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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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Shadows on the Boardwalk
Design rendering for "Fractured Landscapes" Holocaust memorial in Atlantic City
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Shadows on the Boardwalk

Architects Patrick Lausell '09GSAPP and Paola Marquez '09GSAPP win competition to design Atlantic City Holocaust memorial

Letter from Brisbane
Illustration of canoe in flooded water in Brisbane
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Letter from Brisbane

Recalling Australia's worst-ever natural disaster

Xue Hanqin, Howard Slatkin, and Other Alumni in the News
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Xue Hanqin, Howard Slatkin, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

The Art of Pleasing
Arlene Shuler and Alvin Ailey dancers
Alumni

The Art of Pleasing

How Arlene Shuler ’77GS, ’78LAW, president and CEO of New York City Center, transformed herself — and the stage on which she once danced

City of Schwartz
New York City street
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City of Schwartz

Apartment hunting with historic preservationist Andrew Dolkart

A Midterm Examination
Illustration of Barack Obama surrounded by pointed fingers
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A Midterm Examination

The voters have spoken, but what did they say? Columbia political scientist Lincoln Mitchell '96GSAS assesses the 2010 elections

Angelheaded Hipsters
Photo of Allen Ginsberg at typewriter
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Angelheaded Hipsters

James Franco becomes Allen Ginsberg ’48CC

Karen Russell, Gerry Lenfest, and Other Alumni in the News
Karen Russell
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Karen Russell, Gerry Lenfest, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

You and Whose Army?
Jason Dempsey
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You and Whose Army?

Lt. Col. Jason Dempsey ’08GSAS takes on conventional wisdom about politics in the military

Second to None
Sculpture illustration of George Baker as John Adams
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Second to None

Inspired by David McCullough's biography, George Baker '69CC, '73LAW revels in impersonating John Adams

Chairman of the Boardwalk
Illustration of Atlantic City boardwalk in the 1920s
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Chairman of the Boardwalk

Edward McGinty '06SOA helps HBO's Boardwalk Empire capture Atlantic City in the 1920s

Trial and Error
Julie Menin
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Trial and Error

Julie Menin's battle to keep a 9/11 prosecution out of Lower Manhattan

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