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70 unusual facts about Columbia University


A. James Gregor

He attended and graduated from Columbia University in 1952 and thereafter served as a high school social science teacher while working for his advanced degrees.

Al Frazier

After his football career ended, he earned a Master's Degree from Teachers College at Columbia University, and worked for over thirty years at York College in New York, where he was Assistant Dean of Student Development at the time of his retirement in 2006.

Albert I. Prettyman

After spending time at Columbia University and the Nicholas School in Buffalo, New York, Prettyman moved to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York to teach physical education and coach.

Alexander Schmemann

He also served as adjunct professor at Columbia University, New York University, Union Theological Seminary and General Theological Seminary in New York.

Alison Frantz

Alison Frantz completed her undergraduate degree in Classics at Smith College in 1924 and continued her graduate studies at the Columbia University where she focused on the study of the Byzantine period.

Anthony da Costa

He has been attending Columbia University since fall 2009, and has already been active in the University's music performance scene, frequently performing at Postcrypt Coffeehouse which he now helps organize and book.

Audion

In 1914, Columbia University student Edwin Howard Armstrong worked with professor John Harold Morecroft to document the electrical principles of the Audion.

Bailey W. Diffie

He began teaching in the City College of New York in 1930, a position he held for thirty-eight years, with visiting professorships to Yale University, New York City University and Columbia University.

Barbara Ridpath

Ridpath gained an AB degree at Smith College before going on to study for a Master's Degree in International Affairs at Columbia University.

Caroline Beaumont Zachry

For the next ten years she attended as well as taught at the Teachers College, Columbia University where she received a B.S. in 1924.

Charles Corfield

While at Columbia University, Charles wrote the original version of the desktop publishing application FrameMaker, which was the main product of the company he soon co-founded.

Comic Book Project

, while at Teachers College at Columbia University.

Committee of Concerned Journalists

In 2006, it separated from Columbia University and became affiliated with the Missouri School of Journalism and its new Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.

David Newsome

A native of North Carolina, Newsome earned a B.A. from Duke University and an M.D. from The College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

David P. Goldman

Goldman earned his BA in Columbia University in 1973, and completed his doctoral studies in economics at London School of Economics in 1976.

Don Dobie

Born in Glasgow in Scotland, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at Brisbane Grammar School, the University of Melbourne, and Columbia University in New York.

DuraSpace

Institutions including University of Michigan ICPSR, Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, State of North Carolina Library and Archives use DuraCloud to preserve digital resources.

Elaine Madlener

After graduating from Columbia University, she married Otto Madlener and had two children, Richard and William.

Ernest Addison Moody

He served as professor of philosophy at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also served as department chair, and Columbia University.

Columbia University, M.A., Philosophy (1933), Ph.D., Philosophy (1936).

Ernst Freund

from the University of Heidelberg (1884); a Ph. D. in political science from Columbia University (1897) He was professor of political science at the University of Chicago (1894–1902) and professor of law at Chicago (1903–32).

Eugene Ehrlich

He was a member of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he taught in the Department of General Studies.

Ewing Island

It was discovered from the air on November 7, 1947 by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), under Finn Ronne, who named it for Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University, who assisted in planning the RARE seismological program.

Félix Aguilar Observatory

At about the same time Columbia University withdrew from the YCSO corporation it became the Yale Southern Observatory, Inc. on January 23, 1975.

Fondle 'Em Records

Bobbito formed the label after realizing that the many unsigned rappers making guest appearances on “The Stretch Armstrong/Bobbito Show,” a program Bobbito co-hosted with DJ Stretch Armstrong on Columbia University radio station WKCR 89.9 FM, didn't have a proper outlet for their talents.

G. B. Pegram

Pegram graduated from Trinity in 1895 and taught high school before becoming a teaching assistant in physics at Columbia University in 1900.

Gay By Dawn

Gay By Dawn is a 10 minute short film written and directed by Jonathan London as his non-thesis film at Columbia University.

George Alexander Kohut

He was educated at the gymnasium in Grosswardein, at the public schools in New York, at Columbia University (1893–1895), Berlin University, and the Berlin Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums (1895–97).

George Louis Beer

He studied at Columbia University and lectured on European History there from 1893 to 1897.

Greg Kessler

Kessler's work was most recently displayed at the LeRoy Neiman Center at Columbia University.

Harald T. Friis

After a stint at the Royal Gun Factory, in 1919 he received a Columbia University fellowship to study radio engineering under John H. Morecroft.

Henry Herman Meyer

He was educated at California State Normal School; German Wallace College, Ohio; the Drew Theological Seminary; Teachers College, Columbia; and at Jena.

Herbert N. Shenton

Herbert Newhard Shenton was a professor of Sociology at Columbia University and later at Syracuse University in New York.

J. Pearl

After high school, and while studying pre-Med in New York's Columbia University, she became part of the university's a cappella group called the Columbia Clefhangers.

James Henry Hackett

Hackett entered Columbia College in 1815 but withdrew.

Jane Eisner

Eisner received a master's degree from Columbia University's School of Journalism and graduated from Wesleyan University cum laude in 1977, where she was the first female editor of the college newspaper and was a member of the board of trustees.

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

After Texas Southern he moved to California to pursue his acting career and continued his education at Columbia College in New York City, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and a Masters Degree in Cinematography.

Johann Ludwig Tellkampf

Tellkampf came to the United States in 1838, engaged in teaching, and in 1843-47 was professor of the German language and literature in Columbia.

Joseph Ransohoff

He went on to teach at Columbia University and practice surgery at the New York Neurologic Institute at Presbyterian Hospital.

Joshua R. Sands

Sands was preparing to enter Columbia College when the War of 1812 broke out.

Kasım Gülek

After receiving a letter praising Kasım Gülek from the Dean of Columbia University, Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey, called upon him and offered him to become a Member of Parliament.

Khenpo Sodargye

A Contemporary Rime Movement among Tibetan Buddhists at Columbia University

Margaret H. Lippert

D. in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1983 and wrote her dissertation on the use of storytelling in the classroom.

Maria Hadjipavlou

As a visiting scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) Columbia University in 1996-97, she co-founded the Center for International Conflict Resolution.

Matt C. Harris

Glass was the producer of On Common Ground, a film about reconciliations of former German and American soldiers from World War II, and Swimming on the Moon. Glass received her bachelor degree from Harvard University and her MBA from Columbia University.

Michael M. Crow

By 1991, he had become an Institute Professor there and had also worked as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Energy and Columbia University.

Midnight at Minton's

The album is taken from private recordings made by Columbia University student Jerry Newman on a portable acetate disc recorder.

Mike Shuster

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for coverage of the Iraq War (2007 and 2004); September 11th and the war in Afghanistan (2003); and the Gulf War (1992)

Milorad Dodik

On 25 October 2011, Dodik spoke on "An American Foreign Policy Success Story: The Dayton Accords, Republika Srpska and Bosnia's European Integration" at Columbia University.

Minuscule 2460

Ten leaves were catalogued as codex 2417 are located at the Columbia University, Plimpton Ms. 12, and at the Bible Museum (Ms. 19) in Münster.

Myroslav Marynovych

Myroslav Marynovych has received many educational awards, including fellowships at Columbia University (USA), the World Council of Churches (Switzerland), and the Catholic University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands).

New York Hospital

The origin of the New York Hospital can be traced to the commencement address of Dr. Samuel Bard, Professor of the “Practice of Medicine”, delivered to the first two medical doctors to graduate from King’s College (Now Columbia College, Columbia University) in 1769 titled “A discourse upon the duties of a physician, with some sentiments on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital.”

Octavius Winslow

It is suggested that Winslow began his ministerial training in Stepney, London, but then moved to Columbia College, New York.

Origin of hangul

However, Gari Ledyard, Sejong Professor of Korean History Emeritus at Columbia University, notes that the character 古 gǔ also functions as a phonetic component of 蒙古 Měnggǔ "Mongol".

Paul Laikin

Returning home in 1947, he studied English at Columbia University and began writing for leading comedians, including Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, Jan Murray, Ed Wynn and Alan King.

Robert A. Simon

A graduate of Columbia University, in addition to his original fiction he wrote opera and musical comedy librettos for several composers.

Robert E. Horn

Robert E. Horn is an American political scientist who taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Sheffield (U.K.) universities.

Rochester Hills, Michigan

Among many achievements, he was a professor at Columbia University, president of the American Mathematical Society, and Dean of Carnegie Institute in Washington.

Ruth A. Lucas

She received a master’s degree in educational psychology from Columbia University in 1957 and moved to the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1960s.

SACLANT ASW Research Centre

Activity at-sea remained pretty intensive, and in 1974 the Manning, a T-Boat built for the U.S. Army and previously used by Columbia University for oceanographic work, joined the SACLANTCEN fleet on loan from the U.S. Government.

Samuel Totten

Samuel Totten earned a master's degree and a doctoral degree at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Sophie Leung

Sophie and Brian Leung's youngest son Jeffrey Leung previously studied at Columbia University in New York.

Stephen Porter Dunn

He was educated at Lincoln School of Columbia University, Columbia College, and Columbia University, where he received his Ph. D. in anthropology in 1959.

Steve Charles

Charles attended Columbia University in the United States where he was the 1979 Ivy League MVP and a 1979 First Team All American.

Sumant Misra

His elder son Gaurav Misra is a former national tennis champion and is the director of the Columbia University's Dick Savitt Tennis Center tennis in New York City, New York.

Swami Kuvalayananda

Dr. Josephine Rathbone, a professor of health and physical education, visited from Columbia University in 1928.

University of Puerto Rico School of Dental Medicine

In January 1955 Dr. Harold W. Brown, Ex-Dean of the School of Public Health of Columbia University, submitted his study on the needs of Physicians and Dentists in Puerto Rico (1).

The Research Center has been diligent in seeking funds to support research and has received an endowment fund of $ 15 million and has signed cooperation agreements with prestigious universities such as, for example, NYU, Columbia University, Seattle University, University of Minnesota, University of Michigan and Indiana University.

Varimax rotation

A technical discussion of advantages and disadvantages of various rotation approaches are discussed at the website of Columbia University.

Xavier Romeu

After receiving a law degree from Columbia University, he worked as a litigator for the New York law firms of Sullivan & Cromwell and Proskauer Rose.


A. H. de Oliveira Marques

He left for the United States where he taught history at a number of universities (Auburn, Florida, Columbia, Minnesota and Chicago) between 1965 and 1970.

Adam Gussow

Raised in suburban Congers, New York, educated at Princeton University (B.A. 1979, Ph.D. 2000) and Columbia University (M.A. 1983), Gussow is the son of Alan Gussow, an artist/environmentalist, and Joan Dye Gussow, an author, nutrition educator, and organic farmer.

Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation

Ambassador Richard N. Gardner, former US Ambassador to Italy and Spain, professor of law at Columbia University

Danny Mercer

While a freshman at Columbia University, Mercer began to produce and write songs in his dorm room, eventually sparking the attention of established songwriters and producers such as The Messengers and Kara DioGuardi.

David J. Saposs

In 1922, Saposs was appointed an instructor at Brookwood Labor College, but left after two years to do post-graduate work in economics and labor history at Columbia University.

Dennis Prager

He went on to study at the Russian Institute (now Harriman Institute) at Columbia University.

Don Armando

After completing a tour of duty with the United States Air Force, he graduated from New York University with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, and later he acquired a Master's Degree from Columbia University.

George Henry Fox

He was professor of dermatology at the New York Medical College for Women, Starling Medical College in Columbus, Ohio, Columbia University and the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital.

Hazel Carby

Carby has lectured at numerous colleges and universities worldwide including Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of Paris, and University of Toronto.

Hell-Bent Fer Heaven

The choice sparked controversy in literary circles and the media because the prize jury had actually selected George Kelly's The Show-Off, but was overruled by Columbia University, which was administering that year's Pulitzers; Hatcher Hughes was a Columbia professor.

Herbert L. Osgood

He attended graduate school at Amherst and Yale, and spent a year in Berlin, before returning to the United States to teach at Brooklyn High School and resume graduate studies at Columbia under Burgess, who had recently moved there.

Ira D. Wallach

With his wife Miriam, he created a charitable foundation whose beneficiaries included the New York Public Library, Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

J. McVicker Hunt

Before that he taught at a number of universities, including Brown University, Columbia University, the University of Nebraska, and New York University.

James E. Kearney

Kearney graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1901, and then attended the Teachers College of Columbia University, where he earned a Regents license to teach in New York State.

James Jay

He was instrumental in obtaining the endowments for Benjamin Franklin's projected college (now the University of Pennsylvania) in Philadelphia (with William Smith, 1755) and King's (now Columbia) College, New York.

Jeanine Corbet

She has been a guest lecturer at several universities including Columbia University, Wesleyan, Earlham, Antioch, and SUNY Buffalo.

Jerry Speyer

At Columbia University, he majored in German literature and joined Zeta Beta Tau, a Jewish fraternity.

Joe Gaetjens

However, he could not make a living from professional soccer, so he went to New York City in the late 1940s to study accounting at Columbia University on a scholarship from the Haitian government.

John Kendrick Bangs

He went to Columbia University from 1880 to 1883 where he became editor of Columbia's literary magazine and contributed short anonymous pieces to humor magazines.

Joseph Schacht

Joseph Franz Schacht, born in Ratibor, 15 March 1902, died in Englewood, 1 August 1969, was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York.

Justin Popović

(John Meyendorff, professor of the Academy of St. Vladimir now in Scarsdale, New York (associated with Columbia University) - and every bit as much a critic of the "Catholic novelties" and the Pope's anti-Christianity.

Katuutire Kaura

During the same period, Kaura attended the universities of Long Island and Columbia.

Klaus Segbers

As visiting scholar he has worked, amongst others, at Stanford University, George Washington University, Harvard University, Columbia University and Fudan University.

Labor and Employment Relations Association

It originally consisted of about 100 researchers (economists; management, human resources, and labor relations researchers; attorneys, historians and sociologists) from 30 universities, including California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Massachusetts (several campuses), MIT, Michigan, Michigan State, Northeastern, Rutgers, Stanford and UCLA, as well as universities in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Lynn Verlayne

She wrote her first album, Drifter, almost entirely on Columbia University's Medical School concert piano, which had been donated by Rachmaninoff, because she could not afford her own.

May McNeer

May Yonge McNeer Ward (1902 in Tampa, Florida – 1994 in Reston, Virginia) was an American journalist and author of a variety of subjects, many of which were illustrated by her husband, Lynd Ward, whom she married a week after his graduation from Columbia University in 1926.

Metallurgical Laboratory

Early funding was meager, but in 1940, scientists at Columbia University and the University of California demonstrated the weapons potential of the isotope uranium-235 and the newly discovered element plutonium.

National Intelligence Service of Brazil

Alfred Stepan, a professor of political science at Columbia University, observed that the SNI differed from similar agencies in other countries.

Otto Marburg

Arriving in New York, he joined Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as clinical professor of neurology.

Participatory design

The UN, Global studio involved students from Columbia University, University of Sydney and Sapienza University of Rome to provide design solutions for Vancouver's downtown eastside, which suffered from drug- and alcohol-related problems.

Richard Douglas Lane

He later received a bachelor's degree from the University of Hawaii in Japanese and Chinese literature, and continued his studies at Columbia University, where he earned a master's degree and a Ph.D in 18th-century Japanese literature.

Robert Nisbet

Soon thereafter, he was appointed to the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Chair at Columbia.

Sheldon Pollock

Before taking his current position at Columbia University, Pollock was a professor at the University of Iowa and the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at the University of Chicago.

Social Science Japan Journal

SSJJ’s editorial board is located at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, and supported by the international advisory board members including Andrew Gordon (Harvard University), Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Jomo Kwame Sundaram (United Nations), and J. Victor Koschmann (Cornell University).

Tamy Ben-Tor

Graduating from Columbia University's MFA Program in 2006, she lives and works in New York and shows with Zach Feuer Gallery.

Thom Mayne

He has held teaching positions at many institutions including Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.

Xiao Tao Sheng

The publications about his work namely Collection of Sketches by Xiao Tao Sheng and Collection of Oil Paintings by Xiao Tao Sheng had been included in the collections of the U.S. Library of Congress, New York's Columbia University Library and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.