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59 unusual facts about Columbia University


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.

Alexander Schmemann

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

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.

Arthur Braverman

In 1978 he returned to the United States and studied classical Japanese at Columbia University.

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.

Comic Book Project

, while at Teachers College at Columbia University.

Daniel Kevles

He is currently the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University (a position he assumed in 2001) and an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Columbia University.

David M. Crowe

He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and has taught at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

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.

Dickinson classification

It was developed by George Sherman Dickinson (1886 - 1964), and is used by many music libraries, primarily those at University at Buffalo, Vassar, and Columbia Universities.

Elaine Madlener

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

Ernest Addison Moody

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

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.

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.

George D. Schwab

He then attended Columbia University, where he earned a M.A. in 1955 and a Ph.D. in 1968.

George Louis Beer

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

Helen Dalley

While overseas, Dalley completed a brief, intensive business journalism course at Columbia University before returning to Australia in 1983.

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 Eulenberg

In 1923 he lectured in the United States, where he was invited as the “first German after Einstein” to speak at Columbia University.

James Henry Hackett

Hackett entered Columbia College in 1815 but withdrew.

James MacKaye

His theory of "radiation" was first presented at the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association held at Columbia University.

Jan Westerhoff

He was previously a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the City University of New York, a Seminar Associate at Columbia University, a Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College and a Junior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

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.

Jason Garrett

His father Jim Garrett was an assistant coach for the New York Giants (1970–1973), New Orleans Saints (1976–77), and Cleveland Browns (1978–84) and head coach of the Houston Texans of the World Football League (1974) and at Columbia University (1985).

Joseph Ransohoff

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

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.

Klaus von Dohnányi

After studying law at the University of Munich, and later in the United States at Columbia, Stanford and Yale universities, Dohnányi started his career with the Max Planck Institute for International Private Law.

Lawrence Sargent Hall

He retired as a Henry Leland Chapman professor in 1986 and was a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1956.

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.

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.

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.

Matthew Bogdanos

He also has a Master's Degree in Classical Studies from Columbia University and another Master's in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College.

Max Poulter

He studied for a PhD at Columbia University in New York, winning his doctorate in 1952, after which he became a lecturer in education at the University of Queensland.

Meadow Soprano

She was active in extracurricular activities in high school (playing on the championship girls' soccer team and singing in the chorus and school pageants), attended Columbia University, performing well in her classes after a poor first-year performance, and volunteered regularly at the South Bronx Law Center.

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.

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.

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.

Pete Nice

After graduating from Bishop Ford High School in 1985, Nash majored in English at Columbia University, where he hosted a hip hop radio show.

Portia Sabin

While getting her Ph.D. in Anthropology & Education from Columbia University she played drums in several NYC bands before moving to Olympia, Washington to do her dissertation research.

Preston Washington

He earned a Master's degree in Divinity at Union Theological Seminary, and a doctorate in education from Columbia University.

Prince Manuel of Bavaria

Prince Manuel was awarded a PhD degree in biology from Columbia University where he is now a cardiology researcher.

Ralph E. Updike

Born in Brookville, Indiana, Updike attended the public schools of Whitcomb and Brookville, Dodds Army and Navy Academy, Washington, D.C., Columbia University, New York City, and Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

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.

Sabine Seymour

Seymour received a PhD and MSc in Social and Economic Sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Columbia University in New York, and a MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University.

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.

Thomas J. Carew

In 1974, with the Kandel group, he moved to Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he became a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry.

Tommy Lynn Sells

Sells has claimed to have killed upwards of 70 people, according to an interview with Columbia University forensic psychiatrist and personality expert Dr. Michael H. Stone in Discovery Channel's Most Evil.

University of Puerto Rico School of Dental Medicine

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.

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.

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.

ArtBots

The show is promoted by arts organizations, engineering groups such as the Robotics Society of America, and educational institutions like Columbia University, New York University (NYU), and Pratt Institute.

Bonnie Marranca

She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship in the UK, and Fulbright Senior Scholar who has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, Duke University, the University of California-San Diego, Free University of Berlin, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona Institute for Theatre .

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 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.

Donald Vining

Vining's playwriting ambitions gradually petered out, and he eventually took a full-time position in the Development Office at Teacher's College, Columbia University, spending 30 years there in a job he disliked before taking early retirement, in part so he could start his own publishing company, The Pepys Press, named in honor of one of the most celebrated of all diarists, Samuel Pepys.

Douglas Durkin

He taught creative writing briefly at Columbia University before turning to a full-time writing career with fellow-novelist Martha Ostenso.

Edward H. Shortliffe

He has served as president and chief executive officer of the American Medical Informatics Association from 2009-2012 and continues to hold adjunct faculty appointments in biomedical informatics at Columbia University and Arizona State University.

Fabien Lévy

A former pedagogical advisor at IRCAM in Paris and professor of orchestration at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, he is currently assistant professor in composition at Columbia University in New York and senior professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany.

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.

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.

Herbert Southworth

He also took a master's degree at Columbia University, and formed an enduring friendship with the war correspondent Jay Allen.

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.

Isami Doi

Doi studied for two years at the University of Hawaii, went on to Columbia University for five years, and then continued his studies for a year in Paris.

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.

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.

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.

Mary J. Hickman

She has been Visiting Professor at: New York University, Columbia University and Victoria University, Melbourne.

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.

Nonie Darwish

She has spoken on numerous college campuses including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Oxford, Cornell, UCLA, NYU, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and several others.

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.

Performance Lab 115

The company was founded in 2005 by Columbia University School of Drama graduates Jeff Clarke, Rebecca Lingafelter, Shelley Gershoni and Elena Mulroney and has been a performer with the New York International Fringe Festival for several theatrical seasons.

Sciences Po

At the undergraduate level, Sciences Po also offers a dual degree program with the School of General Studies at Columbia University, University College London, Keio University, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of British Columbia.

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.

The Encyclopedia of New York City

Historian and Columbia University professor Kenneth T. Jackson edited this work that combines informative and interesting information about New York City into one volume, first published in 1995 by the New-York Historical Society and Yale University Press.

The Hall of Presidents

The changes to the show, which in some form remain to this day, are credited to Eric Foner, a history professor at Columbia University.

Travelers Rest, South Carolina

There was a bizarre development in 2007 when a woman named Esther Elizabeth Reed (originally from Montana) apparently stole Henson's identity to register at Columbia University in New York City.

Varimax rotation

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

Winston Dang

Dang did his undergraduate education at Taipei Medical University and then moved to the United States to pursue further education, successively earning an M.A. from Columbia University, a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, and a M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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.

Yukari Sato

A native of Setagaya, Tokyo, Satō received a bachelor's degree from Sophia University, a master's degree in international relations from Columbia University, and a Ph.D in economics from the New York University.