America’s Great Climate Migration Has Begun. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Columbia researchers are developing innovative ways to protect communities most vulnerable to floods and other disasters
7 Unique Collections to Visit at Columbia
Discover some of the most fascinating (but lesser known) archives and art spaces on campus
Recent Stories
What Really Happened on Easter Island?
A Columbia study helps debunk an old theory about the island’s mysterious past
The Hottest Youth Basketball Program in Brooklyn
With Flames, Gerard Papa ’72CC, ’74SIPA, ’75LAW has been bringing New York kids together since 1974
The Fashion Entrepreneur Fighting for New York’s Wild Birds
Through Bird Collective and NYC Bird Alliance, Angela Co ’05GSAPP conserves and champions the region’s feathered residents
How Herman Hollerith Helped Launch the Information Age
The Columbia-trained statistician transformed everything from census counts to election tallies, and prefigured modern computing
The Magic and Mystery of Psychedelic Therapies
As new trials show that psilocybin and LSD may help treat depression and anxiety, mental-health providers get ready for a revolution
In Search of the ‘Good Dad’ Hormone
Neurobiologists pinpoint the source of paternal instinct in the oldfield mouse, a rodent known for its unique fatherly behavior
Columbia Entrepreneurs Changing the Beauty Business
From moisturizer to pimple patches, alumni are using their cosmetics smarts to tap into a multibillion-dollar industry
Could All Our Tax Breaks Be Breaking the Country?
How a zealous antitax campaign that went unnoticed by many has altered America’s social, cultural, and political fabric
The Life-and-Death Struggle of Coral Reefs
As warming seas threaten these essential marine ecosystems, Braddock Linsley drills down on their history
Books
Will Your Data Come Back to Haunt You?
In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich ’00JRN explores the unknown impacts of the information age
Sections
From the Archives
Radical Solutions for Baldness
Geneticist Angela Christiano’s research not only offers hope to those suffering from hair loss, it could point the way to new cancer therapies
The Single Best Way to Ease Inflammation and Boost Your Immune Health
Columbia gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella on the foods everyone should be eating — and the ones to avoid
10 Great Books Written at the Hungarian Pastry Shop
Here are just a few of the acclaimed books written, at least in part, at the shop’s cramped tables
Healing the Red-Blue Divide
An expert on conflict resolution offers a new perspective on the ideological tensions that he says are tearing the US apart