Recent News from Columbia
April 23, 2025
Three Columbia Faculty Members Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The academy honors excellence across a wide range of fields, including academia, business, public affairs, and the arts.
April 22, 2025
A Novel Recounts the Agony of Early Onset Dementia
In Binnie Kirshenbaum’s Counting Backwards, a wife must face a future without her beloved partner.
April 22, 2025
The Best Faculty Books to Buy for Recent Columbia Graduates
Fiction, nonfiction, memoir, history, sports, essays—we’ve got you covered with this diverse list of 11 books.
Research & Discovery
Campus & Community
National & Global Affairs
Arts & Humanities

Rosalind Morris's research interests include art, objects, language, social theory, critical theory, and practices of memory. Photo by Julia Knop.
Rosalind Morris digs deep via ethnography, history, personal testimony, and political thought to tell the story about the mines.

Photo by Fernando Moreno, used with permission.
Claudio Lomnitz’s work on disappearance dates back to 2019, and the lab is expanding his efforts.

A detail of "Death and the Miser" by Hieronymous Bosch, circa 1485-1490; National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection.
Living, Dying, and the Meaning of Life blends ethics, medicine, religion, and philosophy to ask this and other big questions.
Columbia in the News
America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era
The Atlantic, Apr. 9
Kevin Hovde Tells The Post About ‘Whirlwind’ Juggling Act as New Columbia Coach While Still With Florida
The New York Post, Apr. 7
The Return of the Dire Wolf
Time, Apr. 7