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Zora Neale Hurston is the inspiration for Zora’s Daughters, created by Alyssa James and Brendane Tynes to confront race, politics, and popular culture.

Twisting a monolayer and a bilayer sheet of graphene into a three-layer structure leads to new quantum mechanical states.

In a new book, The Wolf at the Door, realistic policies and strategies are proposed to make lives and communities more secure.

A recent online GSAPP event explores how improving access to historic buildings and sites empowers the disabled.

With the help of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Columbia faculty have harnessed Zoom, CourseWorks, and other digital tools for their remote classrooms. 

This was—and is—an important step in dismantling the “Doctrine of Discovery” that has always plagued the U.S. legal system.

In Critique & Praxis, Bernard E. Harcourt explains how to become engaged citizens.

The Center for Justice and the Tamer Center have teamed up to teach coding and job skills to individuals who were incarcerated.

Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy, a lecturer in the department of mechanical engineering, discusses the kits sent to students learning remotely around the U.S. and the world so they can design projects at home.

A Columbia study highlights the importance of investing resources in parent-child visitation programs and social support for family members left behind.

The project is supported by an NSF Convergence Accelerator award that funds team-based, multidisciplinary initiatives addressing challenges of national importance. 

In her new book, Bombay Hustle, Professor Debashree Mukherjee tells the story of the rise of the Indian film industry.

Meet two of the more than 1,400 students, representing 80 universities worldwide, who are deeply committed to social impact, sustainable development, and climate change. 

The pandemic, the presidential election, globalization, climate change, and other issues are covered in a transatlantic forum.

The University will routinely monitor sewage leaving student dormitories to head off outbreaks of COVID-19.