Dominique Townsend recounts how, as a high school senior, a 12th-century wooden statue of a Buddha in a museum helped set her ...

In anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s film version of The Odyssey, opening in theaters on July 17, Columbia News checked in ...

The director of the Columbia Nano Initiative’s Shared Labs discusses growing nanoscience at the University—and beyond.

Phelps came to Columbia 55 years ago as a full professor. At that time, he was already a star in the profession, with ...

During her first week leading the University, President Jennifer L. Mnookin welcomed nearly 200 local elected officials, community leaders, and neighbors to the Manhattanville campus for a breakfast ...

Fiction, nonfiction, memoir, history, essays, language, art history, architecture, climate—we’ve got you covered with this diverse list of books. We’ve all heard the story about waking up as a ...

The health disparities that Sebastian Cota observed in his native Los Angeles led him to Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Sebastian Cota’s initial interest in public health and ...

Whether you’re a seasoned Columbia faculty member or a fresh-eyed incoming freshman, you may have wondered as you stumbled into the humid night after catching a showing of Christopher Nolan’s ...

From zombies and falconry to Oscar Wilde and Max, Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book character, Jack Halberstam, a professor of English and Comparative Literature, offers an alternative history ...

Forty years later, a Columbia professor shares what he learned from a high-profile experiment in which he tried to teach a chimp human language. In 1973, Herbert Terrace set out to do what no ...

Natalie Brito, a professor of psychology, researches how both the families we’re raised in and the societies we live in, shape us. Natalie Brito first came to Columbia as a postdoctoral researcher in ...

Anne Nelson’s Red Orchestra warns about the fragility of all democracies, and how citizens need to be vigilant. Drawing on archives, memoirs, and interviews with survivors, Nelson presents the men and ...