In the Press

On this page, you'll find media coverage of the Mumbai Center's initiatives and commentary from its team. If you have a media-related inquiry, please send us an email. 

A map connecting Yusuf Hamied and the Yusuf Hamied fellows
A Global Exchange of Yusuf Hamied Researchers Aims to Elevate Public Health in India
Hindustan Times article
Pioneering Columbia competency test for community health workers comes to India
FPJ article
Columbia University Introduces Hip Hop Public Health Initiative To Indian Thought Leaders To Educate Masses About Public Health
Mid-Day article
Building Up Feminism

January 9, 2024 | Mid-Day

Plastic
What Can We Do About The Plastic Problem?

February 19, 2023 | BWOG

The Morning Brief Podcast
The Morning Brief Podcast: A Foreign Degree Made in India?
The Morning Brief Podcast: A Foreign Degree Made in India?

January 13, 2023 | The Economic Times 

Book Review
By the Book: Review of 'Searching for the Songbird'

December 18, 2022 | The Indian Express

Air-to-water tech entering India
Air-to-water tech entering India

October 31, 2021 | Financial Express

What's up with the vaccine?
What's up with the vaccine?

January 30, 2021 | Mid-Day

Ian Lipkin Rediff Mail
Can COVID-19 live in your fridge?

July 22, 2020 | Rediff News

Ian Lipkin Rediff Mail
'If everyone wore a face mask, this thing will be gone tomorrow!'

July 22, 2020 | Rediff News

Ian Lipkin
Virologist Lipkin’s 'medical intelligence' initiative prepares for the next pandemic

July 9, 2020 | The Hindu Business Line

Mid Day Richard Pena
Now showing, pandemics

May 7, 2020 | Mid-Day

Wafaa El-Sadr IndiaSpend
COVID-19: WHO to push for equity in health-tech access

April 25, 2020 | IndiaSpend

Columbia University's Urban works innovation challenge for start-ups in India
Columbia University's Urban works innovation challenge for start-ups in India

November 5, 2019 | Business Standard

Air Pollution
Indoor, outdoor pollution puts women at higher risk: Studies

December 4, 2019 | The Times of India

Gary Miller
‘We don’t test the cumulative effects of chemical exposure’

March 3, 2019 | The Times of India

Manjula Padmanabhan
Human Herds

February 22, 2019 | The Hindu Business Line

Times litfest
India's Rivers have their own Rhythm, Western Currents won't Renew them

December 15, 2018 | The Times of India

Wildlife and Infrastructure
Film On How Careful Infrastructure Planning Can End Human-Animal Conflict

December 2, 2018 | Mid Day

Aging Panel
Three Things to do Today (Attend a Lecture)

October 8, 2018 | Mumbai Mirror

Architect and Interiors India
Urban Works bats for Sustainable Entrepreneurship

October, 2018 | Architect and Interiors India

CoWrks Foundry
Urban Works Challenge open

September 24, 2018 | The Hindu Business Line

Inside Outside Magazine
Revolutionizing India’s Workspaces

September 2018 | Inside Outside Magazine

Innovation Challenge
Innovation Challenge
Innovation Challenge

September 13, 2018 | Deccan Herald

Urban Works Innovation Challenge
Columbia University’s Engineering School launches design challenge in Mumbai

September 17, 2018 | The Economic Times

Urban Works workshop
Work with Columbia University faculty on this Innovation Challenge
Work with Columbia University faculty on this Innovation Challenge

September 12, 2018 | Hindustan Times

Zach Burt
Few Indian engineers are opting for Civil and Environmental Engineering

July 30, 2018 | The Times of India

Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto On Growing Up In A Multilingual Bombay

July 2, 2018 | Mid-Day

Ganga Exhibition in New Delhi
Mapping the Ganga

June 4, 2018 | Times of India

Tejaswini Ganti
The Value of Surprise

May 25, 2018 | The Afternoon

Richard Peña
Professor Richard Peña on Decoding Film Studies

April 2, 2018 | Times of India

Richard Peña
How to Become a Successful Filmmaker

March 21, 2018 | Hindustan Times

Adam Sobel Scroll
Researchers Warn a Massive Cyclone Could Hit Mumbai in Future

January 2, 2018 | Scroll.in

Adam Sobel ToI
Hurricane Sandy Shows Why Mumbai Should Prepare for Even Small Chance of Cyclone

December 12, 2017 | Times of India

MoM HT
Not So Run-of-the-Mill: Tour Mumbai’s Textile Hubs, Years after their Closure

November 25, 2017 | Hindustan Times

Mary Boyce IE
Now is an Incredible Time to be an Engineer

November 24, 2017 | Indian Express

MoM Quartz
Tracing Mumbai’s Evolution from a City of Mills to a Metropolis

November 23, 2017 | Quartz

MoM Asian Age
Girangaon: The Lost Charm of Mumbai

November 23, 2017 | Asian Age

MoM Mid Day
Know About the Mill Lands of Central Mumbai through an Interactive Exhibition

November 21, 2017 | Mid-Day

India Water Portal Article
Romancing the Ganga

October 10, 2017 | India Water Portal

Anthony Reuters
India Must Regulate Tubewells as Water Becomes Scarce with Urbanization

September 4, 2017 | Reuters

Ganga Mumbai Mirror
Mapping the Ganga by Hand and Foot

August 25, 2017 | Mumbai Mirror

Ganga The Hindu
Adventures of a Self-Made Cartographer

August 21, 2017 | The Hindu

Ganga ToI
Ganga Basin is One of the World's Most Hyper-Engineered Places

August 18, 2017 | Times of India

Ganga Midday
Ganga is World's Most Densely Populated, Agriculturally Productive River System

August 16, 2017 | Mid-Day

Ravina Aggarwal
A Portrait of a Village on the Border

August 11, 2017 | Livemint

Groundwater Hindu
The Alarming Levels of India’s Groundwater

July 11, 2017 | The Hindu

Ravina Aggarwal
Will Tech Supremacy Have a Detrimental Impact on Teaching and Learning?

May 31, 2017 | Education Times

Greywater Hindu
Mumbai Needs to Recycle its Grey Water

April 13, 2017 | The Hindu

Richard Peña
Richard Peña, World Cinema's High Priest

March 17, 2017 |  Livemint

Richard Pena
How Hollywood has Stereotyped Latin America

March 9, 2017 | Hindustan Times

Richard Pena
Walk the Talk Film: The Celluloid Revolution

March 8, 2017 | Mumbai Mirror

Ravina Aggarwal
Putting the E in Empower

January 22, 2017 | The Hindu

Adam Sobel
Climate Change Could be Making Mumbai More Vulnerable to Cyclonic Storms and Flooding

January 21, 2017 | Scroll.in

Ambedkar
Jazz, Justice and a Dalit Icon

December 7, 2016 | Mid-Day

Columbia Health Team
Columbia Team to Help Officials in Delivering Better Healthcare

February 16, 2012 | The Hindu

Jeffrey Sachs
India's Prospects Good, But Challenges are Big: Jeffrey Sachs

February 4, 2011 | NDTV

CGC Launch
Columbia Univ to Open Global Center in Mumbai

March 9, 2010 | Rediff.com