When alumni from the Class of 1966 reconnected with a beloved political-science professor, a virtual classroom was born. In 2021, at his fifty-fifth college reunion, held on Zoom due to the pandemic, ...

On a recent Monday afternoon, Columbia astrophysicist David Kipping was strolling through the quiet streets of Tunbridge Wells, a town thirty miles southeast of London, when his phone rang. The caller ...

When Robert Spitzer, the Columbia psychiatrist who revolutionized modern psychiatric diagnostics, died on Christmas Day 2015 at age eighty-three, history had already redeemed him. Six months earlier, ...

Through visionary exhibitions and programming, Columbia graduates are steering the direction of some of New York City’s most prestigious museums. Walking into Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture, ...

Robert Livingston 1765KC may have missed the document’s official signing, but his anti-tyranny legal philosophy still resonates today. Declaration of Independence authors Adams, Sherman, Livingston, ...

Hit with budget cuts, Columbia’s Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics is working to get ahead of the next mass outbreak. It was the week when Iceland’s first mosquito was discovered and when ...

In his new book, The Little Book of Data, ad-tech executive Justin Evans ’93CC shows that anyone can succeed in our information-based economy. Data analytics are all the rage in US workplaces these ...

Competition is all around us, and while many view it as positive and natural, journalist and inclusion strategist Ruchika T. Malhotra ’10JRN argues that it can be detrimental to ourselves and society.

On Monday, September 28, 1789, in the US capital of New York, William Samuel Johnson, the first president of Columbia College, paid a visit to George Washington, the first President of the United ...

In We Survived the Night, Julian Brave NoiseCat ’15CC takes a deeply personal look at the historic efforts to erase Native culture in Canada and the United States. We Survived the Night opens with a ...

Sara, a startup co-founded by Jiaxin Zhang ’25BUS, seeks to make articulation therapy more accessible — and fun. Jiaxin Zhang and Jonathan Shi. (Courtesy of Jiaxin Zhang) For Jiaxin Zhang ’25BUS, who ...

In the 1930s, the decade in which my father, Moses Hadas ’30GSAS, began his long career in the Department of Classics at Columbia, the discipline of classical philology was still strongly influenced ...