The Columbia Global Centers
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.
The Coronavirus pandemic has impacted the entire world, but India in particular has been devastated in recent weeks. The health system is grappling with a shortage of vaccines and treatment resources, making it one of the world's worst-hit countries. The Mumbai Center has continued to provide resources and initiatives related to the pandemic during this time, all of which you can find by clicking here.
Ravina Aggarwal
Director, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai
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As part of a University-wide initiative to support Columbia students who are located outside the United States, Columbia University offers access to spaces to convene, study, collaborate, and benefit from tailored, diverse programming opportunities designed to support students’ remote learning and help them integrate into the broader University community.
The Columbia Global Centers–in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Mumbai, Nairobi, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, and Tunis–have expanded their capacities to become study centers for students in their regions, and the University has also arranged for dedicated space for its students in Tel Aviv and Athens. In addition, students in another 80+ cities will receive special WeWork all-access passes, which they may use to access any WeWork facility in their city, offering them a comfortable, safe, and enriching environment to study.
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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.
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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.