Recent News from Columbia
May 31, 2023
Let's Commence With the May 2023 Columbia News Quiz
The semester may have ended, but that doesn't mean things are slowing down at Columbia. Test your knowledge of the latest news stories across the University!
May 31, 2023
An Expansive View Into Obama’s Transformative Presidency
The first set of transcripts from the Obama Presidency Oral History will be released today.
May 25, 2023
Alum Marie Maynard Daly Honored by American Chemical Society
Daly, GSAS’ 47, was the first Black woman to earn a PhD in chemistry in the United States.
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Alethea Harnish and Mark Taylor are co-teaching "Hippie Physics, Counterculture, Cyberculture" this semester, which represents the culmination of their three-year, collaborative relationship. Photo by Susan Farley.
Alethea Harnish (CC’23) and Mark Taylor are co-teaching a course this semester, the final one for both of them at Columbia.

A Mel Brooks biography or a novel about an Asian American basketball star? Read on for more information about these new volumes, as well as others, by Columbia and Barnard professors.
From fiction to nonfiction, history to polemics, it's all here in these volumes.

Dr. David Hellerstein specializes in research and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, particularly the medication treatment of chronic depression.
David Hellerstein covers everything from psychoanalysis to the DSM diagnostic manual and neuroscience.
Columbia in the News
New York City Is Sinking Under Its Own Weight
Scientific American, May 26
A ‘Plain-Spoken’ Way to Share Our Location
The New York Times, May 26
How Tipping Culture Has Changed with Gratuity Screens Everywhere
CBS News, May 25