News Archive

Michael Alberto oversees Irving Medical Center’s central dining and catering service where his team is set to surpass 6,000 catered events this academic year.

With the support of new technology, archival items from the 11th to 19th centuries in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and more will be available.

Michael Slepian teaches a course on negotiation, a process that often involves deciding how much and what to tell the other side.

Bard Hall is named for Samuel Bard (1742-1821), a founder of what is now Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Emeritus Professors in Columbia (EPIC) are retired academics, researchers and administrators of Columbia, Barnard and affiliated institutions.

In a new study, Columbia researchers find that street trees with protective guards soaked up runoff water six times faster than trees without guards. 

Mayor Robert F. Wagner presented the window to the Journalism School in 1954 at a ceremony with Columbia President Grayson Kirk. At the event, Ackerman said that Columbia would preserve the work of art “as guidance and inspiration for the journalists of today and tomorrow.”

Jim Bittel is the director of broadcast and multimedia technology at the Graduate School of Journalism. He leads the day-today operations and strategic planning for newsgathering technology. 

This fall, Columbia News sat down with four of the University’s leading experts on journalism and free speech to discuss the challenges facing the industry and the First Amendment as well as the state of the news media and what the future might hold.