In remembrance of Susan Chuang
Susan Chuang, School of Social Work and SPS alumna, was interning with University Settlement to help home-bound senior citizens when the coronavirus took her in April. Known for her many...
Sarah Soo-Hoo mobilizes students to help...
Sarah Soo-Hoo, a Columbia medical student, started the COVID-19 Student Service Corps with classmates to provide continued service during the pandemic. In early March, Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and...
CAA Indonesia helps local street vendors...
CAA Indonesia mobilized alumni in Indonesia to support a charitable organization to help street vendors impacted by the coronavirus.Alumni in Indonesia worked with a local charitable organization Kisah Kasih to...
Dr. Thomas Lo talks about the...
Dr. Thomas Lo '08VP&S, President of the VP&S Alumni Association, talks about the Asian Columbia alumni PPE effort and fighting on the frontlines. Dr. Lo was interviewed by NPR regarding...
Esther Pang developed bystander intervention training...
Esther Pang '18SPS developed bystander intervention training to address the surge of anti-Asian sentiments due to the pandemic. Esther sits on the board of directors for Hollaback! that developed this...
Joe Fan works with company foundation...
Joe Fan, ‘12EN, Director of Business Development at Haitou Global, is another alumnus who got involved through his company’s foundation. During the COVID-19 crisis, his company’s foundation also got involved...
Professor receives NSF RAPID grant to...
Professor Ponisseril Somasundaran, Lavon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering in the department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, has received an NSF RAPID grant.The National Science Foundation is now offering Rapid...
Asian Alumni care for New York...
Columbia University Alumni in Greater China Stand United with NY, NJ, and MA COVID-19 Frontline HeroesWatch the webinar on the PPE effort here: https://youtu.be/pLygmBIrJ0M
A gift to someone in greater...
Alumna Mei-Ann Teo '14SOA was featured in the New York Times for giving up her apartment to someone in a greater need during the peak of the pandemic.