In later years, Summers lived with his partner and personal secretary, Hector Stewart Forbes, and his beloved dog, Tango.

“Genius Death, your art is done / Lover Death, your body’s gone / Father Death, I’m coming home,” writes Allen Ginsberg ’48CC in “Father Death Blues.” Like poets from Poe to Plath, Ginsberg has a ...

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Columbia affiliates have gone on to become US presidents, Supreme Court judges, literary icons, and world-class athletes, so it isn’t surprising that Hollywood has come calling to tell their stories.

Americans’ attitudes toward artificial intelligence are deeply conflicted. We appreciate that AI enables us to work more efficiently, but worry about it eliminating millions of jobs. We love the ...

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 ...

It’s easy to think of AI as a kind of software magic floating in the cloud. But behind every chatbot response sits a sprawling physical architecture — warehouses full of servers, giant cooling systems ...

Wayne Allyn Root ’83CC, professional sports prognosticator, gives the following picks: John McCain will beat Barack Obama; the Colts will meet the Cowboys in this season’s Super Bowl; and in 2024, ...

The Varsity Show has lampooned life at Columbia since 1894, but it was no joke when this year’s organizers presented Art Garfunkel ’62CC, ’65GSAS with the third annual I.A.L. Diamond Award for ...

Some quit school due to war or tragedy, others to focus on art or politics. Though each of these dropouts left Columbia without an official diploma, they all found a degree of success. Casey Affleck, ...