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The Knight First Amendment Institute preserves and expands First Amendment rights through research and education, and supports litigation that promotes the protection of freedom of expression and the press.
The SIPA professor explains the status of the trade war between the U.S. and China.
It's election time again. Time for everyone in this country to cast their ballots and decide who will represent them. And decisions are what Michael Shadlen, a neuroscientist at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, studies.
Elora Mukherjee is hoping the midterm elections can change what she says is the worst immigration policy she has seen in more than a decade of representing refugees, asylum seekers and immigrant families.
Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has been tracking the Trump administration’s efforts to scale back or eliminate federal measures to mitigate climate change and to restrict or prohibit scientific research.
Access to healthcare is at stake on Nov. 6, says Michael Sparer, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Fearless and powerful, Frankenstein has exerted an outsize influence on literature, stage, screen, comic books and literary discourse.
Columbia’s Center for the Study of Social Difference was created 10 years ago to support research on the effects of gender, race and other areas of inequality in a global context.
Who else but satirist Gary Shteyngart, a professor in the writing program at the School of the Arts, would describe passengers on a Greyhound bus who snore “like they had entire planets up their nose”?
Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law was established in 2009 to develop legal techniques to address climate change. Since January 20th 2017, it has been busier than ever.
Brian Metzger, an associate professor of astrophysics, has won a 2019 Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize for pioneering predictions of the electromagnetic signal from a neutron star merger, and for leadership in the emerging field of multi-messenger astronomy.
A two-year study by the University on the status of women and underrepresented minority faculty at Columbia has resulted in a set of proposals on ways to close salary gaps, spur academic advancement and improve the overall work environment.
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.