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Before deciding to become a doctor, Michael Hernandez wanted to be a priest. “I always loved the idea of helping people.” 

Within months of starting her freshman year in 2014, Sara Sakowitz started her first business, Blue Moon Box, a monthly science kit subscription service.

Once Julia Di came up with the idea for the Columbia Space Initiative, events moved at warp speed.

With the help of Columbia's Justice-in-Education Initiative and a determined dean, Leyla Martinez is graduating with a bachelor's degree in human rights.

If he hadn’t nearly died, Jamal Lewis likely never would have found his way to the Mailman School of Public Health, and a life devoted to the field of environmental health.

As Will Geary leaves the Engineering School he’ll start executing his ideas at CitySwifter, an Ireland-based startup using deep learning to optimize city bus networks.

Gordon Penn honed his craft studying with renowned professors, including Tony winner David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, as well as Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and Arnold Aronson.

Ramin Bahrani's film, a modern retelling of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian classic was produced for HBO and will also screen at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Two Columbia professors — a neuroscientist whose work on the visual system could lead to a cure for blindness and a theoretical computer scientist who has helped define the limits of computation — are among the 84 new members elected this week to the National Academy of Sciences. 

From filter bubbles to fake news, data-driven algorithms have developed a reputation problem. Jeannette Wing, as the new director of Columbia’s Data Science Institute, has woven ethics and social impact into the Institute’s mission.

Andrew McCormick spent seven years as a naval intelligence officer. But even before he arrived at Columbia Journalism School last August, McCormick had a lot of the skills required of a good reporter.

Basketball wasn’t even Camille Zimmerman’s favorite sport when she was growing up. Now she graduates as the highest-scoring player in Columbia history.

As a slam poet and spoken word artist, Que’Nique Mykte’ Newbill knows how to tell a story. And he’s decided to do that through the language of law.

Columbia University has received nearly three million dollars in grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through its program in Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.