Hit with budget cuts, Columbia’s Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics is working to get ahead of the next mass outbreak. It was the week when Iceland’s first mosquito was discovered and when ...

On a recent Monday afternoon, Columbia astrophysicist David Kipping was strolling through the quiet streets of Tunbridge Wells, a town thirty miles southeast of London, when his phone rang. The caller ...

When Robert Spitzer, the Columbia psychiatrist who revolutionized modern psychiatric diagnostics, died on Christmas Day 2015 at age eighty-three, history had already redeemed him. Six months earlier, ...

Specializing in everything from classical to show tunes to experimental electronica, these notable composers grew their music careers at Columbia. Clockwise from left: Tyshawn Sorey (MacArthur ...

In his new book, The Little Book of Data, ad-tech executive Justin Evans ’93CC shows that anyone can succeed in our information-based economy. Data analytics are all the rage in US workplaces these ...

In his latest book, The Uncanny Muse, Columbia Journalism School professor David Hajdu examines the relationship between music, art, and machines, telling a rich story of a collaboration that reaches ...

This sci-fi horror film from 1980, about a Columbia psychopathologist (William Hurt) who experiments with sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic drugs, features notable shots of the Morningside campus ...

Competition is all around us, and while many view it as positive and natural, journalist and inclusion strategist Ruchika T. Malhotra ’10JRN argues that it can be detrimental to ourselves and society.

A professor of Jewish and American studies at Columbia, Jeremy Dauber is an expert in US history and culture. His latest book, American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and ...

Reminiscent of a flame, tornado, or stalactite (depending on who you ask), this 12,000-pound bronze sculpture at the entrance of the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn is the creation of Ursula von ...

The Thinker’s surroundings become a lot more colorful.

Co-created by Justin Marks ’02CC, who also cowrote several episodes, this lush period drama set in 1600s Japan made Emmy history by breaking the record for most awards (eighteen) given to a television ...