontologist, Anthony W. Marx, President & CEO <a href="/tags/David_Paterson/" rel="tag">David Paterson</a>, former Governor of Marcus Brauchli, Executive Editor of evolutionary biologist of <a href="/tags/New_York_Public_Library/" rel="tag">New York Public Library</a>, New York <a href="/tags/The_Washington_Post/" rel="tag">The Washington Post</a> <a href="/tags/Herman_Hollerith/" rel="tag">Herman Hollerith</a>, founder of IBM former President of Amherst <a href="/tags/Paul_Robeson/" rel="tag">Paul Robeson</a>, civil and human Jamal Dajani, producer Gregory H. Johnson, Air Force College rights activist, writer Joseph Lelyveld, former Executive Colonel (Ret.), NASA astronaut <a href="/tags/William_Schuman/" rel="tag">William Schuman</a>, former President <a href="/tags/Faye_Wattleton/" rel="tag">Faye Wattleton</a>, President of the Editor of <a href="/tags/The_New_York_Times/" rel="tag">The New York Times</a> Robert Millikan, Nobel physicist of <a href="/tags/Juilliard_School/" rel="tag">Juilliard School</a> of Music, first Center for the Advancement of Andres Martinez, former Editorial Michael J. Massimino, engineer and President of Lincoln Center Women Page Editor of The Los Angeles NASA astronaut <a href="/tags/Judith_Shapiro/" rel="tag">Judith Shapiro</a>, former President of Times Harvey Seeley Mudd, engineer, Barnard College, professor of Janice Min, Editorial Director of founder of Harvey Mudd College anthropology Arts & Letters The Hollywood Reporter; former William Barclay Parsons, chief <a href="/tags/Barack_Obama/" rel="tag">Barack Obama</a> <a href="/tags/Howard_Zinn/" rel="tag">Howard Zinn</a>, historian <a href="/tags/Isaac_Asimov/" rel="tag">Isaac Asimov</a>, writer, scientist Editor-in-Chief of US Weekly engineer of the first line of the <a href="/tags/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg/" rel="tag">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a> CC ’83 Herman Hollerith <a href="/tags/Maggie_Gyllenhaal/" rel="tag">Maggie Gyllenhaal</a> <a href="/tags/Emanuel_Ax/" rel="tag">Emanuel Ax</a>, Grammy-winning <a href="/tags/Joseph_Pulitzer/" rel="tag">Joseph Pulitzer</a>, Publisher NYC subway Law ’59 44th President of the EN 1890 CC ’98 classical pianist <a href="/tags/Claire_Shipman/" rel="tag">Claire Shipman</a>, Senior National Michael Pupin, inventor of the Pupin Supreme Court Justice United States Founder of IBM Oscar nominee Business & <a href="/tags/Chris_Baio/" rel="tag">Chris Baio</a>, <a href="/tags/Rostam_Batmanglij/" rel="tag">Rostam Batmanglij</a>, Ezra Correspondent for coil Entrepreneurism Koenig, <a href="/tags/Chris_Tomson/" rel="tag">Chris Tomson</a>, members Good Morning America Hyman Rickover, inventor of nuclear Warren Buff ett, investor of indie rock band Vampire <a href="/tags/George_Stephanopoulos/" rel="tag">George Stephanopoulos</a>, Anchor of submarine <a href="/tags/Ursula_Burns/" rel="tag">Ursula Burns</a>, <a href="/tags/Xerox/" rel="tag">Xerox</a> CEO Weekend Good Morning America, former William Campbell, Intuit CEO Béla Bartók, composer Chief Political Correspondent <a href="/tags/Philippe_Dauman/" rel="tag">Philippe Dauman</a>, <a href="/tags/Viacom_(2005–2019)/" rel="tag">Viacom</a> CEO <a href="/tags/Kathryn_Bigelow/" rel="tag">Kathryn Bigelow</a>, film director, first for ABC News Sports James P. Gorman, <a href="/tags/Morgan_Stanley/" rel="tag">Morgan Stanley</a> woman to win Best Director Elizabeth Trotta, former NY Bureau <a href="/tags/Lou_Gehrig/" rel="tag">Lou Gehrig</a>, baseball Hall of Famer CEO Academy Award Chief of The Washington Times, Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis champion <a href="/tags/John_Kluge/" rel="tag">John Kluge</a>, entrepreneur <a href="/tags/Santiago/" rel="tag">Santiago</a> Calatrava, architect contributor for <a href="/tags/Fox_News/" rel="tag">FOX News</a> Sandy Koufax, baseball Hall of Kai-Fu Lee, former founding <a href="/tags/Wendy_Carlos/" rel="tag">Wendy Carlos</a>, composer Alexandra Wallace Creed, Executive Famer President of Google <a href="/tags/China/" rel="tag">China</a> <a href="/tags/Brian_Dennehy/" rel="tag">Brian Dennehy</a>, actor Producer of NBC Nightly News <a href="/tags/William_Milligan_Sloane/" rel="tag">William Milligan Sloane</a>, founded <a href="/tags/Randy_Lerner/" rel="tag">Randy Lerner</a>, Cleveland Browns <a href="/tags/Peter_Farrelly/" rel="tag">Peter Farrelly</a>, filmmaker U.S. Olympic Committee owner <a href="/tags/James_Franco/" rel="tag">James Franco</a>, actor Erin Smart, Olympic fencer <a href="/tags/Vikram_Pandit/" rel="tag">Vikram Pandit</a>, <a href="/tags/Citigroup/" rel="tag">Citigroup</a> CEO <a href="/tags/Allen_Ginsberg/" rel="tag">Allen Ginsberg</a>, poet International Leaders Cristina Teuscher, Olympic gold- Robert J. Stevens, Lockheed Martin Maggie Gyllenhaal, Golden Globe- <a href="/tags/Giuliano_Amato/" rel="tag">Giuliano Amato</a>, Italy medal swimmer CEO nominated actress <a href="/tags/Nahas_Angula/" rel="tag">Nahas Angula</a>, Namibia Marcellus Wiley, former NFL player S. Robson Walton, Chairman of Wal- Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist <a href="/tags/Hans_Blix/" rel="tag">Hans Blix</a>, U.N. weapons inspector Mart Board of Directors <a href="/tags/Lorenz_Hart/" rel="tag">Lorenz Hart</a>, lyricist Fernando Henrique Cardoso, <a href="/tags/Brazil/" rel="tag">Brazil</a> Michael Massimino Rodgers CC ‘23 Cristina Teuscher <a href="/tags/Toomas_Hendrik_Ilves/" rel="tag">Toomas Hendrik Ilves</a> <a href="/tags/Utada_Hikaru/" rel="tag">Utada Hikaru</a>, musician <a href="/tags/Gaston_Eyskens/" rel="tag">Gaston Eyskens</a>, Belgium Presidents EN 1984 and Hammerstein CC ‘16 CC ’OO CC ’72 <a href="/tags/Langston_Hughes/" rel="tag">Langston Hughes</a>, writer José Ramos Horta, East Timor Dwight D. Eisenhower Shuttle astronaut Composer and lyricist Olympic gold swimmer President of Estonia Politics & Advocacy <a href="/tags/Zora_Neale_Hurston/" rel="tag">Zora Neale Hurston</a>, writer Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Estonia Barack Obama <a href="/tags/Bella_Abzug/" rel="tag">Bella Abzug</a>, Congresswoman, <a href="/tags/Jim_Jarmusch/" rel="tag">Jim Jarmusch</a>, filmmaker <a href="/tags/Wellington_Koo/" rel="tag">Wellington Koo</a>, China Franklin D. Roosevelt leader of the women’s <a href="/tags/Jack_Kerouac/" rel="tag">Jack Kerouac</a>, Beat poet, pioneer <a href="/tags/Li_Lu/" rel="tag">Li Lu</a>, leader of the Tiananmen <a href="/tags/Theodore_Roosevelt/" rel="tag">Theodore Roosevelt</a> movement <a href="/tags/Alicia_Keys/" rel="tag">Alicia Keys</a>, musician Square protests of 1989 <a href="/tags/Madeleine_Albright/" rel="tag">Madeleine Albright</a>, first female Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning <a href="/tags/Benjamin_Mkapa/" rel="tag">Benjamin Mkapa</a>, Tanzania Secretary of State playwright Mary Robinson, Ireland <a href="/tags/Shirley_Chisholm/" rel="tag">Shirley Chisholm</a>, first African- Federico García Lorca, poet Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgia American woman elected to Ursula K. Le Guin, writer Pixley ka Isaka Seme, founder of the Congress Terrence McNally, Tony Award- African National Congress 5 34 9 93 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme winning playwright Chung Un-chan, South Korea Court Justice <a href="/tags/Sharon_Olds/" rel="tag">Sharon Olds</a>, poet Founding Fathers Presidents and Supreme Court Pulitzer Prize <a href="/tags/Richard_Rodgers/" rel="tag">Richard Rodgers</a>, composer of the United Prime Ministers Justices Winners J. D. Salinger, writer States</p><p>24 25 3 Columbia Days</p><p>E3 27 The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Students fl ock to the Columbia alum <a href="/tags/Herman_Wouk/" rel="tag">Herman Wouk</a> once said Low Plaza steps — to sunbathe, socialize, and Columbia is a place of “doubled magic,” where study — making it, in the words of a leading architect, a true “the best things of all human history and “urban beach.” 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 a ● Mike Linshi An Industrial 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 <a href="/tags/Midtown_Manhattan/" rel="tag">Midtown Manhattan</a>. </p><p>● <a href="/tags/Sarah_Steele/" rel="tag">Sarah Steele</a> Mike Linshi Sarah Steele An English major from <a href="/tags/Pennsylvania/" rel="tag">Pennsylvania</a> who is also a fi lm and television actress recently arranged the press junket she was doing for a movie so she wouldn’t miss her favorite literature class. </p><p>● Jonathan Ricketts A Mechanical Engineering major from <a href="/tags/New_Jersey/" rel="tag">New Jersey</a> who does lab work on supersonic fl ow in the morning and heads to his internship at Atlantic Records in the afternoon. </p><p>● Donia Abdelaziz An Economics major from Egypt, her day recently started with a class on global economics and ended with one on ethnography, with a Vogue internship in between.</p><p>Donia Abdelaziz Jonathan Ricketts</p><p>28 29 Time to Discover Amanda Olivo Hometown: Garden City, NY Columbia College Major: Biochemistry 9:00 am Wake up and head to Dodge Fitness Center for a workout.</p><p>Noon Grab a sandwich with my lab mate Corey at Milano Deli on 113th 10:15 am Street before meeting. Walk over to (Hands down best 11:00 am Hamilton Deli to sandwiches in the area). Next stop: Cornish get my usual egg and lab in the Northwest cheese and an iced Corner Building coffee for breakfast; to check data from 1:00 pm as chit-chat with previous day’s Ribosome team weekly Steve the owner for a experiment on D- meeting with Professor few minutes. amino acid tRNA <a href="/tags/Virginia/" rel="tag">Virginia</a> Cornish and pairing effects in the 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 to theMoMA finally be covering to see the new the translational Tim Burton exhibit machinery in class. with a friend.</p><p>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 10:00 pm about and question Quick cookie and tea 9:00 pm in their own fields.) break with suitemates. Columbia Guest lecturer this week is Professor 10:30 pm Community Outreach meeting to Eitan Grinspun Reading Descartes’ of Columbia’s Meditations on First plan the university’s largest annual day of Department of Philosophy for paper Computer Science, I’m working on. service (approximately 1,000 volunteers). I am who talks about his the co-coordinator. Hollywood animation work. He provided some breakthrough techniques for Disney on Tangled.</p><p>30 31 Daily Drive Matt Poss Hometown: Lawrenceville, NJ Columbia Engineering</p><p>Major: Mechanical Engineering 8:30 am Head to Ferris Booth in Lerner Hall for the breakfast buffet. Every good day starts with the breakfast buffet. </p><p>9:00 am Art Humanities. This Noon weekend we are going Physical Education. to the Met to look at I bike up to Fort Renaissance and 19th Tryon Park at the century European northern tip of paintings. I don’t know Manhattan. The view how many times I’ve of the Palisades and been to the Met, but I the city from the old still seem to find new fort is unbeatable. rooms and exhibits.</p><p>2:30 pm Meet with public relations teams from Columbia and Chevrolet for a 4:00 pm campus walkthrough. Mechatronics: Chevrolet is bringing Embedded the Volt to campus and Microsystems. Our 7:00 pm wants to do an event last case study was Head to the Boat with Knickerbocker to make a steel ball Basin Café to meet Motorsports and magnetically levitate. up with some Phi some of its engineers. This week we are Gamma Delta alumni (Knickerbocker is working on controlling for dinner. We were Columbia’s Society of the temperature of able to get seats Automotive Engineers. an electromechanical overlooking the I’m serving as system with a <a href="/tags/Hudson_River/" rel="tag">Hudson River</a> and president this year.) microcomputer. watched the sun set as we discussed jobs, school and life.</p><p>9:00 pm Meeting with my Senior Design group. We are working on an automatic shifting mechanism for a bicycle. Today we focused on adding data- 11:00 pm logging functionality Off to Butler Library to the system so that to work on problem power output and other sets and papers. ride parameters could be recorded throughout the ride.</p><p>32 33 Math, 9:10 am Afternoon and Noon Intro to Computational Drop by my adviser’s offi ce Measurements, Math and Physics: Evening Acts to talk about proposing & Motion We discuss Fourier Emily Nagel my thesis. transforms and their Eric Schwartz role in JPEG encoding. Hometown: Ridley Park, PA 1:00 pm Hometown: <a href="/tags/Milwaukee/" rel="tag">Milwaukee</a>, WI Columbia College Hop the train to Brooklyn 10:30 am Major: English and for my internship at TADA! Columbia Engineering Head to CEPSR I assist in staging a musical Major: Applied Mathematics (Schapiro Center) to Drama and Theater Arts written and performed by spend a few hours fi rst through fi fth graders. 1:10 pm taking measurements Today we’re teaching the 5:00 pm using single photon choreography to Little Shop University Writing: Pop by the TIC to avalanche diodes of Horrors. Workshop our lens pick up my ticket for and a high-powered essays in groups. Mine Columbia night at laser in Professor is about ballet and American Idiot on Ken Shepard’s lab. Newton’s laws of motion. Broadway, including I’m an undergraduate My friends are writing talkback with Michael assistant to the theirs about Franklin Mayer, Billy Joe research group. 7:55 pm Delano Roosevelt and Armstrong, and Arrive at rehearsal for <a href="/tags/Lady_Gaga/" rel="tag">Lady Gaga</a>. <a href="/tags/Tom_Kitt_(musician)/" rel="tag">Tom Kitt</a>! The <a href="/tags/Varsity_Show/" rel="tag">Varsity Show</a>. We’re 5:30 pm doing a song about the new Hear Sig Gissler, Ferris Booth Commons administrator of the dining hall, but don’t Pulitzer Prizes, lecture tell anyone! The Varsity Show has a century-plus on the prizes’ history and 7:00 pm the selection process tradition of secrecy! Downtown to a Times Square, a.k.a. Streets from south to over the years. production of How 10:00 pm New York’s famous north. A bonus benefi t to Succeed in Business Time for my Resident Theater District cuts of being a Columbia Without Really Trying Adviser meeting to plan a swath through student is free and starring Daniel 11:30 pm the next social event. Midtown Manhattan hugely discounted Radcliff e that I Curl up with my between Sixth and tickets, as low as $5, to won tickets to in copy of Ulysses and Eighth Avenues from major Broadway shows. Columbia’s Urban fi nish my reading for east to west, and West NY lottery. tomorrow’s class. 40th and West 53rd </p><p>34 35 Educational 8:00 am A Few Highlights, 11:00 am Prepare for student Colloquium on Major Change teaching with my sixth Instant Replay Texts of East Asia. Today’s grade class at P.S. 333. reading was the incredibly One Day at a Time My research interests Desiree Scherf popular Buddhist inspired Terrell Winder are very tied to education Hometown: Sao Paulo, Brazil; tale of “Monkey” and his so I’m hoping that my now Cologne, Germany two companions. Hometown: Baltimore, MD certification helps me to Columbia College be a more effective Columbia College 1:00 pm Major: Ethnicity and graduate researcher. Major: Economics and Campus job at Dodge Race Studies Political Science with the athletics events 9:00 am team staff, where we Teach lesson on using prepare the <a href="/tags/Basketball/" rel="tag">basketball</a> powerful figurative arena for that night’s language for poetry game. It’s a great job, writing unit. because you often get paid to watch a game that 11:00 am you would like to see Head to work study anyways! job with the Office of Multicultural Affairs. 4:10 pm Political Science Seminar 1:00 pm on Varieties of <a href="/tags/Capitalism/" rel="tag">Capitalism</a>. To the Intercultural 6:30 pm So cool to trace back the An urban wonder and Resource Center, Grab a quick dinner cultural and behavioral historic treasure just where I live, to catch up with grad student differences between my a few blocks from 3:00 pm with friends. friend from Australia. home country of Germany campus — Central Meet with my mentor, I met him and a lot of and the U.S. Park is 843 acres and Professor Marc 4:15 pm other internationals 2.5 miles of paths for Lamont Hill, who, in Comparative Ethnic playing in the New 9:00 pm strolling, running, addition to being a Studies Senior Thesis York field hockey Arrive at Butler, buy and biking, as well as Columbia professor, Seminar. league during the myself a chai latte at Café gardens, green lawns, scholar, and activist, off-season. These 22, walk to reading room and playing fields; and hosts the nationally 6:00 pm friendships with (these high ceilings never home to Shakespeare syndicated television Dinner at Ferris Booth people from all over get old!) and find the in the Park and its very show Our World with with friends followed by are what I love about familiar faces of friends own zoo. Black Enterprise. Notes and Keys (co-ed a living in the city. all sitting together. cappella group) rehearsal. 36 37 An Engineer’s Masterly Plan Mary Byers 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 coff ee.</p><p>1:00 pm After CC class, head 11:00 am to the world-famous Head to Hamilton waffl e truck Wafels for Contemporary and Dinges, which is Civilizations. We have parked on 113th and a very interesting Broadway almost discussion about every Monday. Enjoy contemporary a bacon and syrup revolutions in relation waffl e 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 a in Singapore. We talk start-up consulting about what to expect firm, working on and make sure that my projects with a passport and visa are all division of the United in place. Nations. The best part about SoHo is people watching!</p><p>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 at 9:30 pm wide concert in the Ferris Booth before Run to the springtime, we discuss my next class. Engineering Student the artist we want to 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 <a href="/tags/Kanye_West/" rel="tag">Kanye West</a>, Accounting and this year. During <a href="/tags/Vampire_Weekend/" rel="tag">Vampire Weekend</a>, Finance class, where tonight’s meeting and Of Montreal we learn about we pass a resolution playing right on the the causes and about dining halls on steps of Low Library. implications of the campus. Epic. fi nancial crisis of 12:00 am 2008. 11:00 pm Study break/Skype Work on a problem date with Mom (It’s set for Probability and only 9:00pm at home 10:45 pm Statistics. in Oregon). Head back to my suite in <a href="/tags/Hartley_Hall/" rel="tag">Hartley Hall</a>, where fresh brownies are waiting for me. (One of my suitemates LOVES to bake!)</p><p>38 39 11:00 am 9:10 am Around the World Attend my History of From Premed to Head to fi rst In a Few Hours the U.S.-Mexican Border Piano Sonatas class, Behavioral class, where we discuss Neuroscience. Destiny Sullens how the horse impacted Yoshiaki Ko Psychopharmacology Hometown: Idabel, OK the Comanche empire Hometown: Yokohama, is the topic of the day. Columbia College and its infl uence along Japan/San Francisco, CA the border. Major: Middle Eastern and Columbia College 12:30 pm Asian Languages and Cultures 4:00 pm Major: Neuroscience & Take the 1 Train down I walk to Joseph Behavior to Juilliard. At my Massad’s senior seminar lesson, discuss the class, Culture in the 3:15 pm interpretation of Modern Arab World. Back at Columbia, Beethoven’s Piano 6:00 pm Today we discuss the meet with my adviser Sonata, op. 110, with Run to my Music music of Umm Kulthum to discuss how best Professor Jerome Humanities class in and her legendary to fulfi ll my premed Lowenthal. Dodge. This week status throughout requirements. we are focusing on the Arab world while Handel’s Messiah. My also considering the 7:45 pm role music played in professor is hilarious Get started on 11:00 pm and entertaining in recent political events assignments: Stomach rumbling, the way she makes in Egypt. read Montaigne’s convince a friend to Music Humanities fun Essays, brainstorm accompany me on a and interesting for experiment Strokos run. After everyone in the class. proposals. sandwiches in the A quick subway Center, the Film The New York Public John Jay lounge, ride from campus Society of Lincoln Library for the 9:00 pm fooling around on is Lincoln Center, Center, Jazz at Lincoln Performing Arts, Attend a Native the piano leads to an the world’s leading Center, The Juilliard and The School of American Council impromptu chamber performing arts center School, Lincoln American Ballet. It’s meeting to discuss music session, where and home to a dozen Center Theater, commonplace for plans for the annual our attempts at sight- world renowned The Metropolitan Core professors to Columbia Pow Wow. reading a Brandenburg groups, schools, and Opera, New York incorporate class trips Concerto end in organizations: City Ballet, New York to relevant Lincoln amusement for all. The Chamber Music City Opera, New Center performances Sleep can wait. Society of Lincoln York Philharmonic, into their seminars.</p><p>40 41 Editor’s Agenda Colin Sullivan 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.</p><p>12:30 pm 11:00 am Return to campus Visit The New York and get lunch with Times building, where my friend Akhil, a the 134th Managing Financial Engineering Board of The Columbia major. We reminisce Daily Spectator about the summer enjoyed a personal we spent together in tour of the offices Scotland as part of an and newsroom. Many internship program alumni of our campus through Columbia’s <a href="/tags/Newspaper/" rel="tag">newspaper</a> work for Center for Career The Times, The Wall Education. Street Journal, and other major outlets.</p><p>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. My Humanities, as part in Low Library for center, to print out professor, Dorian of a story for the a lecture event with class readings and to Warren, leads a magazine Columbia former Treasury pick up a package I conversation about College Today. Secretary. I was invited ordered, consisting of power and its to attend the lecture a hiking pack for my role in American through Professor upcoming spring break politics, especially Sunil Gulati’s Global trip to Panama with concerning inequality, Economy class that I my floormates. marginalized groups, took last spring. and labor organization.</p><p>7:00 pm Grab a quick dinner at Chipotle with the Art Director for Spectator’s weekly magazine The 7:30 pm 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 networking sessions procrastination) Spectator where we for seniors and recent often occurs in the continue planning for graduates. form of playing golf Spectator’s upcoming (we actually bought fundraising dinner an artificial putting featuring Arianna green) and having Huffington of The a dart-throwing Huffington Post as our competition in one of guest speaker. our rooms. </p><p>42 43 4 Common Core, Uncommon Education</p><p>D4 45 Columbia University’s Core is the nation’s The Core is taught by Dog-eared, flagged, A few of the authors, Alexis de Tocqueville, oldest and most renowned Core program and leading scholars in and highlighted — ideas, and texts that Democracy in America; all disciplines across you’ll read the books will become part <a href="/tags/Voltaire/" rel="tag">Voltaire</a>, Candide; defines our graduates. All undergraduates the university. Here, and study the art, of what you know Charles Darwin, On <a href="/tags/Latin/" rel="tag">Latin</a> American music, societies, and through the Core. the Origin of Species participate in either the Columbia College Core historian and Professor scientific discoveries Niccolò Machiavelli, and The Descent of Man; Caterina Pizzigoni that define human The Prince; Jean- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ask Columbians leads a discussion in history as much as Jacques Rousseau, The On the Genealogy of or the Engineering Core. her Contemporary they shape the world Basic Political Writings; Morals and Ecce Homo; Civilization class. today. Adam Smith, Wealth W. E. B. Du Bois, The about the value of their Columbia education of Nations; Simone de Souls of Black Folk; Beauvoir, The Second Virginia Woolf, Three and the Core is likely the first thing they Sex; David Hume, An Guineas; <a href="/tags/Homer/" rel="tag">Homer</a>, Enquiry Concerning The Iliad; Euripides, will mention. They will tell you how the Core Human Understanding; Medea; <a href="/tags/Virgil/" rel="tag">Virgil</a>, Aeneid; Immanuel Kant, Dostoevsky, Crime and Grounding for the Punishment; Dante, has given them an exceptional advantage at Metaphysics of Morals; Divine Comedy. Mary Wollstonecraft, every turn. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; </p><p>Here’s what makes the program unique.</p><p>Interdisciplinary & Challenge & Timeless & Foundation & Innovative Community Defining Freedom The Core began with a single Rather than general The habits of mind Students who are drawn course called Contemporary education requirements, you developed in the Core to Columbia have an Civilization that is still a take a single set of courses cultivate a critical and interdisciplinary way of cornerstone of the program. in small, discussion-based creative intellectual capacity approaching their entire Today the Core also includes seminars. All students that graduates call on long lives. They find the Core Frontiers of Science, encounter the same texts after college, in the pursuit an incredible intellectual The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Literature, Art, and Music and issues at the same time and the fulfillment of foundation but it also founded in 1870, Humanities, University so the critical dialogue meaningful lives. Whether exposes them to different borders Central Park Writing, and Global Core takes place not only in you meet a graduate from fields, varying points of view, along <a href="/tags/Fifth_Avenue/" rel="tag">Fifth Avenue</a> between 80th to 84th and language requirements. the classroom but all last year or fifty years ago, and disparate visions, freeing Streets. Its collections Immersing students in over campus. Students he or she will have wrestled them from intellectual include more than multiple disciplines so they challenge their thinking with many of the same silos. They get to forge their two million works of art spanning five can make connections and deepen their insights enduring books and themes own paths and make the thousand years of across the world of ideas together at every turn. — the same ideas next year’s impact they want. world culture, from is a key part of the Core’s The Core becomes a common first-year Columbians will prehistory to the present and from power. The Core prepares base of knowledge that tackle. For almost 100 years, every part of the globe. students to engage their allows for greater depth the Core’s purpose has The Met is another majors with a capacity to of discussion in all classes been to build a timeless example of the way basis for intellectual Columbia’s resources think within and beyond a throughout a student’s extend to the city. specific discipline, providing four years. flexibility and confidence Core papers, studies, them with a breadth of that defines every and discussions knowledge that promotes Columbia graduate. frequently focus on original artists’ works innovative thinking. that can be explored in the Met. Students also have opportunities to intern with the museum.</p><p>46 47 A Few Core Books</p><p>48 49 Columbia College Core Curriculum Through a variety disciplines, the Core asks students to grapple with radically The Core + So Much More different ways of looking at the world, exploring into enduring themes such as virtue, justice, suffering, evil, friendship, family, loss, guilt, pride, loyalty, storytelling, One First-Year Student’s Schedule power, representation, time, space, gender, and sexuality in works by authors as Core classes make up approximately one-third of your schedule at Columbia, varied as Homer, Jane Austen, Frederick Douglass, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. leaving time each year — even your first — to explore other areas or start </p><p>Literature Humanities Art Humanities Foreign Language coursework in your desired major. University Writing Music Humanities Requirement Frontiers of Science Science Requirement Physical Education Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 1 Contemporary Civilization Global Core Requirement 8 am</p><p>9 am 9 am 9:10 am 9:10 am Work at the Hannah Perls Alex Moll Joe Piscina Melissa Hernandez Emerging Cities in Emerging Cities in Office of Global the 19th Century: the 19th Century: Programs Weston, MA New Orleans, LA Pelham, NY Aurora, IL Urban History of Urban History of Earth and Environmental Math Political Science Film Studies the <a href="/tags/Americas/" rel="tag">Americas</a> and the Americas and 10 am Europe Europe 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 I came here. I was very learns to think exactly groundbreaking ideas. When 11 am 11 am 11 am You’re expected to Frontiers of Discussion: even though the Core is a excited about the Core alike. you’ve got this kind of Science Lecture America Since 1945 specific set of courses, it alongside the ability to do a be an individual, to have diversity, you’ll always get enhances the freedom you very serious science major. your own ideas, your own into <a href="/tags/Debate/" rel="tag">debates</a>; you’ll always Noon Noon Work at the have to try out different I was really into the idea questions.” see things from different Office of Global areas. I have friends who of this thought-out way of perspectives, especially Programs wanted to be English or becoming well-rounded when you’re part of a 1 pm history majors who became instead of just me randomly Anna Rose Bianco community where everyone science majors after taking choosing classes.” New York City, NY is capable of saying Frontiers of Science. I have English something that will blow 2 pm 2:10 pm 2:10 pm another friend who thought “Our professor always your mind.” Literature Literature Humanities Humanities she wanted premed but says, ‘There is no one right 2:40 pm 2:40 pm America Since America Since now she’s a philosophy answer.’ And then he asks 3 pm 1945 1945 major because she took questions to which you David Chait Literature Humanities and desperately want to know Edison, NJ Contemporary Civilization. the answer. So we spend Economics and Political 4 pm 4:10 pm The Core fosters a lot of a lot of time in class — and Science Discussion: Frontiers of different sparks.” out of class — helping each “The Core is one of the Science Lecture other. He’s adamant about reasons I applied to 5 pm not indoctrinating us, so he Columbia. I’m taking courses helps us develop our own outside my major — in art theories.” and music, literature and 6 pm 6:10 pm 6:10 pm philosophy and science — Science of Science of and that helps me think Psychology Psychology in more complicated ways 7 pm 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 8 pm the Core as well as the way I think, the way take abundant courses I write, the way I see the in the visual arts, music, theatre, film world. And I did it on my and dance. In a city terms.” Nathalie Barton ● Courses (Core) known for its arts and Hometown: Charlottesville, VA ● Courses (Elective) culture, the arts are ● Internship also a significant part Columbia College of extracurricular life. Major: History and Political Science</p><p>50 51 Columbia Engineering Core Curriculum The Engineering Core includes roughly half the Columbia College Core classes, science Engineering Core + So Much More and math courses, a first-year, hands-on design course and professional level courses. One First-Year Student’s Schedule The Art of Engineering: Calculus Art Humanities or Music First-Year Design Course Physics Humanities Engineering and liberal arts core classes make up approximately half of your schedule Chemistry Literature Humanities, University Writing over your four years at Columbia, leaving time each year — even your first — to explore Computer Science Contemporary Civilization, or Physical Education electives, minor in a liberal arts area or start coursework in your desired major. Economics Global Core Professional-Level Course </p><p>Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 1</p><p>8 am Min Yeoh Diogo Izidoro Megan Armstrong Mike Strickland Singapore Bellerose, NY Ann Arbor, MI Cincinnati, OH 9 am 9:10 am 9:10 am Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering <a href="/tags/Biomedical_engineering/" rel="tag">Biomedical Engineering</a> Civil Engineering and History of the History of the Operations Research “The First-Year Design “I think the Core is such Minor in Architecture Modern Middle Modern Middle East East “Most engineers just don’t Course that’s part of the a great way to incorporate “I’ve talked to people at 10 am have the opportunity Core is why I really fell Columbia College and companies in the field. to <a href="/tags/Debate/" rel="tag">debate</a> these really in love with Columbia Columbia Engineering They want to hire people 10:35 am 10:35 am Physics II: Physics II: important topics like what is engineering. The concept students right off the bat. who are more than just 11 am 11 am Thermodynamics, 11 am Thermodynamics, 11 am justice? What does personal of the class is perfect — a I’m taking University robots. They want people Calculus IV Electricity and Calculus IV Electricity and The Art of Magnetism Magnetism Engineering: happiness mean? You have hands-on engineering Writing right now. I am who can see the big picture, First-Year Design Course to defend your ideas to your design experience improving my writing, who can do the high-level Noon classmates, who may have that is pretty much which is so important technical work and put it in a interpreted the text in ways unparalleled.” because especially broader context. A Columbia completely different than (An introduction to all nowadays, engineers need education is built for that 1 pm 1 pm The Art of 1:10 pm 1:10 pm you did. You learn how to nine engineering to know how to write. kind of person.” Engineering: Introduction Introduction understand where they’re departments through I’m also in a classroom with First-Year Design to Applied to Applied Course Mathematics Mathematics coming from, so you real, hands-on examples students who aren’t just in 2 pm really diversify the way you from each department engineering but are majoring John Chavez 2:30 pm 2:30 pm think about things. Then focused on the world’s in politics and languages and Fulshear, TX Work in Columbia Work in Columbia you can apply that to your most pressing concerns — dance and art. You see all Biomedical Engineering Laboratory for Laboratory for 3 pm Unconventional Unconventional engineering. I feel like I’m <a href="/tags/Sustainable_energy/" rel="tag">sustainable energy</a>, poverty, these different ideas butting “In the Engineering Core Electronics Lab Electronics Lab leaps and bounds ahead of security, health. Projects up against each other. I just we really get to pick our other engineers because of are applicable to students’ think it’s awesome.” passions. So for example, I 4 pm the Core.” majors and can lead to senior can choose between taking design projects.) Music Humanities or Art Humanities. Personally, I am 5 pm 5:10 pm really passionate about art Discussion: History of the Modern so I can take Art Humanities Middle East versus Music Humanities 6 pm … you really can guide yourself in the directions you want to go.” 7 pm</p><p>8 pm A cornerstone of the firmware to hack an computer engineering, Columbia Engineering HP 20b calculator. chemical engineering Core is the first-year Develop a vital signs and economics to design course — Art of monitor. Design and develop renewable Engineering. Projects operate the “Smart energy sources for Allison Duh ● Courses (Columbia College Core) in every discipline Grid.” Use applied automobiles. “Build” Hometown: Potomac, MD ● Courses (Columbia Engineering Core) immerse student physics and math to New York City in Civil ● Research Project teams in top labs and explore electric guitar Engineering. Columbia Engineering the city. Write new design. Combine Major: Electrical Engineering</p><p>52 53 5 Giants Among Us</p><p>E4 54 55 At Columbia you’re part of knowledge in the Pulitzer Prize- making — yours and the world’s. The beauty winning historian and alumnus Eric of being on this campus is that today’s Foner CC ’63, Ph.D. ’69, DeWitt Clinton thought leaders, genius innovators, and Professor of History, teaches The Radical literary lions want to teach. Tradition in America, These giants in The US in the Era of Slavery and Jacksonian their fields, who keep open office hours and Democracy, The US in <a href="/tags/Jeffrey_Sachs/" rel="tag">Jeffrey Sachs</a> the Era of Civil War Director of The Earth Institute; teach and mentor undergraduates, have a way and Reconstruction, Quetelet Professor of Slavery and of inspiring their students to take their own Emancipation, Senior <a href="/tags/Sustainable_development/" rel="tag">Sustainable Development</a>, Seminar in History, Professor of Health Policy and The Literature of <a href="/tags/Management/" rel="tag">Management</a> giant steps. American History, and Colloquium on the Civil War and Undergraduate Course Reconstruction. Sustainable Development</p><p>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.</p><p>Faculty in all disciplines teach on the Morningside Heights campus. Nearly all Columbia courses have fewer than 20 students and are taught by professors rather than teaching assistants. “ Columbia faculty and researchers A great rapport can be struck between lead the most cutting-edge ventures students and teachers who get to know their students well. Those in environmental and sustainable connections often last throughout the development and our students are undergraduate years and well beyond. integral to this work.”</p><p>56 57 Farah Griffin Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies; Former Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies</p><p>Undergraduate Courses Literature Humanities (Core); African-American Literature Survey I and II; Remapping the Black South; Klaus Lackner Professor Lackner is Sunil Gulati Professor Gulati, a popular Recent undergraduate Chair of the Earth and developing a revolutionary Lecturer lecturer in the field of adviser for thesis titled Environmental Engineering device — modeled on tree Department of Economics international economics, “Nonwhite Women as Department; leaves — that reduces <a href="/tags/Carbon/" rel="tag">carbon</a> is the president of the Transformational Agents in Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel dioxide in the air. He is a Undergraduate Courses U.S. Soccer Federation, and Disney Animated Films.” Professor of Geophysics, pioneer on the clean use Global Economy; has been instrumental Earth and Environmental of fossil fuels and other Principles of Economics; in developing the world’s The author of several books, Engineering; solutions to <a href="/tags/Climate_change/" rel="tag">climate change</a>. Sports Economics biggest game in the United Professor Griffin writes Director of Lenfest Center States. and speaks extensively for Sustainable Energy, “ It is great to work on American and African- The Earth Institute with undergraduates “ I get to believe in and live American literature, music, because they can look the fountain of youth history, and politics. Undergraduate Courses at new ideas without 28 times every semester. Alternative Energy preconceived notions. Seeing the world as we Resources; Energy, <a href="/tags/Mineral/" rel="tag">Minerals</a>, They can challenge you, saw it when we were in and Material Systems and force you to get college is a fantasy for “ I love working with undergraduates — things right because you most people. Being a really have to explain faculty member at a place helping them discover their talents and it well, and can’t resort like Columbia allows to shortcuts.” me to live that fantasy capacity for intellectual growth. I love every day.” 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.”</p><p>58 59 Shree Nayar T. C. Chang Professor, Computer Science; Chair of the Computer Science Department; Co-Director of the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center; Director of the Computer Vision Laboratory (CAVE)</p><p>Undergraduate Course Computer Vision</p><p>A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Nayar is a research pioneer and inventor in computational cameras and advanced <a href="/tags/James_Schamus/" rel="tag">James Schamus</a> Golden Globe winner and Amber Miller Professor Miller leads vision systems. His work Professor Oscar nominee James Dean of Science for the Columbia’s Experimental has had significant impact School of the Arts Schamus is both practitioner Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Cosmology group, which on the practice of digital Film and academic. He teaches Professor of Physics is capturing snapshots of imaging, computer graphics, film history and theory, and microwaves emitted just and robotics. He recently Undergraduate Courses is CEO of Focus Features. Undergraduate Mentor after the Big Bang. She is a launched an effort to create Film Theory I; He has collaborated as Supervises undergraduate member of the Council on an inexpensive, build-it- Seeing Narrative screenwriter and producer researchers working on Foreign Relations and was yourself digital camera, with director Ang Lee on cosmology experiments, chief science adviser to the called BigShot, that can eleven films, including and on a variety of related NYPD Counterterrorism be distributed to children Brokeback Mountain. technology development Bureau. around the world to learn projects. about science, engineering, “Columbia undergraduates “ In the laboratory and as art, and culture. 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 “ I enjoy having undergraduates in my research the kinds of questions at the cutting edge of that are best answered cosmology and to help lab. They come with a fresh pair of eyes, through discussion, them see that they so it’s always a challenge have things to contribute great enthusiasm and an intense curiosity. being in a classroom even as beginning with them.” undergraduates.” 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.”</p><p>60 61 <a href="/tags/Christia_Mercer/" rel="tag">Christia Mercer</a> Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy; Chair of Literature Humanities</p><p>Undergraduate Courses Literature Humanities (Core); Philosophy <a href="/tags/Martin_Chalfie/" rel="tag">Martin Chalfie</a> The Nobel Prize was awarded Gordana Vunjak- Professor Vunjak-Novakovic and <a href="/tags/Feminism/" rel="tag">Feminism</a>; William R. Kenan Jr. Professor to Professor Chalfie for Novakovic is director of Columbia’s History of Philosophy of Biological Sciences; the introduction of green Professor of Biomedical Laboratory for Stem Cells Former Chair of the fluorescent protein (GFP) Engineering; and Tissue Engineering. A Columbia Great Teacher Department of Biological as a biological marker. GFP Professor of Biomedical She focuses on regenerative Award-winner, Professor Sciences; has become one of the Engineering and Medical medicine and technologies Mercer was drawn to teach Shared 2008 Nobel Prize in essential research tools in Sciences (in Medicine); that save and improve lives Core courses by her interest Chemistry the biological and Vice-Chair, Department of — her lab has successfully in how philosophy, history, biomedical sciences. Biomedical Engineering; grown replacement bones and art intersect. She is chair Undergraduate Courses Director, Laboratory and heart muscle from of Literature Humanities, Biological Research Skills; “ The very best for Stem Cells and Tissue human stem cells. one of the cornerstone Genetics undergraduates, and Engineering; Core courses. Columbia has many Co-director, Craniofacial “ I gain a lot from working of these students, are Regeneration Center with undergraduates just fun to work with. — mentoring some of They are eager to learn Undergraduate courses our greatest talent to “ My own research has been very significantly and get excited about Biological Transport discover what they the material, whether & Rate Process; want to do in science. influenced by the Core and teaching in class or the lab. Projects in Biomedical Undergraduates are also Sharing the excitement Engineering often the most creative undergraduates here. I am editing a new book of discovery is one of in their ideas — knowing the great joys of doing less they are braver.” series for Oxford University Press. The idea research, and introducing of including interdisciplinary reflections undergraduates to this excitement is very in the series developed straight out of my work rewarding. I also enjoy watching students in the Core with students and fellow faculty.” become independent.”</p><p>62 63 6 High-Impact and Hands-On: Science and Engineering Research</p><p>F2 64 65 In labs, in partnerships with New York City, Professor of Biology and in global fieldwork — research at Columbia Brent Stockwell’s lab, where his team is about solving huge problems like climate is discovering novel cell death pathways involved in cancer and change and hunger, as well as solving huge 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, new Environmental Science Professor and Lamont- animation techniques. Doherty researcher Getting involved in Nicholas Christie-Blick led his students on an research here is no Ivory Tower exercise. It’s eight-day expedition to investigate the dynamic faculty and students actively working wonders. processes that formed Death Valley.</p><p>Research. Robotics.</p><p>Chemistry Professor Virginia W. Cornish (CC ’91) 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 Social Change. <a href="/tags/Sustainability/" rel="tag">Sustainability</a>. capabilities of living cells.</p><p>66 67 “ 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.</p><p>Some students are Almost guaranteed research $1 Billion experiences for 4 in annual research. undergraduate scholars 400 programs designed to bring research positions 4 years high-ability future reserved exclusively for at time of admission. scientists and engineers to undergraduates through 100s Columbia and support Columbia Engineering’s their research goals. Undergraduate Research of labs led by Involvement Program prize-winning faculty (Sample projects: working with students 84% Anthropogenic climate have generated admit rate to medical change and the Arctic 600 different patents school, almost twice the 22 oscillation, brain imaging and $1.75 billion national average. top-ranked science majors of psychological in gross revenue. from the traditional disorders, DNA cloning, to the most cutting-edge, electrophysiological interdisciplinary areas measurements and signal of study. processing, modeling 50%+ and simulation of genetic Undergraduates who major networks, nanotechnology in science or engineering for solar energy and so scientists join an active 17 fuel cells, space physics, community of inquiry of engineering areas of microwave heating both faculty and students. study, all doing world-class and plasma sources, research. tissue engineering of cartilage-bone interface, virtual worlds and <a href="/tags/Augmented_reality/" rel="tag">augmented reality</a>.)</p><p>68 69 Science and Engineering Research: Opportunities Abound There is a lab at Columbia doing cutting-edge research in nearly every sub-field 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 is the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the NASA Goddard Institute, and Nevis Physics Laboratories, just to name a few.</p><p>Sheldon Kwok Sarah Glazer John Ruan Danielle Bitterman 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 on As part of the project we photons emanating from the Department of studying the properties of have been collaborating supernovae in the death Ecology, Evolution, metal nanoparticles with closely with the New York of massive stars and are and Environmental powerful femtosecond Psychiatric Institute and among the most energetic Biology. The department <a href="/tags/Laser/" rel="tag">lasers</a>. These lasers are Franklin Lakes Middle phenomena in the universe. is associated with the so powerful that they School. Franklin Lakes The hope is to try to Center for Environmental can actually remove has a very comprehensive understand the physical Research and Conservation electrons from air! Even autism program. They have processes that produced (CERC) through the Earth as an undergrad, I have been kind enough to these high-energy Institute. CERC is a research been 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, the submitting a publication as allow their students the collapsing star.” 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.” </p><p>Science & Professor of Physics 6,000-pound balloon- QUIET (the Q U Engineering Library Amber Miller borne telescope Imaging Experiment), in the new “NoCo” 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 Northwest Corner background from the emitted by the hot based in Owens Valley, Building includes the Big Bang. She leads plasma leftover from <a href="/tags/California/" rel="tag">California</a> and shown state-of-the-art library Columbia’s E and B the big bang. EBEX in the photo above. and labs as well as a Experiment (EBEX), complements two of lecture hall and café. which consists of a Miller’s other projects, </p><p>70 71 7 Columbia College</p><p>E4 72 73 Areas of Study From understanding the forces of globalization African Studies Computer Science-Mathematics French Neuroscience and Behavior One of Rodin’s bronze African-American Studies Creative Writing French and Francophone Studies Philosophy to grasping life through the prism of a castings of “The American Studies Dance German Literature and Cultural Physics Thinker” appropriately Ancient Studies Drama and Theatre Arts History Political Science gene or a molecule, to expressing human stands before the Anthropology <a href="/tags/Earth_science/" rel="tag">Earth Science</a> Hispanic Studies Political Science-Statistics entrance of Philosophy Applied Mathematics East Asian Languages and Cultures History Portuguese yearning through the arts — in all of the areas Hall. The building houses Archaeology Ecology and Evolution History and Theory of Architecture Psychology several departments, Architecture Economics Human Rights Regional Studies- East/Central calling out for intellectual attention at the including Philosophy, Art History Economics-Mathematics Information Science Europe English and Comparative Art History and Visual Arts Economics-Philosophy Italian Cultural Studies Religion Literature, and French <a href="/tags/Astronomy/" rel="tag">Astronomy</a> Economics-Political Science Italian Literature Russian Language and Culture highest levels, Columbia assembles strengths and Romance Philology. Astrophysics Economics-Statistics Jazz Studies Russian Literature and Culture Biochemistry Education Latin American and Caribbean Slavic Literature and Culture unique among the very best universities. Biology English Studies <a href="/tags/Slavic_studies/" rel="tag">Slavic Studies</a> Biophysics Environmental Biology Linguistics Sociology Columbia College is the epitome of having Business Management Environmental Chemistry Mathematics Statistics Chemical Physics Environmental Science Mathematics-Statistics Sustainable Development your cake and eating it too — all the benefits Chemistry Ethnicity and Race Studies Medieval and Renaissance Studies Urban Studies Classics Evolutionary Biology of the Human Middle Eastern and Asian Visual Arts of a premier liberal arts college and all the Classical Studies Species Languages and Cultures Women’s and Gender Studies Comparative Literature and Society Film Studies Modern Greek Studies <a href="/tags/Yiddish/" rel="tag">Yiddish</a> Studies reach of one of the most exciting research Computer Science Financial Economics Music universities in the world.</p><p>Pre-Professional and Joint Degree Programs ● Premedical, Dental, and Law ● International Affairs Five- ● Law — The AILE (Accelerated ● Juilliard Joint Program — Earn a Programs Year Program — Earn B.A. Interdisciplinary Legal B.A. at Columbia College and an and M.I.A. degrees in five Education) — Earn B.A. and J.D. M.M. from Juilliard in five years ● The Combined Plan Program A renowned college Over 80 areas of Classes and joint years at Columbia College degrees in six years at Columbia or six years depending on area with Columbia Engineering — and Columbia’s School of College and Columbia School of of study. Through the Juilliard of arts and sciences, study from creative programs with Columbia’s Earn both a B.A. at Columbia International and Public Affairs Law. Exchange Program, Columbia College and B.S. at Columbia distinguished by a writing to sustainable prestigious graduate and and Public Administration. students also can be invited Engineering in five years. singular, intensive development to professional schools, to cross-register for weekly ● Public Policy and Administration instrumental, composition, Core Curriculum. Close astrophysics. including law, business, Five-Year Program — Earn B.A. and vocal instruction with the and M.P.A. degrees in five contact with prize- medicine, arts, journalism, Juilliard faculty. winning, <a href="/tags/PATH_(rail_system)/" rel="tag">path</a>-breaking and international and years at Columbia College and Columbia’s School of faculty. public affairs, as well as International and Public Affairs other institutions like The and Public Administration. Students can easily 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 A Few Examples of Goldwater, Marshall, opportunities fueled Research Fellowships Rhodes, and Fulbright by huge resources and Programs programs. (major grants, top ● Biology and Biomedical ● English Classes taught in 50 faculty mentors, Summer Undergraduate Richmond B. Williams Traveling foreign languages premier facilities, and <a href="/tags/Edward_Mendelson/" rel="tag">Edward Mendelson</a>, Research Fellowships Fellowships each year. partnerships with other professor of English ● Political Science and History ● Music and Comparative NYC and global research Edwin Robbins Summer The Rapaport Prize Literature and Research Fellowships ● institutions). Students the Lionel Trilling All Fields ● East Asian Studies John W. Kluge Research often publish in top Professor in the Humanities, with his Weatherhead Undergraduate Fellowships journals and present at Literature Humanities Training Grants conferences world-wide. seminar students. </p><p>74 75 Fearless, Forward-Thinking Graduates Columbia will ask a lot of you but it will also give you every opportunity to find answers. 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. </p><p>Rhodes Scholar Marshall Scholar Global Banker Passionate I came as a freshman 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 to find arts education and pre-law, entirely unexpected. As a graduation, I have earned the courage and confidence and left four years later a sophomore, I took a class my M.B.A. from Harvard to go forward and chase our Rhodes Scholar. After my on colonial <a href="/tags/India/" rel="tag">India</a> to fulfill a Business School and have dreams. Columbia will ask first year, I got an internship Core requirement. I loved worked in investment a lot of you, but in doing in the <a href="/tags/United_States_Senate/" rel="tag">United States Senate</a> the class, and from there banking. Today, I work so, the school goes out working on military and I became interested in with clients and colleagues of its way to provide you defense issues. I also worked colonial and post-colonial around the globe, from with every opportunity part-time from Columbia literature and history. I Tokyo to London, Sao Paulo to find the answers.Most managing a State Attorney began taking <a href="/tags/Hindi/" rel="tag">Hindi</a> and to Hong Kong. My courses importantly, Columbia will General’s race in Montana. Urdu classes and, in the at Columbia changed my surprise you by showing Later I became a delegate spring of my junior year, I life. My favorite course was you a completely new way to the Democratic studied abroad in <a href="/tags/Hyderabad/" rel="tag">Hyderabad</a>, Contemporary Civilization. to think and feel about National Convention India. Last summer, I went Nothing has ever challenged the world we live in…. and one of two interns in to Dublin on a fellowship me like that course. My We have seen our biggest the country working on from the Columbia English Columbia classmates were dreams come true with health care reform at the Department, where I (and still are) the most <a href="/tags/Next_to_Normal/" rel="tag">Next to Normal</a>, a piece that U.S. Senate Committee researched the influence brilliant, opinionated, demanded from us the on Finance. In the fall of of Indian philosophy articulate, provocative folks utmost passion, dedication, my senior year, I learned I on the Irish poet W. B. I know. and risk; all of these things had been awarded both the Yeats — research that Lisa Landau Carnoy we learned at Columbia, <a href="/tags/Marshall_Scholarship/" rel="tag">Marshall Scholarship</a> and the I incorporated into my CC ‘89 the place that truly laid the Rhodes Scholarship. I felt senior English thesis and Managing Director foundation for our lives as very lucky, though I really positioned me so well for a and Global Co-Head of working artists. have the dedicated work of Marshall Scholarship. Capital Markets Tom Kitt CC ’96 and the Fellowships Office and Anna Feuer Bank of America Merrill Lynch <a href="/tags/Brian_Yorkey/" rel="tag">Brian Yorkey</a> CC ’93 Columbia faculty to thank. CC ‘11 Pulitzer Prize and Raphael Graybill Pursuing Master’s in Global Tony Award-winners for CC ’10 and Imperial History funded Next to Normal Pursuing Master’s in by Marshall Scholarship Political Theory at Oxford University</p><p>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 dorm hallways and cafés — various groups weighing in on each other’s conversations.</p><p>76 77 8 Columbia Engineering</p><p>F2 79 Areas of Study One of a handful of top universities in the world Applied Mathematics Computer Engineering Engineering Management Systems Mechanical Engineering Applied Physics Computer Science Engineering Mechanics Operations Research with leading thinkers in engineering as well as Biomedical Engineering Earth and Environmental Financial Engineering Chemical Engineering Engineering Industrial Engineering every discipline and department. An unparalleled Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Materials Science and Engineering breadth of majors and minors, professional-level Engineering Core Classes The Art of Engineering: Sampling of Professional-Level Columbia Core Classes courses, hands-on design projects, research First-Year Design Course Courses ● Art Humanities or Music Chemistry ● Atomic-Scale Engineering of Humanities Computer Science and internships in New York City and around New Materials Economics ● Literature Humanities, the world, and Columbia’s legendary Core Math ● Design of Buildings, Bridges, Contemporary Civilization, or Physics and Spacecraft Global Core Curriculum — it’s a package you can’t find ● Engineering in Medicine ● University Writing anywhere other than Columbia Engineering. ● Molecular Engineering and ● Physical Education Product Design</p><p>Engineering Minors Liberal Arts Minors Applied Mathematics Engineering Mechanics Architecture History Applied Physics Entrepreneurship and Innovation Art History Latin Biomedical Engineering Industrial Engineering Dance Middle Eastern, South Asian and The nation’s third- 17 engineering areas Global Study and Chemical Engineering Materials Science and Engineering East Asian Studies African Studies oldest engineering of study and an Internships: International Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Economics Music Computer Science Operations Research English and Comparative Literature Philosophy school. engineering Core experience geared to Earth and Environmental Sustainable Engineering French Political Science Curriculum. engineers and summer Engineering French and Francophone Studies Psychology internships around the Electrical Engineering German Religion Greek Sociology country through our Hispanic Studies Statistics Science, Technology, The Fu Foundation The top university in Engineering Program School of Engineering the country for revenue Over 20 minors (STEP). and Applied Science produced by patents in the liberal arts, occupies a cluster of buildings on the held by faculty. plus innovative north end of campus. interdisciplinary The cluster includes minors in emerging the Schapiro Center fields. Entrepreneurial spirit: A for Engineering and Physical Science minor in Entrepreneurship Research (shared with Created with both A university that is and Innovation, venture the Graduate School of education and home to more Nobel competitions for new ideas, Arts and Sciences), the interaction in mind, Seeley Wintersmith the Botwinick Prize winners than any collaboration with the Mudd building, the Multimedia Learning other university in the Undergraduate <a href="/tags/Columbia_Business_School/" rel="tag">Columbia Business School</a>, Computer Science Lab is an innovative Ivy League. Research Involvement and an entrepreneurship building, and the facility for computer- Engineering Terrace. aided design with Program (URIP): residential community. Among the state- 50 state-of-the-art An imperative to of-the-art facilities workstations, a full involve undergraduates for engineers and set of professional- scientists is also grade engineering in major research the new Northwest software tools and a unites all engineering Corner Building — collaborative learning departments. Opportunities for classes, an interdisciplinary environment to help science and students engage in Undergraduates are joint programs, and engineering teaching real-world interactions part of research teams research in partnership and laboratory with community in labs and institutes with Columbia’s other complex that includes clients, Columbia one of the world’s Engineering faculty, across campus and in world-class professional largest science library and professional the city. and graduate schools. collections. practitioners.</p><p>80 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.</p><p>Google Innovator Cardiovascular Space Explorer Financial At Columbia, I majored Pioneer Columbia not only provided Interdisciplinarian in computer science. I did I work with embryonic me with an outstanding Coming out of high school, undergraduate research with stem cell-derived heart education, but also with I didn’t want to be set apart the Center for Computational cells to investigate how a sense that I could as an engineer. I wanted to Learning Systems and we can mediate repair in accomplish whatever I work with people from the Cardiac Biomechanics the heart. The practical set out to do in life. I could different backgrounds, Group. But the beauty of applications of my work are have never dreamed how and I wanted to contribute Columbia was that it also all in the near future, where fulfilling my life would to the community. I allowed me to do more I hope we can make some be and how much I would majored in operations than engineering, which significant contributions enjoy my career. But I did research and minored in actually makes me a better to the already large body of know that deciding on economics and technological engineer. I was a member knowledge of cell therapy Columbia would be a terrific entrepreneurship. Today, of the editorial board of the for cardiovascular diseases. start to whatever might I work for JPMorgan Columbia Spectator, an officer As an undergraduate, I was lie ahead. I believe that analyzing complex systems, in a fraternity, designed given the opportunity to do every opportunity I have working with people in every the electronics system for a lot of independent work had in my career was built department across the bank, a student-built racecar, was in designing and carrying on the strong foundation and staying aware of what’s a teaching assistant for two out experiments, writing that Columbia provided. I happening in the world master’s level computer research papers, and traveling have had the good fortune — not just in finance. It’s science courses, and to conferences and meeting to have flown on two Space the perfect job coming out mentored an elementary other researchers. Now, as Shuttle missions, and on of Columbia Engineering. school student in the <a href="/tags/Harlem/" rel="tag">Harlem</a> a first-year Ph.D. student each of them I paid tribute Columbia Engineering lets Robotics program. who holds an National to Columbia. On my first you apply your passion, Chase Hensel Science Foundation Graduate spaceflight in March of your skills, in the real SEAS ’10 Research Fellowship, I am 2002, I flew a Columbia world. You become a social Google’s Associate Product continuing the work that Engineering flag on board innovator and a technical Management Program initially attracted me to Space Shuttle Columbia. entrepreneur. biomedical engineering. That flag is now on display at Stephanie Hwang Amandine the Engineering School. SEAS ’10 Godier-Furnémont Michael J. Massimino Analyst SEAS ’09 SEAS ’84 JPMorgan Chase Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Astronaut Engineering</p><p>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.</p><p>82 83 9 Community, Columbia Style</p><p>D2 85 It starts with the people. Columbia is a Columbia guarantees its own village within Student photographers “99 Columbians” The entire place of great friendships, a place where housing for all four Manhattan. More Angela Radulescu multimedia project. 99 Columbians years and 95% of than a place to live, and Bennett Hong in The goal was to “bring project can be connecting is a way of life. Being surrounded our students live on Columbia is a vibrant collaboration with together people that found at www. campus. Columbia is residential community. Ryan Bubinski, a make up Columbia’s 99Columbians.com. student programmer, uniquely diverse by so many incredible people all in one independently student body.” spot makes the global and the grand human developed the and personal. </p><p>Justyna Kosianka, Kamsen Lau, Brianna Gibson, Andra Mihali, Phillip Dupree, Elizabeth Jacob, Juan Estrada, Colleen Sha er, <a href="/tags/Staten_Island/" rel="tag">Staten Island</a>, NY Hong Kong, Hong Kong Landover, MD Bala Mare, Romania Forestville, MD Old Westbury, NY Coral Gables, FL Bethesda, MD</p><p>Adam Sie , Lawrence Anglin, Martin Hamery, Diana Levy, Nilkanth Patel, Cindy Zhang, Penelope Lin, Alex Jones, Encino, CA Somerset, NJ St. German Cedex, <a href="/tags/France/" rel="tag">France</a> Toronto, Canada Ramsey, NJ Indianapolis, IN Atherton, CA Shawnee Mission, KS</p><p>Deiby Barrientos, Andrew Altamirano, Paula Gergen, Maddy Kloss, Mario Luna, Nettra Pan, Yaniris Gomez, Keating McKeon, New York, NY Orlando, FL San Antonio, TX Phoenix, AZ New York, NY Phnom Penh, Cambodia Haymarket, VA West Hartford, CT</p><p>Gillian Rhodes, Carolyn Matos, Chase Larson, Maya Inamura, Eva Suarez, Justin Chow, Cody Haefner, Mark Browning, Evergreen, CO San Juan, PR Mt. Pleasant, UT Tokyo, Japan Washington, D.C. North Hollywood, CA Pittsford, NY <a href="/tags/Colorado/" rel="tag">Colorado</a> Springs, CO</p><p>86 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 Flatiron District Brazil to the world-class city we are part of, and into the world itself. Times Square Uganda</p><p>Egypt</p><p>Brooklyn Bridge</p><p>Central Park SoHo France Book Culture <a href="/tags/Columbus_Circle/" rel="tag">Columbus Circle</a> bookstore at 113th Street Farmer’s Market at <a href="/tags/United_Arab_Emirates/" rel="tag">United Arab Emirates</a> 116th Street West Village</p><p>Riverside Park American Museum of Little Italy Natural History</p><p>India</p><p>Wall Street Tom’s Restaurant Chinatown St. John the Divine China</p><p>1 Train Columbia University Chelsea Medical Center</p><p>Columbia Our Neighborhood Our City The World</p><p>5,800 undergraduates share Columbia’s neighborhood is We share the neighborhood The Columbia University There may be no easier way to Columbia is a microcosm of the You’re prepared to be at home this beautiful place to live, study, Morningside Heights, which with several other <a href="/tags/College/" rel="tag">colleges</a> — subway stop links you to every move to New York than to be a world and so is New York. As a anywhere in the world — play, work, research, and relax. stretches from 106th to 125th Barnard College, Manhattan other corner of the city. Columbian with a ready-made student here you truly become stay in New York, move to Streets and is bordered by School of Music, Union and coveted place to live, a fantastic a citizen of the world — with London or Dubai, San Francisco Central Park, Morningside Park, Jewish Theological Seminaries, circle of friends, an intellectual- friends and connections on or Washington, D.C. And you civicly engaged-nurturing campus, in the city, and around will already have a network and Riverside Park. and Bank Street College of New York is a city of community, automatic ties to the globe. of Columbia alumni when you Education — creating our neighborhoods — accessible a vast cultural and professional get there. own brand of New York City and magni icent all at the network, and transportation Rich in both American and college town. same time. Columbian history and teeming to the entire city steps away You gain the knowledge with the energy of Columbia from campus. and skills of an unparalleled At Columbia your community undergraduates, Morningside education. You gain an is the world. Heights is a charming residential independence and a con idence enclave that is at once bustling from living in New York that and intimate. no other city can provide. </p><p>Many undergraduate professors live in the surrounding neighborhood so Columbia is their home too.</p><p>88 89 Our Neighborhood, Our City Traditionally collegiate, Morningside Heights is “ What surprised me was how one family of a vibrant intellectual community. Students visit professors who live students can own a part of New York. All day, in nearby apartments for informal o ce all night, you’ll see friends and professors hours, drop in at 24-hour eateries, and feel the bohemian buzz of the walking down Broadway. When you pull into neighborhood that once drew Allen Ginsberg, the subway station at 116th and Broadway, the Jack Kerouac, and sign says Columbia, the walls are light blue, Langston Hughes. and you get o and think, ‘This stop is mine.’ ”   , Scarsdale, NY; English and Art History</p><p>B1</p><p>90 91 Home, Not Just Home Base “ Professors want to know you as a person. My Arabic professor is like When you’re completely engrossed in conversation with your new fl oormates an uncle to me; he invites his as you look out over the city lit up by a million lights … When you’re sitting next classes to his house for potlucks to an amazing alum at one of the frequent residence hall dinners … When you’re with his family.” “ As a irst-year living in the Living Seth Anziska having hot chocolate with suitemates while you help them pick out Halloween Learning Center (LLC), I really Teaneck, NJ; History costumes … When you bump into a professor you had last term who wants to enjoyed getting to know the know all about what you’re up to — at times like these you will suddenly realize upperclassmen in my suite. They gave great advice on classes and Each residence hall has that Columbia is more home than home base and the people around you are their favorite professors. The LLC a network of students more family than just friends. also sponsored alumni dinners (I met Dean-in-Residence and (Resident Advisers on every the founder of FEED Foundation!), Alumni Dinners loor and a Community free trips to the NYC opera, and Deans-in-Residence host monthly Adviser) to create programs other ield trips like kayaking on the dinners with small groups of and build community. Hudson River.” students and prominent alumni. Mary Kircher Students and alumni love how easy Biddeford, ME; Economics it is to strike an instant rapport with one another because of their common Core experience.</p><p>“ The best thing about living in John Jay is the social component: Special Interest everyone leaves their doors open to socialize. I loved being able to Communities walk down the hall and stop to have A unique residential experience, Living Learning Center four di erent conversations and Special Interest Communities enable sophomores, juniors, and The only irst-year/sophomore/ I probably spent more time in my seniors to live and explore common junior/senior integrated residential friend’s room than in my own.” interests together. Examples of community on campus, this unique J.T. Ramseur “ On my loor of Carman Hall, we had SICs include: Casa Latina, living <a href="/tags/Arrangement/" rel="tag">arrangement</a> can ease a irst- Monterey, CA; Psychology weekly study breaks organized by Community Health House, and year’s transition to college, providing our Resident Adviser. Each week, Writer’s House, among several guidance regarding community, two people would be responsible others. SICs have faculty advisors involvement in life at Columbia, for getting food and activities and create opportunities for class selection, exam preparation, for the whole loor. At 10 P.M. on students to connect with relevant and room selection. Close-knit Wednesday nights, we all gathered faculty, administrators, alumni, relationships between irst-years, in the hallway for pizza night, ice and community leaders. sophomores, juniors, seniors, alumni, cream night, cooking night! We also faculty, administrators, and visiting always played a board game, like guests are the hallmark foundation Apples to Apples, for an hour. It was of the LLC. the perfect way to relax after a tough day of studying.” “ Getting ready to go out on a Mytra Haerizadeh Saturday night, and realizing New Haven, CT; Hispanic Studies everything you’re wearing is First-year students live in borrowed from di erent friends. ive di erent residence halls, Res. Inc. That’s when you know you’re family.” all at the heart of campus. The Engineering-Entrepreneurship Michelle Diamond Residential Initiative, a.k.a. Res. Students are guaranteed Miami, FL; Political Science Inc., puts students with a bent for housing for all four years. entrepreneurship into one residential area for living and learning. Housed in Hartley-<a href="/tags/Wallach_Hall/" rel="tag">Wallach Hall</a>, this unique living environment allows young entrepreneurs to conceptualize, create, and problem solve together. Faculty-in-Residence They also have programs speci ically Professors and their families live designed for them like small “ Fifty years from now, this is the kind on campus too, hosting dinners, group dinners with successful guest lectures, study breaks, and entrepreneurs. other programs in their homes. The of thing we’ll remember: sitting in the connection to these professors outside of class gives students hallway with a bunch of friends, talking more ways to create meaningful and lasting friendships with faculty. about books until two in the morning.”  , Benicia, CA; History</p><p>92 93 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.</p><p>Media and Publications Academic Society of Women Engineers Take Back the Night <a href="/tags/The_Birch/" rel="tag">The Birch</a> - a journal for Eastern Chandler Society for VDay European and Eurasian Undergraduate Chemistry Women in Politics Studies Columbia Architecture Society Women’s History Month The Blue and <a href="/tags/White/" rel="tag">White</a> Columbia-Barnard Economics Women’s International Business The <a href="/tags/Columbia_Daily_Spectator/" rel="tag">Columbia Daily Spectator</a> Student Government Society Council Columbia Journal of Literary Activities Board at Columbia Columbia University Criticism (CJLC) Columbia College Student Environmental Biology Columbia Political Review (CPR) Council Society The Columbia Review (Literary Community Impact Columbia Forum for Society, Magazine) Engineering Student Council Science and Religion Columbia Science Review InterGreek Council (CFSSR) (CSR) Multicultural Greek Council Columbia Math Club Columbia Undergraduate Law Student Governing Board Columbia Neuroscience Political/Activist Review Society Action for Immigrant Rights Columbia Undergraduate Student Initiatives Columbia New Poetry American Civil Liberties Union Journal of History Education Society Amnesty International (student-led programs in Columbia University Science Human Rights Society Campaign to End the Death conjunction with Journal (CUSJ) Political Science Students Penalty administrative support) The Columbian (Yearbook) Association (PSSA) Colleges Against Cancer Academic Success Programs Consilience: The Journal of Society of Physics Students Columbia Anti-War Coalition Columbia Mentoring Initiative Sustainable Development Columbia College Conservative (CMI) The Current (Journal of Jewish Club Columbia University Scholars Studies) Columbia College Libertarians Alliance The Federalist Paper Columbia Global Justice Committee on Instruction The Gad ly Magazine Columbia Global Solutions Committee on the Core (Philosophy) Columbia Green Party Community Principles Initiative Environmental <a href="/tags/Jester_of_Columbia/" rel="tag">Jester of Columbia</a> University Columbia <a href="/tags/International_relations/" rel="tag">International Relations</a> Days of Dialogue Columbia/Barnard Earth Journal of Politics & Society Council and Association Double Discovery Center Coalition The Proxy Magazine Columbia Net Impact Freedom School Columbia University Food Rhapsody in Blue Columbia Political Union Gay Health Advocacy Project Sustainability Project Tablet Columbia Student Solidarity (GHAP) CoreFoods Food Cooperative Tectonic Network Global Recruitment Committee Green Umbrella at Columbia Triple Helix Columbia Students for Go Ask Alice! University WBAR Radio International Service Intercultural Resource Center Students for Economic and WKCRFM Columbia Students for Justice in (IRC) Environmental Justice Palestine Multicultural Recruitment Columbia UNICEF Committee Gender and Sexuality Columbia University College O ice of Multicultural A airs <a href="/tags/Athena/" rel="tag">Athena</a> Pre-Law Society Democrats Advisory Board Columbia Queer Alliance Columbia University College President’s Council on Diversity Columbia Men Against Republicans President’s Council on Student Violence Columbia University A airs Everyone Allied Against Development Initiatives ROOTEd Homophobia Columbia University Liberty in SisterCircle Feminist Thought North Korea Students of Color Leadership Feminists United on Campus Democracy Matters Retreat (SOCLR) Gayava FEED @ Columbia University Student Enterprises Undergraduate Recruitment GendeRevolution & Queer FeelGood CU Columbia Bartending Agency Committee Peers and Allies Hamilton Society and School of Mixology Voices Raised Mujeres International Socialist Columbia Organization of Productive Outreach for Organization Rising Entrepreneurs Women Jews for Social Justice Columbia University Tutoring Proud Colors LionPAC and Translating Agency Q House LUCHA (CUTTA) Queer Awareness Month PROIsrael PROgressives Inside New York magazine Smart Women Lead</p><p>94 95 Scientists and Engineers for a Parliamentary Debate Team A Cappella Columbia Classical Performers Columbia-China Law and Society for International Dimensions (South Asian) United Students of Color Council Better Society Quiz Bowl Columbia Concerts Business Association Undergraduates French Cultural Society Vietnamese Students Association Bacchantae SNAG: Supporting Native Society of Automotive Columbia Middle Eastern Music Columbia Pre-Law Society Transfer Alliance Grupo Quisqueyano Yiddish Club Cle hangers American Growth Engineers Ensemble Columbia Women’s Business U.S. Military Veterans of Haitian Students Association Gospel Choir Student Coalition on Expansion Solar Splash Columbia New Music Society Columbia University Hapa Club Jubilation! Religious/Spiritual and Gentri ication Columbia University Glee Club CU American Medical Students Hellas Kingsmen Ahimsa Students Against Imperialism Columbia University Marching Association Hong Kong Students and Metrotones Cultural Apostolos Campus Ministry Students Against Silence Band Institute of Electrical and Scholars Society Nonsequitur Acción Boricua Asian Baptist Student Koinonia Students for a Free Tibet Columbia University Orchestra Electronics Engineers Korean Students Association Notes and Keys African Students Association Augustine Club Students for Choice Columbia University Wind Multicultural Business Latino Heritage Month Pizmon Ahimsa Baha’i Club of Columbia Students for an Orwellian Ensemble Association (MBA) Liga Filipina S’madar Armenian Club University Society CU Guitar Ensemble National Society of Black Malama Hawaii Uptown Vocal Asian American Alliance Baptist Campus Ministry Students for Organ Donation Duo Piano Engineers (NSBE) Multicultural International Asian Paci ic American Beit Midrash Students for Sensible Drug Flute Choir Society of Hispanic Student Association Awareness Month Bhakti Club Policy Japanese Gagaku Ensemble Professional Engineers Native American Council Service Black Heritage Month Canterbury Club Students Promoting Louis Armstrong Jazz (SHPE) Native American Heritage Advocacy Coalition Black Organization of Soul Chai Society (<a href="/tags/Chabad/" rel="tag">Chabad</a>) Empowerment and Performance Program Month Afterhours Tutoring Sisters Columbia Buddhist Meditation Knowledge (SPEaK) Ensembles Organization of Pakistani America Reads Black Students’ Organization Group Students United for America Klezmer Band Students Artists Reaching Out (ARO) Caribbean Students Columbia Catholic Toward Reconciliation Latin American Ensemble Polish Club Asian Youth Program Association Undergraduates Working Family Party Morningside Opera Russian International Barnard-Columbia Mentor Celebration of Black Columbia Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) Postcrypt Co eehouse Association Program Special Interest Womanhood Week Columbia Sikh Student Sounds of China Singapore Students Greek Life Big Sibs Anime Club Chicano Caucus Association Dance Association Alpha Chi Omega Sorority Bikkur Cholim Chess Club Chinese Students Club Columbia Students for Christ Ballroom Dance Southeast Asian League (SEAL) Alpha <a href="/tags/Delta_Phi/" rel="tag">Delta Phi</a> Society Blue Key Society Columbia Sign Language Club Club Bangla Columbia/Barnard Hillel Columbia Ballet Collaborative Sprockets (German) Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity Columbia Adaptive Sports Columbia University Science Club Zamana Garin Lavi Columbia Tango Student Organization of Latinos Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Organization Fiction Society Columbia Iranian Students Hindu Students Organization Columbia University Dance (SOL) Alpha <a href="/tags/Phi_Alpha_(fraternity)/" rel="tag">Phi Alpha</a> Fraternity Columbia Community Conversio Virium Association (Santhana Dharma Sanga) Team Theatre Taiwanese American Students Beta Theta Pi Fraternity Outreach (CCO) Culinary Society Columbia Japan Society Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Columbia University Raas Association <a href="/tags/Delta_Gamma/" rel="tag">Delta Gamma</a> Sorority Columbia Engineers Without Black Theater Ensemble CU Sign Columbia porColombia Israel Alliance Columbia University Society of Thai Student Association <a href="/tags/Delta_Sigma_Phi/" rel="tag">Delta Sigma Phi</a> Fraternity Borders Chowdah Sketch Comedy Games Club Columbia University Chinese Israel Va’ad Hip-Hop Turath: The Arab Students Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Columbia University Dance Columbia Classical Performers <a href="/tags/Nightline/" rel="tag">Nightline</a> Peer Counseling Students and Scholars Jehovah’s Witnesses Columbia University Step Team Organization at Columbia <a href="/tags/Kappa_Alpha_Psi/" rel="tag">Kappa Alpha Psi</a> Fraternity Marathon Columbia Musical Theatre <a href="/tags/Philolexian_Society/" rel="tag">Philolexian Society</a> Association Jewish Meditation Columbia University Swing University <a href="/tags/Kappa_Alpha_Theta/" rel="tag">Kappa Alpha Theta</a> Sorority Columbia University Global Society Skip Stop Commuter Cuban and American Students Kesher cuBHANGRA Turkish Student Association Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity Brigades Columbia Players Organization Association (CASA) Koach CU Step Ukrainian Students Society <a href="/tags/Kappa_Phi_Lambda/" rel="tag">Kappa Phi Lambda</a> Sorority Columbia Urban Experience Columbia University Performing Kochol v’lavan Dole <a href="/tags/Lambda_Phi_Epsilon/" rel="tag">Lambda Phi Epsilon</a> Fraternity Community Lunch Arts League Korea Campus Crusade for Christ Lion Dance <a href="/tags/Lambda_Pi_Chi/" rel="tag">Lambda Pi Chi</a> Sorority Community Youth Fruit Paunch Improv Troupe Korean Christian Students Ho-Heup Drum Troupe <a href="/tags/Lambda_Upsilon_Lambda/" rel="tag">Lambda Upsilon Lambda</a> CU Smile Hillel Theatre Arts Group Association Onyx Fraternity Emergency Food Pantry/The King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe Latter-Day Saints Student Orchesis Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Clothes Closet L’Atelier Association Radiance Dance Troupe Pan-Hellenic Council FAN (Food Stamps Awareness) LateNite Theatre Muslim Students Association Raw Elementz Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Golden Key Society NOMADS Orthodox Christian Fellowship Sabor <a href="/tags/Phi_Iota_Alpha/" rel="tag">Phi Iota Alpha</a> Fraternity Health Education Awareness Varsity Show Remnant Christian Fellowship Taal <a href="/tags/Pi_Delta_Psi/" rel="tag">Pi Delta Psi</a> Fraternity League (HEAL) Sephardic Club Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Habitat for Humanity Seudah Slisheet Psi Upsilon Fraternity Harlem Restoration Project Seventh-Day Adventists Sigma Chi Fraternity Hispanic Scholarship Fund Shabbat Meals Sigma Delta Tau Sorority Chapter at Columbia University Bible Fellowship <a href="/tags/Sigma_Iota_Alpha/" rel="tag">Sigma Iota Alpha</a> Sorority J.E.E.P. Citizenship Classes Film and Visual Arts Veritas Forum <a href="/tags/Sigma_Lambda_Upsilon/" rel="tag">Sigma Lambda Upsilon</a> Sorority J.E.E.P. College Road Women’s T’ illah Artist Society Sigma Nu Fraternity J.E.E.P. Computer Training Yavneh Columbia University Film Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity J.E.E.P. ESL Classes Productions St. Anthony Hall J.E.E.P. GED/ABE Classes Columbia University <a href="/tags/Theta_Nu_Xi/" rel="tag">Theta Nu Xi</a> Sorority J.E.E.P. Job Road Photography Society <a href="/tags/Zeta_Beta_Tau/" rel="tag">Zeta Beta Tau</a> Fraternity Kraft Food Pantry Pre-Professional Columbia University National <a href="/tags/Zeta_Psi/" rel="tag">Zeta Psi</a> Fraternity Let’s Get Ready American Institute of Chemical Undergraduate Film Festival Mentor High School Extension Engineers Columbia University Television One to One Tutoring American Society of Civil Academic Competition Ferris Reel Film Society PS 165 Tutoring Engineers American Institute of Postcrypt Art Gallery Aeronautics and Peace by PEACE American Society of Mechanical Astronautics Project for the Homeless Engineers Music Columbia Policy Debate Union Project HEALTH Association for Computing Activities Day, held <a href="/tags/Mock_trial/" rel="tag">Mock Trial</a> Team Project Sunshine Harlem Bach Society Machinery on College Walk each <a href="/tags/Model_Congress/" rel="tag">Model Congress</a> Hospital Barnard-Columbia Chorus and Barnard-Columbia Undergraduate fall, features hundreds <a href="/tags/Model_United_Nations/" rel="tag">Model United Nations</a> Project Sunshine Book Buddies Chamber Choir Public Health Society of student clubs Relay for Life Bluegrass Band Biomedical Engineering Society and organizations Student Help for the Aging Chamber Music Ensembles Charles Drew Premedical Society welcoming new TLC Play Group <a href="/tags/Collegium_Musicum/" rel="tag">Collegium Musicum</a> members.</p><p>96 97 Roar, Lion, Roar 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 o ers 31 NCAA Division I varsity sports, and 45+ club and 40+ intramural sports. With 14 Ivy League Championships since 2007 and several Olympians and Olympic medalists, Columbia has an exceptional program and tradition for serious players or any athlete or fan with a fi erce love of the game. </p><p>Squash Shotokan Karate Swimming & Diving Ski Racing Tennis Swing Dance 34 Track & Field: Indoor Table Tennis Olympians Men’s Varsity Sports Track & Field: Outdoor Tae Kwon Do Volleyball Tennis Men’s Varsity Sports Triathlon Baseball Ultimate Frisbee (Men) Basketball Ultimate Frisbee (Women) Cross Country Volleyball (Men) Fencing 13 Volleyball (Women) <a href="/tags/Football/" rel="tag">Football</a> <a href="/tags/Water/" rel="tag">Water</a> Polo (Men) NCAA team Golf championships Rowing: Heavyweight Rowing: Lightweight Soccer Squash Club Sports Swimming & Diving Aikido Tennis Archery 47 Track & Field: Indoor Badminton Track & Field: Outdoor Ballroom Dance NCAA individual Wrestling Bowling championships Boxing Training Intramural Teams Brazilian Ju Jitsu (Co-ed, Men’s, and Women’s Capoeira teams and tournaments in Cycling several of the following sports) Equestrian Basketball Figure Skating Dodgeball 14 Go Ju Ryu Karate Floor Hockey Ivy League Hiking Football Championship Hockey (Men) Indoor Soccer teams in the last Women’s Varsity Sports Hockey (Women) Kickball Kayaking Outdoor Soccer four years. Archery Kendo Racquetball Basketball Lacrosse (Men) Squash Cheerleading Masters Swim Volleyball Cross Country Moy Yee Martial Arts Fencing Racquetball Field Hockey Road Runners Golf Rock Climbing Lacrosse Rugby (Men) Rowing Rugby (Women) Soccer Sailing Softball</p><p>“ I love Friday nights in February when the From a 150+ year campus is serene, but you walk into Levien tradition of rowing excellence on the Hudson to our long- Gymnasium, and there’s suddenly the standing football rivalry with the blaring noises of referee whistles, the band <a href="/tags/Fordham_Rams/" rel="tag">Fordham Rams</a> for the Liberty Cup, the <a href="/tags/Columbia_Lions/" rel="tag">Columbia Lions</a> playing, and the packed house yelling.” have a rich history of   , Coppell, TX; American Studies competitive spirit.</p><p>98 99 10 Columbia Moments: Tried and True Blue</p><p>E3 100 101 Orgo Night Merriment Varsity Show, Columbia moments: they happen because of The night before the Organic Chemistry Final — Orgo Night. Opening Night Each year our Bacchanal the people who come here and because of our festival brings a free On this night in December and again in May, the main study I saw a thousand students concert to campus. Past room in Butler Library starts getting packed around 11:30 pm. spiraling up the Lerner history. They happen because this city is performers have included You see practically everyone you know and despite being ramps, waiting to go inside, Kanye West, Common, At midnight part of us and we are part of it. Completely Outkast, Snoop Dogg, finals week, everyone is excited and happy. all obviously taking a break <a href="/tags/Talib_Kweli/" rel="tag">Talib Kweli</a>, and Vampire sharp, you hear the sound of instruments and all from studying for finals. Weekend. Student bands of a sudden, the marching band storms into the room I thought of how unique this unique to each student yet, oh so Columbia. also compete in a Battle of the Bands. In fact, playing songs and reading jokes while the rest of us are tradition was: Columbia’s They could only happen here. the Columbia alumni standing on the tables and chairs dancing and laughing. big end of the year bang was who formed Vampire debbie goodman, Lido Beach, NY; CC a musical in which the whole Weekend first played at a Columbia Engineering school comes together to Battle of the Bands. poke fun at ourselves. I thought about how I had been running around the city all day, looking for the most specialized lighting “ The night started the way most nights do equipment or set dressing. I when the weather is nice: on Low Steps. thought about how incredibly talented everyone was The plan: meet for dinner at Columbia that I had the good fortune to work with. More than Cottage, stroll down Amsterdam, explore anything, what made that moment so Columbia was Midtown. But as we were leaving we the combination of tradition and freshness. It was the bumped into another group of friends. 116th time the students had assembled, but we were still Ideas were exchanged. Dinner was now presenting this new show. a quick bite at John Jay. The stroll had will hughes, San Jose, CA; CC turned into a walk along 116th to watch a movie in Riverside Park.” henry jones, Rochester, NY; SEAS</p><p>A Year in Columbia Traditions</p><p>The Varsity Show, an entirely student-run performance, has been produced for over a century. The Varsity Show helped launch the creative genius of Rodgers and Hammerstein as well as Brian Yorkey Columbia Outdoor Orientation New Student Orientation Program President’s Annual Fun Run World Leaders Forum and Tom Kitt. Program (August) (August) (September) (September)</p><p>102 103 Unexpected Advice I’d just finished a round robin set of squash games with some kids on my floor when a man who introduced himself as Jeff asked me to play a couple of games. I made quite a fool of myself “ My fellow first-years and I arrived at losing about five games 9-0. Now well aware that my squash game needed a lot of improvement, I asked him for some advice. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Not only did he give me great constructive criticism but he stayed to practice some of the methods. When we decided to Professorial Lunch one of the most renowned museums call it quits, he told me I should come to the next orchestra When I got an e-mail freshman concert. Turned out I just played a pickup game of squash year from my Chemistry in the world, shocked to find the with the director of the Columbia orchestra. I couldn’t professor, Ged Parkin, to have museum reserved exclusively for us. help but smile. billy fink, Franklin Lakes, NJ; CC lunch with him and some of my classmates, I immediately It was then that I saw the vast amount Spring Awakening replied yes. At the lunch, I had just gone to see Spring Professor Parkin talked of resources offered not only by the Awakening (free tickets!) with about the amount and depth a group of fellow Columbia of research that goes on at university, but also by New York City freshmen. Afterward, as we Columbia every single day. stood on the corner of 50th “ Activities that combine classic college But what stuck with me to Columbia students.” and Broadway waiting for experiences with the unique influence most was when he casually jake goren, Encino, CA; SEAS the light to change, one of us referenced a friend of mentioned that one of the of New York are ‘Columbian’ to me. his named <a href="/tags/Brian_Greene/" rel="tag">Brian Greene</a>, characters had referenced a world-famous string Achilles and Patroklos from Perhaps the best example of this balance theorist. It was one thing to The Iliad, who we had just be an undergraduate student at been learning about in Lit was a weekend this fall when, within Columbia; it was another to be Hum. Suddenly the entire invited into some of the most group launched into a 48 hours, I met Maggie Gyllenhaal while complicated scientific dialogue Pausing the President discussion/debate/free-for- with some of the brightest Fifteen members of John Jay 12 are crowded around my laptop all about the relationship buying apples at the Columbia Farmer’s professors in their fields so early as I stream President Obama’s address to Congress on health between the two. I realized Market, tried dim sum for the first time in my academic career. care. While the President’s speech lasted an hour, it took a minute later that we had kunal gupta, us until 4 AM to finish listening. Every five minutes we been talking so intensely with my floormates in Chinatown, Bethlehem, PA; SEAS would pause the feed to debate what the President had just we’d missed the light. We’d said. The debate was the most energetic I’d ever witnessed, also just acted out every and met the President of <a href="/tags/Denmark/" rel="tag">Denmark</a> after and it was all due to the fact that every person watching that Columbia guide book cliché speech had a different perspective on the matter: There was about the unifying power of sitting in the front row at his talk an international student from Britain, an arch-conservative, the Core Curriculum. a student whose mom had never been able to afford health stephen davan, on global climate change and policy.” insurance, and I was in the middle just trying to keep up! Hartsdale, NY ; CC alison hard, Avon, CT; CC steele sternberg, Denver, CO; CC</p><p>A Year in Columbia Traditions (Continued)</p><p>Homecoming (October) Midnight Mania (November) Orgo Night (December) Tree Lighting/Yule Log Ceremony Sledding on Low Steps (January) Glass House Rocks (February) Holi Hindu Festival (April) Bacchanal (April) (December)</p><p>104 105 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 fi eld, crew, tennis, 11 as one of the most lacrosse, fi eld hockey, beautiful places in the softball, and soccer Blue View: country to watch a teams. 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