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The Columbia Global Centers promote and facilitate the collaborative and impactful engagement of the University’s faculty, students, and alumni with the world, to enhance understanding, address global challenges, and advance knowledge and its exchange. The Global Centers, as envisioned by President Lee C. Bollinger, were founded with the objective of connecting the local with the global, to create opportunities for shared learning and to deepen the nature of global dialogue. Learn more about our history.
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Columbia India Hour: Shaping Maharashtra's Future
The fourth session of the Columbia India Hour series looked at what it will take to build Maharashtra into a $5 trillion economy over the next two decades, with Radha Kulkarni (SIPA’17), CEO of Viksit Maharashtra 2047, in conversation with Manjeet Kripalani (SIPA’89), Executive Director of Gateway House.
Who Owns Innovation in the Age of AI?
Takeaways from the Columbia India Hour session with Professor Shyam Balganesh and Bahram Vakil
Columbia India Hour Takeaways: AI and Intellectual Property - "Who Owns Innovation?"
As AI becomes central to how we work, questions of copyright and who gets credit for AI-generated or AI-assisted work are becoming impossible to ignore. The recent controversy over a mathematician's unpublished Navier-Stokes work being used to train an AI model only underscores the urgency.
Columbia University Scholarship for Displaced Students
This Scholarship supports displaced students from anywhere in the world who are unable to complete their higher education. These students will receive up to full tuition, housing, and living assistance while pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees across all 18 Columbia schools and affiliates, reflecting Columbia’s full institutional commitment to addressing this global crisis. As the first-ever Columbia-wide scholarship, and the world's first scholarship of its kind, this program will commit up to $6 million annually in support, per cohort, for up to 30 students each year, every year.