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The Experience Designer Behind Prince’s Paisley Park

Fri Forjindam ’05SOA has the enviable task of memorializing the late artist’s life and work

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How to Prepare for a "Megadisaster"

Submerged cities. Food shortages. Attacks on the electrical grid. Bioterrorism. It’s time to get ready for tomorrow’s catastrophes

Science & Technology

Self-Aware Robots? Engineers Edge Toward Elusive Goal

A new android designed at Columbia displays a “glimmer of empathy” 

Books

Add These Books to Your 2021 Reading List

6 exciting new releases from Columbia authors

Columbians in the news

Nomadland, inspired by the book by Jessica Bruder '04JRN, sweeps best picture and other major awards at the Oscars

Writer Danielle Evans '04CC receives 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize

Columbia Law School dean Gillian Lester and professor Kimberlé Crenshaw elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Miller Theatre's "Mission: Commission" podcast featured in the New York Times

Historian Johanna Fernandez '04GSAS wins Frederick Jackson Turner Award for her book The Young Lords: A Radical History

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When Grief Won't End

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

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Fictional Columbia Alumni: TV Edition

31 characters you may not know went to Columbia

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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 

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In Pursuit of Dark Matter

Columbia physicists confront one of the most confounding mysteries in science

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Columbia Grads at the Golden Globes: A Partial History

17 alumni-affiliated films that have won major awards

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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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How to Beat Work-from-Home Burnout

Liz Wilkes ’13BUS is the founder and CEO of Exubrancy, a corporate-wellness startup 

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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How the Blackwell Sisters Paved the Way for Women Physicians

A review of The Doctors Blackwell, by Janice P. Nimura ’01GSAS

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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: "The Office of Historical Corrections"

By Danielle Evans ’04CC

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