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October 12, 2026

Columbia Nobel Prize Winner Michael Woodford’s First To-Do? Give an Economics Exam

In true professorial fashion, after winning a Nobel, 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.

Columbia’s Michael Woodford Wins 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Woodford receives Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Robert E. Hall of Stanford University, for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization.

Columbians Fill New York Public Library to Welcome President Jennifer L. Mnookin

Alumni, parents, donors, and friends meet the University’s 21st president.

Videos

The Core Curriculum: What are Columbia’s Undergrads reading these days?

The Core Curriculum: The Heart of Columbia University’s Undergraduate Experience

For more than 100 years, the Core Curriculum has been the defining element of a Columbia College education. This communal learning experience cultivates community-wide discourse and contemplation around seminal works, contemporary issues and humanity’s most enduring questions.

Meet Charles Todd, Vice President for University Life at Columbia University

In this video, Todd reflects on his academic background in philosophy, his vision for University Life, and his goals for creating meaningful opportunities and experiences that enhance student life at Columbia.

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America at 250: The U.S. Semiquincentennial and Columbia University

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.

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.

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Campus & Community

‘Home Is Here’: Buunni Coffee’s Journey From Addis, to NYC, to Columbia’s Medical Center Campus

Elias Gurmu and Sarina Prabasi, the founders behind local gem Buunni Coffee, spill the beans on two new locations on the CUIMC campus and what they are up to next.

A student does a cartwheel in front of a taxi on campus.

A Columbia Welcome: 20 Photos From a Spectacular Start to the Fall Semester

Something magical happens every year when new and returning Columbians flood back to campus at the end of August. This year was no exception.

Introducing the 14th Cohort of A’Lelia Bundles Community Scholars

The newest Bundles Scholars will delve into community wellness, the creative use of technology, literacy, holistic spiritual care, storytelling that centers Black women, and the history of policing in urban communities.

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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.

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.

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Arts & Humanities

Ad Reinhardt, Columbia University campus map

This Columbia campus map was printed in the Jester issue of September 1938. The editors included a note about this campus map, which said: “On the opposite page you see a map of the Campus drawn specially for this issue by Ad F. Reinhardt, ’35, former editor of the Jester. While at college, Reinhardt put out a very striking and very good Jester and was personally elected America’s most original college artist. His efforts, we think, started a new and fine period for Jester and a splendid tradition.”

See ‘Drawn by a Columbian’ at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library

The exhibition features the work of famous artists and cartoonists created while they were students at the University.

The Declaration of Independence

Why the Declaration of Independence Remains Required Reading for All Columbia Undergrads

As America continues to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Columbia News asks: Does this founding document, which is part of the Core Curriculum, remain relevant?