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On Nov. 1, more than 50,000 runners will start their early-morning journey to Staten Island for what we fondly know as the best day of the year in the Big Apple: the New York City Marathon.
Among those intrepid souls will be two of our own, Eva Kasal (CC’28, Bib #7461) and Heather Burns (Bib #67419), running to raise money for Community Impact at Columbia University.
Community Impact, now in its 45th year, is an independent nonprofit serving people in Morningside Heights, Harlem, and Washington Heights. It gives students ways to run high-quality service programs, all while inculcating the lifelong habit of giving back. Each year, Columbia and Barnard students volunteer about 55,000 hours through tutoring and mentoring around 1,550 local youth, adult education for 1,450 New York City residents, as well as running emergency food programs, health outreach, and housing initiatives.
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COLUMBIA HISTORY
Columbia started classes in the new Morningside Heights campus in October 1897. On this brand new campus, the engineering students finally had ample classroom and laboratory space in their two new buildings: the School of Mines (now Lewisohn) and the School of Engineering (now Mathematics). But did you know that there used to be a full-size locomotive engine underneath Havemeyer Hall?
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With finals and wintertime dreariness upon us, we could all use some new coffee spots to add to the caffeination rotation.
On Dec. 2, the Columbia community lost one of its own: Davide Giri. On Dec. 3, the Columbia community came together to remember him and mourn his loss.
Content advisory: This article includes information about mental health distress, suicide, and suicide prevention.
With Halloween around the corner, Columbia News is taking a look at some of the ghoulish lore surrounding this 267-year-old university.
Columbia students, faculty, and staff talk about the history of the university and the strides made by the indigenous community.
Did you know that Columbia was home to one of the first student gay rights organization in the U.S.? New resources from the university are tying the history of queerness at Columbia to our current moment.
Read what directors, artists, filmmakers, and playwrights from the School of the Arts are excited about as the "cultural capital of the world" returns with a full slate of offerings.
The memorial signs are part of a larger project from the Offices of Religious and University Life. Special events are slated for September 20 and 21, 2021.
This year’s Climate Week NYC will feature Columbia professors on communicating climate solutions, financing mitigation and adaptation measures, decarbonizing Columbia's campus, and more.
On the northeast corner of Low Library sits a low-profile 9/11 memorial to members of the Columbia Business School community. How did that memorial come to be?
In commemoration of this somber date, Columbia News reached out to our community to learn what Columbians witnessed and recalled from September 11, 2001.
Check out these restaurants, markets, pastry shops, pet stores, and more when you return to campus this fall.
