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Mary C. Boyce Appointed University Provost

The current Columbia Engineering dean will be the woman ever to serve as provost at Columbia

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Illustrations by Kyle T. Webster of members of Columbia's EPIC program for retired academics

The Smart Person’s Guide to Aging

How EPIC, an organization of retired professors and administrators, helps its members keep active and stay curious in their senior years

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Healing the Red-Blue Divide

An expert on conflict resolution offers a new perspective on the ideological tensions that he says are tearing the US apart

Collage of Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, Harry Truman, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Dwight D. Eisenhower on Columbia University campus with Low Library in background

An Incomplete History of Columbia's Connections to the Highest Office in the Land

From Washington's stepson to Hoover's surgeon

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5 Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Dmitri Basov, Angela Christiano, Andrew Millis, Molly Przeworski, and Lorraine S. Symington will formally join the academy in April 2021

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Columbia Undertakes Food-Relief Effort

The number of New Yorkers experiencing food insecurity has grown dramatically this year, with an estimated two million city residents now at risk of going hungry

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Kellie Jones Named Inaugural Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art

Columbia has established a new endowed chair with a gift from the family trust of the late abstract-expressionist painter Hans Hofmann

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Library Acquires Archive of Playwright Myrna Casas

Casas is considered one of the most important Latin American dramatists of her generation

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5 Online Offerings This Fall

Stream discussions and lectures, join a bookclub, and more

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Chemical Science Gets $21.5M Boost

The large gift from Ge Li ’94GSAS and Ning Zhao ’95GSAS will advance research and teaching in chemistry

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Top Teachers, Mentors Honored

This year, eight faculty members and graduate-student instructors received the University’s Presidential Teaching Awards

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University Announces Efforts to Address Racism

This summer, President Lee C. Bollinger issued an open letter outlining a number of initiatives Columbia is undertaking

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Oral Historians Document New Yorkers' Pandemic Experiences

How has COVID-19 affected different communities? How are perceptions of the crisis changing over time? What will the city look like after the virus recedes?

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ISERP Launches Center for Pandemic Research

The initiative will support a wide range of scholarly investigations into the social, economic, and cultural ramifications of the COVID-19 crisis

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Raising Strong Sexual Citizens

Two social scientists discuss their groundbreaking research on consent, power, and assault on Columbia's campus

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The Smart Person’s Guide to Aging

How EPIC, an organization of retired professors and administrators, helps its members keep active and stay curious in their senior years

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