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The 86 pages that link to Columbia University, each with the reason it gives.

• Barack ObamaRelated: His studies there preceded his move to Chicago and community organizing.

• Pulitzer Prize for FictionRelated: The university has administered the awards under the terms of Pulitzer’s bequest.

• B. R. AmbedkarRelated: His graduate studies there shaped his training in economics, politics, and social thought.

• Pulitzer Prize for DramaRelated: Columbia administers the award under the Pulitzer Prize Board.

• University of PennsylvaniaCompared with: Columbia provides a useful urban Ivy League comparison to Penn.

• Pulitzer Prize for PoetryRelated: The university administers the Pulitzer Prizes under Pulitzer’s bequest.

• Thomas Hunt MorganRelated: Morgan conducted his landmark Drosophila research there.

• Edward ThorndikeRelated: Thorndike completed his doctoral work there and spent most of his academic career there.

• Allen GinsbergRelated: Ginsberg studied there and met fellow writers who shaped his early literary life.

• Isaac AsimovRelated: Asimov studied chemistry there and earned his doctorate in biochemistry.

• Pulitzer Prize for MusicRelated: The university hosts the prize administration and formal announcement.

• Joseph StiglitzRelated: Stiglitz has taught at Columbia and directs its Initiative for Policy Dialogue.

• New York UniversityCompared with: It is New York City’s other major private research university, with a more concentrated campus setting.

• Ivy LeagueRelated: Columbia is one of the league’s eight member institutions.

• Joseph GreenbergRelated: Greenberg studied anthropology there and later held a long-term faculty position.

• Max HorkheimerRelated: It hosted the Institute for Social Research during much of its American exile.

• Chien-Shiung WuRelated: Wu spent most of her American academic career conducting physics research at Columbia.

• IBM ResearchRelated: IBM's first research laboratory opened in partnership with Columbia University in 1945.

• Joseph L. MankiewiczRelated: Mankiewicz studied at Columbia before beginning his professional career in journalism and film.

• Pulitzer Prize for BiographyRelated: The university’s trustees oversee the award’s administration and announce its winners.

• Daniel BellRelated: Bell taught sociology at Columbia for much of his academic career.

• Julian StewardRelated: Steward completed his anthropology doctorate at Columbia in 1929.

• Pulitzer Prize for HistoryRelated: The university administers the Pulitzer Prizes under Joseph Pulitzer’s bequest.

• Richard HofstadterRelated: Hofstadter studied and later taught at Columbia, where his career became centered.

• Tsung-Dao LeeRelated: Lee joined Columbia’s physics faculty in 1953 and spent much of his career there.

• Wu experimentRelated: Wu conducted the experiment with collaborators at Columbia.

• Barnard CollegeRelated: The two institutions share academic resources while retaining separate administrations and degree-granting authority.

• Herman HollerithRelated: Hollerith studied mining engineering there before developing his tabulating system.

• Liu XiaoboRelated: Liu was a visiting scholar there when the 1989 Tiananmen movement drew him back to China.

• Lorenzo Da PonteRelated: Da Ponte taught Italian at Columbia, becoming its first professor of Italian literature.

• Dunning SchoolRelated: Dunning trained scholars there whose studies spread his interpretation across the country.

• Eric KandelRelated: Kandel built a major neuroscience research program there and helped shape the university’s neuroscience institute.

• Harold UreyRelated: Urey’s research group at Columbia identified deuterium in 1931.

• Jack KerouacRelated: Kerouac attended Columbia, where literary encounters helped redirect his ambitions.

• John KanderRelated: Kander studied music there before beginning his professional theater career.

• Neal CassadyRelated: Kerouac and Ginsberg met there, helping form the circle into which Cassady later entered.

• Brian De PalmaRelated: De Palma studied there before turning from physics toward filmmaking.

• Geoffrey WilkinsonRelated: Wilkinson studied and conducted early research there after leaving Britain during the Second World War.

• Isidor RabiRelated: Rabi joined its physics faculty and built the research group that developed his resonance method.

• Melvin SchwartzRelated: Schwartz was a Columbia professor when he and his collaborators developed the neutrino experiment.

• Shirley ChisholmRelated: Chisholm earned a master’s degree in early childhood education at Columbia.

• Thomas MertonRelated: Merton studied there in the 1930s, formed lasting friendships, and began developing as a writer.

• William GoldmanRelated: Goldman earned a master’s degree in English from Columbia in 1956.

• Charles H. TownesRelated: Townes developed the ammonia maser at Columbia’s physics department.

• Edmund PhelpsRelated: Phelps spent much of his academic career teaching and researching at Columbia.

• Feng YoulanRelated: Feng earned his doctorate there under the philosopher John Dewey.

• Francis LieberRelated: Lieber taught political science and history there for much of his American career.

• Franklin J. SchaffnerRelated: Schaffner studied law at Columbia before turning to broadcasting and directing.

• James RainwaterRelated: Rainwater spent much of his academic career at Columbia, where he developed his nuclear model.

• Jeffrey SachsRelated: Sachs has taught at Columbia and directs its Center for Sustainable Development.