How to Revamp Your Home in 2025
Drawing from nature, history, and emerging trends, four alumni interior designers share their wisdom
Can We Solve the Parkinson’s Puzzle?
How Columbia researchers are working to treat, prevent, and ultimately cure the world’s fastest-growing neurological disorder
The World’s Most Contagious Disease Makes a Comeback
In Booster Shots, pediatrician Adam Ratner ’97PH, ’97VPS grapples with the repercussions of the anti-vax movement
11 New and Upcoming Films from Columbia Grads
Alumni writers, directors, producers, and actors are making waves at festivals and in theaters
Recent Stories
Can this Columbia Alum Fix NYC’s Rat Problem?
Shaun Abreu ’14CC, chair of the New York City Council’s sanitation committee, aims to clean up Morningside Heights and beyond
The Myth of Moderate Drinking and the New Rules on Booze
Columbia epidemiologist Katherine Keyes ’10PH explains the slippery science behind alcohol’s health effects
How Social Media Affects the Teenage Brain
Scholars at Columbia peer into the plugged-in adolescent mind and assess the impacts of a digital upbringing
Comic-Book Characters Who Went to Columbia
If you want to give superheroes (and supervillains) intellectual credibility, make them Ivy League alumni
Finding New Solutions for Political Polarization
Builders CEO Tom Fishman ’07GSAS seeks to mobilize the silent majority of Americans who choose common ground over contempt
America’s Great Climate Migration Has Begun. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Columbia researchers are developing innovative ways to protect communities most vulnerable to floods and other disasters
Columbia Entrepreneurs Changing the Beauty Business
From moisturizer to pimple patches, alumni are using their cosmetics smarts to tap into a multibillion-dollar industry
Could All Our Tax Breaks Be Breaking the Country?
How a zealous antitax campaign that went unnoticed by many has altered America’s social, cultural, and political fabric
What the Mainstream Media Got Wrong about the 2024 Election
A recent panel discussion at Columbia assessed the press’s performance
Books
8 Eye-Opening Investigative Journalism Books to Add to Your Reading List
All by Columbia alumni authors
A Cultural Guide to Satanism, Psychopaths, and the Real American Horror Story
In American Scary, scholar Jeremy Dauber explores the country’s fascination with the macabre
Will Your Data Come Back to Haunt You?
In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich ’00JRN explores the unknown impacts of the information age
