Emma Buzbee

By Emma Buzbee
2019-06-27T19:10:19.173Z
Costis Maglaras, professor in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division of the Business School, will succeed Glenn Hubbard as dean of Columbia Business School, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an email Thursday afternoon.
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By Emma Buzbee
2019-04-25T07:50:11.968Z
Don Melnick, an internationally famous conservation biologist who was instrumental in the formation of Columbia’s ecology, evolution, and environmental biology department, died last Thursday. He was 65.
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By Emma Buzbee
2019-03-12T06:07:13.916Z
Following a four-hour meeting that attracted over 150 spectators, saw two student representatives threaten to quit the council, and drew tears from attendees, the Columbia College Student Council shot down a referendum to gauge student support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement via an anonymous vote Sunday night.
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By Emma Buzbee and Noah Percy
2018-11-02T00:26:08.989Z
U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke, CC ’95, was playing bass guitar in campus bars and rowing on the Hudson the last time Texas had a Democratic senator. Now, O’Rourke’s campaign for the 2018 Texas Senate seat—which has drawn national attention because of O’Rourke’s charisma and unapologetically progressive positions—may put a Democrat back in office.
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By Emma Buzbee
2018-10-11T03:45:33.458Z
United Nations officials and Columbia faculty members discussed the progress made by women in traditionally male-dominated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, along with the pipeline challenges that still remain, at an event in Low Library on Wednesday morning.
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By Harris Walker and Emma Buzbee
2018-09-25T05:05:53.922Z
In an effort to reduce the mispronunciation of students’ names in the classroom, the Office of the University Registrar has rolled out a new pilot program this semester allowing students to upload recordings of their names on CourseWorks.
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By Emma Buzbee and Harris Walker
2018-09-21T15:47:42.191Z
Following a favorable ruling by the National Labor Relations Board, postdoctoral researchers at Columbia will now be able to form the first certified postdoctoral union at a private university, the NLRB announced on Tuesday.
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By Emma Buzbee
2018-10-11T03:06:26.498Z
Though percentages of minority faculty have increased by 3.6 percent across the University over the past 10 years, percentages of black and Latinx faculty have remained largely stagnant in that same time frame, newly-released data from the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion shows.
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