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1 After the ________, King's College was renamed Columbia College in 1784, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University.

2 Senators Judd Gregg of New Hampshire and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Governor of New York ________ and his Chief of Staff Charles J. O'Byrne, U.S.

3 Courses in Extension Teaching eventually give rise to the Columbia Writing Program, the ________, and the School of Dentistry and Oral Surgery.

4 Here the first experiments on the fission of uranium were conducted by ________.

5 Recent seminar speakers include Mark Cuban, owner of the ________ and Chairman of HDNet, and Blake Ross, creator of Mozilla Firefox.

6 Trappist monk, author, and humanist ________ is an alumnus both as an undergraduate and graduate student.

7 Who of the following has been president of Columbia University?

8 Secretary of State, and ________, who was a Vice President of the United States.

9 ________ band members Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson, and Chris Baio graduated from the College in 2006 and 2007.

10 What type is thing is Columbia University?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel, whose work established hypnosis as a legitimate medical therapy, used "Sybil" as a demonstration case for his hypnosis classes at Columbia University?
  • the campus of Columbia University occupies a former lunatic asylum?
  • American mathematician and classical pianist Leonard Gillman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953, a decade after completing the required coursework?
  • Variation and Evolution in Plants is one of the four canonical texts of the modern evolutionary synthesis and that all four texts were compiled following the authors' presentation of the Jesup Lectures at Columbia University?
  • Zen Buddhist scholar Philip Yampolsky was the grandson of Franz Boas, the founder of Columbia University's anthropology department?
  • Cas Myslinski worked in a foundry before attending high school, and turned down a scholarship offer from Columbia University in order to attend West Point?
  • physicists Herbert Anderson, Eugene Booth, G. N. Glasoe, John Dunning, Francis Slack and Enrico Fermi worked on splitting atoms in the basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University in 1939?
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