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Science & Technology

Chatbots Have Entered the Classroom. What Happens Next?

Columbia faculty are finding innovative ways to incorporate AI into coursework — without compromising academic rigor

Clifford Chanin at the 9/11 Museum
Arts & Humanities

How Do You Memorialize a Mass Tragedy?

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Clifford Chanin ’77JRN, ’80SIPA keeps the events of that day in the public consciousness

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Alumni

Tech Worker by Day, NFL Cheerleader by Night

Jade Bucci ’25CC, a former Columbia computer-science major, leaps into her first season with the New England Patriots

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Books

Could this Rare Disease Help Cure Alzheimer’s?

In The Vanishing Family, journalist Robert Kolker ’91CC follows three generations of a family plagued by frontotemporal dementia

Columbians in the news

Abigail Black Elbaum '92CC, '94BUS named co-chair of Columbia University Board of Trustees

Michael Andreasen appointed executive vice president for Columbia Alumni Relations and Development

Columbia Journalism School appoints Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley as journalists in residence

Columbia emergency physician Helen Ouyang authors essay in the New York Times

Safe House, a play by L.B. Browne '10JRN, to receive off-Broadway run in September

Columbia epidemiologist Jessica Justman quoted in New York Times article on bathhouses 

PhD student Jill Parsons featured in the New York Times' "Affording New York" column

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Health & Medicine

The Pollution Inside Your Home

Columbia researchers measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them

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Alumni

Abram Hewitt and the Disputed Election of 1876

How the campaign manager for Democratic nominee Samuel J. Tilden helped keep a contested presidential race in check

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Arts & Humanities

How a College Reunion Led to a Revived Columbia Seminar

When alumni from the class of 1966 reconnected with a beloved political-science professor, a virtual classroom was born

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Science & Technology

Could Life Be Made Simpler?

Researchers have created a bacterium that thrives with nineteen amino acids instead of twenty

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On Campus

A New Chapter

Columbia’s twenty-first president, Jennifer L. Mnookin, started her new job in July

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Health & Medicine

Your Chatbot Is a Terrible Therapist. Here’s Why.

Columbia clinicians are studying how ChatGPT and other AI tools may reinforce harmful beliefs and endanger vulnerable users

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Arts & Humanities

My Medievalist Mentor

A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation

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Arts & Humanities

16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

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Science & Technology

How Seriously Should We Take UFO Sightings?

Columbia alien hunter David Kipping on the odds of finding company in the cosmos

Books

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Books

A Child of the Weather Underground Reckons with His Family History

In a new memoir, Zayd Ayers Dohrn ’06GSAS recounts a childhood spent partially on the lam and wrestles with his parents’ ideals 

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Arts & Humanities

Alumni Art and Photography Books for Your Coffee Table

Though they’re often purchased as gifts, souvenirs, or home accents, there’s more to great “coffee table books” than pretty covers

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Books

Beverly Gage Takes Us on a Historical Road Trip through the United States

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian visits museums, theme parks, battle reenactments, and more in This Land Is Your Land

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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

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