Chatbots Have Entered the Classroom. What Happens Next?
Columbia faculty are finding innovative ways to incorporate AI into coursework — without compromising academic rigor
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
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
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
Recent Stories
The Pollution Inside Your Home
Columbia researchers measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them
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
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
Could Life Be Made Simpler?
Researchers have created a bacterium that thrives with nineteen amino acids instead of twenty
A New Chapter
Columbia’s twenty-first president, Jennifer L. Mnookin, started her new job in July
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
My Medievalist Mentor
A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation
16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections
These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series
How Seriously Should We Take UFO Sightings?
Columbia alien hunter David Kipping on the odds of finding company in the cosmos
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
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
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
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