CWP Director Wafaa El-Sadr Shares Her Vision for New Columbia Global
In July 2022, President Lee C. Bollinger named Wafaa El-Sadr the executive vice president for Columbia Global, a new entity that presently brings together Columbia World Projects, the Columbia Global Centers, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Rising Columbia Juniors and Seniors Invited to Apply for Social Impact Fellowship
In its second year, the Social Impact Fellowship offers a series of education and training opportunities to help realize what Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger calls the university’s “Fourth Purpose” – advancing human welfare and confronting the great challenges of our time.
Applications will be accepted until Monday, March 27 at 11:59 PM ET.
Applications will be accepted until Monday, March 27 at 11:59 PM ET.
Rebuilding Beirut: A Roadmap for an Equitable Post-Disaster Response
Disaster response and recovery in Beirut and beyond affords an extraordinary opportunity to imagine and implement processes that distribute opportunity more equitably, prioritize inclusion of community groups in governance, and strengthen the capacities of the state. After Beirut’s port blast in August 2020, the Beirut Urban Lab, Columbia World Projects, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation convened some 120 experts to draw on knowledge and focus on the immediate challenge of Rebuilding Beirut.
Knight Foundation Funds Research on Digital Platform Regulation
Columbia World Projects (CWP), with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will bring together trans-Atlantic scholars, regulators, policymakers and civil society actors to research the implications of the European Union’s (EU) Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA).
Announcing the Recipients of the Inaugural CWP Impact Awards
Columbia World Projects (CWP) launched the CWP Impact Awards in 2022. The inaugural awards focused on one of CWP’s four programmatic themes, Supporting Generations, which encompasses efforts to decrease inequality and improve health and well-being specific to particular stages of life. The three selected proposals will be implemented in New York City, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
Columbia University Announces Next President
Nemat “Minouche” Shafik will join the university in July 2023 as the 20th president, succeeding the twenty-year legacy of President Bollinger, whose leadership catapulted Columbia University to the forefront of innovative, world-class, academic institutions making a difference in our world.
Hillary Rodham Clinton to Join CWP as Presidential Fellow
Clinton will help shape the work of CWP in the area of renewing democracy and a number of additional topic areas from climate to global development to youth empowerment.
