Columbia University

Investigation after report of officer-involved shooting at Columbia's Hamilton Hall

Across the United States, a groundswell of student protests in solidarity with Palestinians is gaining momentum, sparking both cancellations of classes and clashes with authorities on campuses nationwide.

NEW YORK - Serbian Minister of Science, Technological Development and Innovation Jelena Begovic, who is on a working visit to the US, met with Columbia University representatives in New York to familiarise herself with their work and present Serbia's BIO4 Campus project.

"My wife and I help students study without being shackled by debt on their chosen career path," says Greek-American Roy Vagelos, 93, a prominent figure in the pharmaceutical industry.

Lee Bollinger is widely regarded as the most successful president of an American university, having consolidated Columbia's reputation as one of the leading global institutions, while expanding its international activities. He is also a noted intellectual and scholar of freedom of speech.

One of the reasons why the Arab Spring succeeded in Tunisia was the fact that the country has strong similarities with Turkey, rather than the rest of the Arab world, according to Safwan Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University. 

A 21-year-old visual arts student at Columbia University carried, with help, a mattress on stage recently to accept her diploma as part of a semester-long protest against the university, which she claims failed to take action against a fellow student who raped her!

BELGRADE - The year of 2014 has been declared the year of Mihajlo Pupin (1854-1935), a world-renowned scientist, innovator and a great Serbian patriot.

Pupin was born on October 9, 1854, in Idvor, to a Banat rural family, which had ten children.