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A'Lelia Bundles
Arts & Humanities

How Writer A’Lelia Bundles, Descendant of Madam C. J. Walker, Found Her Subject

Through sweeping biographies of her foremothers, the author shares a dazzling American inheritance. Her own story belongs on the same high shelf

Illustration by Chris W. Kim depicting school gun violence
Health & Medicine

What Will It Take to Prevent School Shootings?

In our desperation to protect children, we’re turning schools into fortresses. Columbia researchers are leading a nationwide investigation to see if these tactics actually work

Hongxiang Huang holding a pangolin
Alumni

The Wildlife Conservationist Fighting the Pangolin Trade

Through Agent C Wildlife Initiative, Hongxiang Huang ’13SIPA is risking it all for the world’s most trafficked mammal

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Health & Medicine

Fluoridated Water Is Safe for Pregnant Women, and Other Recent Discoveries

Six of the latest research breakthroughs from Columbia scientists

Columbians in the news

Reuters reporters Jeff Horwitz '14JRN and Mike Spector '06JRN, and Bloomberg reporter Natalie Obiko Pearson '09JRN, win 2026 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism 

Law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw featured in The Cut

Artist Michael Ross '81SOA, Columbia geologist Mike Kaplan, music professor Ingrid Laubrock, and Barnard art history professor John Miller receive 2026 Guggenheim fellowships

New York State comptroller candidate Drew Warshaw '13BUS profiled in The Nation

Marc Dunkelman '01CC, author of Why Nothing Works, featured on The Ezra Klein Show podcast

Chef and Indigikitchen founder Mariah Gladstone '15SEAS competes on the Food Network's Chopped

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Late-nineteenth-century dresses from the French couturiers Maison Lévilion (left) and House of Worth
Books

The Fashionable Legacy of the Gilded Age

Elizabeth L. Block ’04GSAS recently published Gilded Age Fashion, a book showcasing over fifty dresses and accessories from the late 1800s     

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Alumni

How to Find a Job in the AI Era

LinkedIn News career expert Andrew Seaman ’11JRN specializes in actionable guidance for today’s job seekers

John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Benjamin Franklin
Arts & Humanities

The Columbia-Educated Lawyer Who Helped Write the Declaration of Independence

Robert Livingston 1765KC may have missed the document’s official signing, but his anti-tyranny legal philosophy still resonates today

Artist rendering of genetically modified immune cells (blue) attacking cancer
Health & Medicine

A New Immunotherapy Breakthrough for Solid Tumors

Scientists led by Michel Sadelain have successfully treated cancerous growths of the kidney, pancreas, and ovaries in mice

The Dream of the Wood by Becky Moon
Arts & Humanities

The Tree Huggers of Columbia

Scholars and artists meditate on the arboreal at the “Being Treely” talk at the Lenfest Center for the Arts

Composer Sara Barone
Arts & Humanities

Sara Barone Puts Music to Media

The composer for film, TV, and video games works on a variety of Hollywood projects

Aimee Ng, chief curator at the Frick Collection
Arts & Humanities

5 Alumni Museum Curators Shaping the Art World Today

Through visionary exhibitions and programming, Columbia graduates are steering the direction of some of New York’s most prestigious museums

Illustration of gavel over Low Library
Books

A Response to Authoritarian Attacks on Universities

In his latest book, University: A Reckoning, former Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger ’71LAW, ’02HON defends the role of higher education in America

The launch of the Columbia-led General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) mission on December 15.
Science & Technology

Could a Giant Helium Balloon in Antarctica Help Find Dark Matter?

A particle detector deployed by Columbia scientists is looking for traces of antideuterons in the atmosphere

Books

Artwork of phone and sports
Books

The Alarming Consequences of Legal Sports Gambling

In his first book, Everybody Loses, journalist Danny Funt ’15JRN explores the astronomical rise of a high-risk vice

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Books

5 New Books to Read this Spring

All by Columbia alumni authors

London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
Books

The Mysterious Death of Zac Brettler

In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe ’99CC investigates the murky circumstances surrounding an English teenager who washed up in the Thames

Under Water by Tara Menon
Books

Review: Under Water

Tara Menon ’11CC 

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