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

Using a new artificial intelligence method, researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons can ...

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

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

We salute our newly commissioned graduates! Congratulations to Elena Casas (SEAS'25), William Culver (SEAS'25), Milana Rodriguez (CC'25), and Daniel Sanchez (SEAS'25), all just commissioned into the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...