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This partial list does not include all of the numerous Columbia alumni and faculty who have served as the heads of foreign governments, in the U.S. Presidential Cabinet, the U.S. Executive branch of government, the Federal Courts, or as U.S. Senators, U.S. Congresspersons, Governors, diplomats, mayors (or other notable local officials), or as prominent members of the legal profession or the ...
Norman B. Norman (B.A. 1934) – advertising executive who co-founded Norman, Craig & Kummel. Timothy L. O'Brien (M.B.A., 1992) – edits and oversees the Sunday Business section of The New York Times. Eric Ober – former President of CBS News division, and Food Network.
Statistical Research Group. The Statistical Research Group ( SRG) was a research group at Columbia University focused on military problems during World War II. Abraham Wald, Allen Wallis, Herbert Solomon, [ 1] Frederick Mosteller, George Stigler, Leonard Jimmie Savage and Milton Friedman were all part of the group in which 18 researchers ...
A former Columbia University Students for a Democratic Society activist named Bob Feldman claimed in 2022 to have discovered documents from early March 1967, in the International Law Library detailing Columbia's institutional affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a weapons research think tank affiliated with the United States Department of Defense.
Stephen D. Biddle (born January 19, 1959) [ 1] is an American author, military historian, policy analyst and columnist whose work concentrates on U.S. foreign policy. Currently, he is the Professor of International and Public Affairs at School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. [ 2] He received recognition for his 2004 ...
Nacoms and Sachems. Columbia University has two senior societies, the Senior Society of Nacoms and the Senior Society of Sachems. Founded in 1898 and 1915, respectively, each society taps fifteen juniors each year, often the most influential student leaders on campus. Members of the societies can be identified by rings worn on their little ...
The protests at Columbia have been organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which describes itself as a coalition of more than 100 student groups.
NYMAS has it origins in the late 1970s, when some graduate students in military history from CUNY, members of the Arms Control Workshop at Columbia University, and a number of interested laymen began holding periodic informal study groups, at Columbia, the Loeb Student Center at New York University, the former CUNY Graduate Center on 42nd Street, and in private homes.