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Hundreds of construction workers raised the final steel beam to the top of the Lenfest Center for the Arts on Thursday October 2, with Columbia University representatives and executives of Lend Lease, the construction manager for the first phase of the Manhattanville development, cheering them on.
African American artist Romare Bearden’s iconic series of works based on Homer’s "The Odyssey" is finally returning home.
Over the summer Idniel Paula headed to Nobel laureate and University Professor Eric Kandel’s neuroscience lab, donned a white coat and peered through a microscope. His daily routine resembled that of many experienced scientists but not of a typical 16-year-old high school student.
When Farah Griffin asked her mother what she remembered about World War II, her response was, “All the handsome soldiers who drove the buses in Philadelphia.”
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger announced Dec. 17 that Mortimer B. Zuckerman has pledged $200 million to endow a Mind Brain Behavior Institute to support interdisciplinary neuroscience research and discovery by scholars across the University.
Jack Agüeros is a poet, playwright, short story writer, translator and author of five books. He was an activist in New York’s Latino community in the 1960s and ’70s and director of El Museo del Barrio for close to a decade.
Columbia University’s environmentally sustainable design and overall project plan for its 17-acre Manhattanville campus in West Harlem has earned LEED® Platinum under the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system established by the U.S. Green Building Council—its highest designation and the first LEED-ND Platinum certification in New York City, as well as the first Platinum certification for a university campus plan nationally.
Business School will be among first to join interdisciplinary Jerome L. Greene Science Center in academic development of new campus.
On Tuesday, Sept. 21, more than 2,000 senior residents of The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) received hands-on training with new technologies like iPods, digital cameras and social media such as Twitter at NYCHA’s 6th Annual Senior Benefit & Entitlement Fair, held at Riverbank State Park.
For 49 years, the Meeting with God Church has been a thriving Pentecostal congregation on West 130th Street in Harlem. But all along, it needed more space to increase its fellowship. Since last October, the church has had a new home and ample space to expand, thanks to a relocation conducted by Columbia.
For 49 years, the Meeting with God Church has been a thriving Pentecostal congregation on West 130th Street in Harlem. But all along, it needed more space to increase its fellowship. Since last October, the church has had a new home and ample space to expand, thanks to a relocation conducted by Columbia.
When the University took down a brick building on 125th Street, a new and diverse group of workers made sure that almost nothing from the building went to waste.
Riverside Valley Community Garden was given a helping hand on Thursday, Sept. 25, when Bovis Lend Lease, in collaboration with Columbia University, held their 13th annual Community Day.
Columbia has earned the highest grade given this year for overall sustainability efforts across college campuses nationwide.
Columbia's long-term plan for an educational mixed-use area in the old Manhattanville manufacturing zone was overwhelmingly approved last year by the City Council as part of New York City's rigorous land use review process.