Columbia Alumni Association of Central Indiana

07/27/2024

As gets underway, we're ready to cheer for our Olympians! 👏

Meet the incredible Columbians competing and coaching at the Summer Games: https://news.columbia.edu/news/here-are-all-paris-olympics-bound-columbia-athletes-we-know-so-far

03/07/2024

🙋‍♀️ Attention Columbia alumni! Upcoming event to enjoy and mingle, March 20th. Don’t miss. I’ll be there so pm me if you’re coming along with your graduation year/school. For example, I’m BC’85, SIPA/Harriman ‘87.

Jerry is from the Indianapolis Yale Club and they are hosting the Whiffenpoofs at Newfields on March 20. They are extending an invitation to all of the Indianapolis Ivy Alumni clubs to join us for this special performance. Ticket link below. Discount code: ELI. Feel free to share and we hope you will be able to share in this event. The event is open to non-alumni as well.

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01/19/2024

01/19/2024

This January, Brad Meltzer will publish his thirty-second children’s book, which is also one of the most personal for him: I Am Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The book tells the life story of the pioneering Supreme Court justice, who was also a fellow Columbia Law alum and mother of Meltzer’s cherished mentor Jane Ginsburg.

“Getting a chance to revisit Justice Ginsburg’s story, and particularly her time at Columbia, was emotional for me,” Meltzer says. “Just as Columbia Law School helped shape her, it shaped me.”

In recent years, Meltzer and his wife have decided to pass that gift along to future generations. They endowed a scholarship at Columbia Law School in the name of James Milligan, the late dean of admissions who took a chance on an applicant who was a little bit different. “Without him, I never would have had the opportunity that I did,” Meltzer says. “We hope that we’re able to open the same kind of doors for someone else.”

—Rebecca Shapiro, Columbia Magazine

The writer, television host, presidential confidant, and philanthropist says he owes it all to the power of stories.

12/18/2023

Columbia University Professor Eric Foner, one of the most eminent historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction, sees the film [Lincoln] as an “inside the beltway” rendition of the period.

—Salon

But it's not his fault. History this nuanced and complex doesn't lend itself to a two-and-a-half hour feature film

12/06/2023

“Israelis and many Jews around the world say they feel abandoned by an international social justice community — women’s groups, human rights groups, liberal celebrities, among others — whose causes they have supported in crises around the world.” —The New York Times

“Where is the solidarity for women in this country and in this world to stand up for our mothers, our sisters and our daughters?”
—U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York

A presentation at the U.N., organized in part by Sheryl Sandberg, accused the body of ignoring the r**e and mutilation of women in the Oct. 7 assault on Israel, and heard gruesome details from witnesses.

12/04/2023

Tensions over the ongoing Israel-Hamas war surge on college campuses (—60 Minutes)

…how many campuses when a tragedy like this strikes, the first thing that the head of Middle Eastern Studies, and the first thing the Jewish Studies do is immediately communicate with one another and say, "We have to do something about this together"?

Avishai and Fishere [at Dartmouth] have been co-teaching a course called, "Politics of Israel and Palestine" for two years.

We have this incredible privilege of having that space of learning and growth. And that is much more valuable than one more violent protest

Tensions over the Israel-Hamas war have been running high on many campuses. Several college presidents are set to testify before Congress on Tuesday at a hearing about antisemitism on college campuses.

12/10/2022

“In the 1960s, Clauser was a graduate physics student at Columbia University. By chance, he found an article in the university library that would shape his career and lead him to pursue the experimental work that eventually earned him the Nobel Prize.”

John F. Clauser reflects on receiving the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics for the groundbreaking work he did 50 years ago.

10/18/2022

BREAKING: The Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) heartily congratulates John F. Clauser '69GSAS for winning the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. 🪙🎉

Clauser is recognized for his experiments using entangled particle states. "Their results have cleared the way for new technology based upon quantum information," the Royal Swedish Academy explains in its press release.

Read more: https://news.columbia.edu/news/columbia-alum-wins-nobel-prize-physics

08/15/2022

“…there’s no shortage of stories that need to be told: The alumna who’d spent months in Ukraine caring for her dying mother only to return to the US two weeks before the invasion. The student in the Slavic-languages department who’d been finishing his dissertation and planning a wedding in Kyiv when Russia invaded. The former faculty member who stayed in her Kyiv apartment through the shelling because her son, who’d joined Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, was ill with COVID-19.”

—Masha Udensiva-Brenner
The Harriman Institute at Columbia University
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | SIPA
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism | Columbia Journalism Review
Columbia University in the City of New York
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Columbia Magazine

How I found my own small way to take a stand against Russia's brutal war.