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Columbia

[kuh-luhm-bee-uh] / kəˈlʌm bi ə /


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No freshman in the Ivy League is having a better football season than Coleman, who in five games for Columbia has caught 35 passes for 453 yards and eight touchdowns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

“It’s like an enormous bathtub sloshing around,” Mark Cane, professor emeritus of earth and climate sciences at Columbia University, told NPR on Monday.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

There are so many conflicts, never mind romantic-erotic collisions, that we’re hardly aware we are being shaggy-dogged through the forests of British Columbia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

To investigate the role of fibronectin, the Columbia team combined several advanced research approaches.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Posters of different shuttle launches, including Columbia, Challenger, and Atlantis, mixed in with various Star Trek posters of Nyota Uhura.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas


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