David J. Craig
Senior Editor
David edits the Explorations and Bulletin sections of Columbia Magazine and writes mainly about social science and the natural sciences. He received degrees from the University of Connecticut in sociology and English and has worked as a journalist for 20 years.
Charting the World's Energy Future
Former White House energy adviser Jason Bordoff leads the new Center on Global Energy Policy
Heady Collisions
What were conditions like .000000001 seconds after the Big Bang? Columbia scientists think the answer could hold a great secret of the universe
Protecting the Grid from the Bomb
Columbia engineers investigate how to avoid a cascading nuclear disaster
Cloudy, with a Chance of Flu
Columbia researchers have created the first forecasting system for influenza outbreaks
Hope for New Life in Diabetic Pancreas Cells
A new study suggests that type 2 disease progresses in a different way than previously thought
Black-Hole Hunter
An X-ray telescope whose optics were designed at Columbia is now orbiting Earth
Genetic Fusion Linked to Brain Cancer
Columbia researchers uncover the cause of the most common and deadly form of brain cancer
The Brain Trust
Columbia’s Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative is assembling the best thinkers in the world to study the most complex object in the known universe
The Dot Matrix
At Columbia’s Spatial Information Design Lab, researchers are creating urban maps that make points about how we live
New Crop City
Can Dickson Despommier’s radical vision for urban agriculture take root in the United States?
What Happened to Angkor?
Columbia tree-ring scientists journey to a remote forest in Cambodia to search for clues about the demise of a lost civilization
Grave Decisions
Columbia psychologist Sheena Iyengar applies her expertise in human decision making to the most difficult question of all