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Alumni Art and Photography Books for Your Coffee Table

Though they’re often purchased as gifts, souvenirs, or home accents, there’s more to great “coffee table books” than pretty covers

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16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

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My Medievalist Mentor

A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation

Jeff Bridges and Barbara Streisand on Columbia University campus in The Mirror Has Two Faces

Columbia in the Movies

22 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

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Artwork by Trenton Doyle Hancock
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Columbia’s Neiman Center for Print Studies Celebrates 25 Years

Kiki Smith, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Kara Walker, Dana Schutz, and other notable artists have left their imprints on the space 

Illustrator Wendy MacNaughton with pencils in an art studio
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Drawing Connections with Wendy MacNaughton

How the illustrator, graphic journalist, and social worker brings people together through art

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10 New Movies from Columbia Alumni Filmmakers

Alumni directors and screenwriters have lit up the big screen with notable feature films in 2022

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5 Media Organizations that Spotlight Underreported News

Alumni journalists are tackling human-rights issues and serving readers in practical ways

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How the Mankiewicz Family Got Their Hollywood Ending

How Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz ’92JRN brought a four-generation Columbia family all together

Ivan Rome on a film set
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Screenwriter Ivan Rome Looks Homeward

As the inaugural recipient of the Bobby Kashif Cox Memorial Scholarship, the MFA student takes inspiration from his native Georgia

Gay history scholar George Chauncey
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Honoring George Chauncey, a Scholar of Gay History

The Columbia professor recently won the coveted John W. Kluge Prize

Journalist Masha Udensiva-Brenner
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Raising My Voice for Ukraine

How I found my own small way to take a stand against Russia's brutal war

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Maude Latour: Confessions of a TikTok Pop Star

How the singer-songwriter and Columbia graduate found her voice — and her audience

Mark Andryczyk, head of the Ukrainian-studies program at Columbia University's Harriman Institute
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A Top Scholar of Ukrainian Literature Holds Fast to Hope

Mark Andryczyk of Columbia’s Harriman Institute reflects on Ukraine’s cultural resilience

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How Zora Neale Hurston’s Love for a Fellow Columbia Student Changed American Literature

The writer's romance with Percival "Percy" Punter '35GSAS inspired Their Eyes Were Watching God

Olivia Coleman in the Lost Daughter
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6 Oscar-Nominated Films from Columbia Graduates

Catch up on these alumni-made movies before the Academy Awards ceremony on March 27

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