Office Hours is a Columbia News series dedicated to the compelling research that faculty are engaged in both in and beyond the classroom.
Mehtaab Sawhney, who joined Columbia last year, enjoys the thorny work of proving a seemingly straightforward statement of fact.
Sable Elyse Smith wants her School of the Arts students to see these effects in the world around them.
Psychology Professor Larisa Solomon aims to understand how people respond to those whose religious beliefs differ from their own.
She is a composer, musician, sound artist, and the chair of visual arts at School of the Arts.
GSAPP’s Mario Gooden believes that architecture must fully engage with the cultural landscape.
Psychology professor Dima Amso studies early childhood, and supports NGOs by girding them with state-of-the-art research.
Ruben Gonzalez records movies to discover how biomolecules’ motions determine their functions. He has a major new finding.
Astronomer Jane Huang is interested in the behavior of protoplanetary disks made of gas, dust, and ice.
Ivan Corwin is using math to show that outlier particles do not follow Einstein’s theory. And he’s collaborating with his brother.
Rivka Galchen uses her scientific knowledge in her writing and her teaching.
Psychology Professor Kevin Ochsner’s work touches on hot-button issues like politics and the #MeToo movement.
First produced off-Broadway in 2007, the work, more potent than ever, continues to speak to the times.