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As we enter the time of year when joyful festivities for our grads reach a fever pitch, we're documenting it all here. You can join the fun by sharing your stories and pictures.
On this page, you'll find stories from graduates, photos from the season, trivia, and the latest updates on what to expect from this year's various graduation celebrations. We'll be updating throughout the weeks leading up to the big day.
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COLUMBIA HISTORY
On April 4, 1949, the newly formed North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), represented by delegates from the US, Canada, and ten European countries, signed a collective security pact. Four years after the end of a war that killed thirty-nine million Europeans, the twelve nations negotiated an all-for-one, one-for-all agreement with the declared intention to check Soviet expansion, bolster Europe’s defenses, and prevent German remilitarization.
At Columbia, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ’47HON, the five-star general who led the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II, was closely following events. Eisenhower had become president of Columbia less than a year earlier, succeeding Nicholas Murray Butler, who resigned in 1945 after forty-four years.
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MAY 20 at 6:00PM
György Ligeti wrote his Horn Trio in honor of the 150th birthday of Johannes Brahms, whose own horn trio is one of the quintessential works in chamber music. For this Pop-Up, the Takt Trio continues the tradition, performing Ligeti’s monumental work alongside two brand new horn trios by composers Marcos Balter and Hilda Paredes, commissioned for the occasion of Ligeti’s 100th birthday.
Free admission • The Forum • takDoors open at 5:30PM, music at 6PM
Onstage seating is first-come, first-served.
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We're keeping track of the Columbia Lions who are headed to the Paris Olympics to compete this summer. Here's who to watch out for.
The Campbell Award is presented to a graduating student at each School who shows exceptional leadership and Columbia spirit.
With graduation festivities around the corner, here's who we expect to speak to our graduates in celebration of their accomplishments.
The night of May 15, the Empire State Building will glow blue for Columbia grads. Here’s where to capture the best photos with it.
Porras-Sanchez discusses using social work for community impact and what graduation represents for him.
We asked graduating students about their time at Columbia and the advice they'd give to the next generations—here is what they shared.
Based on feedback from students, the University has decided to focus attention on Class Days and school-level graduation ceremonies, and to forego
Abbey Hsu (CC'24) and Kaitlyn Davis (CC'23) were both selected in the 2024 WNBA Draft, the first two selections in Columbia women's basketball hist
On April 8, Columbians gathered on Morningside campus to witness a partial solar eclipse.
The conversation focused on the task force’s first report and the experiences of Jews and Israelis at Columbia.
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