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The Low Down
by Columbia Alumni Association
Columbia University is a mecca of great ideas in one of the world's great metropolises. And with more than 365,000 Columbia alumni who are leaders in every field imaginable and spread across the world, the Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) Low Down brings you the latest musings, updates, and insights to delight the left and right sides of the brain.http://thelowdown.alumni.columbia.edu/
Episodes
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Columbia University at Art Basel 2022
Columbia University at Art Basel 2022 by Columbia Alumni Association
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Leaders Experience Promo
Interested in learning more about the programming for Columbia Alumni Leaders Weekend 2022? Hear Columbia Alumni Leaders Experience Chair Shaun Hoyte ’16SPS and Co-chair Courtney Cesari ’04CC on what to expect during the weekend.
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CALE 2020: Leadership Innovator Podcast | The Future of Tech Sector Leadership
Technology leaders today are faced with the intersection of urgent legal, trade, and privacy issues that the tech sector must address. In this podcast, former FTC Commissioner and industry veteran Mozelle Thompson '76CC, '79SIPA, '81LAW discusses this increasingly critical topic.
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CALE 2020: Who's Saving The Planet - Economics, Energy, Environment, And National Security
Join Lex Kiefhaber '17BUS, of the Who's Saving the Planet Podcast, and Jason Bordoff, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, for a timely conversation on the intersection of economics, energy, environment, and national security. These need to be addressed...
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CALE 2020: From Sharecropper to Shareholder
In this new podcast, Rendel Solomon '05BUS shares his story and his mission. His great-grandparents were sharecroppers, picking cotton for meager wages. Nearly 70 years later, Rendel bought his 8-year-old niece shares in public companies, creating a new family legacy. Now, through his non-profit...
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CALE 2020: Leadership Innovator Podcast | Becoming a Trusted Leader
Leadership Innovator Podcast | Becoming a Trusted Leader Caroline Ceniza-Levine ’93BC - Speaker Co-Founder and Career Coach SixFigureStart Inspiration is important, but truly effective leadership requires the ability to engender trust— both within your organization and among your audience. In…
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CALE 2020: Leadership in Times of Crisis
To kick off the the Columbia Alumni Association's (CAA) Columbia Alumni Leaders Experience (CALE) 2020, tune in to a timely episode of What in the World?, a podcast by Bunmi Akinnusotu '14SIPA, which has been specially prepared for alumni leaders. What in the World...
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Buchla
In 1963, a man named Don Buchla made history. Under commission by a pair of avant-garde composers, Buchla designed one of the world’s first modular synthesizers, helping to change the course of pop music. Today Buchla’s earliest creations are prized commodities—the Library of Congress currently...
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Posing Modernity
The Low Down's Acacia O'Connor '18JRN brings you the story of Denise Murrell '04, '10, '14GSAS, curator of the groundbreaking "Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today," at the Wallach Art Gallery on Columbia's new Manhattanville campus, who discusses the story behind the...
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The Low Down Goes to the Opera
The Cagliari Opera House, one of Italy’s most renowned opera companies, presented the first modern rendering of the opera in the Rotunda of Columbia's Low Library. In this episode of The Low Down, we take you on a trip to the opera with the works of Lorenzo Da Ponte, the author of Mozart’s most...
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The Doctor's Office
Nuclear war. Jimmy Kimmel. Lionel Richie. What do these things have in common? Dr. Irwin Redlener. We take you inside the doctor's office on this episode of The Low Down.
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Chef Mike
On the latest edition of The Low Down podcast, Columbia University's Acacia O'Connor spoke with everyone's favorite chef, Michael DeMartino of Columbia Dining, about his cooking beginnings, what he loves about his job, what his last meal would be, and the special thing he does for students during...
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Society of Women Engineers: The Future of Science
Society of Women Engineers: The Future of Science by Columbia Alumni Association
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Julia Bacha ‘03GS: Behind the Scenes of Non-violent Resistance
Julia Bacha ‘03GS: Behind the Scenes of Non-violent Resistance by Columbia Alumni Association
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Ayushi Roy ‘14CC: We Need Human Rights at Home in the U.S.
Ayushi Roy ‘14CC: We Need Human Rights at Home in the U.S. by Columbia Alumni Association
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Nicole Crescimanno ‘11GSAS: The Art of Climate Activism
Nicole Crescimanno ‘11GSAS: The Art of Climate Activism by Columbia Alumni Association
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A’Lelia Bundles ‘76JRN: Writing History Herself
A’Lelia Bundles ‘76JRN: Writing History Herself by Columbia Alumni Association
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Coming Soon: "The Future Is..."
The Low Down is launching a special mini-series this summer.
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Talking Science with Brian Greene
You may have noticed that we’ve been digging into our archives a lot. To be fair, there’s a lot of interesting stuff going on at Columbia and we want to revisit some talks that haven’t gotten a lot of attention lately. One of those talks was with Columbia physicist Brian Greene. In 2014 he sat…
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Jack Dorsey's Tools for Entrepreneurs
Odds are good you’ve heard of Jack Dorsey. He’s the co-founder of Twitter and the co-founder of the mobile payment company, Square. In 2013, Dorsey gave a talk at Columbia and, at the time, it was the largest entrepreneurship event in Columbia history, attracting over 1,000 Columbia students,...
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Can Engineers Help Deliver Babies?
Last year, Kristin Myers gave a lecture to Columbia alumni returning to campus for reunion. Myers is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and her talk offered an engineering perspective on why women give birth preterm....
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Jazz, Mind, Brain
If you haven’t heard of the Columbia Center for Jazz Studies, that’s a shame, but we can’t be too disappointed in you. After all, the center is still relatively new. It was founded in 1999 and, since then, it has been integrated into the Core Curriculum at Columbia College. That means a lot of...
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Pomp & Circumstance (Rebroadcast)
THIS IS A REBROADCAST OF AN EPISODE ABOUT THE 2016 COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY. Columbia's Commencement week ended two weeks ago. New graduates moved out of University housing to start their lives off-campus and the streets of Morningside Heights have emptied out for the summer. In September, new and...
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Our Brains, Ourselves
For this episode, we’re diving into the archives to play you excerpts from a discussion that took place in 2012. The discussion was called “Understanding Our Brains, Understanding Ourselves” and it brought together an expert panel of Columbia alumni and professors to talk about the brain. So, if...
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An Essential Friendship: Buffett and Gates
Earlier this year, Columbia hosted a conversation between two iconic public figures — billionaire investor Warren Buffett '51BUS and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. For that conversation, Buffet and Gates sat down with PBS and Bloomberg TV host Charlie Rose to discuss their friendship…
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BONUS: Looking for Thinkspiration
We enjoyed talking to the Design Studio so much last week that we wanted to share more of the candid conversations we had about Design Thinking (and much more). We wanted to get a better idea of who Adam and Alice are, not just as Design Studio representatives, but as design thinkers in general....
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Think Human
For this episode, we visited one of the forward-thinking initiatives taking place at Columbia. Tucked away on a side street near the Morningside campus, we found a place where thinkers, doers and general challengers of the status quo come together to design a better future. It’s called the…
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BONUS: Here's Looking at You, Casablanca
Last week, we heard from Professor Robert Young, an eminent humanities scholar, who gave a lecture last year at the Columbia Global Center in Amman. Professor Young recounted the story of Walter Benjamin, a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany but was caught at the border of France and Spain, where…
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The Lucky Few
We went into the vault for today’s episode, all the way back to a lecture that Professor Robert Young gave last year at the Columbia Global Center in Amman. We chose this particular lecture because Professor Young offers a historical perspective on an issue facing today’s society: migration.…
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The Power of the Sun
In sub-Saharan Africa, 650 million people lack access to electricity. In Sierra Leone in particular, only 5% of the population is on the grid. That means that six and a half million people can’t study, cook, eat or work after the sun goes down except by dim candlelight or expensive kerosene…
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Astro Tim Returns to Earth
We often like to talk about how our alumni reach grand heights in their successes and go far in their contributions to society. And not many have gone quite as far as Business School alum Timothy Kopra. That is...as far as outer space. Timothy Kopra is a NASA astronaut with not one but two space...
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StorySpace (Part 3: Perseverance)
This week is the third and final installment of StorySpace @ Columbia from the Office of University Life. If you haven’t heard Part I or II, go listen to them! Today, we wrap up the theme of identity with stories about perseverance, confronting challenges to keep moving forward, and finding...
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StorySpace (Part 2: Learning & Becoming)
This week is the second installment of StorySpace@Columbia from the Office of University Life. If you haven’t heard Part I, go back to last week’s episode and listen to it. But here’s a quick refresher: StorySpace@Columbia is a new storytelling project that presents personal and inspiring stories...
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StorySpace (Part 1: Identity)
Today, we’re tuning in close by -- on campus, in fact. For this episode, we’re partnering with the Columbia Office of University Life. The Office was created in 2015 and it convenes students, faculty and administrators to work together on pressing issues within the University and our broader...
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On Leadership
This episode is a little different. In honor of a marquee event that the CAA has coming up in October, we decided to gather some thoughts from prominent Columbia alumni about leadership. What it means to them, what makes a good leader, and how Columbia has contributed to ability to lead. These…
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Preview: Columbia Energy Exchange
Every once in a while, we like to shake things up a bit at The Low Down and give you a peek at some other Columbia-related podcasts out there. Today, we’re featuring an episode from the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast. The Columbia Energy Exchange is a weekly podcast series by the Columbia’s...
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Olympics Edition: Going for Gold
Trent Dimas graduated from the Columbia school of general studies in 2002. He later graduated from law school, worked for an ad agency in NY, coaching gymnastics at Yale, and now works as a fundraiser for the University of Colorado School of Medicine. But before doing all that, Trent won a gold...
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The Definition of an Explorer
One of the most pressing and universal issues of our day is how to address climate change. Although most do agree that the environment has evolved tremendously over time, many are not aware of how rapidly the recent changes are occurring and what the consequences can mean for us in the years to...
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All That Jazz
For most Columbia students and alumni, when you hear the words “jazz at Columbia” it's almost impossible not to think of Christopher Washburne '92GSAS, '94GSAS, '99GSAS. Washburne is an Associate Professor of Music and the Director of the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance program at Columbia. In...
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Columbians on Broadway
When it comes to Broadway musicals, Columbia alumni have contributed a startling amount to the canon of musical theater. Rodgers and Hammerstein '16CC set the musical standard during the golden age of broadway in the 40s and 50s; the music of John Kander '54GSAS probed the darker recesses of...
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Pomp & Circumstance
Columbia’s Commencement week ended two weeks ago. New graduates moved out of university housing to start their lives off campus and the streets of Morningside emptied out for the summer. In September, new and returning students will move in and the streets will vibrate with excitement and energy...
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I Feel the Earth Move
Fifty years ago, a graduate student named Walter Pitman made a discovery that would change the way we see our planet. It was late at night, and Pitman was reviewing charts of ship data that had just come off the computer at what was then Columbia University’s Lamont Geological Observatory. The...
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Columbia Global Reports
Nicholas Lemann served as the Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism for two terms. After deciding not to serve a third, Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger challenged Lemann to start a project that was entirely new. What resulted was Columbia Global Reports. Global Reports are in-depth…
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Story Time
When it comes to writing, Columbia boasts some pretty impressive alumni. Notable Columbia authors include Paul Auster, Allen Ginsberg, Joseph Heller, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jhumpa Lahiri - just to name a few. To celebrate this contribution to the written word and to introduce you to some…
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Primary Special: Politics in the Media
If you've been following the 2016 presidential election, it should come as no surprise that income inequality has become a (if not the) leading issue in the race. The increased attention to this disparity and the threat it poses to the middle class, is due - at least in part - to the media. An...
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A Little Friendly Competition
For this episode, The Low Down spoke to some of Columbia’s great entrepreneurs, all of whom were finalists in the 2015 Columbia Venture Competition. These entrepreneurs competed for a top prize of $250,000 at the #StartupColumbia Festival. The objective? To give the judges compelling evidence of...
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Stories from a Former CIA Agent
Alex Finley joined the CIA in 2003, where she spent close to 6 years as an officer of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, serving in West Africa and Europe. Before she joined the agency, she was a political reporter in Washington. After leaving the CIA in 2009, she returned to writing and soon...
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Who'll Run the World?
This June, Columbia Business School and Barnard College are teaming up to create an Executive Education program aimed at women: “Women in Leadership: Expanding Influence and Leading Change.” According to its website, the program is designed to “help elevate the impact of women leaders – enabling...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Food
Food impacts us on so many levels: from the personal to the global. Individuals, communities, and national governments have to constantly make choices about which food reaches our tables. And, for a variety of reasons - climate change, energy costs, global economic inequality - these choices are...
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Call the Bleach Patrol!
In many parts of the world, corals are getting sick in the warm water accompanying El Niño, and they’re turning bone white. It’s called coral bleaching, and in severe cases it can kill them over time. But while scientists know that coral bleaching has been connected to changes in water…
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Columbia University is a mecca of great ideas in one of the world's great metropolises. And with more than 365,000 Columbia alumni who are leaders in every field imaginable and spread across the world, the Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) Low Down brings you the latest musings, updates, and insights to delight the left and right sides of the brain.http://thelowdown.alumni.columbia.edu/
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