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61 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.

Aldo Donelli

In 1957 he was named the head coach at Columbia University where he would serve until 1967 compiling a 30-76-4 record.

Angel Chang

Chang received an M.A. in Modern Art: Critical Studies from Columbia University, where she studied with fashion historians Richard Martin (curator) and Valerie Steele.

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.

Beirut I Love You

Following season two it was announced that the show would be put on hold while Mounia and Cyril complete Masters of Fine Arts in Directing/Screenwriting at Columbia University in New York.

Bosporus Germans

From the circle around Naumann came Ernest Jäckh (1875–1959), purveyor of Young Turk propaganda (and later professor at Columbia University.) Jäckh however did not live in Constantinople for too long and can't be considered a "Bosporus German" in the true sense.

Capitol of Puerto Rico

The model for the central structure and the dome was that of the Low Memorial Library at Columbia University.

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.

Colleen Plimpton

She graduated from Lima High School and received a B.A. in Anthropology from Fordham University and a Master’s in Social Work from Columbia University.

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.

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.

Elaine Madlener

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

Elizabeth Burchenal

Burchenal became a teacher at the Teachers College at Columbia University from 1902 to 1905.

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).

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.

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.

Frank Braynard

Born Francis Osborn Braynard in Glen Cove, New York, he was educated at Duke University (receiving a degree in history in 1939) and later took a master's in maritime history at Columbia University.

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.

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).

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.

Helen Dalley

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

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.

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.

Jay Nelson Tuck

Despite childhood poverty, the young Tuck was admitted to the prestigious Lincoln School, associated with Columbia University, and later to Horace Mann School, an elite educational institution for the wealthy.

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.

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

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.

Martin A. Lee

He has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the University of Illinois, and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, and the American University of Paris.

Mary Alsop King Waddington

She was born in New York City, New York on April 28, 1839 the daughter of Charles King (academic) an American academic, politician, newspaper editor and the ninth president of Columbia College now Columbia University and his second wife, Henrietta Liston Low.

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.

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.

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).

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators

In 1925, the first piece of "research" - presented by John Bennett of Teachers College, Columbia University - was offered at a NADAM meeting.

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".

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.

Research to Prevent Blindness

Over a span of years, RPB organized capital campaigns for the construction of modern eye research centers in large population areas: University of California, Los Angeles, The Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, University of Louisville, Medical College of Wisconsin, Baylor College of Medicine and Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland.

Richard Campagna

Campagna has degrees from Brown University (B.A.), New York University (M.A.), St. John's University (J.D.), and Columbia University (M.A.), and a PhD from the American College of Metaphysical Theology.

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.

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.

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.

Samuel Totten

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

Shanghai Kiss

Joe reminds Liam that it was Liam's decision to drop out of Columbia University to pursue a career in acting.

Sophie Leung

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

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.

Varimax rotation

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

Yves Lavandier

After receiving a degree in civil engineering, he studied film at Columbia University, New York, between 1983 and 1985.


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 .

C. V. Vishveshwara

With initial interest in particle physics Vishveshwara joined Columbia University,where Robert W. Fuller was his mentor.

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, located on the Columbia University Medical Center campus in New York City, is a school of public health recognized by the Council on Education for Public Health.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ernst J. Grube

Grube held a simultaneous teaching appointment as Adjunct Professor of Islamic Art at Columbia University, In 1968 he was appointed Professor of Islamic and Far Eastern art at Hunter College in the City University of New York,

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.

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.

Gilbert Jonas

Born in Brooklyn, Jonas graduated from Stanford University in 1951, and earned a master's degree in international affairs from 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.

Heidi Hadsell

She received a bachelor's degree from University of California, Berkeley, a master's degree from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.

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 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.

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.

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.

Joseph Lipman

He was a member of the MSRI and visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and the University of Nice and a visiting professor at the Columbia University and Harvard University.

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.

Marjorie Bean

She attended Wilberforce University (in Ohio), Columbia University's Teachers College (in New York City) and the Institute of Education at the University of London.

Mary J. Hickman

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

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.

Otto Marburg

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

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.

Ruth Cardoso

As professor and researcher Cardoso taught at the Latin American College of Social Sciences (Flacso/Unesco), University of Chile (Santiago), Maison des Sciences de L'Homme (Paris), University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University (New York).

Scott Burton

Between 1959 and 1962 Burton took classes at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Harvard University, and Columbia University, where he finally received his Bachelor's Degree.

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).

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.

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.

Who Controls the Internet?

As law professors at Harvard and Columbia, respectively, Goldsmith and Wu assert the important role of government in maintaining Internet law and order while debunking the claims of techno-utopianism that have been espoused by theorists such as Thomas Friedman.

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.

Wolf Tegethoff

Tegethoff studied art history, urban design, economic history and social history at the University of Bonn and Columbia University, New York.

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.

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.