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Time Out New York, Aug 01, 2007

It’s an understatement to say that the environment has become a topic of interest. So it’s gratifying to know there’s a lot more you can do than recycle and use low-impact lightbulbs. explains Klaus Lackner, chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering. … Columbia’s certificate program in this area includes courses such as A Better Planet by Design, Alternative  Energy Resources, Industrial Ecology of Earth Resources, Air Pollution Prevention and Control, and Alternative Energy Resources. "Although we take a multidisciplinary approach, we are very much interested in large-scale and global issues," Lackner says.
 

Time Out New York, Aug 01, 2007

At one time, you didn’t need any special credentials to go into fund-raising or other kinds of work for non-profits, nor the education that now comes with those credentials. But things have changed. ‘There’s a professionalization of the industry taking place,’ says <b>Lucas Rubin, director of Columbia’s master’s of science program in fund-raising management</b>. ‘It’s been happening gradually over the past 20 years. It’s centered on the idea that there’s a core body of theories and practices you need to learn. There’s a growing professional quality to this field that references the business world—marketing, communications and law. People want to know that their organizations are run efficiently, that their money is going to a good place.

TV Week News, Jul 15, 2007

NBC Universal made a pitch late last year to mobile television provider MediaFlo: Let us supply one-quarter of your content.  "We came back with our vision of how we thought we could help them drive their new platform to start this future of the cell phone and TV," said Ron Lamprecht, senior VP of digital distribution at NBCU and Columbia Tech Management instructor, who led the negotiations for the deal. "We wanted to show them that we were committed to this huge investment they were making."

NY1 News, May 18, 2007

Alex Price (a student in Columbia University's Strategic Communications program) and Mathew Farkash look like other young businessmen, but go beyond the blazers and ties, and you will see they are on a mission to do something good.   Price and Farkash are the founders of "New York City Ties," an
organization of young professionals who raise money and volunteer for various not-for-profit organizations.