News Archive

Rafael Yuste, a professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, has been awarded the Eliasson Global Leadership Prize by the Tällberg Foundation for his seminal contributions in inspiring the US and International BRAIN initiatives and for his efforts toward building ethical guidelines for neurotechnology and artificial intelligence.

With Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today—the latest exhibition at Columbia’s Wallach Art Gallery—curator Denise Murrell proposes that the changing representation of the black female figure has been central to the development of modernism.

John Judis surveys the aftermath of the election, Brexit, and the ascendancy of authoritarian leaders around the world in his new book.

“I think all the big ethical questions that preoccupied me were condensed in the issue of slavery and democracy in the United States,” said Stephanie McCurry. “It was just enough distance from the things that roiled me that I was able to be scholarly about it.”

Miller Theatre is named for Kathryn Bache Miller, a New York City philanthropist whose father, Jules Bache, was a German immigrant who arrived in the U.S. in the 1880s and became a wealthy investment banker and art patron.

Human remains are at the heart of Zoë Crossland’s work. In one of the most popular classes that she teaches, Corpse Life, students learn about the history of death and the treatment of remains.

Linda Amrou works to strengthen the ties between the University’s nine Global Centers and Columbia students, faculty and alumni.

Raju Tomer has won a NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, for his pioneering work in developing new technologies for high-resolution mapping of brain structure and function.

Alex Teachey and David Kipping report that the detection of a candidate exomoon – that is, moons orbiting planets in other star systems – is unusual because of its large size, comparable to the diameter of Neptune. Such gargantuan moons do not exist in our own solar system, where nearly 200 natural satellites have been cataloged.

Columbia alumnus Arthur Ashkin (CC 1947) has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking research in laser physics.

Ben Marcus’s new book, Notes from the Fog, is a collection of 13 short stories in which, among other things, a young Jewish boy rejects his parents’ love and turns into an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist.

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today joined Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, founder and principal of Renzo Piano Building Workshop, to inaugurate The Forum: a new 56,000-square-foot, three-story facility that completes the first ensemble of new buildings on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus in West Harlem.

Columbia University announced that David J. Greenwald (LAW’83), Victor H. Mendelson (CC’89), Julie Jacobs Menin (CC’89), Julissa Reynoso (LAW’01), and Kathy Surace-Smith (LAW’84) have been elected to its Board of Trustees. Their term begins September 4, 2018.

Columbia University mourns the death of Sen. John McCain and extends condolences to the McCain family whom we are proud to have as part of the extended Columbia community.

The Obama Foundation, University of Chicago, and Columbia University announced the full inaugural class of Obama Foundation Scholars.