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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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Let the Games Begin
Acropolis of Athens
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Let the Games Begin

Archeologist Charles Waldstein '1873CC and the 1896 Olympics

Thought for Food
Anita Lo in front of Annisa restaurant
Alumni

Thought for Food

For Michelin star-winning chef Anita Lo, all cooking is fusion cooking. Then again, Lo herself is something of a mélange

The Eyes of Gotham
Jen Chung and Jake Dobkin
Alumni

The Eyes of Gotham

How did Jen Chung and Jake Dobkin, cofounders of Gothamist, turn a simple message board into the hottest news source in town?

Jessica Greer Morris, Timothy Donnelly, and Other Alumni in the News
Jessica Greer Morris
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Jessica Greer Morris, Timothy Donnelly, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

Writer, Interrupted
Photo of notebook, pen, and coffee cup
Alumni

Writer, Interrupted

Milda De Voe '01SOA launches Pen Parentis as part of Lower Manhattan's post-9/11 revitalization

Man from UNTUCKit
cartoon illustration of men walking into an "UNTUCKit" machine
Alumni

Man from UNTUCKit

Chris Riccobono '07BUS launches a unique menswear line

Hacking It
Illustration of a hackathon event
Alumni

Hacking It

Techies at Columbia and beyond hone their coding skills at HackNY events

Alisa Weilerstein, Howard W. Buffett, and Other Alumni in the News
Alisa Weilerstein with cello
Alumni

Alisa Weilerstein, Howard W. Buffett, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

The Long Night
Photograph of bedroom
Alumni

The Long Night

With her debut feature, The Whistleblower, director Larysa Kondracki '01GS has sparked a worldwide discussion on human trafficking

The Spokes-Man of New York
Ken Podziba
Alumni

The Spokes-Man of New York

Can Ken Podziba '91GSAPP make New York the next great biking city?

Cracking Wise
Bel Kaufman
Alumni

Cracking Wise

Bel Kaufman '36GSAS, ninety-nine, on the importance of humor in dark times 

They Shot it Their Way
Still from The Kids are All Right
Alumni

They Shot it Their Way

Columbia filmmakers collect prizes for some of 2010’s most daring and original films

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