Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

Lalitha Vasudevan directs MASCLab, a hub for creating, curating, and supporting multimodal and digital scholarship.

Like Paris in the 1920s, New York in the 1960s was a center of artistic innovation. As James Hoberman, adjunct professor of film and media studies at School of the Arts, shows in his book, Everything ...

Science, summer, and Skywalker — just your average class trip to the National Museum of Mathematics.

A Nobel Prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy. We all have the sense that the U.S. economy—and its government—tilts toward big business, but ...

It's time again for your Columbia News Quiz. Test yourself with questions on Commencement, snake bites, and Pulitzer Prizes. Let's see how much you remember from the month of May! Take the Quiz ...

Rasmina is one of the youngest speakers of Seke, a language from five villages in Nepal, and now a sixth, vertical village in the middle of Brooklyn. Husniya, a speaker of Wakhi from Tajikistan, has ...

Columbia faculty, students, and staff are on the cutting edge of advancements in all fields and their work is fittingly awarded and recognized. Below, find the most recent accomplishments and ...

As the whole apparatus of apartheid became less viable—thanks to organized resistance and pressure from labor movements, as well as international support for that resistance—and as gold began to ...

Mindset and expectations, not just the external environment, shape the “table of contents” into which our brains organize the day.

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 ...

There’s a hot new BEC in town that has nothing to do with bacon, egg, and cheese. You won’t find it at your local bodega, but in the coldest place in New York: the lab of Columbia physicist Sebastian ...