Restaurant Discounts for Columbia Students

If you are a Columbia student, or if you happen to be a member of the Columbia Alumni Arts League (CAAL), now there are some great discounts for you at Upper West Side restaurants.  The Arts Initiative at Columbia University created partnerships with over 30 New York restaurants to provide special offers to current Columbia [...]

Upper West Side Filming Location

The CW’s hit show Gossip Girl has been filming this week, and will continue to film tomorrow in the vicinity of Columbia University.  Signs were spotted around Riverside Drive and 116th for a filming all day Wednesday.  If you are a fan of Chuck Bass and company, tomorrow’s filming would be a chance for you [...]

Three Coyotes Spotted on Columbia’s Campus

Three coyotes have been spotted on Columbia University’s campus, according to several news sources.  The first sighting, occurring in front of Lewisohn Hall (near the campus entrance at Broadway and 116th), was reported to 911 and Columbia’s authorities yesterday morning.  At least one other sighting came in yesterday, raising concern that the wild animals may [...]

Hundreds of Columbia Students’ Personal Information Taken in Laptop Theft

About 1,400 Columbia University students, alumni, and employees were given notice that their personal data was no longer secure after three laptops were stolen from the campus last Monday, according to the New York Post.  Authorities and school officials disclosed that burglars smashed a locked office door at Columbia College and stole the the three [...]

Starting Today: African Diaspora Film Festival

The African Diaspora Film Festival (ADFF), taking place today through December 15th, presents an eclectic mix of urban, classic, independent and foreign films that depict the richness and diversity of the life experience of people of African descent and Indigenous people all over the world.  Most films are screened in the Upper West Side, with [...]

PostSecret’s Founder at Columbia Tonight

Five years ago, Frank Warren began a project in which completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed.  The only restrictions on the postcards are that they are truthful and have never been spoken aloud before.  Amazingly, thousands of people have been sending Warren postcards for the [...]

Outdoor Astrophotography Exhibit at Columbia University

Columbia University’s Morningside campus (near Broadway and 116th) will celebrate the merging of science and art when an outdoor astrophotography exhibit opens tomorrow.  25 double-sided 3×3 foot images of our universe taken by ground and space-based telescopes will be accompanied by scientific descriptions on Butler Lawn of the campus.  Professional astronomers staff the event from [...]

A Blog of Her Own: Scholarly Women on the Web

Columbia University’s Scholarly Communication Program is putting on an interesting, free, open-to-the-public event tomorrow titled “A Blog of Her Own: Scholarly Women on the Web.”  This roundtable discussion features both Columbia professors and bloggers, including women from the blogs Bitch Ph.D., Tenured Radical, Oh! Industry, Easternblot.net, and Expression Patterns.  The discussion will focus on “the [...]

Cafe Social Science Tonight

Columbia University is holding a regular event called Café Social Science in which a group gathers for an informal discussion with some of Columbia’s top professors about current events in social science.  The event is held at PicNic Market & Café on Broadway between 101st and 102nd.   Tonight’s edition is titled “China: Democracy, Dictatorship… or [...]

Cafe Science: Greening an Urban University

As part of Columbia University’s event series Café Science, there will be an informal discussion tonight at the PicNic Market & Café (Broadway between 101st and 102nd).  The discussion, titled “Greening an Urban University: Oxymorons, Windmills and Carbon Footprints,” is led by Columbia’s Director of Environmental Stewardship, Nilda Mesa, and will focus on the [...]