Columbia Remembers 9/11

Knight First Amendment Institute's Jameel Jaffer writes about human rights organizations responses to September 11.

Professor Cristiane Duarte writes about her research on children after 9/11 and how what we've learned should help us to foster mental health resilience among children, adolescents, and young adults in communities most directly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Teachers College Professor George Bonanno writes how distress is a normal reaction to mass tragedy, but so is a relatively prompt climb back to good mental health.

Safwan M. Masri, EVP for Global Centers and Global Development, shares his memory of that fateful day and the days after. 

Professor Yuval Neria discusses the legacy of 9/11 on the treatment of PTSD and trauma-related mental health issues.

SPS Senior Vice Dean Dr. Steven Cohen reflects on his experience and the role of public management on the 20th anniversary of the tragic events. 

Learn about how Kevin Krajick from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) experienced the day, and how LDEO seismologists measured the impacts of the jets colliding into the towers and their collapse.

From Teachers College: How educators helped students cope, heal and learn in the aftermath of 9/11.

From the School of Professional Studies: In the weeks after September 11, 2001, individuals had donated $1.7 billion to relief efforts with foundations and corporations adding another $1.1 billion, marking the largest giving event the United States had ever seen at the time

Twenty years after 9/11, some of Columbia Athletics' coaches and staff who were here at the time reflect on the events of the day