In the Lab is a Columbia News series devoted to the interesting work—scientific, humanities-based, or interdisciplinary—of faculty and students.
Daisy Kalra has spent her Columbia postdoc in Illinois, supporting the University and the Fermilab in the search for new neutrinos.
Columbia Physics PhD student Jordan Pack talks about a new technique to study the electronic properties of quantum materials.
Marie Lilly is doing new research on where ticks are present in New York parks, and how people understand their exposure risk.
Jesús E. Pérez-Ortega is interested in technology that improves our understanding of the brain and treats neurological conditions.
Emanuil Yanev talks about his PhD work modifying 2D materials to push their light-producing limits.
Courtney Jimenez, a psychology PhD student, is building experiments that explore how social our time spent alone is.
Carla Hoge has been investigating the strange behavior of the protein PRDM9 since joining Columbia six years ago.
Matthew Connelly, who runs Columbia’s History Lab, researches the answer to that and other questions about U.S. government records.
Galia Solomonoff and her Housing Lab team researched everything from Governor Hochul’s housing compact to reimagining the shelter system.
Meghan Meyer, who joined Columbia this year, is studying the brain mechanisms that allow us to understand our social world.
A PhD candidate who worked for OpenAI and Apple discusses natural language processing, AI hallucinations, and deep fakes.
Yes, says GSAPP Professor Lola Ben-Alon, who is paving the way with ongoing work in the Natural Materials Lab.