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In recent years, human interactions with intelligent machines and software have become increasingly commonplace. This can be attributed to developments in machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence involving the integration of systems that can learn from data.

When Gary Shteyngart became a professor of writing at Columbia in 2007, he finally fulfilled his immigrant parents’ Ivy League dreams. As he recounts in his new memoir, Little Failure, Shteyngart’s high school grades weren’t stellar enough to gain him admission to a top college, which meant he had failed himself, his parents and his future: “We may as well not have come here,” he writes in the book. Now, after publishing three award-winning, critically acclaimed works of fiction, Shteyngart has turned his acerbic lens on himself to tell the tale of his family’s journey from Russia…

Giving young children the influenza and pneumococcal vaccines together appears to increase their risk of fever, according to a study led by researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, the fever was brief, and medical care was sought for few children, supporting the routine immunization schedule for these vaccines, including the recommendation to administer them simultaneously. The study, which looked at children 6–23 months old, was published online on Jan. 6, 2014, in "JAMA Pediatrics."

I have made my opposition to academic boycotts of Israel emphatically clear over the years, most prominently in my 2007 letter that was signed by some 400 of my fellow college and university presidents speaking out against the British University and College Union's boycott of Israeli scholars and universities.

Using high-resolution functional MRI (fMRI) imaging in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and in mouse models of the disease, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have clarified three fundamental issues about Alzheimer’s: where it starts, why it starts there, and how it spreads. 

Victoria Stodden is at the forefront of a movement to convince journals, academics and policy makers alike to embrace a new era of open access data sharing.

A man who was wrongfully convicted for the 1990 double murder of a former New Haven alderman and the alderman’s lover should be freed within 60 days unless the state of Connecticut decides to retry him, a federal judge ruled Monday in a hard-fought victory for Columbia Law School Professor Brett Dignam and her clinical students.

The examination of mental disorders would seem to be the almost exclusive domain of psychiatrists and psychologists, not humanities scholars. Yet William V. Harris, the William R. Shepherd Professor of History, has spent his time in recent years studying his chosen field—the history of ancient Greece and Rome—through the lens of mental illness. 

Castillo is part of a group of University employees responsible for cleaning academic and administrative buildings on the Morningside campus. 

Smith’s current research focuses on attitudes toward nature during the scientific revolution—a period that, as she put it, “you could say began in the Middle Ages and stretched up to the beginning of public funding of science in World War II.” She focuses on the origins of modern science in the 15th through 18th centuries, paying particular attention to craft knowledge.

The fifth annual Puppy Study Break is kicking off. Students are encouraged to take a break from their studies and play with puppies in John Jay. 

In their book This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains, David Stark, the Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, and photographer Nancy Warner pair images of abandoned farms with the plain-spoken recollections of the people who still live in nearby communities.

Professor Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and director of Columbia's Institute for African Studies, discusses Nelson Mandela's life and lasting influence.

Understanding that past will help scientists like Ali, a PhD student at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, project what might happen in the future as the world warms up. This is no esoteric question for Los Angeles, whose nearly 4 million people depend in part on Mono Lake’s watershed for drinking water, green lawns, agriculture and industry.