About Sundial

The independent voice of Columbia University. Est. 2024

Sundial

Meet Us at the Sundial

Dear Reader, When Barack Obama was a student at Columbia, he wrote an article for a school magazine detailing campus groups’ advocacy for “a nuclear free world.” Published in 1983 around the height of the Cold War, Obama praised anti-militarist organizations for bringing “the words of that formidable …

Read more

2 years ago · 5 likes · Nick Chimicles, Jonas Du, and Jackson Cheramie

Subscribe to get full access to our newsletters and to receive periodic alerts when new articles are released.

Have something to say?

We strive to publish a diverse set of viewpoints and value reader responses. You can submit an op-ed or a letter to the editor at columbia.sundial@gmail.com

Join our staff

We have recruitment cycles at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters. Follow us on Instagram to stay up to date with the application process: @sundial_cu.

Fall 2025 Masthead

Alex Nagin
Editor-in-chief

Imaan Chaudhry
Emma Shen
Deputy Editors

Nick Baum
Managing Editor

Oren Hartstein
Incoming Editor-in-Chief

Xinyan Chen
Incoming Deputy Editor

Isabelle Alperovich
Publisher

Nate Maretzki
Nikos Mohammadi
Uma Rajan
Senior Editors

Photography and Layout Team

Amber Yin
Layout Editor

Eric Chen
Sebastian Galbenus
Jonathan Perry
William Kim
Photographers

Staff Editors

Shoshana Aufzien
Emeric Chang
Mathilda Simons
Neal Tandon
Rafael Vanuno
Jessica Weinfeld

Staff Writers

Giselle Sami Dalili
Artemis Edison
Eli Gaull
Avi Litvak
Christina Ma
Joelle Rosenthal
Angelina Xu
Daisy Zhang