Paul Hond
Senior Editor
Paul joined Columbia Magazine in 2006. His pieces for the magazine have been reprinted in Longreads, Truthout, and Reader's Digest.
Farewell, Linden Trees; Hello, Cherry Blossoms
A tree replacement on College Walk lets us branch out, sit down, and plug in
A Brief History of Science Funding
Universities have come to rely on federal funding to support scientific and medical research. How did we get here?
How Do We Change the Way We Eat?
Our industrialized food system is harming our health and warming the planet. Columbia experts weigh in on solutions
A Death Investigator Learns to Live
Barbara Butcher ’83PH spent two decades behind police tape in New York City, examining bodies. Now, she reflects on the hard lessons learned
A Free Press in Peril?
At a Columbia Journalism School forum, New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger assessed the threat
Columbia Lou and Cocky Collins Ride Again
100 years ago, Columbia baseball greats Lou Gehrig and Eddie Collins 1907CC made their own bids for the record books
How Robert Moog Launched Music into the Electronic Age
Sixty years ago, the Columbia-trained inventor introduced a keyboard synthesizer that would change the musical soundscape
Five Years and 70,000 Pieces of Scaffolding Equal One Miraculous Restoration
Barry Bergdoll ’77CC, ’86GSAS discusses the renovation of Notre-Dame
Star-Inspired Artworks Light Up Butler Library
Celestial Navigation, an exhibit curated by MFA student Jeannie Rhyu ’17CC, brings art students into conversation with Ptolemy and Galileo
Artificial Intelligence vs. the Human Brain
At Columbia’s inaugural AI Summit, experts touted the technology’s promise and agreed that robots still have a long way to go
A Columbian Makes the Ultimate Frisbee Hall of Fame
Mauricio Matiz ’79SEAS, ’84SEAS is one of only 132 athletes to receive the honor
How Congestion Pricing Got Moving at Columbia
The experimental initiative for reducing city traffic was conceived by economics professor William Vickrey ’47GSAS