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Columbia has had its share of suicides like most other elite institutions of higher learning (but unlike NYU, which has had far more).

If you or someone you know has made even a passing remark about suicide, it is suggested to contact Health Services immediately.

Partial list of suicides

This list is very incomplete since major media outlets, for the most part, stopped reporting on college suicides during the 1960s.

References

Date	Person	Position	Notes
October 4, 1898	Henry E. McDermott	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
November 11, 1901	Richard Mayo Smith	Professor of Political Economy	Possible accident
February 21, 1902	Isaac N. Henderson	PhD Candidate
January 27, 1906	William N. Van Reypen Jr.	Law School student
February 27, 1906	Ralph C.B. Moore	Student
January 23, 1907	Lathrop Smith	Law School student
November 16, 1907	Lucien M. Underwood	Professor of Botany
December 5, 1914	Robert H. Jones	Student
August 8, 1919	John Hipp	Student
October 16, 1921	Dorothy Wilson	Student
August 28, 1924	Francis E. Brooks	Professor of French
March 9, 1925	Henry Mead	Student
March 14, 1926	Walton White	Student
September 21, 1927	Oscar Petty	Professor of Linguistics
May 13, 1928	Rollin F. Lewis	Student
May 23, 1928	David Halfant	PhD Candidate in Economics
June 7, 1929	Russell G. Smith	Professor of Sociology
March 9, 1930	Louis Finkelstein	Law School student
May 11, 1933	Edgar F. Grossman	PhD Candidate in Philosophy
June 16, 1937	Fred Lester Acer	Student
October 21, 1939	Robert E. Chaddock	Professor of Statistics
April 13, 1941	Marvin Krueger	Assistant Professor of Education
September 11, 1941	Rudolf Schoenheimer	Professor of Biological Chemistry
May 3, 1942	Marion Ellis	Student
January 15, 1948	Habeeb Ahmed Faruqi	Teachers College student
October 5, 1951	Dorothy Bordes	Student
October 20, 1953	Edward R. Fenn	Student
February 1, 1954	Edwin Howard Armstrong	Electrical Engineering professor
July 21, 1954	Madeline Jean Sommers	Summer student
January 3, 1955	Lawrence Goldsmith Jr.	Student
April 28, 1958	Frank William Ritchie Jr.	General Studies student
April 17, 1960	Michael Bogost	Student
November 26, 1961	Richard Kulick	Dental School student
May 4, 1965	Deborah Daniels	Teachers College student
November 25, 1968	Christine Gallant	Librarian
February 18, 1974	Hsio Min Feng	Professor of Chinese
September 24, 1988	Jonathan A. Spohn	Student	May have been accidental
August 20, 1991	Myeng Soek Oh	SEAS student
September 20, 1998	Shirley Yoon	Student
September 21, 1998	Darren Pascual	Student
March 24, 2000	Brian Malmon	Student
April 20, 2000	Puneet Bhandari	Student
December 6, 2000	Andrea Melendez	Student
May 7, 2006	Richard Ng	SEAS student
September 23, 2008	Petrus Schaesberg	Adjunct Professor
January 31, 2009	Eric Harms	SEAS student
August 27, 2012	Martha Corey-Ochoa	CC student