Recent News from Columbia
A Math Professor Has a New Finding on Primes
Mehtaab Sawhney, who joined Columbia last year, enjoys the thorny work of proving a seemingly straightforward statement of fact.
Here's Every Columbia 2025 Class Day Speaker We Know (So Far)
With graduation festivities around the corner, here's who we expect to speak to our graduates in celebration of their accomplishments.
Art Is in the Brain of the Beholder
New Columbia research found that people’s brain activity varies more when viewing abstract art than representational art.
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Rosalind Morris digs deep via ethnography, history, personal testimony, and political thought to tell the story about the mines.

Claudio Lomnitz’s work on disappearance dates back to 2019, and the lab is expanding his efforts.

Living, Dying, and the Meaning of Life blends ethics, medicine, religion, and philosophy to ask this and other big questions.
Columbia in the News
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