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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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Beat the Rap
Drum set
Alumni

Beat the Rap

Talking with MBA student and Israeli hip-hop drummer Gal Sivan '10BUS

The Secret Sharer
Michael E. Leiter photographed by Katherine Lambert
Alumni

The Secret Sharer

In the struggle against terrorism, good intelligence is the government's most important weapon. Mike Leiter '91CC makes sure it gets into the right hands

Care Tactics
Betsy McCaughey
Alumni

Care Tactics

Betsy McCaughey '76GSAS, a central figure in America's culture war, interprets the health-care bill

Dateline: Iran
Kelly Niknejad
Alumni

Dateline: Iran

There have been no Western news bureaus in Tehran in a generation, so Kelly Niknejad opened one. Virtually

She Covers the Waterfront
Ann Buttenwieser
Alumni

She Covers the Waterfront

From parks to books to a floating pool, Ann Buttenwieser ’84GSAPP brings New Yorkers to their own shores

King of Thrills
Paul Binder, founder of the Big Apple Circus
Alumni

King of Thrills

After 31 years in the ring, Paul Binder ’67BUS, founder and artistic director of the Big Apple Circus, has come full circle

Armistice and the Man
Star of Davd next to Torah
Alumni

Armistice and the Man

William D. Kauffman '38JRN, ninety-four, publishes a book about his life

Many Happy Returns
Illustration by Kim Rosen of alumni from Columbia and Princeton watching the 2008 election results
Alumni

Many Happy Returns

Watching the 2008 election results at the Columbia and Princeton Clubs

States of Mate
Illustration of man on giant chessboard
Alumni

States of Mate

Justin Sarkar '05CC is the New York State Chess Champion

Handicap This
Illustration by Mark Steele of Wayne Allyn Root running for president in 2024
Alumni

Handicap This

Professional sports prognosticator Wayne Allyn Root ’83CC gets political

Defending the Forgotten
A boy at a Roma settlement in Hungary, photographed by Jessica Greenberg
Alumni

Defending the Forgotten

Jack Greenberg's crusade to help integrate the Roma of Europe has its roots in the Deep south

On Profits and Prophets
Statistics and economics professor Samuel B. Richmond with B-School dean Boris Yavitz in 1976
Alumni

On Profits and Prophets

For a young man from South L.A., the B-School was a path to a higher calling

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