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March 28, 2024

Celebrating Purim at Columbia

Both Columbia/Barnard Hillel and Chabad at Columbia University hosted events throughout the weekend for the community to celebrate Purim. 

Research & Discovery

The mile-wide crater of Costa Rica’s Poás Volcano hosts a steaming lake that occasionally explodes. Debris from past eruptions covers an area of 150 square miles around it.
Tapping Into the Breathing of a Volcanic Beast

In Costa Rica, Climate School scientists are installing geophysical instruments that can monitor the underground in real time.

A booklet of 15th-century liturgical music, known as an antiphonary, being examined with the Columbia Nano Initiative's Raman spectrometer. The manuscript's official name is UTS MS 114.
Using Nanotechnology to Uncover Details of a Medieval Manuscript

How Columbia conservators, Nano Initiative scientists, and a music scholar used state-of-the-art technology to examine a score.

Swirling hydrogen emissions and stars in an area of the night sky known as the cone nebula. The image was taken by the MDW Survey and shows a region included in a recent Columbia data release.
Columbia Releases New Data on Hydrogen Emissions Within the Orion Constellation

The data release kicks off an astronomy partnership with the Michele and David Mittelman Family Foundation.

Campus & Community

Jackie Dubrovich
Jackie Dubrovich (CC'16) Headed to Paris Olympics

Former Columbia fencing standout Jackie Dubrovich (CC'16) has been named to the United States Olympic Team in women's foil. Dubrovich will make her second appearance after representing the red, white and blue in Tokyo in 2021.

Lamaka Opa
'You Don't Get to the Top of the Mountain Alone': Lamaka Opa Reflects on Rewiring His Tech Career at Columbia

Opa shared how the Columbia Employment Information Center was a launchpad for furthering his career at the University.

A Barnard student climbs a mountain
A Decade of New Game Changers

Learn about Barnard alumnae and students — from the Class of 2014 to the Class of 2024 — who are working across disciplines to improve society with creativity and innovation.

National & Global Affairs

Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, Brigitte Nacos, and Robert Shapiro.
Will History Repeat Itself With the 2024 Presidential Election?

A new book traces how the Tea Party laid the groundwork for the rise of Trump.

Dialogue Across Difference
What’s at Stake in These Polarized Times

Students, faculty, and staff gathered in person and online to explore how the often binary conversations around current events inform our understanding of democracy, the elements that prevent us from coming together for civil discourse, and where we go from here.    

IGP, Columbia University. Photo credit: Nir Arieli
Institute of Global Politics, Columbia University. Photo credit: Nir Arieli.
IGP Kicks Off Women’s History Month with the Launch of Its New Women’s Initiative

The event convened leading policymakers, scholars, and advocates to discuss a range of issues, from reproductive rights to gender equity in the workplace to technology-facilitated gender-based violence.