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Last weekend, our beloved Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, and Columbia General Studies alumni returned to campus to reconnect, reminisce, and reflect during Columbia Reunion 2025. They are ...

In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.

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

In Love, Money, Duty, Rachel Adams explores care as a form of work, a feeling, an ethic, and an art. Combining readings of writers and artists—among them, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Roz Chast, Sally ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sue Mendelsohn and Aaron Ritzenberg, both senior lecturers in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, have won a Dialogue Across Difference Seed Grant for their project, Opinion Essay ...

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 ...