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15 Unique Holiday Gifts from Columbia Alumni
2025 Gift Guide products
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15 Unique Holiday Gifts from Columbia Alumni

Surprise your friends and family this December with scents, spices, and more

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Your Chance to Cook with 5 Famous Columbia Chefs
Judy Joo, Jacques Pépin, Christopher Kimball, Melissa Clark, Anita Lo

Your Chance to Cook with 5 Famous Columbia Chefs

Add these classic cookbooks to your collection

Why Cars Are More Dangerous for Women
Illustration by Simoul Alva of female crash-test dummies in and around car

Why Cars Are More Dangerous for Women

Drive US Forward, founded by Maria Weston Kuhn ’23CC, is fighting for more accurate female crash-test dummies

A Death Investigator Learns to Live
Death investigator Barbara Butcher

A Death Investigator Learns to Live

Barbara Butcher ’83PH spent two decades behind police tape in New York City, examining bodies. Now, she reflects on the hard lessons learned

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Street-Beat Confidential
Carlos Gonzalez
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Street-Beat Confidential

Journalist Juan González has been writing about wrongs for thirty-five years. What's he got today?

Liz Magic Laser, Beau Willimon, and Other Alumni in the News
Liz Magic Laser
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Liz Magic Laser, Beau Willimon, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

The Pickup Artists
Robin Nagle
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The Pickup Artists

What does trash tell us about ourselves? Anthropologist Robin Nagle '94GSAS put on the uniform and found out

A Life in Full
Joshua Prager illustration
Alumni

A Life in Full

Journalist Joshua Prager '94CC, a former quadriplegic, writes a healing memoir

Justice's Son
Ben Jealous
Alumni

Justice's Son

The interconnected world of NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous '94CC

Second Acts
Barack Obama with Hurricane Sandy victims in Staten Island, NY
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Second Acts

President Obama visits areas stricken by Sandy

Kathryn Bigelow, Benjamin Jealous, and Other Alumni in the News
Kathryn Bigelow at the Oscars
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Kathryn Bigelow, Benjamin Jealous, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

March Madness
Illustration
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March Madness

The Columbia marching band gets organized

Caryn Davies, Steven Bellovin, and Other Alumni in the News
Rower Caryn Davies accepting gold medal at 2012 Summer Olympics
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Caryn Davies, Steven Bellovin, and Other Alumni in the News

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House of Mirth
David Rakoff at Lit Night at the Columbia Alumni Center on April 25, 2012
Alumni

House of Mirth

Writer and humorist David Rakoff '86CC made one of his last public appearances at the Columbia Alumni Center

David Kocieniewski, Paul LeClerc, and Other Alumni in the News
David Kocieniewski
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David Kocieniewski, Paul LeClerc, and Other Alumni in the News

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An Honorable Life
Gac Filipaj
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An Honorable Life

Gac Filipaj '12GS, a former refugee and a long-time Columbia janitor, receives his bachelor's degree

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