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Everything You Need to Know About Climate Week

Columbia is hosting a range of events during the citywide summit, which takes place September 20-27.

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A Columbia study provides a blueprint for the use of genomics to help combat climate change.

Students volunteering to support our health system, its workforce and patients, is an inspiration and will, hopefully, lead to meaningful change beyond the pandemic.

The pilot project documented more than 100 local efforts to redress historical racist incidents along the Atlantic Coast from Delaware to Florida.

Dmitri Basov will use the award to develop experimental techniques that could lead to revolutionary applications in electronics, computing energy technology and medical devices.

Responses will allow researchers to understand the impact on those most directly affected by the crisis and learn how to best address their needs.

Dmitri Basov, Angela M. Christiano, Andrew Millis, Molly Przeworski and Lorraine S. Symington were elected by their peers in recognition of their outstanding achievements in research.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers and scientists at Columbia University will combine their efforts to address the opioid and substance use crisis.

This mysterious, respiratory illness, related to the coronavirus that caused SARS, has fueled fears of a global pandemic.

An expanded poverty tracking survey will now look at early childhood poverty and the experiences of Asian-American New Yorkers.

Columbia faculty and researchers are working with local communities in New York State to dramatically reduce opioid-related deaths.

Forty years later, a Columbia professor shares what he learned from a high-profile experiment in which he tried to teach a chimp human language.

The ability to monitor deforestation and fires from satellite is now routine. Political will is the main ingredient.