Skip to main content
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Science & Technology
  • Health & Medicine
  • Alumni
  • On Campus
  • Books
Issues
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Contact Us
  • School Abbreviations
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Science & Technology
  • Health & Medicine
  • Alumni
  • On Campus
  • Books

Alumni

Want to Meet New York’s Pizza Rats? There’s a Tour for That
Collage of rat and pizza with garbage and map of NYC
Alumni

Want to Meet New York’s Pizza Rats? There’s a Tour for That

With her “Garbage and Rats” walking tour, Suzanne Reisman ’00SIPA showcases the city that always squeaks

Most Read
Held Hostage for 444 Days: A Story of Survival
3.20_Barry_Rosen_1

Held Hostage for 444 Days: A Story of Survival

Forty years ago, Barry Rosen ’74GSAS was one of fifty-two Americans released from Iranian captivity

5 True-Crime and Investigative Podcasts Worth Bingeing
Podcasts Wind of Change, The Radio Murders, Welcome to Your Fantasy, Drunk Women Solving Crime, Mother Country Radicals

5 True-Crime and Investigative Podcasts Worth Bingeing

These gripping series from Columbia alumni broadcasters will keep you hitting the play button

The Columbia-Educated Priest Fighting Peru’s AIDS Epidemic
Father Fedora

The Columbia-Educated Priest Fighting Peru’s AIDS Epidemic

Father Joseph Fedora ’96JRN offers hope, prayers, and healing for Lima’s most vulnerable citizens

More Stories

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

McBlogger
Illustration by Mark Steele of John McCain campaigning for president in 2008 with Meghan McCain blogging behind him
Alumni

McBlogger

Meghan McCain '07CC starts a blog to promote her father's presidential campaign

Harlem on a Roll
Harlem Lanes
Alumni

Harlem on a Roll

Entrepreneur Sharon Joseph brings a long-lost pastime back home

Whither Underground?
Illustration of an abandoned subway station by Mark Steele
Alumni

Whither Underground?

Joseph Brennan '73CC, '82LS documents New York City's "ghost" stations

Smoke Rising
Football in grass
Alumni

Smoke Rising

Sam Dana had been listed as dead for nearly 34 years before the National Football League realized that he was alive

Baselines
Fernando Perez playing for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Alumni

Baselines

MLB player Fernando Perez '04CC takes on a writing project

Checkered Past
Illustration of Mike Gravel visiting Columbia University in a taxi in 2006, by Mark Steele
Alumni

Checkered Past

Mike Gravel '56GS, former Democratic senator from Alaska, runs for president

Truth and Consequences
Charles Van Doren and Vivienne Nearing on the "Twenty One" quiz show in 1957
Alumni

Truth and Consequences

Van Doren vs. Nearing

  • Read More

Stay Connected.

Sign up for our newsletter.

General Data Protection Regulation

Columbia University Privacy Notice

  • Latest Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Science & Technology
  • Health & Medicine
  • Alumni Newsmakers
  • On Campus
  • Books
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Advertising
  • Staff
  • Awards
  • Contact Us
  • School Abbreviations
  • Donate
  • columbia.edu
  • Alumni Association
  • Update Your Information
  • Disability Services

©2026 Columbia University