Research & Discovery

This page highlights the astonishing amount of scientific discovery happening at Columbia, one of the world’s leading research universities. 

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Clockwise from top left: An iceberg stranded on a submerged rock in northwest Greenland (Karl Zinglersen); homo erectus crania from the Turkana Rift (John Rowan); a mosquito feeding (Alex Wild); a shell of thick gas and dust (red) expelled from the outer layers of a star as its core collapses into a black hole. The inner regions show a heated ball of gas (white) continuing to fall into the central black hole. (Keith Miller, Caltech/IPAC - SELab)
Columbia University Discoveries in 2025-26 to Know About

Here are some of the top scientific research findings of the past academic year.


 

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A Zuckerman Institute workshop aimed to equip middle school teachers with some of the tools of neuroscience.

A park restoration project led by Columbia faculty held a celebration to mark successes and demonstrate next steps.

Mindset and expectations, not just the external environment, shape the “table of contents” into which our brains organize the day.

Raju Tomer’s lab explores the impact that neurological conditions and drugs like ketamine have on the brain.

With seed funds from the Data Science Institute, Kaveri Thakoor is helping doctors and AI train each other.

This new University-wide initiative builds on Columbia's existing research into cell and gene therapies and aims to drive greater progress in fundamental and translational science.

They have been chosen to deliver Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Awards and Lectures.

Climate and Health: Action and Research for Transformational Change (CHART) is funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Columbia engineers have developed powerful new battery "fuel"—an electrolyte that lasts and is also cheap to produce.

Atmospheric chemist V. Faye McNeill is pioneering change to address air quality in some of the world's fastest growing regions.

Collaborations between industry and academia can help accelerate research breakthroughs.

Gelman, a statistics and political science professor, has many irons in the fire, including The Economist's election tracker.