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 [...]

This Tuesday: NYC Architecture Lecture and Book Signing

Come to Macaulay Honors College at CUNY (35 West 67th, between Central Park West and Columbus) to see Professor Andrew Scott Dolkart discuss and sign his latest book, The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City, 1908-1929.  The book “investigates an important, yet largely ignored, chapter in New York housing.  This is [...]

Columbia Prof Allegedly Assaults Columbia Employee in UWS Bar

A Columbia professor allegedly punched a Columbia University employee in the face at Toast (Broadway at 105th) last Friday, according to the New York Times.  According to police reports, Lionel McIntyre, a 59-year-old professor of courses in community development, had a “verbal dispute” with Camille Davis, a theater production manager for the school, before he [...]

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 [...]