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A Very Fall Weekend in New York City
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!

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.

An illustrated collage of neurons.
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.

Campus & Community

Heather Burns and Eva Kasal
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.

Michael Woodford
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.

Mischa Schwartz
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.

National & Global Affairs

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
Columbia’s Knight Institute Co-Hosted Symposium on ‘Forever War and the First Amendment’

The two-day event brought together journalists, scholars, lawyers, and activists to examine how the War on Terror transformed government power, the courts, the press, and democratic culture.

Katharina Pistor of Columbia Law School
Rethinking the Law and the Economy

In her new book, Professor Katharina Pistor explores strategies for rethinking the law and the economy to create a superior and more socially equitable system.

Artistic illustration of an office chair with a colorful lava lamp like background.
The Paper That Predicted the Office Apocalypse

Four years after introducing the “urban doom loop,” researchers revisit the office market, and find many of their boldest predictions are coming true.