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Student Group EcoReps Drive Sustainable Living From Campus and Beyond

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Hear Their Stories: Lee C. Bollinger and Agnès Callamard Discuss Press Freedom and Jamal Khashoggi

Covering Climate Now: A CJR Commitment to Reporting on Climate Change

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The Wall Street Journal recently ran an adapted excerpt of The First Cell, by Columbia's Dr. Azra Raza, in which she argues that we need to shift our focus from fighting cancer in its last stages to finding the very first cells.

Off the Court Drama

NBA patience and resolve will eventually ease tensions with China.

Project Nim Revisited

Forty years later, a Columbia professor shares what he learned from a high-profile experiment in which he tried to teach a chimp human language.

Research & Discovery

Drops in Income May Not Only Hurt the Wallet, They May Harm the Brain

A new study finds unsteady income in young adulthood linked to thinking problems in middle age.

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Are We Ready for Designer Babies?

A Columbia psychiatrist and ethicist addresses the quandaries we face over the changing ways we create children.

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How Worried Should We Be About a Rare, But Potentially Deadly Mosquito Virus?

While the rate of Eastern Equine Encephalitis is unusually high this year, more worrisome is the link to a warming climate and what it could signal for the future.

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How Climate Change Impacts Our Water

Changes from global warming will put pressure on drinking water supplies, food production, property values and more, in the U.S. and all around the world.

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Free Speech & Press

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Introducing Free Speech Futures

The Knight Institute's essay series asks leading scholars to think beyond existing First Amendment doctrine to imagine what freedom of speech could be in our current moment and our future.

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Columbia Journalism School Announces 2019 John Chancellor Award Winner

ProPublica's investigative reporter and foreign correspondent, Ginger Thompson, is the recipient of the 2019 John Chancellor Award.

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Worldwide

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Turkish armored vehicles patrol as they conduct a joint ground patrol with American forces in the so-called "safe zone" on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Tal Abyad, northeastern Syria, October 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Shock and Disgust

David L. Phillips of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights says President Donald Trump's decision to pull back U.S. forces is strategically flawed, tactically incoherent, and morally repugnant, reversing years of U.S. policy.

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Global Centers I Paris Features 'Voix Atlantiques' on Black Atlantic Diaspora

Global Centers I Paris will present a series of events with artists who are re-appropriating representations and narratives of minority experiences, particularly those tied to the Black Atlantic Diaspora.

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Arts & Humanities

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Betti-Sue Hertz Named Director and Chief Curator of the Wallach Art Gallery

Interim Executive Vice President and Dean for Arts and Sciences announces new head of the University’s premier visual arts space.

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Hannah Bennett, the new Director of Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library.

Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Has New Director

Hannah Bennett, previously with University of Pennsylvania Libraries, will take the helm on October 7.

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Justice & Equity

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Uncovering the Underreported and Ignored

Students are using Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library to create new scholarship in African American and African Diaspora Studies.

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The Path Forward

This new print and digital publication from Columbia Law School addresses criminal justice reform.

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From the Inside Out: The Power of Language to Incarcerate

The Center for Justice recently held a conference about how language can be used to reinforce stereotypes and biases against people in the criminal justice system.

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