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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 |
