Recent News from Columbia
May 09, 2025
Columbia Scientists Lead Team to Tackle Bladder and Esophageal Cancers
The team's discoveries have changed their approach to finding new therapies.
May 09, 2025
All of the Biggest U.S. Cities Are Sinking
The cities include not just those on the coasts, but many in the interior. Houston is sinking fastest.
May 09, 2025
Grant Terminations Undermine Relationships Between Researchers and the Communities They Serve
Abrupt changes have left scientists and their partners scrambling to find a new way to work in a drastically altered landscape.
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Arts & Humanities

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.

Binnie Kirshenbaum has taught fiction in the writing program at School of the Arts since 2002; during that time, she has served as departmental chair and director of fiction.
In Binnie Kirshenbaum’s Counting Backwards, a wife must face a future without her beloved partner.
Columbia in the News
Universal Antivenom May Grow Out of Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him 200 Times
The New York Times, May 2
Supreme Court Could Put New Face on Public-School Segregation
Bloomberg, Apr. 28
The Vietnam War Produced Classic Hollywood Films—and Hardly Any Classic Female Roles
The Washington Post, Apr. 27