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LIVE 🔴 The Fight for $15: Raising America’s Minimum Wage

With speakers @sohrabahmari.bsky.social, @kategobell.bsky.social, @arindube.bsky.social, Mary Kay Henry, and Suresh Naidu. @columbiasipa.bsky.social

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The Fight for $15: Raising America’s Minimum Wage
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November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🤳 How can small businesses make the most of online reviews?

Researchers at @columbiabusiness.bsky.social show that large language models can help business owners gather insights and better serve their customers.
AI Can Read the Room Better Than You Think | Columbia Business School
AI can decode thousands of online reviews to reveal what customers really care about—and what businesses should fix first.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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"In Beijing in 1995, we witnessed the power of women organizing. In Reykjavik in 2025, we need to wield that power again, to meet the pressing challenges of this time.” IGP Women’s Initiative Director Rachel Vogelstein presented a blueprint for progress around the world at the Reykjavik Global Forum
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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In this #LamontVoices, LDEO geochemist Lex van Geen explains how researching the effects of arsenic in drinking water began, ultimately leading to a new landmark study on how reducing arsenic cuts the risk of death even after years of chronic exposure. https://bit.ly/3LPDeeK
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Published today in JAMA, a landmark study co-led by LDEO geochemist Lex van Geen provides the first long-term, individual-level evidence that reducing arsenic exposure from drinking water may lower mortality, even among people exposed to the toxic contaminant for years: https://bit.ly/3LPDeeK
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Scientists at @climate.columbia.edu say regenerated ecosystems, designed to regrow foliage and absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, create fewer climate benefits than previously thought.
A New Study Indicates Forest Regeneration Provides Climate Benefits, but Won’t Offset Fossil Fuels
Effective climate policy must treat forest regeneration and emissions reductions as complementary strategies, not alternatives, according to a new paper.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Scientists at @climate.columbia.edu say regenerated ecosystems, designed to regrow foliage and absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, create fewer climate benefits than previously thought.
A New Study Indicates Forest Regeneration Provides Climate Benefits, but Won’t Offset Fossil Fuels
Effective climate policy must treat forest regeneration and emissions reductions as complementary strategies, not alternatives, according to a new paper.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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LIVE 🔴 an IGP Women’s Initiative virtual roundtable: Supporting Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.

With Sheryl Sandberg, Grace Achan, Esther Dingemans, Ajna Jusić, Khrystyna Kit, Rachel Vogelstein, Keren Yarhi-Milo & Jean-Marie Guehenno

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Supporting Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence | An IGP Women’s Initiative Webinar
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November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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In our new Science for the Planet video, Lisa Sachs—director of Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment + our MS in Climate Finance—shares how collaborative investment planning is essential to sustainable development whether to decarbonize industry or transform food systems: https://bit.ly/4i2wXIP
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Join @columbiaigp.bsky.social on November 12 for The Geopolitical Chessboard ♟️ Featuring Secretary @hillaryclinton.bsky.social and Secretary Mike Pompeo in an Across the Aisle conversation

🗓️ Wednesday, November 12
🕚 11 am ET
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The Geopolitical Chessboard: Implications of the Current Global Ferment
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November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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🌿 In Belém for COP30? Join Alejandra Valdivia—Columbia SIPA MPA student representing Peruvian Youth Delegation and her organization Youth Network for the Energy Transition—for a side event on energy access in Latin America on Fri Nov 14 9am BT. 🦜 More #COP30: https://www.climate.columbia.edu/cop30
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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LIVE now 🔴 The Rise of Populism and the Future of Economic Policy

With Sheri Berman, Mary Kay Henry, @awhf.bsky.social, Faiz Shakir, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @shaynalstrom.bsky.social, and more. @equitablegrowth.bsky.social

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The Rise of Populism and the Future of Economic Policy
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November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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LIVE 🔴 President Bill Clinton joins @columbiaigp.bsky.social & @columbiauniversity.bsky.social to reflect on the life & legacy of Yitzhak Rabin

Featuring @hillaryclinton.bsky.social, Jacob Lew, Nadav Eyal, Dennis Ross, and @columbiasipa.bsky.social Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo

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Yitzhak Rabin, 30 Years On: His Legacy and the Challenges of Peace
Join us for a special event marking the 30th anniversary of the November 1995 assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and honoring his enduring legacy. Featuring formal remarks from 42n...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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🦪 What a fantastic conversation with Andrew Zimmern & Barton Seaver, co-authors of The Blue Food Cookbook: Delicious Seafood Recipes for a Sustainable Future (fedbyblue.org), moderated by Sandra Goldmark, Columbia Climate School associate dean, engagement & impact, and co-hosted by Columbia Dining!
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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MacArthur Fellowship and other notable accolades, why Earth's continents are stable, where soil meets data, AI and SDGs, impact of climate change on water systems, mercury emissions, hidden earthquake faults, art meets science, Day in Life of Hudson & Harbor, more! ➡️ https://bit.ly/3LNYQbm
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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What makes @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's Center for Theoretical Neuroscience unique? A cadre of top-tier theoretical neuroscientists and a super-collaborative culture. Find out more about the center on its 20th anniversary: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/how-mathemat...
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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LIVE 🔴 Call the Red Team: From War Games to AI’s Frontlines

With Tim Naftali, Jen Weedon, Micah Zenko, and @camillefrancois.bsky.social

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Call the Red Team: From War Games to AI’s Frontlines
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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🗞️ A look at our students on the ground covering NYC’s 2025 mayoral election across the five boroughs.

See highlights of their reporting from polling stations, campaign events and local conversations across the city: https://bit.ly/4nE5xKr

📷: Julia Levine, '26 M.S.
November 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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LIVE now 🔴 What comes next for US-China Relations with panelists Thomas Christensen, @edwardfishman.bsky.social, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Matthew Turpin & @juliangewirtz.bsky.social

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US-China Relations: What Comes Next?
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November 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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ICYMI: @columbiaigp.bsky.social, @columbiasipa.bsky.social, and @commsspeaknyc.bsky.social released two new reports on childcare and housing ahead of the mayoral election that reveal the severity of the affordability crisis in New York City.

Read them here: igp.sipa.columbia.edu/our-work/pub...
November 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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“When I see data, I see a form of memory, and it’s a form of memory that can take any shape, any color, any speed.”

Renowned media artist Refik Anadol’s work explores the intersection of data and human creativity. Learn more about his recent visit to CBS: https://bit.ly/43cG9nM
A Machine that Dreams – and Lives at Columbia Business School | Columbia Business School
A conversation with AI artist Refik Anado.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
📱Decades ago, Columbia Professor Shree Nayar revolutionized photography by developing HDR imaging. Today, his work is still enabling the advancements transforming the digital cameras in our smartphones.
How Your Smartphone's Camera Got So Good
A Columbia scientist's lab revolutionized digital photography with a new kind of imaging now used in more than a billion smartphones.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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LIVE 🔴 Policy Advice for NYC’s Next Mayor Amid Wider Federal Cuts

With Jen Klein, Sec. Jacob Lew, Heather Mac Donald, Marc Morial, Robert Shapiro, Jennifer Jones Austin, Rafael Cestero, John Liu, Kathryn Wylde, Ester Fuchs, Michael Nutter, Keren Yarhi-Milo

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Policy Advice for NYC’s Next Mayor Amid Wider Federal Cuts
Join Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP) for a timely discussion of the challenges facing US cities and a policy agenda for New York City’s next mayor with leading voices from governmen...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Almost 100 years ago, Columbia physicist I.I. Rabi was instrumental in bringing quantum mechanics to campus. Today, Columbia engineers, physicists, and chemists continue to explore the ways quantum can change the world we live in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjw5f78eX8
Quantum at Columbia: 100 years on
A century ago, European physicists developed the theory of quantum mechanics--a momentous occasion marked in 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology by the United Nations. Quantum mechanics changed the way scientists think about...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Join @columbiaigp.bsky.social for a timely discussion of the challenges facing US cities and a policy agenda for New York City’s next mayor with leading voices from government, academia, and civil society.

Tune in here on October 29 at 5 pm ET: youtube.com/live/S38NzuB...
Policy Advice for NYC’s Next Mayor Amid Wider Federal Cuts
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October 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM