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

On Sept. 17, Haven Plaza was filled with over 1,000 local schoolchildren who came to learn about, experience, and enjoy science.

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.

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

The Department of Health and Human Services’s award aims to accelerate innovation supporting living kidney donors and patients.

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.

Data shows less than 2 percent of OIE reports result in a formal investigation. More than 2,200 outdoor events took place last academic year with no Rules violations.   

Eight social entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders from China begin five weeks of study, mentorship, and exchange at Columbia.

The program, which will welcome its first cohort in Fall 2027, will support accomplished leaders seeking to pivot from successful careers to meaningful next chapters of their lives.

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. 

A new project will deploy a fleet of autonomous vehicles to measure carbon exchange across the Southern Ocean.

Appointments will strengthen the board at a critical moment for our work, the Knight Institute says.

Associations between employment trajectories and later-life cognition differ by gender, a Columbia Public Health study found.

Mark Ross-Lonergan is an experimental neutrino physicist with a passion for oysters.

Venkat Venkatasubramanian explores this and related questions in his book, Emergence as Harmony.

Columbia Engineering students used only cardboard, duct tape, and waterproofing spray to build their buoyant creations.

As the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week got underway last week in New York City, students discussed issues facing our world with visitors from around the globe.

A proposed new approach could reduce the complexity of fusion power plants, researchers say.

The prestigious prize recognized Zuker for revolutionizing understanding of the sense of taste.

This year, Columbia supported three student fellows who worked with nonprofits providing support for survivors of gender-based violence and advocacy for people incarcerated in federal prisons in New York City.

Columbia's new National Synthesis Center for Organismal Resilience (NSCORE) brought together researchers for a day-long kick-off event.

This September, Columbians debuted new music, won awards, and welcomed world leaders to campus. Test your knowledge of the latest news stories across the University!

The 2009 and 2017 Pulitzer Prize Drama winner and School of the Arts Professor Lynn Nottage has joined the Pulitzer Board.

This year’s rally brought together over 300 participants from more than 40 states.

Professor Emeritus Schwartz reflects on a career that stretched from World War II-era radar to computer networks, shaped generations of electrical engineers, and was instrumental in building Columbia’s strength in telecommunications.

Rosalind Morris wants to build on the department’s impressive history by preparing its students for the future.

From key dates to local polling locations, dive into this voting resource guide ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.

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

The full-building renovation of Hartley will transform the historic residence hall with updated rooms, new common spaces, improved accessibility, and infrastructure upgrades. 

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.

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

“Columbia is the kind of place where we are allowed to try ambitious things,” said Woodford at an Oct. 12 reception in Low Library to celebrate his Nobel Prize.

Those with dementia who are overweight tend to live longer, pointing to the likely importance of nutrition in the disease.

A new study found that when microplastics contact water, their surfaces can become chemically reactive; it could be how they get us sick.

The eight fellows are graduates of Baruch College, Brooklyn College, The City College of New York, Hunter College, Lehman College, Macaulay Honors College, and Medgar Evers College, and are pursuing master’s degrees at Columbia.

In her book, Neeraj Kaushal chronicles how the rise in African immigrants to the U.S. can be a positive force for change.

In this excerpt from Our Hearts Burned for Home, Emily Feng introduces readers to a community without a country in a country at war.  

From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.

Professor Adam Blumenberg, a board-certified medical toxicologist and emergency physician, knows a thing or two about poisons. So much so, he made not one, but two podcasts about them.

An institute led by universities including Columbia will train emerging talent on how to apply AI to manufacturing.

The new series will celebrate the scholarship, research, teaching, public impact, and service that define Columbia University.

A new study in Nature could pave the way for improved battery performance and design.

Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

Her plans include helping her colleagues flourish and encouraging undergrads to broaden their thinking about French.

Graduate Scholarships for Elementary School Teachers are awarded to current or future educators within Manhattan Community District 9.

Hosted by Columbia’s Center for Veteran Transition and Integration, the event brought together 82 students and administrators from 26 colleges and universities in the New York City area.

More than 2,500 visitors explored hands-on activities, lectures and installations at Lamont's campus on Saturday, October 17.

An ancient and once-vast ice sheet had started growing again, but by the 1960s, global warming stopped it.

Unresponsive ICU patients in a new Columbia study were able to raise and lower the frequency of a beeping tone with their minds.

The center will address key scientific and technological questions on the path toward a fusion power plant.

Electrons should move freely in metals. New research from Columbia identifies how to trap them in place.

The field “provides essential tools for understanding how power operates across society,” she says.