Category: Alumni
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The Devil and the Cornellian: Lauren Weisberger ’99, a $693 Million Sequel, and the Book She Says She Couldn’t Write Today
Twenty-three years after “The Devil Wears Prada” made her the most talked-about assistant in publishing, the Cornell English major has watched the sequel become one of 2026’s biggest films, written her first Vogue byline and promised a new novel about what fame can do to a life.
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The Phantom Never Left: Diane Paulus, Columbia ’97, and the Immersive Masquerade That Keeps Extending
Two years after Broadway’s longest-running show closed, a Columbia School of the Arts alumna has turned a 120-year-old art-supply building on West 57th Street into the Paris Opera House. The run now goes through May 2027.
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The Big Red Ballot: A Navy Pilot in New Jersey, a Public Defender on the Upper West Side, and the Cornellians Who Stepped Into the Arena
Ten days before the midterms, Rebecca Bennett ’09 is in one of the closest House races in the region against Rep. Tom Kean Jr., Eli Northrup ’07 is favored in a safe Assembly seat, and Alex Bores ’13 is a case study in what AI money can do to a primary.
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Li Lu’s Two Speeches: Columbia’s Most Successful Value Investor on Casinos, Churches and the ‘IPO of a God’
In back-to-back appearances this month, the Himalaya Capital founder, a triple-degree Columbian, told the Graham & Dodd faithful that AI is “enormously helpful, transformative, and extraordinarily dangerous,” and that the market has rarely been stranger.
