Columbia's Manhattanville Campus Earns LEED Platinum for Neighborhood Plan

A revitalized West 130th Street will provide access to an approximately one-acre public square that will add open space where none currently exists. (Image credit: Field Operations)

Columbia University’s environmentally sustainable design and overall project plan for its 17-acre Manhattanville campus in West Harlem has earned LEED® Platinum under the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system established by the U.S. Green Building Council—its highest designation and the first LEED-ND Platinum certification in New York City, as well as the first Platinum certification for a university campus plan nationally.

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Notable Speakers and Remarkable Graduates Highlight 2012 University Commencementvideo icon

Notable Speakers and Remarkable Graduates Highlight 2012 University Commencement

This year, approximately 13,423 degrees will be conferred on graduates from Columbia’s 13 graduate schools and its three undergraduate institutions.

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Law School Study Suggests Wrongful Execution of Texas Man

An narrative highlighted in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review sheds new light on the 1989 execution of 26-year-old Carlos DeLuna in Texas.

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Commencement Week 2012

View a slideshow of photos from University Commencement and Class Day activities of the 258th Academic Year.

Milestones

Melissa Begg, professor of clinical biostatistics and associate dean for education at Mailman School of Public Health, and R. Todd Ogden, professor of biostatistics at Mailman, will become fellows of the American Statistical Association this fall, the highest honor in the field.

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation named School of the Arts Professor Anne Bogart to the first class of Doris Duke Artists.

Michael Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science and Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs, have been inducted into the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

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