Jarrell Daniels was 18 in 2012, when the police came to his mother’s apartment in the South Bronx where he was living at the time. He had been arrested before, but those prior arrests happened out on ...

Dominique Townsend recounts how, as a high school senior, a 12th-century wooden statue of a Buddha in a museum helped set her ...

In anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s film version of The Odyssey, opening in theaters on July 17, Columbia News checked in ...

The director of the Columbia Nano Initiative’s Shared Labs discusses growing nanoscience at the University—and beyond.

Phelps came to Columbia 55 years ago as a full professor. At that time, he was already a star in the profession, with ...

The Chapter: A Segmented History From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century, by Nicholas Dames, the Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities, embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, ...

In his new book, The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD, Professor of Clinical Psychology George Bonanno, argues that we vastly overestimate how ...

In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous ...

Anya Schiffrin, co-director of the Technology, Policy, and Innovation Concentration at SIPA—and lifelong Upper West Side resident—shares her favorites. August 06, 2025 As we eagerly await the arrival ...

Columbia University Provost Mary C. Boyce today shared the news that Julie Kornfeld, vice provost for academic programs, will become the next president of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. “While we ...

In many emerging economies, progress in reducing poverty has been overshadowed by persistent inequality and growing frustration with political elites. This widespread social discontent has driven ...