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August 20, 2026
New Chip Mimics How Cancer Spreads
A Columbia team modeled how cancer spreads between organs using lab-grown bone and lung tissues.
August 20, 2026
50+ Coffee and Tea Spots On or Near Columbia’s Campuses for a Jolt of Caffeine
As the school year kicks off, bookmark these old and new spots to add to your caffeination rotation.
August 20, 2026
5 Tips to Connect With Faculty, Labs, and Across Campuses From Professor Kristin Myers
First piece of advice? “I really need my students to fail in front of me.”
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Lola Ben-Alon's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Indian Ceramics Triennial, and Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles, and published across design and scientific journals.
GSAPP’s Lola Ben-Alon has edited a book that expands architecture’s and design’s lexicon and unsettles its boundaries.
“I’ve come to see the study of Buddhism as a wonderfully rich field for studying humanities, which, in its most basic sense, concerns understanding what it means to be human,” said Dominique Townsend.
Dominique Townsend recounts how, as a high school senior, a 12th-century wooden statue of a Buddha in a museum helped set her on her path.
Matt Damon as Odysseus in “The Odyssey.” Universal Pictures.
The movie, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus and Anne Hathaway as Penelope, has elicited wildly different reactions.
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A.I. Is Finding Sperm Where Doctors Couldn’t
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