Recent News from Columbia
June 07, 2023
Columbia Scientists Discover That Water Molecules Define the Materials Around Us
A new paper argues that materials like wood, bacteria, and fungi belong to a newly identified class of matter, "hydration solids."
June 07, 2023
Columbia University Affiliates Awarded 2023 - 2024 Fulbright U.S. Student Grants
Sixteen Columbia University affiliates have been awarded 2023-24 Fulbright U.S. Student grants.
June 06, 2023
Announcement From the University Regarding U.S. News and World Report’s Undergraduate Survey
Common Data Sets for 2022-23 and detailed overview of the Columbia undergraduate experience were posted last week.
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Alethea Harnish and Mark Taylor are co-teaching "Hippie Physics, Counterculture, Cyberculture" this semester, which represents the culmination of their three-year, collaborative relationship. Photo by Susan Farley.
Alethea Harnish (CC’23) and Mark Taylor are co-teaching a course this semester, the final one for both of them at Columbia.

A Mel Brooks biography or a novel about an Asian American basketball star? Read on for more information about these new volumes, as well as others, by Columbia and Barnard professors.
From fiction to nonfiction, history to polemics, it's all here in these volumes.

Dr. David Hellerstein specializes in research and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, particularly the medication treatment of chronic depression.
David Hellerstein covers everything from psychoanalysis to the DSM diagnostic manual and neuroscience.
Columbia in the News
New York City Is Sinking Under Its Own Weight
Scientific American, May 26
A ‘Plain-Spoken’ Way to Share Our Location
The New York Times, May 26
How Tipping Culture Has Changed with Gratuity Screens Everywhere
CBS News, May 25