Recent News from Columbia
April 24, 2025
How Thoughts Influence What the Eyes See
A new study shows that the brain’s visual regions play an active role in making sense of what we look at.
April 24, 2025
A New Interactive Tool Models Natural Hazards Fueled by Climate Change
Columbia climate scientists led a project to provide officials, organizations, and families with tools to plan for the worst.
April 24, 2025
Guggenheim Fellows, Women in Cancer Research Award, and More Honors
From science to engineering, writing to philosophy, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.
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