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[kuh-luhm-bee-uh] / kəˈlʌm bi ə /


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"It's inevitable," said University of British Columbia political scientist Maxwell Cameron.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Capra achieved many of his greatest successes in the employ of Columbia Pictures studio head Harry Cohn, a profane, hard-boiled character who operated by instinct and ruled by fear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Two economists, Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia, shared the 2026 prize for their contributions to macroeconomics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

At Columbia, Shoshana Aufzien, a Sundial editor who wasn’t involved with the piece by Mohammadi and Ma, said she strongly disagreed with the article but felt the Sundial had the right to publish it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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