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Barnard College is a highly selective liberal arts college for women located in the Morningside Heights neighboorhood of Upper Manhattan. Columbia University is located directly across the street, and the two schools share many resources. Barnard and Columbia students can take classes at both schools, share the holdings of the 22 affiliated libraries , and compete in the joint athletic consortium. But unlike the now-defunct Harvard / Radcliffe relationship, Columbia and Barnard have separate financial resources, admission offices, and staffing.

During the 2010 - 2011 admissions cycle, just 28% of applicants were accepted to Barnard, and they had GPAs and test scores well above average. The college's many strengths made it an easy pick for our lists of top women's colleges , top Middle Atlantic colleges , and top New York colleges .

The campus is compact and sits between West 116th Street and West 120th Street on Broadway. The image above was taken from Lehman Lawn looking south towards Barnard Hall and Sulzberger Tower. During nice weather, you'll often find students studying and socializing on the lawn, and many professors hold class outside.

Barnard Hall at Barnard College

When you first enter the main gates to Barnard College , you'll be confronted by the pillared front of Barnard Hall. This large building serves a wide range of functions at the college. Inside you'll find classrooms, offices, studios, and event space. The Barnard Center for Research on Women is located on the first floor.

The building is also home to Barnard's athletic facilities. On the lower level are a swimming pool, track, weight room, and gym. Students also have access to Columbia's athletic facilities. Barnard students compete in the Columbia/Barnard Athletic Consortium, and this relationship makes Barnard the only women's college in the country that competes in the NCAA Division I. Barnard women can choose from sixteen intercollegiate sports.

Connected to the northwest corner of Barnard Hall is the Barnard Hall Dance Annex. The college has a strong dance program and has graduated many students who now work as professional dancers. Dance is also a popular area of study for students who are completing the visual and performing arts component of Barnard's "Nine Ways of Knowing" interdisciplinary foundation courses.

Lehman Hall at Barnard College

If you attend Barnard, you'll spend a lot of time in Lehman Hall. The first three floors of the building are home to Wollman Library, Barnard's primary research facility. Students have the added perk that they can use all of Columbia University's library facilities with its ten million volumes and 140,000 serials.

On the third floor of Lehman is the Sloate Media Center with eight Mac Pro workstations for creating a wide range of multimedia projects.

Lehman Hall is also home to three of Barnard College's most popular academic departments: Economics, Political Science , and History.

The Diana Center at Barnard College

Barnard College's newest building is The Diana Center, a 98,000 square foot structure first opened in 2010. The building serves a wide range of functions.

This new building is home to the Office of Student Life at Barnard College. Orientation, leadership programs, student government, student clubs and organizations, and the college's diversity initiatives are all centered in The Diana Center.

Other facilities in the building include a cafeteria, student store, art studios, art gallery, and the college's main computing center. On a lower level of The Diana Center is the state-of-the-art Glicker-Milstein Theatre, a versatile black box theater used by the Theatre Department and performance-related student organizations.

Not visible from Lehman Lawn, the roof of the Diana Center is part of the building's "green" design. The roof has a lawn and garden beds, and that space is used for lounging, outdoor classes, and ecological study. The green space on the roof also has environmental benefits as the soil insulates the building and keeps rainwater from the sewer system. The Diana Center earned LEED Gold certification for its energy-efficient and sustainable design.

Milbank Hall at Barnard College

When visiting campus, you can't miss Milbank Hall -- it dominates the entire north end of campus. Looking up, you'll notice a greenhouse on the upper level that is used for botanical research.

Milbank Hall is Barnard's original and oldest building. First opened in 1896, this historic 121,000 square foot building stands at the heart of Barnard's academic life. Within Milbank, you'll find the departments of Africana Studies, Anthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Classics, Foreign Languages, Math, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Sociology, and Theatre. The Theatre Department uses the Minor Latham Playhouse on the first floor of Milbank for many of its productions.

The building is also home to many of the university's administrative offices. You'll find offices for the President, Provost, Registrar, Bursar, Dean of Studies, Dean for Study Abroad , Financial Aid and Admissions in Milbank.

Altschul Hall at Barnard College

Barnard is one of the best liberal arts colleges in the country for science, and you'll find the departments of biology, chemistry, environmental science, physics, and neuroscience all in Altschul Hall.

The 118,000 square-foot tower was built in 1969 and contains numerous classrooms, laboratories, and faculty offices. Even non-science majors will frequent Altschul -- the mailroom and student mailboxes are all located on the lower level.

Brooks Hall at Barnard College

Built in 1907, Brooks Hall was the first residence hall at Barnard. The building is home to 125 first-year students and a few transfer students. The majority of rooms are doubles, triples, and quads, and students share bathrooms on each floor. Barnard residence halls all have internet connectivity, laundry facilities, common rooms, and options for cable and small refrigerators.

Brooks Hall is located on the south end of Barnard's campus and is part of the residential quad with Hewitt Hall, Reid Hall, and Sulzberger Hall. The dining hall is in the basement of Hewitt, and all first-year students are required to participate in Barnard's unlimited meal plan.

Room and board at Barnard is not cheap, but it is a bargain when compared to the typical cost of living and dining off-campus in New York City.

Hewitt Hall at Barnard College

Built in 1925, Hewitt Hall is home to 215 sophomores, juniors, and seniors at Barnard College. Most rooms are singles, and students share a bathroom on each floor. Kitchens and lounge areas are in adjoining Sulzberger Hall. The college's main dining hall is in the basement of Hewitt.

Hewitt, like all of Barnard's residence halls, has a desk attendant 24 hours a day to make sure students' living environment is safe and secure.

The first floor of Hewitt is home to several college services: the Counseling Center, Disability Services, and the Alcohol and Substance Awareness Program.

Sulzberger Hall and Tower at Barnard College

Sulzberger is the largest residence hall at Barnard College. The lower floors are home to 304 first-year students, and the tower houses 124 upperclasswomen.

Sulzberger Hall is made up of double and triple occupancy rooms, and each floor has a lounge, kitchenette, and a shared bathroom. Sulzberger Tower has mostly single occupancy rooms, and each hall has two lounge/kitchen areas and a shared bathroom.

For the 2011 - 2012 academic year, single occupancy rooms cost $1,200 more than shared rooms.

The Courtyard in the Barnard College Quad

Barnard College's four main residence halls -- Hewitt, Brooks, Reid, and Sulzberger -- surround a quaint landscaped courtyard. The benches and cafe tables of the Arthur Ross Courtyard make a perfect spot for reading or studying on a warm afternoon.

While all first-year students live in the Quad, the college owns several other properties for upperclass students. These buildings have suite-style rooms with bathrooms and kitchens shared by suite occupants. A few upperclass Barnard students live in Columbia residence halls and sororities. Overall, 98% of first-year students and 90% of all students live in some form of campus housing .

The View of Barnard College From Broadway

Prospective Barnard students should keep in mind that the college is in a bustling urban environment. The photo above was taken from the Columbia University side of Broadway. In the center of the photo is Reid Hall, one of the residence halls for first-year students. To the left is Brooks Hall on West 116th Street, and to the right of Reid is Sulzberger Hall and Sulzberger Tower.

Barnard's location in Upper Manhattan places it within an easy walk to Harlem, City College of New York , Morningside Park, Riverside Park, and the northern end of Central Park. Columbia University is just a few steps away. The subway stops just outside Barnard's main gates, so students have ready access to all the attractions of New York City.

Vagelos Alumnae Center at Barnard College

The benefits of attending a prestigious college like Barnard continue long after graduation. Barnard has a strong alumnae network of over 30,000 women, and the college has many programs designed to connect and support graduates on both the professional and personal fronts. The college also works to connect current students to alumnae for mentoring and networking.

At the heart of Barnard's Alumnae Association is the Vagelos Alumnae Center. The center is located in the "Deanery," an apartment in Hewitt Hall that was once home to a Barnard Dean. The center has a living room and dining room that alumnae can use for meetings and social events.

Visitor Center at Barnard College

If you want to tour Barnard College, walk through the main gates on Broadway, turn left, and you'll be at the Visitor Center in the Sulzberger Annex (above you will be Sulzberger Hall and Tower, two of Barnard's residence halls). Tours leave the Visitor Center at 10:30 and 2:30 Monday through Friday and take about an hour. After the tour, you can attend an informational session by one of Barnard's admissions counselors and learn about the college and student life.

You don't need an appointment to take a tour, but you should check Barnard's Admissions homepage before showing up to make sure tours are operating on the usual schedule.

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A virtual tour of barnard college from someone who has never been there.

By Bwog Staff on Sep 19, 2020 2 Comments

First-year Panu Hejmadi gives new students an in-depth, articulate tour of Barnard College as the most reliable tour guide that has ever been on Barnard’s campus. After all, there is nothing more objective than a perspective that is delivered by distancing yourself from the subject matter. And I’m only a comfortable nineteen hour and twenty-five-minute flight away.

Welcome to Barnard! I will be your tour guide this morning/afternoon/evening/midnight—depending on your timezone, of course. Count on me to give you a very comprehensive introduction to our campus (please don’t).

First off, there’s Milbank Hall. We’ve got to start here because this is also Barnard’s oldest building—there was even a time where this was the only building for our undergraduates to function out of. Also, The garden out front is really pretty and looks incredible in pictures. Yes, I do fantasize daily about sitting on that cozy bench, reading off my laptop, and making notes in a bright-orange notebook on the side. No, I don’t think I’ll get to live it out within the next 4 months, but a girl can dream.

Side note: Milbank Hall is not to be confused with The Milstein Centre. Imagine my utter confusion when a Barnard student in this Youtube video said that Milstein was built when she was a freshman. I now know with certainty that Barnard was not founded in 2018—and you’re welcome for the clarification.

Right across from Milbank, is the Diana Centre. Now, I hate to confess: but I don’t really know what happens inside the Diana Centre. What I can tell you, from my carefully curated knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology (thank you, Percy Jackson), is that Diana is the Roman equivalent of the Greek Goddess, Artemis. And Artemis was one badass woman—who simultaneously was the Goddess of the Hunt, the Moon, and the Underworld, as well as the deity of childbirth and “crossroads.” Just another multi-faceted woman to be inspired by on the Barnard campus!

Also, I hear that the Diana Centre makes a mean smoothie that has the ability to literally bring your soul to life. Maybe the smoothie is related to Diana the hunting goddess and her wilderness magic—but again, I wouldn’t know, I’ve never been.

Our next stop is riiiight at the other end of campus, all the way at the Quad. Most of the buildings here are residential halls, that also double as cozy study spaces and exciting dining halls. And goddamn, have you ever seen these spaces? All of them seem to have an equally enticing fuzzy light and a characteristically archaic nature that almost makes them look like a Hogwarts common room. The basement of Barnard Hall has Hewitt and its wide variety of food. Brooks has a piano lounge. Sulzberger has aIR-cOndiTioNing–as Sulz residents never let you forget. Also, apparently, there’s a magical place, in one of these buildings, called Well Woman that offers free tea and chocolate and massage chairs? It’s concepts like these that make me convinced that Barnard is a fictional place that my parents made up in order to get me to move out of the house.

Sources: Izzy from Izzy Snapshots, Google Street View, and the 5 upperclassmen that I’ve talked to so far.

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a beautifully edited map of Barnard via Bwogger/Barnard

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The College

Barnard College has been a distinguished leader in higher education for women for over 100 years and is today the most sought after private liberal arts college in the nation.  Founded in 1889, the College was the first in New York City, and one of the few in the nation at the time, where women could receive the same rigorous liberal arts education available to men.  Its partnership with a great research university, Columbia University, combined with its setting in an international city, strength in STEM, and its unwavering dedication to the advancement of women, makes Barnard unique among liberal arts colleges today.

Barnard is both an independently incorporated educational institution and an official college of Columbia University—a position that simultaneously affords it self-determination and a rich, value-enhancing partnership.  Barnard students may take classes at Columbia and benefit from the University’s myriad academic resources, as Columbia students may do at Barnard. Barnard students may compete in Division I athletics through the Barnard-Columbia Athletic Consortium. 

New York City and its vast cultural and social resources provide an extension to the Barnard campus, used by every department to enhance curriculum and learning.  The City is an inescapable presence, inviting students with infinite opportunities to explore and experience (from access to the arts to working with social-change organizations to interning on Wall Street). 

The College draws accomplished, motivated, bright, and curious young women who seek a stimulating atmosphere and diverse community.  Barnard alumnae include pioneers like anthropologist Margaret Mead and Judith Kaye, the first female Chief Judge of the State of New York, along with prominent cultural figures such as choreographer Twyla Tharp, writers Zora Neale Hurston and Mary Gordon, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Anna Quindlen and Natalie Angier.

Mission Statement

Barnard College aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research university. With a dedicated faculty of scholars distinguished in their respective fields, Barnard is a community of accessible teachers and engaged students who participate together in intellectual risk-taking and discovery. Barnard students develop the intellectual resources to take advantage of opportunities as new fields, new ideas, and new technologies emerge. They graduate prepared to lead lives that are professionally satisfying and successful, personally fulfilling, and enriched by love of learning.

As a college for women, Barnard embraces its responsibility to address issues of gender in all of their complexity and urgency, and to help students achieve the personal strength that will enable them to meet the challenges they will encounter throughout their lives. Located in the cosmopolitan urban environment of New York City, and committed to diversity in its student body, faculty and staff, Barnard prepares its graduates to flourish in different cultural surroundings in an increasingly inter-connected world.

The Barnard community thrives on high expectations. By setting rigorous academic standards and giving students the support they need to meet those standards, Barnard enables them to discover their own capabilities. Living and learning in this unique environment, Barnard students become agile, resilient, responsible, and creative, prepared to lead and serve their society.

Barnard History

Barnard College was among the pioneers in the late 19th-century crusade to make higher education available to young women.

The College grew out of the idea, first proposed by Columbia University’s tenth president, Frederick A.P. Barnard, that women have an opportunity for higher education at Columbia. Initially ignored, the idea led to the creation of a “Collegiate Course for Women.” Although highly-qualified women were authorized to follow a prescribed course of study leading ultimately to Columbia University degrees, no provision was made for where and how they were to pursue their studies. It was six years before Columbia’s trustees agreed to the establishment of a college for women. A provisional charter was secured, and Barnard College was named in honor of its most persistent advocate.

In October 1889, the first Barnard class met in a rented brownstone at 343 Madison Avenue. Fourteen students enrolled in the School of Arts and twenty-two “specials,” lacking the entrance requirements in Greek, enrolled in science. There was a faculty of six.

Nine years later Barnard moved to its present site in Morningside Heights. In 1900, Barnard was included in the educational system of Columbia University with provisions unique among women’s colleges: it was governed by its own Trustees, Faculty, and Dean, and was responsible for its own endowment and facilities, while sharing instruction, the library, and the degree of the University.

Barnard Today

From the original 14 students, enrollment has grown to over 3,000, with over 46,700 awarded degrees since 1893. The integration of teaching and scholarship occurs at an incomparable level at Barnard. Barnard's faculty of 259 women and men are teacher-scholars whose paramount concern is the education of undergraduate students and whose professional achievements bring added vitality to the classroom. This commitment to personal attention and high achievement provide the ultimate learning environment.

Barnard’s liberal arts education is broad in scope and demanding. The curriculum includes a series of general education requirements—a program of courses the faculty believes provides a stimulating and thorough education, while remaining flexible and varied enough to suit a student’s own interests, strengths, and talents. Classes vary in size. Those in which student participation is important are small. There are opportunities for independent study and students are often invited to work on research projects with faculty members.

In 2007, Barnard College and Columbia University amended and extended the longstanding agreement for cooperation between the institutions, an agreement which remains unique in higher education. Barnard stands as an independent college for women with its own curriculum, faculty, admissions standards, graduation requirements, trustees, endowment, and physical plant. At the same time, Barnard and Columbia share resources, thereby giving students open access to the courses, facilities, and libraries of both schools. Barnard and Columbia students also share in a wide variety of social and extracurricular activities. Barnard boasts 80 undergraduate clubs, and students have access to an additional 500+ student life opportunities at Columbia.

From its inception, Barnard has been committed to advancing the academic, personal, and professional success of women. Students benefit from an atmosphere in which over half of the full-time faculty are women, and women are well represented in the administration . The College is led by Sian Beilock, former Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives, and Executive Vice Provost and Officer of the University of Chicago. At Barnard, women are given the opportunities and the freedom to lead both in and out of the classroom, and to develop the skills that will equip them to lead throughout their lives.

Barnard’s unique ties to several of Columbia’s graduate schools and to premier New York City institutions, including the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and Teachers College, give students an unusual range of educational options, including a number of joint degree programs.  At Barnard students can earn a bachelors and masters through one of our 4+1 programs within Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, The School of International and Public Affairs, The Mailman School of Public Health, The Harriman Institute and a quantitative masters at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Academic organizations within and beyond the University also offer vital opportunities for research, study, studio experience, internships, and community service.

Barnard has a high student retention rate, an indication of student satisfaction with the college experience. Barnard students also enjoy leaves for study, travel, and internships. By senior year, about three-quarters of students have undertaken an internship and/or pursued funded summer research across academic institutions, corporations, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and in the arts. Every year Barnard admits about 100 transfer students who come to take advantage of the educational opportunities available to Barnard women.

Every year, Beyond Barnard collects and summarizes information about post-graduate study and employment. Within the first six months after graduation, 90% of Barnard graduates from Classes 2018-2020 were working or enrolled in graduate or professional schools. Full reports are available at Beyond Barnard's website.

Accreditation

Barnard College is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools , 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, 215-662-5606. The Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation.

The Barnard Education Program is accredited by the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP) and approved by the New York State Education Department to recommend students who complete the program for Initial Certification in either Childhood Education (Grades 1-6) or Adolescent Education (Grades 7-12). For more information, please visit https://education.barnard.edu/certification .

The Barnard campus occupies four acres of urban property along the west side of Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets. At the southern end of the campus, four residence buildings, Brooks Hall (1907), Hewitt Hall (1925), Helen Reid Hall (1961), and Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Hall (1988), form an enclosed quadrangle known as the "Quad."

Barnard Hall (1917) is just north of the “Quad” and contains seminar rooms, classrooms, and faculty offices, and dance studios. The Sulzberger Parlor on the third floor is used for meetings and special events. The Julius S. Held Lecture Hall is also on the third floor.

Just north of Barnard Hall is the newly constructed Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning, opened in September 2018. Designed by the award-winning firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the 128,000-square-foot building—with a base of five floors and a tower of eleven floors adjacent to Altschul Hall—is a distinctive place that convenes students and faculty, facilitates collaboration, and fosters dialogue. It includes a new kind of library, one that brings together current technologies and learning spaces in an interactive setting. Furthermore, it is a dynamic academic hub of the campus, linking departments and disciplines both physically and philosophically.

Further to the north, Helen Goodhart Altschul Hall (1969) and the Diana Center (2010) face each other across an open plaza. The 14 stories of Altschul Hall are devoted to the sciences. Herbert H. Lehman Auditorium is on the first floor. The Diana Center was designed by the renowned architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi and is the student center for the campus. 

Milbank Hall (1897) occupies the furthest northern end of the campus and houses administrative and faculty offices, classrooms, the Arthur Ross Greenhouse, and the Minor Latham Playhouse, a well-equipped modern theater. 

In 2003, the College’s four oldest buildings - Brooks Hall, Hewitt Hall, Barnard Hall, and Milbank Hall, were added to the National Register of Historic Places.

In the immediate neighborhood, Barnard maintains additional residence halls, including Plimpton Hall, acquired in 1968; Eleanor Thomas Elliott Hall, formerly 49 Claremont Avenue, acquired in 1982 and renamed in 1992; Cathedral Gardens, constructed by Barnard in 2006; and 537 West 121st Street, acquired in 2019. In addition, three apartment buildings on West 116th Street, 600 (acquired in 1971), 616 (acquired in 1964), and 620 (acquired in 1968) are Barnard residence halls. The College also rents additional spaces at 601 West 110th Street.  

Columbia University is directly across the street on Broadway.

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• Sheraton Commander Hotel ($$) 617-547-4800/800-535-5007
• Harvard Square Hotel ($-$$$) 617-864-5200/800-458-5886
• Irving House ($) 617-547-4699/877-547-4600
• Hotel Veritas ($$$) 617-520-5000
• Harvard Faculty Club ($$$) 617-495-5758

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• Double Tree Guest Suites ($$) 617-783-0090/800-754-7515
• Freepoint Hotel ($; ask for Harvard admissions rate) 617-491-8000/855-752-2005
• Hyatt Regency Cambridge ($$) 617-492-1234/800-233-1234
• Cambridge Marriott ($$) 617-494-6600/800-228-9290
• Courtyard By Marriott Boston/Cambridge ($$) 617-492-7777
• The Kendall Hotel ($-$$) 617-577-1300
• The Mary Prentiss Inn ($-$$) 617-661-2929
• Studio Allston Hotel ($-$$; ask for Harvard admissions rate) 617-440-3274/617-206-1848
• Sheraton Boston Hotel ($) 617-236-2000/866-716-8120
• Le Meridien Cambridge ($) 617-577-0200/866-716-8119
• Holiday Inn Boston-Bunker Hill ($) 617-628-1000/877-840-7557

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An MCS looks likely to develop along the front range Friday afternoon, June 14 and make its way into western Nebraska during the evening hours, before paying a visit to the eastern two-thirds of the state during the late evening and overnight hours. Severe threat looks lower across eastern Nebraska, but residents of western Nebraska (particularly in southwest and west-central Nebraska) should be prepared for possible hail and high winds. A half-inch to inch of rain would seem fairly likely for most of the state Friday night, with some areas possibly picking up more.

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The projected pattern next week places a large ridge in the eastern U.S. and a trough in the northwestern U.S. That will put our region of the country in the "battle zone" between hot and humid and cooler, more pleasant air. With this setup, there are going to be periodic chances for thunderstorms next week. Hard to pinpoint exact timing but suffice to say, this setup would favor not only chances for severe weather but also chances for flooding in the eastern half of the state.

Heaviest precipitation totals in the three- to six-inch range would be most likely in central and northeastern Nebraska, but most areas should get at least one to two inches next week, except for the Panhandle (where we could use that kind of moisture).

This pattern will also keep the southeastern third of the state hot and muggy until mid-week, while residents of western Nebraska can enjoy cooler temperatures AND lower humidity. Next week might be a good excuse to go visit Chadron if you live in the east.

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The latest U.S. Drought Monitor showed further reduction in drought in central Lancaster County, western Cass County, and northern Jefferson County thanks to last Friday evening's deluge. This means the north side of Lincoln is out of drought for the first time since the summer of 2022. It also means that we are down to just 1% of the state being in drought. But there is still one pocket of drought left in northern Cass County and another one in southern Lancaster and eastern Saline County. Maybe precipitation in the next seven to 10 days will be enough to get this area into D0, aka drought purgatory.

There was degradation this week in the Panhandle, thanks to a drier-than-average spring and some signal in VegDRI of pasture stress. This is the area of most immediate concern for additional degradation as we move deeper into the summer.

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Omsk is one of the largest cities in Russia, a major scientific, cultural, sports, transport, and industrial center. The administrative center of Omsk Oblast, it is the second most populous city in Siberia.

The population of Omsk is about 1,126,000 (2022), the area - 567 sq. km.

The phone code - +7 3812, the postal codes - 644000-644246.

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Foundation of omsk.

The need to build a Russian fortress on the banks of the Irtysh at the mouth of the Om River arose in connection with the steppe nomadic peoples. In particular, with the Oirats, whose tribes in the first decades of the 17th century began to appear within the borders of the Russian state being under the onslaught of their external enemies and as a result of internal civil strife. However, various foreign and domestic political problems of Russia hindered the development and defense of the South Siberian borders.

The situation changed only at the beginning of the 18th century, when the Russian conquest of Siberia intensified. Since Peter I paid great attention to geographical research in the south, the expeditions of that time combined socio-political tasks and tasks of scientific research.

One of such expeditions was led by the Russian military and statesman, associate of Peter I, Major General Ivan Bukhgolts. The goals of the expedition, numbering about 3,000 people, were to search for ore and gold deposits, the discovery of trade routes to India and China, as well as the construction of towns on the Irtysh River.

The expedition left Tobolsk to the south along the Irtysh in July 1715. In the spring of 1716, after a conflict with the Dzungars in the north of today’s Kazakhstan, the remnants of the expedition (about 700 people) withdrew to the mouth of the Om River, where they laid a new fortress named Omsky ostrog (fortified settlement).

According to the census of 1725, 992 people lived in the fortress, in 1742 - 1,092 people. From the first years of its existence, it served as a place of exile for prisoners. After serving hard labor and imprisonment, a lot of them stayed in Omsk for permanent residence.

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Omsk in the second half of the 18th century

The ethnic composition of the region’s population was formed in the process of settling the territory. Russians, Germans, Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians, and representatives of many other nationalities were sent here to serve or were exiled. The indigenous people of the region were the Siberian Tatars and Kazakhs, who switched to a sedentary lifestyle.

The foundation of the second Omsk fortress took place in 1762. The first fortress, although it occupied a favorable geographical position, was wooden and, by the middle of the 18th century, it was dilapidated. In 1765, new stone fortifications were constructed. The first stone structure of the fortress was the Resurrection Military Cathedral, built in 1773 and preserved to this day.

In the end of the 18th century, the Omsk fortress was one of the largest structures in the eastern part of the Russian Empire, its area was more than 30 hectares. In 1782, it was transformed into a town named Omsk within the Tobolsk Governorate. In 1785, the coat of arms of Omsk was approved.

Omsk became the center of management of the Siberian transport routes and the Siberian Cossack army, which not only guarded the South Siberian borders, but also made a huge contribution to the economic development of the steppe expanses of Kazakhstan, the annexation of Central Asia to the Russian Empire.

Omsk in the 19th century

The fire of 1819 destroyed almost half of the town including the archive and the magistrate of Omsk with all the first archival documents. Therefore information about the life of Omsk in the 18th - early 19th centuries is scarce and fragmentary. In 1825, the population of the town was about 9,000 people.

In 1829, the town’s development plan was approved. It was made by the famous Petersburg architect V.I. Geste, who took the city of St. Petersburg as a model with its wide avenues, huge neighborhoods, fountains, cast-iron bridges, and an abundance of green spaces.

The composition of the population of Omsk was not quite usual. In the middle of the 19th century, since Omsk was the center of the military and civil administration, the proportion of the military in the local population reached about 60%.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature), who served a term of hard labor in the Omsk prison in 1850-1854, in a letter to his brother gave Omsk the following description: “Omsk is a disgusting town. There are almost no trees. In summer, heat and wind with sand, in winter, a snowstorm. I have not seen nature. The town is dirty, military and highly depraved.”

By the second half of the 19th century, Omsk in its development outstripped many steppe towns and became not only an administrative, but also a commercial and industrial center. In 1861, in Omsk, there were 2,122 houses (31 stone houses), 34 factories and plants, about 20 thousand residents.

In 1892, the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway began, which gave a new impetus to the economy of Siberian towns and positively influenced Omsk. The development of the Trans-Siberian Railway caused an increase in the urban population due to migrants who came to work from the central part of the Russian Empire. According to the 1897 census, 37.3 thousand people lived in Omsk. The town had 14 streets with a total length of more than 140 km and 13 squares.

Omsk in the first half of the 20th century

The beginning of the 20th century was a time of great changes for Siberia. Mass peasant colonization caused a sharp leap in the development of the region’s economy, primarily its agrarian sector, and the Trans-Siberian Railway ensured the inclusion of the local economy in the system of the All-Russian and European markets.

Due to its favorable economic and geographical position - at the intersection of the railway and the Irtysh River, in the middle of a vast agricultural territory - Omsk quickly turned into a large transport, trade and industrial center of Western Siberia and Governor-Generalship of the Steppes (Eastern and Central Kazakhstan).

Wholesale trade in bread, butter and other agricultural products was concentrated here. Omsk also became one of the industrial, social and cultural centers of Western Siberia. By 1903, the city’s population grew to 60 thousand people. In 1914, it had about 134.8 thousand residents. Omsk became the most populous city in Siberia.

During the Civil War on the territory of the former Russian Empire, from June 1918 to November 1919, Omsk was the residence of the Supreme Ruler of Russia, Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who declared this city the capital of white Russia opposing red Russia of the Bolsheviks. Soviet power was finally established in the city in 1920.

In the summer of 1921, an event took place that had a decisive impact on the cultural and economic life of Omsk. The functions of the administrative center of Siberia were transferred from it to the city of Novonikolaevsk (future Novosibirsk). In 1934, Omsk became the administrative center of a separate Omsk Oblast.

Over the years of industrialization, Omsk became one of the largest centers for agricultural engineering in the USSR. The metal-working industry also developed at a rapid pace. In 1939, Omsk numbered more than 288 thousand people.

During the Second World War, about 200 industrial enterprises were evacuated to Omsk, as well as 60 hospitals, dozens of educational institutions, theaters, museums, and hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Omsk after the Second World War

In the post-war years, new enterprises were put into operation in Omsk, all existing factories and plants were reconstructed and expanded. The industrial potential of the city was also strengthened by the Omsk oil refinery, the largest in the country. In connection with the rapid development of industry, especially petrochemical enterprises, the ecological situation deteriorated. The concentration of harmful substances in the air sharply increased. In 1964, the population of Omsk was about 702 thousand people.

In the 1970s-1980s, Omsk developed rapidly. In 1975, the city’s population exceeded 1 million. The most pressing problem was the ecological situation. Omsk was in the top 10 cities of Russia in terms of environmental pollution. Another problem that required an immediate solution was the development of passenger transport. The capacity of Omsk streets was exhausted, and therefore the construction of the subway became an urgent issue.

The economic crisis that gripped Russia after the collapse of the USSR had a negative impact on the economy of Omsk and the region as a whole. There was a significant decline in industrial production, construction volumes fell, and unemployment rose. A lot of organizations of the defense complex, research institutes, and design bureaus found themselves in a deep crisis without the state defense order.

The share of mechanical engineering and metalworking, light industry, and, to a lesser extent, chemical and petrochemical, forestry and woodworking industries decreased. At the same time, the share of the fuel industry, energy, and construction materials industry began to grow.

In the 2000s, Omsk again became one of the most important economic centers of Western Siberia with a developing mechanical engineering, petrochemical industry, various branches of the woodworking, construction industry, and a highly productive agro-industrial complex. In recent years, Omsk has also acquired the features of one of the largest Siberian centers of entrepreneurship and banking/financial activities.

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Omsk - Features

Omsk is located in the south of the West Siberian Plain at the confluence of the Om River into the Irtysh, about 150 km from the border of Russia with Kazakhstan. About 60% of all residents of Omsk Oblast live in Omsk. The City Day of Omsk is celebrated on the first Saturday of August.

The city’s coat of arms is very similar to the first coat of arms of Omsk approved by Empress Catherine II in 1785. It depicts a part of the brick fortifications, which symbolizes the reason for its foundation as a fortress and the center of the Siberian defensive line.

Omsk belongs to the temperate climatic zone with a continental climate of the forest-steppe of the West Siberian belt. It is distinguished by an abundance of sunlight. The average air temperature in January is minus 16.3 degrees Celsius, in July - plus 19.6 degrees Celsius. The highest wind speeds are observed in winter and spring, which is the reason for frequent snow and dust storms.

In the past, the ecological situation in Omsk was very unfavorable. Since 2011, the city’s environmental development rating has increased significantly. This was the result of large-scale modernization of many large industries (including the Omsk oil refinery). Today, road transport is the main source of air pollution in the city.

The level of pollution of the Omsk rivers - Irtysh and Om - remains consistently high. Swimming in them is prohibited. While industrial effluents are becoming more environmentally friendly, sewers are releasing waste products including diesel fuel and petroleum products into the rivers. Dust raised by dust storms is also a serious problem for the city as it contains a lot of harmful substances including lead.

The city’s industry is based on oil refining, petrochemistry, chemical industry, mechanical engineering (production of aerospace equipment, armored vehicles, agricultural equipment). Omsk is a major transport junction - the Trans-Siberian Railway runs through the city from west to east, and the navigable Irtysh River crosses it from south to north. Omsk Airport offers regular flights to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Surgut, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Salekhard, Kazan, Krasnodar, Sochi.

The unfinished subway of Omsk has become famous in Russia thanks to its only one fully built station. Its construction began back in 1992. However, due to funding problems, the completion of the first line was postponed numerous times. In 2019, it was finally decided to permanently stop construction. For local residents, because of the long wait for the completion of the construction, the Omsk metro symbolizes unrealizable hopes, they talk about it with irony.

In Omsk, there are practically no buildings higher than 50 meters, according to this parameter it is one of the lowest cities with a population of over one million. 130 architectural monuments are concentrated in the central part of the city, almost half of the total number.

Main Attractions of Omsk

Dormition Cathedral - the largest church in Omsk located in the very center of the city. The original church was built in 1891-1898. In 1935, it was completely destroyed. In 2005-2007, an exact copy of the building was restored in its original place. This is one of the most beautiful buildings in Omsk. At night, the building is illuminated and looks especially majestic. Tarskaya Street, 7.

Irtysh Embankment - the main walking street of Omsk with a picturesque view of the Irtysh River. Built in the middle of the 20th century, the embankment was reconstructed in the 2000s. You can walk along the alley on foot, ride rollerblades or a bike.

Merchant Batyushkin’s Mansion (1902). This architectural monument is located on the Irtysh Embankment. It is also known as the Kolchak’s House because Alexander Kolchak, the Supreme Ruler of Russia, lived in this building in 1919. One part of the building is occupied by the registry office of the Central District of Omsk. The Center for the Study of the History of the Russian Civil War is also open here. Irtyshskaya Naberezhnaya Street, 9.

Omsk State Museum of History and Local Lore - one of the oldest museums in Siberia and Russia founded in 1878. In total, this museum has over 200 thousand various objects of cultural, historical and artistic value. The museum is especially proud of such exhibits as the cast-iron figures of the Chinese lions Shi-Tzu, presented to the museum from China in 1895, as well as the skeleton of a woolly mammoth almost 3 meters high. Lenina Street, 23?.

Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M.A. Vrubel - one of the largest museums of fine arts in Siberia. It has collections of foreign and Russian art from antiquity to the present day. In total, there are over 22 thousand works by painters, graphic artists and sculptors, as well as more than 1.5 thousand rare folios.

Walking through the exhibition halls, you can admire the canvases of Shishkin, Aivazovsky, Surikov, Repin, Serov, Vereshchagin. The exhibition of rare icons dating from the 17th-20th centuries is of constant interest among visitors, as well as a unique collection of jewelry made of precious metals found in the Scythian and Sarmatian burial mounds. Two buildings of the museum are located at Lenina Street 3 and 23.

In November 2019, a new exhibition was opened in a historical building at Muzeynaya Street, 4 - the exhibition of art of the 20th-21st centuries. The Hermitage-Siberia Center is located here too - the first representation of The State Hermitage Museum (the second-largest art museum in the world) beyond the Urals.

Chokana Valikhanova Street - a pedestrian street located in the historic part of Omsk. The street is decorated with abstract architectural forms, flower beds, wrought-iron lanterns. The walking area ends with an observation deck with a picturesque view of the Irtysh River.

Museum of Kondraty Belov . The museum of this landscape painter born in Omsk can be found in a picturesque wooden house, which is considered one of the most interesting architectural monuments of Omsk. The exposition tells about the life and work of Kondraty Belov, as well as about the history of the building itself.

In total, this museum has about 700 exhibits. The permanent exhibition also includes works by Kondraty Belov’s son Stanislav and paintings by some other local artists. In addition, temporary exhibitions of contemporary Omsk artists are regularly held here. Chokana Valikhanova Street, 10.

Plumber Stepanych Monument - an unusual sculpture located in the center of Omsk, which you can literally stumble upon while walking along Lenin Street between the houses #12 and #14. Leaning out of the hatch, the plumber is depicted as realistic and life-size as possible. It is among the most photographed monuments in Omsk. There is a similar sculpture in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

Lyuba Monument . This sculpture, located on the opposite side of Lenin Street from the monument to the plumber Stepanych, is especially loved by Omsk residents and tourists, who love to be photographed against its background.

This beauty in a lace dress with a neckline and a crinoline sitting on an openwork bench and reading a novel had a real prototype - Lyubov (diminutively Lyuba or Lyubasha) Gasford, the wife of the Governor-General of Siberia, who lived in Omsk in the 19th century and died at a young age due to illness. One of the streets of Omsk and the park are named in her memory. She is a local symbol of femininity and beauty.

Omsk Fire Tower - a picturesque architectural monument built at the beginning of the 20th century. Inside the tower there are museum expositions dedicated to the local fire brigade and the history of tower construction. Internatsionalnaya Street, 41?.

Park of Culture and Rest named after the 30th anniversary of the Komsomol - a popular place for walks, recreation and entertainment of Omsk residents and tourists, which has retained “the spirit of the Soviet era” in its name. Today, on an area of 73 hectares, several zones have been organized, various types of recreation are presented. There are walking alleys, ponds, water activities, for example, riding on hydro-scooters.

The ice town is open in winter, the Return of the Dinosaurs exhibition - in summer. The “House Upside Down” exposition is also popular with tourists. This park is a place for mass festivities, city celebrations and events. Maslenitsa, Christmas, City Day, and other holidays are celebrated here. Maslennikova Street, 136.

Natural Park “Bird Harbor” - a specially protected area located on the path of bird migration in the central part of Omsk. During autumn flights, up to 3 thousand birds stop here for rest. It is a great place to enjoy nature, walk along the eco-trail, and observe the life of birds. The park is situated in the floodplain on the left bank of the Irtysh River next to the Victory Park on Yeniseyskaya Street.

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Universities in Omsk, Russia - Rankings & Reviews -

• 06 Mar, 2024: Scimago Institutions Rankings updated with Omsk State Technical University ranked highest among 3 listed universities in Omsk.
• 19 Oct, 2023: THE Times Higher Education, UK published most recent results of THE World University Rankings by Subject (Business and Economics) . Omsk State Technical University achieves position 1001.
• 27 Sep, 2023: Latest THE World University Rankings from THE Times Higher Education, UK. Omsk State Technical University in position #1501.
• 31 Jul, 2023: Latest Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities from Webometrics. 6 universities from Omsk appear in this ranking.

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Water as ‘a pillar of modern society’

By Michael R. Malone [email protected] 06-07-2024

A heat dome has parked over southern Mexico and Mexico City, exacerbating a trifecta of historic drought, extreme heat, and blackouts. Prompted by a record-shattering heat wave that has plagued Central America for months, the sweltering temperatures and drought conditions have reached into Texas and Florida. 

Three consecutive years of record low precipitation in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region have prompted one of the region’s largest reservoirs to dry to a trickle. The drought, described as “the worst on record,” prompted the Catalan government on Feb. 1 to declare a “drought emergency” and impose draconian water restrictions. 

Extreme temperatures amplified by climate change have increasingly created severe water shortages around the world. Many venture that water—even more than oil or petroleum—will become or is already the world’s most valuable and, therefore, contested resource.

Justin Stoler , a University of Miami professor with dual appointments in the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development and the Department of Public Health Sciences, has researched global water insecurity and its human dimension for decades. Stoler also directs the SHIRE lab, which studies global environmental health disparities . 

In what ways does outdated infrastructure exacerbate the water shortage scenarios?

For thousands of years, water infrastructure has been a pillar of advanced civilization. Outdated infrastructure is now a significant driver of today's water security challenges. Most urban piped networks are well beyond their expected life expectancy of about a century while often serving larger populations than they were originally designed for and facing more extreme weather. 

One of the biggest infrastructure problems is what water engineers call “non-revenue water” (NRW). This is water that is treated but never used because it is lost to (predominantly) underground leaks. In the U.S., NRW averages around 20 percent. But for Mexico City, estimates of NRW range between 40-70 percent. Imagine producing a good and having nearly half of it never reach your customers—how could that business survive? This is the predicament for many water managers. 

What are some examples of the most effective measures that policymakers and government leaders have implemented to mitigate the problem?  

The most common policies involve public outreach and engagement over water conservation. California was a great success story during their 2012-2016 drought. But this kind of successful outreach tends to work best in places where the public trusts their government, which does not bode well for much of the world. 

Beyond essential access, what other implications do water shortages or interruptions have on people’s well-being?  

Water insecurity has been widely shown to hurt people's physical health, mental health, livelihood, and educational opportunities as well as the ability to build social capital within communities. The effects are so wide-ranging yet receive disproportionately little attention. My ongoing research shows a strong connection between water problems and trust in government and institutions. 

What are some of the new technologies that seem most promising to address the clean water crisis?  

Solutions such as nanotech water filtration membranes that turn sewage into pristine water, or atmospheric water harvesters that generate clean water out of thin air, hold great promise because they are modular, adaptive, and decentralized (what my team calls “MAD” water solutions). These solutions free us from the constraints of financing and logistically implementing large, centralized water infrastructure projects. But these tools also require significant energy, so our ability to create global water equity may, to some extent, rely on sustainable renewable energy solutions. 

At the personal level, what are some of the most critical habits that should be amended to help attenuate this problem? i.e., What can I do?  

We need to respect water as a pillar of modern society and let this guide our water policy. If water runs out or becomes too expensive, our way of life will change. Ask any of the nearly 2 million Americans living without water or plumbing services—it's terrible. We need to prioritize protecting freshwater resources and figure out how to deliver equitable water services that give everyone the opportunity to live their best life.

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UCLA appoints Mexican public health expert Julio Frenk as first Latino chancellor

Julio Frenk, a public health expert and president of the University of Miami, has been appointed the next chancellor of UCLA, the University of California Board of Regents announced Wednesday. 

Frenk will be the first Latino to lead the university, where 21% of undergraduates and 13% of graduate students are Hispanic .  

“I consider myself a boundary spanner and a bridge builder,” Frenk said in a news release announcing his appointment. “And I know that the strength of institutions of higher learning — socially, academically and intellectually — comes from their diversity and from a willingness to cross boundaries.” 

Frenk was born and raised in Mexico and received his medical degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He served as Mexico’s secretary of health under President Vicente Fox and helped reform the public health care system with universal health care and expanded access to contraception and family planning. 

He has also held leadership roles at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He assumed the presidency at the University of Miami in 2015, where he was also the first Latino to hold that role.  

In an interview after his University of Miami appointment, Frenk told NBC News that he was “very committed to diversity and inclusion.” He stressed the role inclusion has played in his own life as the son of a Jewish father whose family escaped persecution in Nazi Germany. 

“In spite of incredible adversity, my family found a welcoming place in Mexico, in a country that was poorer [economically] than Germany … but much richer in terms of tolerance and acceptance,” he said in 2016. 

Frenk has taken a sabbatical from the University of Miami as he prepares for his new role, the University of Miami said Wednesday. The university appointed chief executive officer Joe Echevarria, who is also Hispanic, as acting president.

Frenk will take office at UCLA in January, replacing current chancellor Gene Block. Darnell Hunt, executive vice chancellor and provost of UCLA, will serve as interim chancellor after Block steps down in July. 

“[Frenk] is widely respected across academia and well known as an exceptional thinker, an administrator of considerable ability and a brilliant academic,” Block said in the news release.

UCLA made national headlines in May after protests over the Israel-Hamas war turned violent and led to hundreds of arrests. This week, 25 more people were arrested after police were called to disband another encampment on campus. 

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Isabela Espadas Barros Leal is an associate editor for NBC News' diversity verticals based in New York.