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October 30, 2026

The Columbia News Quiz: October 2026

This October, Columbians won major awards, published important research, and continued some beloved fall traditions. Test your knowledge of the latest news stories across the University!

First Columbia Colloquium Is One for the Books

President Mnookin moderated a lively interdisciplinary panel of Columbia faculty members talking about why universities matter.

Moving Forward With the Sociology Department’s New Chair

Adam Reich sees change on the horizon for the discipline in ways both big and small.

Videos

A Very Fall Weekend at Columbia University

Columbia University students and their families, faculty, alumni, and staff celebrated the glorious beauty of autumn in New York City with Family Days, Homecoming, and ROARfest!

Columbia University Professor Michael Woodford Wins the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

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The First Event: Why Universities Matter

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Research & Discovery

The first of a new fleet of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) being readied for deployment from Hobart, Tasmania, to begin data collection in the Southern Ocean. Credit: CSIRO/AAPP

Robot Sailboats Will Spend Five Years Measuring Carbon in the Southern Ocean

A new project will deploy a fleet of autonomous vehicles to measure carbon exchange in remote waters.

Upending Decades of Debate, Scientists Discover Most Neurons are Jacks-of-All-Trades

A new study of mouse neurons has the scientific community abuzz.

Columbia scientist Terry Plank disembarks from a helicopter on the Villarrica volcano in Chile.

Measuring the Rumblings of the Earth

Columbia scientists are working to give observatories better views of restless volcanoes and to make those data openly available.

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Campus & Community

Running the NYC Marathon for Community Impact at Columbia

As Community Impact at Columbia University celebrates 45 years, a student and board member are running to raise money for the student-led organization’s service work in Upper Manhattan.

Columbia Nobel Prize Winner Michael Woodford’s First To-Do? Give an Economics Exam

In true professorial fashion, after winning a Nobel on Oct. 12, Woodford headed straight to Uris Hall to administer a test in his Cognitive Mechanisms and Economic Behavior course, to cheers and applause from his students.

A Century of Communications, Teaching, and Taking Chances

The Columbia Engineering Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus reflects on a career that stretched from World War II-era radar to computer networks, shaped generations of electrical engineers, and was instrumental in building Columbia’s strength in telecommunications.

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National & Global Affairs

A photo of Emily Feng (credit: An Rong Xu) next to image of the cover of her new book, “Our Hearts Burned for Home: Uyghur Militants in Syria’s Civil War,” published by Columbia Global Reports.

The Complicated Story of Uyghur Fighters in Syria

In this excerpt from Our Hearts Burned for Home, Emily Feng introduces readers to a community without a country in a country at war.

President Jennifer L. Mnookin speaking from a podium at the 2026 Columbia University World Leaders Forum.

President Mnookin Welcomes World Leaders to Columbia

As the U.N. General Assembly and Climate Week got underway in New York City, students discussed issues facing our world with visitors from around the globe.

Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, speaks to audience from a podium on a stage at the “Forever War and the First Amendment” symposium at Columbia University. Photo by Siobhan Mullan

Knight Institute Co-Hosted ‘Forever War and the First Amendment’

At the event, journalists, scholars, lawyers, and activists examined how War on Terror transformed government power, the courts, the press, and democratic culture.

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Arts & Humanities

Ad Reinhardt, Columbia University campus map

This Columbia campus map was printed in the Jester issue of September 1938. The editors included a note about this campus map, which said: “On the opposite page you see a map of the Campus drawn specially for this issue by Ad F. Reinhardt, ’35, former editor of the Jester. While at college, Reinhardt put out a very striking and very good Jester and was personally elected America’s most original college artist. His efforts, we think, started a new and fine period for Jester and a splendid tradition.”

See ‘Drawn by a Columbian’ at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library

The exhibition features the work of famous artists and cartoonists created while they were students at the University.

The Declaration of Independence

Why the Declaration of Independence Remains Required Reading for All Columbia Undergrads

As America continues to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Columbia News asks: Does this founding document, which is part of the Core Curriculum, remain relevant?