news: academics

Angeliki Frangou, SEAS ’88, chair and CEO of Navios Maritime Partners, named SEAS 2026 undergraduate Class Day speaker

BY Nadia Knoblauch March 30

Academics

Core as Community initiative opens Columbia’s hallmark curriculum to staff

BY Ashley Flores March 13

Academics

Columbia honors 4 alumni at annual John Jay Awards Dinner, raises $1 million for scholars program

BY Ushoshi Das and Ria Vasishtha March 12

Academics

Psychiatry department receives $10 million gift to launch initiative funding early-career psychiatrists

BY Dora Gao March 11

Academics

Karen Attiah, SIPA ’12, lost her jobs at SIPA and The Washington Post. The journalist says it brought her a ‘sense of grief.’

BY Nadia Knoblauch and Emily Pickering March 11

Academics

University Senate approves Ph.D. in educational neuroscience at Teachers College

BY Pedro Meerbaum and Michelle Barsoum March 9

Academics

As Columbia unveils official oral history of President Barack Obama, CC ’83, project leaders reflect on how they captured his ‘transformational presidency’

BY Joseph Zuloaga March 2

Academics

4 Columbia students named 2026 Gates Cambridge Scholars, marking the most University recipients since 2011

BY Simon Leton February 27

academics

Center for American Studies launches weekly discussion series connecting students with experts to dissect breaking news topics

BY Ashley Flores February 26

Academics

Meet the 2026 John Jay Award winners

BY Ushoshi Das February 25

Academics