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This page is dedicated to stories about Columbia's campus and community. From student, staff, and faculty profiles to interesting events happening on campus and in our surrounding neighborhoods, here is where you can find the latest about what's happening on and around Columbia's campuses. 

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5 New Thought-Provoking Podcasts by Columbia Minds

Podcasts can spark dialogue, shift perspectives, and bring nuance to complex conversations. These new Columbian-created shows do just that, delving into themes of justice, art, power, and imagination. They explore everything from the criminal legal system to what it means to create something beautiful.

Hosted and produced by students, scholars, and creatives, each one invites listeners to think, and feel, more deeply.

As summer begins, Columbia News has selected five standout shows to add to your queue, plus embedded episode suggestions to help you dive in.

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Columbia Community Service Celebrates Grantees

Congratulations to this year’s Columbia Community Service (CCS) grantees, who were recently honored at the Lee C. Bollinger Forum on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus! 

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The Columbia News Quiz: June 2025

From Pride Month to Juneteenth and major awards, Columbians had plenty to celebrate this past month.

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Meet the Librarian (BC'35) Who Transformed the Schomburg Collection Into a World-renowned Treasure Trove of Black History and Culture

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, celebrating 100 years this summer, stands as one of the world’s leading institutions dedicated to Black history, arts, and culture. Yet what many don’t know is that Barnard alumna Jean Blackwell Hutson (BC’35) was critical in building the collection as its curator for nearly four decades.

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Cody O’Ferrall worked as a fisherman in Alaska before studying here. Now he's building a boat to clear urban ponds of algae.

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MBA student Yaniv Yatziv aims high both professionally and personally.

Take a look back at some of the visual highlights of 2024 from across the Columbia community. 

From a deep dive into the whale who played Free Willy to a treatise on censorship and surveillance on the border, add these to your queue.

Fiction, nonfiction, memoir, history, sports, essays—we’ve got you covered with this diverse list of books.

What stories grabbed the attention of our readers in 2024? The results may surprise you.