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In-depth, long-form narrative nonfiction pieces and the stories behind those stories populate The Delacorte Review, Columbia Journalism School’s latest publishing venture.
Columbia University scientists, in collaboration with researchers from Harvard, have succeeded in developing a chemical process to absorb infrared light and re-emit it as visible energy, allowing innocuous radiation to penetrate living tissue and other materials without the damage caused by high-intensity light exposure.
Courtney Cogburn, an assistant professor at Columbia’s School of Social Work, created a 12-minute virtual reality film, 1000 Cut Journey, that allows others to experience the impact of racism on African Americans today.
The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation has expanded its preservation program, which was founded in 1964, to offer a doctorate that blends scholarship with science and technology, the first in the nation.
Farah Jasmine Griffin, inaugural chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, traces its beginnings to the years Harlem Renaissance literary icon Zora Neale Hurston spent here studying with Franz Boas, a pioneer of modern anthropology.
Scientists have identified a group of genes that induces differences in the developing brains of male and female roundworms and triggers the initiation of puberty, a genetic pathway that may have the same function in controlling the timing of sexual maturation in humans.
Lee C. Bollinger's new book celebrates the 100th anniversary of the formative free-speech cases and warns of new threats to freedom of expression in the digital age.
This year—or indeed any year—there may be some especially difficult conversations if the discussion turns to politics. Peter T. Coleman, director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia’s Teachers College, offers advice.
Pioneering statistician and internationally recognized cancer researcher is the director of the University’s newly established Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics.
A powerful resource at Columbia University has opened areas of inquiry about the corporate and regulatory histories of these companies. ToxicDocs is a database of some 20 million once-secret industry and trade association documents concerning the health hazards of toxic chemicals such as asbestos, lead and PCBs.
The University Senate achieved its biggest turnout in at least three decades for a vote on Sept. 28
The African American and African Diaspora Studies Department will bring a fresh approach to the discipline at a crucial moment in race relations and black identity within our society.
Architectural model making requires dexterity, precision and vision, all of which are on display in Model Projections, an exhibition now on view at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery in Buell Hall.
A new study by Columbia researchers shows that the brain plays back and prioritizes high-reward events for later retrieval and filters out the neutral, inconsequential events, retaining only memories that are useful to future decisions.