Paul Hond

As the California drought brings home the global problem of water scarcity, Columbia engineers are advancing a challenging idea: reusing our wastewater. Are we ready to go with the flow?

The 28th Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF) exemplified the school’s abiding emphasis: storytelling.

The duke of all documentarians.

In the operating theater and the concert hall, students at the College of Physicians and Surgeons are learning their parts and picking up their instruments. Columbia Magazine scans the music scene uptown.

Talking punk rock

Law professor Tim Wu, the coiner of “net neutrality,” entered New York’s lieutenant-governor race to change politics. Will politics change him?

Beau Willimon’s sharp-toothed drama House of Cards might circle Washington, DC, but the political hunt started at Columbia.

A brain in the hand

The moody, masterly writer Jerome Charyn sings a presidential lament.

With many facing hard times, Bill de Blasio won the New York mayoralty in a landslide, and, needless to say, there are great expectations.

Manmeet Kaur and Prabhjot Singh have studied community-health networks in some of the poorest regions of the world. Now they’re building one in a place with its own challenges: East Harlem.

Taps for a senator

The steam engine that could

The NAACP's Benjamin Jealous has become one of America's most forceful and influential progressive voices. So what does he want? (And when does he want it?)