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Professor George Chauncey, whose research specialty is American LGBTQ history, will give April 16 lecture on "New York Queer Life Before Stonewall."
As a scientist, Sean Solomon has studied Mercury, Venus and Mars. Now he heads Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, whose researchers study planet Earth, from its deepest ocean to its highest peak.
Federica Coppola's research exists at the intersection of neuroscience and law. She investigates how brain research has been applied in the past and could be used to revise criminal law doctrines, theories of punishment and correctional practices.
“[Cornell] Woolrich has been described as the Edgar Allan Poe of crime fiction,” said Rob King, a film professor of film at the School of the Arts. From March 27 to 31, the second annual Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival will focus on film adaptations of Woolrich’s fiction.
Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of American author Lydia Davis, including draft manuscripts, notes, personal correspondence and journals dating back to her adolescence.
Jorge Otero-Pailos is one of three artists invited by New York City Center to create artworks that celebrate the cultural institution’s 75th anniversary.
For the Daughters of Harlem: Working in Sound brings young women of color from public high schools in Manhattan and the Bronx to Columbia for workshops on recording and producing their own music.
William P. Barr (CC’71, GSAS’73) was confirmed as U.S. attorney general Thursday. He fills the vacancy created when Jeff Sessions resigned last November.
All you need is love, goes the song. A new book by Erik Gray, a professor of English and comparative literature, suggests that all you need is love poetry.
Years before Alex Halliday joined Columbia’s Earth Institute as its director, he was changing the field of geochemistry. During the early 1990s, he saw the potential of a new kind of mass spectrometer for studying small isotopic variations in elements that were difficult to ionize and measure.
The faculty practice of the School of Nursing is developing a coordinated care program for the mental and physical health of LGBT patients in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
A Columbia-led team has developed a new method to finely tune adjacent layers of graphene—lacy, honeycomb-like sheets of carbon atoms—to induce superconductivity.
On November 16, a current of participatory energy that has been growing for months pushed the University Senate beyond its routine agenda and down some unaccustomed procedural by-ways.