From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.

May 21 marked the conferral of 15,000+ degrees upon Columbia's newest graduates, who hail from all 50 states and 100+ ...

College or graduate school may be over, but a lifetime of reading awaits. From James Shapiro's The Playbook, which is about the Federal Theatre Project, a Works Progress Administration program that, ...

What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world’s richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal ...

For the past two months, the scientists at the helm of a new, Columbia-led balloon experiment have been working tirelessly to launch that mission in Antarctica. The experiment, called the General ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new “chapter” of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts ...

As the start of the 2024-2025 academic year approaches, Columbia’s Task Force on Antisemitism has released its second set of recommendations. Grounded in extensive meetings with students, the report ...

A new study from the department of psychology reveals how we can adapt our negative memories to make them more positive. We have all experienced moments that we wish we could forget. However, research ...

There’s a hot new BEC in town that has nothing to do with bacon, egg, and cheese. You won’t find it at your local bodega, but in the coldest place in New York: the lab of Columbia physicist Sebastian ...

Optimism abounds in Phan Thi Kim Phuc, a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and peace activist. Her optimism is a miracle. In 1972, the world was shocked by a photograph of a girl running, arms outstretched, ...

Sometime in the late 15th century, a scribe, likely a nun living in what is today the Netherlands, meticulously wrote out a booklet of liturgical music, also known as an antiphonary, for use at ...