Fall 2024

From moisturizer to pimple patches, alumni are using their cosmetics smarts to tap into a multibillion-dollar industry

As new trials show that psilocybin and LSD may help treat depression and anxiety, mental-health providers get ready for a revolution

Kenneth Cobb ’78GSAS knows where all the files are buried

How a zealous antitax campaign that went unnoticed by many has altered America’s social, cultural, and political fabric

Discover some of the most fascinating (but lesser known) archives and art spaces on campus

Young voters under thirty are ready to make an impact

As warming seas threaten these essential marine ecosystems, Braddock Linsley drills down on their history

Under Megan Griffith ’07CC, the women’s basketball program has leapt to the top of the Ivies. How far can this team go?

Columbia’s Anatomical Donor Program gives students the education of a lifetime — and donors some posthumous perks

A Columbia study helps debunk an old theory about the island’s mysterious past

Columbia researchers identify the people most likely to suffer

A new study sheds light on the need for greater media literacy

Members of the Columbia Space Initiative win second place in the FAR-OUT 2024 rocketry competition

Neurobiologists pinpoint the source of paternal instinct in the oldfield mouse, a rodent known for its unique fatherly behavior

Research briefs from Columbia

Columbians making headlines

Jackie Dubrovich ’16CC finishes the Olympics on top

ISCO, cofounded by two Columbia Business School grads, creates craft liquor distilled with oysters and more

Michael Walsh ’17SOA weighs in on the hardest accents to learn and the best and worst examples from Hollywood

For election commentary and more, stream these alumni-hosted programs

Through Bird Collective and NYC Bird Alliance, Angela Co ’05GSAPP conserves and champions the region’s feathered residents

With Flames, Gerard Papa ’72CC, ’74SIPA, ’75LAW has been bringing New York kids together since 1974

In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich ’00JRN explores the unknown impacts of the information age

By Tracy O’Neill ’20JRN 

By Dinaw Mengestu ’05SOA

By Rachel Kushner ’01SOA

All by Columbia alumni and faculty authors

Armstrong, the chief executive of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, stepped into the position on August 14

Cole chaired the Department of English and Comparative Literature for two years before becoming dean of humanities in 2018

The members are expected to issue a final report by the fall of 2025

The legal scholar and academic administrator comes to Columbia from the University of Chicago

The civil engineer and climate-policy expert will lead the University’s efforts to achieve sustainability goals

The fellowship will support early-career scientists who pursue high-risk, high-reward research related to the mind, the brain, and behavior

The Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons recently broke ground on an eight-story biomedical-research building

Five faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Sciences and nine to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Columbia-trained statistician transformed everything from census counts to election tallies, and prefigured modern computing