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"There is an amazing critical mass across all the departments and schools that really has the potential to make us the justice Ivy," said Bernard Harcourt, who heads up the Eric H. Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights at Columbia College.
The Knight First Amendment Institute filed suit in New York contending that President Trump and his communications team violated the First Amendment by blocking seven people from the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account.
Columbia University and Nimbus Therapeutics have successfully determined the 3D structure of human ATP-citrate lyase, which plays a key role in cancer cell proliferation and other cellular processes.
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation awards upwards of $1 million in grants and fellowships, called Magic Grants, to fund projects and prototypes that devise new tools and new ways to tell stories. Director Mark Hansen discussed the breadth of the institute’s work as it prepares to select the next set of Magic Grant recipients.
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.