Introduction to the American Ivy League: Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University (hereinafter referred to as Columbia) was founded in 1754 as King's College under a charter from King George II of England. It is one of the "Ivy League" members of the seven oldest universities in the United States. In 1767, the school established the first medical school in the United States to award a doctor of medicine.

In 1858, Columbia College established its law school. In 1896, the school board of trustees officially decided to use the name "Columbia University".

Columbia *** offers 35,750 courses, including all liberal arts in architecture, art, business, dentistry, engineering, international affairs, journalism, law, library services, medicine, social work, etc. Science and professional courses. The main undergraduate colleges are: Columbia College, College of General Education (Adult College), and College of Engineering and Applied Science. Other colleges include: Graduate School of Business, School of Library Services, School of Law, School of Arts, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, School of Social Work, School of Physicians and Surgeons, School of Public Health, School of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, and School of Nursing.

Columbia’s affiliated colleges include: Barnard College (undergraduate women’s college), Teachers College, Union Theological Seminary and Jewish Theological Seminary. In addition, Columbia has more than 12 research institutes. Columbia's colleges include architecture, business, education, international affairs, journalism, law, medicine, nursing and social work. Its graduate departments include art history, astronomy, biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, geology, Departments of psychology, sociology, philosophy, political science, religion, film, history, economics, English, French, Spanish and East and Central Asian languages ??and literature, etc.

Since the Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901, 48 scholars who have studied or worked at Columbia have won this honor. Seven other American scientists have won Nobel Prizes for their research results at the Pupin Physics Laboratory, founded in 1927.

Among Columbia faculty, 8 are winners of the National Medal of Science, 89 are current academicians of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 42 are current academicians of the National Academy of Sciences.

Columbia’s alumni include:

Issac. Asimov was an American biochemist and author who was very accomplished in writing science fiction novels and popular science books.

James. Cagney is an American actor who won the American Film Institute's "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1974.

Luo. Grieg was an American baseball player who set an unprecedented record in baseball by participating in 2,130 consecutive games from 1925 to 1939.

Ella. George Gershwin, American lyric poet and composer. Gershwin's brother.

Oscar. Hammerstein is an American lyric poet and musical comedy writer. He is an influential theater performer in the development of musical comedy. The musical comedy "The Sound of Music" that is familiar and loved by Chinese audiences is one of his works.

Lillian. Hellman American female playwright.

Langston. Hughes was an African-American poet and writer who pioneered the path of realism for black literature.

Margaret. Mead, an American female anthropologist, is famous for her research on the preliterate peoples of the Pacific.

Thomas. Merton was an American Catholic monk, poet, and prolific author.

I.I. Rabi, an American physicist, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of observing atomic spectra using atomic beam and molecular beam magnetic resonance (1937).

Michael. I. Pupin, American inventor and pioneer of modern physicists.

George. Siegel American sculptor.

Lionel. Trilling is an American literary critic and teacher whose comments are insightful.

Henry. Schultz, American econometrics pioneer.

Edgar. Snow American journalist.

Jane. Kaul was a highly successful American female playwright and actress.

Among the alumni of Columbia University are Chinese celebrities Gu Weijun, Jiang Tingfu, Song Ziwen, Feng Youlan, Hu Shi and nuclear scientist Jiang Shengjie.