The Vietnamese language provides singular insight into the dynamism of premodern Asia. As John Phan, associate professor of Vietnamese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures ...

Columbia’s student rocketry team launched a hybrid rocket powered by liquid oxygen, a first for a student-led group.

The Columbia course “Foundations of Science" is all about understanding the building blocks of the universe — energy, matter, cells, and genes in the context of astronomy, biology, chemistry, and ...

In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.

In Love, Money, Duty, Rachel Adams explores care as a form of work, a feeling, an ethic, and an art. Combining readings of writers and artists—among them, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Roz Chast, Sally ...

College or graduate school may be over, but a lifetime of reading awaits. From James Shapiro's The Playbook, which is about the Federal Theatre Project, a Works Progress Administration program that, ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new “chapter” of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts ...

Raju Tomer, who joined Columbia in 2016, wants to better understand the brain by improving the technologies that allow us to see inside it. Tomer’s lab has a wide-ranging approach to that goal.

Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critics have argued that such partnerships have many ...

As the start of the 2024-2025 academic year approaches, Columbia’s Task Force on Antisemitism has released its second set of recommendations. Grounded in extensive meetings with students, the report ...

In a major step toward answering important questions regarding its use of fossil fuel industry funds for research and related activities, Columbia University has appointed a committee to evaluate the ...