The Babymakers of Columbia
Physicians are racing to find new treatments for infertility and recurrent miscarriages. But how far can they push the biology of reproduction?
How Frozen Visionary Jennifer Lee Got Her Disney Ending
After honing her filmmaking skills at Columbia, the writer-director went on to create one of Hollywood’s most successful franchises
Why You Can’t Always Trust Your Memory
Erin Kendall Braun ’09GS, ’18GSAS, a cognitive neuroscientist and memory expert, brings her insight to the courtroom and beyond
How the Challenger Disaster Became a Case Study of the ‘Normalization of Deviance’
Forty years after the tragedy, Columbia sociologist Diane Vaughan reflects on her landmark work on organizational decision-making
Recent Stories
20 Years of Modeling the Brain
At Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, scientists have spent the past two decades using computational models to predict neural behavior
The Columbia-Educated Priest Fighting Peru’s AIDS Epidemic
Father Joseph Fedora ’96JRN offers hope, prayers, and healing for Lima’s most vulnerable citizens
The Psychology Behind Police Shootings
New Columbia research reveals brain mechanisms that may be at work when cops shoot unarmed Black men
How to Write (Persuasively) about the Climate Crisis
In a course on science writing, environmental journalist Bill McKibben suggested that people are more open to hearing about clean energy than they are about climate
Skier Olivia Giaccio Goes for Olympic Gold
The mogul skier and Columbia social-work student has her eyes on the Italian alps this winter
Can We Stop the Next Pandemic?
Hit with budget cuts, Columbia’s Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics is working to get ahead of the next mass outbreak
How Corporations Trap Us Inside ‘Convenience Cocoons’
In The Age of Extraction, law professor Tim Wu warns about the unchecked power of tech platforms to manipulate our spending habits and emotions
The Scientist Teaching Cancer to Self-Destruct
“Ferroptosis,” a process discovered by biologist Brent R. Stockwell, could help defeat some of the deadliest cancers
Books
6 New Books for Your Winter Reading List
Cozy up with new reads from Mitch Albom ’82JRN, ’83BUS, Natan Last ’21SIPA, and other Columbia authors
The Subway Vigilante
In Five Bullets, CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams ’02JRN, ’02LAW looks back at a controversial 1984 shooting
Think Like a Data Scientist — No Coding Required
In The Little Book of Data, ad-tech executive Justin Evans ’93CC shows that anyone can succeed in our information-based economy
