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Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD)
“This is an exciting opportunity to expand the possibilities for deeper and broader racial justice interventions, while addressing the need to restore black leadership to the forefront of the movement,” said Denise Perry, co-founder and executive director of BOLD. “This program will provide leaders the chance to think beyond our American context and connect across geographies and disciplines.”
Center for Community Change
“The history and ongoing reality of structural racism is the great challenge facing our country,”…
How many courses require students to read Freud, discuss the Gospel of St. Matthew, and then watch episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
Marking the achievement of the first major step in Columbia University’s most transformational building project, leaders of the University today dedicated the new Manhattanville campus, now taking shape along Broadway immediately above West 125th Street.
Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger was joined by distinguished faculty, University deans, and students in welcoming civic and community leaders and internationally renowned architect Renzo Piano of Renzo Piano Building Workshop, which designed the campus master plan with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Piano also designed the first buildings…
The Atlantic Philanthropies and Columbia University today announced the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, a 10-year, $60 million program for courageous and creative leaders dedicated to dismantling anti-black racism in the United States and South Africa, two nations with deep and enduring legacies of racial exclusion and violence. The program – conceived, designed and led in partnership with renowned champions of racial equity – will enable visionary activists, authors and artists, among others, to enhance their understanding of anti-black racism and strengthen their strategic capacity, individual…
David Keefe, senior assistant dean for Veteran's Initiatives at the School of General Studies, recently led a hands-on workshop transforming military uniforms into handmade paper. The event was co-organized by Deborah Paredez, associate professor of writing at the School of the Arts, and co-presented by Combat Paper NJ, a traveling workshop that helps veterans to publicly share their experiences through artmaking.
Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and BioBus today announce a partnership aimed at bringing new educational opportunities to schools and community centers across Upper Manhattan and the Bronx.
Cliff Colnot, distinguished conductor, composer, arranger and educator, is the recipient of the 2016 Ditson Conductor’s Award for the advancement of American music.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory opens its doors for a day of free public lectures, demonstrations, and workshops for adults and children.
Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and BioBus today announce a partnership aimed at bringing new educational opportunities to schools and community centers across Upper Manhattan and the Bronx.
“The BioBus scientists create educational opportunities that are authentic, exciting and approachable for diverse audiences,” said Kelley Remole, PhD, director of governance, research support and outreach at the Zuckerman Institute. “Their expertise working with schools and providing after-school programming adds a new dimension to our existing public programs at the…
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced that two Columbia University Medical Center doctors will lead a new community Wellness Center, located in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on the University’s new Manhattanville campus. Neurologist Olajide Williams, MD, and psychiatrist Sidney Hankerson, MD, are known for their pioneering approaches to improving public health in Harlem and Washington Heights. The Wellness Center will operate with support from Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
“When we committed ourselves to creating a new…
A Harper's Weekly cartoon \"American Editors II: Joseph Pulitzer,\" courtesy of Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
When Gwendolyn Brooks received a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for Annie Allen, a book-length poem about an African American woman’s passage from childhood to adulthood set against a backdrop of poverty and discrimination, she became both the first recipient of the poetry prize and the first African American to win a Pulitzer. When Sinclair Lewis won the prize for his novel Arrowsmith in 1926, he refused it because he felt that his novel Main Street should…
How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
What’s happening in global politics, and is there a thread that ties it all together?
There is, and it is called populism.
From Columbia Global Reports
Political scientist Donald Green has made a career of of studying how voters are steered to the polls today—what political pros call GOTV, for “get out the vote."
Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital jointly celebrate the life and mourn the passing of Herbert Irving, whose generosity and friendship truly transformed our shared medical center. With his wife Florence, Herbert Irving played an essential role in advancing one of the leading academic medical centers in the nation and world. He died on Oct. 2 at the age of 98.
With the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, race has become a defining issue in this election year, and mobilizing the African American vote will be the key to winning the presidency, says Fred Harris.