Professor Mark Mazower guides readers through a history that seeks to illuminate rather than to blame.

More than 100 Columbians have volunteered yearly with the Read Ahead Mentoring Program—one staffer and recent volunteer ...

Several Columbians won 2025 Emmy Awards in television: Tim Carvell (CC’95) and Joanna Rothkopf (JRN'14) for “Last Week ...

Two postdoctoral researchers, Viraj Pandya and Yunjia Lai, were named finalists for the 2025 Blavatnik Regional Awards for ...

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 ...

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 ...

In some severe cases of COVID-19, the lungs undergo extreme damage, resulting in a range of life-threatening conditions like pneumonia, inflammation, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. The root ...

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, ...

A book gathers experts and scholars to investigate how this decline is playing out during the climate crisis. Global Language Justice explores the socioeconomic transformations that both accelerate ...