Recent News from Columbia
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.
May 25, 2023
GSAPP Lab Looks for Solutions to New York’s Housing Crisis
Galia Solomonoff and her Housing Lab team researched everything from Governor Hochul’s housing compact to reimagining the shelter system.
May 25, 2023
Multivitamin Improves Memory in Older Adults, Study Finds
Very few large-scale, randomized trials of the effects of vitamins or dietary supplements have been done until now.
Research & Discovery
National & Global Affairs
Arts & Humanities

Matthew Engelke, left, and Courtney Bender, right, were both members of the advisory committee for "City of Faith," an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.
Courtney Bender and Matthew Engelke lend their expertise to “City of Faith,” which examines New York’s secular image.

Left to right: David Hajdu and some of his musical collaborators, including composer/singer Theo Bleckmann, singer Alicia Olatuja, and composer/pianist Dan Tepfer. Photo by Christopher Drukker.
Journalism School Professor David Hajdu examines key moments of urban history in a song cycle.

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.
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