Office Hours is a Columbia News series dedicated to the compelling research that faculty are engaged in both in and beyond the classroom.
Adam Reich sees change on the horizon for the discipline in ways both big and small.
As the new chair of the Economics Department, Harrison Hong has big shoes to fill.
The field “provides essential tools for understanding how power operates across society,” she says.
Her plans include helping her colleagues flourish and encouraging undergrads to broaden their thinking about French.
Rosalind Morris wants to build on the department’s impressive history by preparing its students for the future.
Mark Ross-Lonergan is an experimental neutrino physicist with a passion for oysters.
Professor Duncan Menge is the new chair of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. In his spare time, he plays guitar in the department band.
Columbia research scientist Jennifer Sokoloski is helping scientists get more from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
Professor Göran Ekström tracks incidents like landslides and glacier collapse using tools once used only to monitor earthquakes.
Dominique Townsend recounts how, as a high school senior, a 12th-century wooden statue of a Buddha in a museum helped set her on her path.
Natalie Brito, a professor of psychology, researches how both the families we’re raised in and the societies we live in, shape us.
Professor Laramie Jensen’s interest in inorganic and analytical chemistry led her to the ocean. And then to the North Pole.