Campus & Community

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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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This Veterans Day, we are highlighting R.J. Jenkins and the work he does as Columbia’s Veteran Education Director. 

Film and Media Studies graduate student Ann Wang has found her passion and her future at Columbia and in New York City.

Fall at Columbia means Homecoming, tenure celebrations, and research breakthroughs.

Pablo Torres Rey talks about grabbing opportunities and meeting people at Columbia.

Katie Figueroa Beltran is researching marine life, and building her vinyl collection.

First produced off-Broadway in 2007, the work, more potent than ever, continues to speak to the times.

Gerard Torrats-Espinosa had an unlikely path to his current role researching crime and policing in U.S. cities.

A Zuckerman Institute workshop aimed to equip middle school teachers with some of the tools of neuroscience.

This year's cohort includes a filmmaker, philanthropist, nonprofit leader, community stakeholder, and local advocate, all driving change in their l

The academic year only just began, and Columbians are already making strides in science, the arts, athletics, and more.

Students have arrived at Columbia for an invigorating fall semester — here's a glance at back-to-school events welcoming students to campus. 

Audrey Litvak (SIPA'19), assistant director of government affairs at Columbia, has the answers to students' most pressing voting questions.