Memories tagged “Mudd”

Columbia Universtiy and Orhan Pamuk Columbia University and Orhan Pamuk October 24, 2006 Columbia Universtiy in New York City became home to two new Nobel Laureates early in October this year when Prof. Edmund Phelps won the prize in economic...

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1964, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation 1970

Finding Columbia University In Bulgaria It is strange how going to an art museum in Sofia, Bulgaria makes one think of Columbia’s Henry Krumb School of Mines…. I have been coming to Bulgaria for almost 20 years. The late Prof....

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1973

Forging Friendships on the Road to Columbia Being a part-time graduate student from the business community in New Jersey, my Columbia “social life” consisted of long, afternoon commutes into the city and somewhat shorter drives back home. The many hours...

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1987

How Did I Ever Graduate?! In grad school, I fell in with the wrong crowd. Well, it wasn’t exactly a crowd–let’s say, the wrong tiny little group of misfits. Cockroach-fashion, we made minimal appearances during daylight but prowled around endlessly...

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1977