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Ready to start shopping for back-to-school? There are plenty of stores in Morningside Heights, Harlem, and Washington Heights that can help you and your family get fully prepared to pack up your backpacks and head off to school.

Michelle Young, GSAPP alumna and faculty member as well as founder of Untapped New York, helps reacquaint us with the can't-miss spots of Morningside campus as students return this fall. 

Columbians have long been biking to and around campus, but added bike racks and safer street connections throughout the city make two-wheeling it more appealing than ever before.

As Mary Boyce welcomes the Columbia community to campus, former provosts talk about the job, what to expect, and offer a bit of advice.

The widely respected Mitchell has devoted his 30-year career at Columbia to transformational diversity, equity, and inclusion work.

Early-career astrophysicists will analyze data from the soon-to-be-complete Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile while social scientists analyze their interactions with an eye on improving collaboration.

Experts from across Columbia Climate School will join events bringing together voices from business, government, and civil society—setting the stage for ambitious carbon-cutting commitments at the UN climate talks this fall.

A new study harnesses deep learning and linguistics to understand how thousands of planets beyond our solar system are configured around their host stars. In this Q&A, Emily Sandford, GSAS’20, explains how planets can be analyzed like so many words in a sentence.

Beat the summer heat with some cool podcasts from around our community. 

In partnership with the University of Washington and Harvard, the new AI Institute for Dynamic Systems will focus on developing new machine learning ideas and techniques.

The Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity announced their 2021 cohort, 20 outstanding innovators and leaders who are tackling anti-Black racism. 

PhD student Ashley Bransgrove describes his new study on black holes' magnetic fields.

Researchers from Columbia's Climate School are using data collection, community collaboration, and startups to reduce the negative health effects of pollution in India, Indonesia, and the continent of Africa.

The Olympics are right around the corner and there are a lot of Columbia Lions in the ranks of those headed to Tokyo to compete. Here's who to watch out for.

Katherine Boo, Gail Collinsm and John Daniszewski have been elected co-chairs of Pulitzer Prize Board.