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The Education of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Before she was a Supreme Court justice, RBG gained wisdom in Morningside Heights

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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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In Pursuit of Dark Matter

Columbia physicists confront one of the most confounding mysteries in science

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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 

Columbians in the news

English professor Brent Hayes Edwards '98GSAS featured in the New York Times' "5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now"

Author and Columbia Public Health lecturer Mark Bittman publishes essay on Black farmers and debt relief 

Architecture professor Mabel O. Wilson '91GSAPP talks to WNYC about upcoming MoMA exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America 

Marketing professor Silvia Bellezza weighs in on Hershey's decision to release new chocolate-less Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

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7 Photos that Capture the Heartbreak of Climate Change

Photojournalist Katie Orlinsky ’12JRN has spent over six years documenting one of the most environmentally vulnerable areas of the world

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Zooming in Mongolia

Catching up with one of our Obama Scholars.

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Dr. King's Columbia Connections

How Martin Luther King Jr.’s advisers helped shape his message and win the battle for voting rights

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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

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 Grads at the Golden Globes: A Partial History

17 alumni-affiliated films that have won major awards

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Meetings of the Minds

The Columbia University Seminars, one of academia’s shining (and somewhat secret) traditions, celebrates seventy-five years of free and civil dialogue

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The Curator in a Time of Chaos

Through the pandemic, Wallach Art Gallery curator Betti-Sue Hertz has kept her eyes on the big picture with two new exhibitions

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: "What Are You Going Through"

By Sigrid Nunez ’72BC, ’75SOA

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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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6 Fabulous Books to Read this Winter

From Sarah Smarsh '05SOA, Phillip Lopate '64CC, and other Columbia authors

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