Professor Elisabeth Lindenmayer, a former assistant secretary general of the United Nations with special expertise in peacekeeping, has been named as the director of SIPA’s specialization in International Organizations and UN Studies (IO/UN).
Where Seeples study on campus
If you’ve ever been to SIPA’s International Affairs Building (IAB), you may have been surprised to find a winding staircase leading into a graduate student’s literary dream world, known as the Lehman Social Sciences Library. Lehman Library holds a contemporary collection of more than 330,000 volumes and approximately 1,700 current periodical titles. It includes materials acquired…
How alumni helped the lion roar on campus
I’m not going to lie. I LOVE lions. They are fierce, they have some great looking manes, and the females bring home the delicious bacon (antelope?). So it is probably kismet when I got my master’s degree from Columbia University, and joined its ranks a couple years thereafter. Why? Well the Columbia lion is a…
5 Brexit questions with Economist Jan Svejnar
From Columbia News, June 24, 2016: The fallout from Brexit, the British exit from the European Union, was nearly immediate. Every global market sank. British Prime Minister David Cameron resigned. A large U.S. investment bank announced it would move 2,000 jobs out of London to either Dublin or Frankfurt, the credit agency Standard & Poor’s said…
Fall 2016 New Student Series Part 6: Manasi Akhilesh Nanavati
In our sixth edition of the e-introductions, meet Manasi Akhilesh Nanavati. Manasi loves to dance, wants to one day produce a television series about society’s role in development issues and social evolution, and most looks forward to “making it in New York.” Welcome Manasi! You’ll do great here. Full Name: Manasi Akhilesh Nanavati Age: 28 Degree…
