A Shrink Walks into a Gay Tiki Bar…
How Columbia psychiatry professor Robert Spitzer got homosexuality removed from the DSM’s list of mental disorders
What Will It Take to Prevent School Shootings?
In our desperation to protect children, we’re turning schools into fortresses. Columbia researchers are leading a nationwide investigation to see if these tactics actually work
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
A Response to Authoritarian Attacks on Universities
In his latest book, University: A Reckoning, former Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger ’71LAW, ’02HON defends the role of higher education in America
Recent Stories
How to Find a Job in the AI Era
LinkedIn News career expert Andrew Seaman ’11JRN specializes in actionable guidance for today’s job seekers
How Writer A’Lelia Bundles, Descendant of Madam C. J. Walker, Found Her Subject
Through sweeping biographies of her foremothers, the author shares a dazzling American inheritance. Her own story belongs on the same high shelf
The Fashionable Legacy of the Gilded Age
Elizabeth L. Block ’04GSAS recently published Gilded Age Fashion, a book showcasing over fifty dresses and accessories from the late 1800s
The Wildlife Conservationist Fighting the Pangolin Trade
Through Agent C Wildlife Initiative, Hongxiang Huang ’13SIPA is risking it all for the world’s most trafficked mammal
What a Decades-long Study of Arsenic Poisoning Can Tell Us About Human Health
Columbia researchers have spent over twenty-five years investigating the impacts of contaminated aquifers in Bangladesh
5 Alumni Museum Curators Shaping the Art World Today
Through visionary exhibitions and programming, Columbia graduates are steering the direction of some of New York’s most prestigious museums
The Columbia-Educated Lawyer Who Helped Write the Declaration of Independence
Robert Livingston 1765KC may have missed the document’s official signing, but his anti-tyranny legal philosophy still resonates today
Julie Menin Appointed NYC Council Speaker, and Other Alumni News
Columbians making headlines.
The Tree Huggers of Columbia
Scholars and artists meditate on the arboreal at the “Being Treely” talk at the Lenfest Center for the Arts
Books
The Alarming Consequences of Legal Sports Gambling
In his first book, Everybody Loses, journalist Danny Funt ’15JRN explores the astronomical rise of a high-risk vice
The Promise and Pitfalls of Psychedelic Drugs
In A Short, Strange Trip, John O’Connor ’03SOA looks at the history, impact, and mystique of magic mushrooms and the psychedelic movement
