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The Best Way to Stop a Negative-Thought Spiral

Psychologist Ethan Kross ’07GSAS suggests strategies to root out negative self-talk 

Arts & Humanities

Fictional Columbia Alumni: TV Edition

31 characters you may not know went to Columbia

Health & Medicine

When Grief Won't End

For some bereaved adults, time does not heal. Columbia researchers are looking for answers

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Review: "The Doctors Blackwell"

By Janice P. Nimura ’01GSAS

Columbians in the news

Jeh Johnson '82LAW, Adam Pritzker '07CC, and Sheena Wright '90CC, '94LAW join Columbia’s Board of Trustees

Columbia computer science professor Alfred Aho wins Turing Award

Alumni Paul Coyne '16NRS, Richard Gropper  '08GSAPP, Adam Mandelsberg '13LAW, Michael Novak '09GS, Dilip Rao '18BUS, Jillian Rose '05SW, and Amit Paley '10JRN, '11BUS listed on 2021 Crain's New York Business "40 Under 40"

Judge Paul Feinman '81CC dies at 61

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In Pursuit of Dark Matter

Columbia physicists confront one of the most confounding mysteries in science

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Held Hostage for 444 Days: A Story of Survival

Forty years ago, Barry Rosen ’74GSAS was one of fifty-two Americans released from Iranian captivity

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Life in a Basketball Bubble

Sports-medicine specialist Benedict Nwachukwu ’08CC is an onsite physician for the NBA’s most unusual season

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The Worst Moment of His Life Became a Work of Art

A new book by Spencer Bailey ’10JRN lends a unique perspective on the purpose and power of memorials

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Columbia Grads at the Golden Globes: A Partial History

17 alumni-affiliated films that have won major awards

Health & Medicine

The Lost Art of Dying Well

A physician and medical ethicist argues that society has lost sight of the spiritual resources we need to confront our mortality 

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Columbia in the Movies

21 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

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Genetic Study Reveals Causes of Many Stillbirths

Every year some twenty-four thousand expectant mothers in the US lose their babies in the final stages of pregnancy

The Blue Ring Nebula
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Scientists Decipher the Hidden Past of the "Blue-Ring Nebula"

For years, astronomers have been puzzled by a massive gas cloud that encircles a star some six thousand light-years away 

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Review: "The Last Million"

By David Nasaw ’72GSAS

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Review: "A Promised Land"

By Barack Obama ’83CC

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Review: "What Are You Going Through"

By Sigrid Nunez ’72BC, ’75SOA

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Review: "The Office of Historical Corrections"

By Danielle Evans ’04CC

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