Spring/Summer 2024

Alumni-owned coffee shops and roasters are energizing communities through cold brew, cappuccinos, cortados, and more

The documentary filmmaker argues that the world of sports is a faith like any other

The genre-bending author has helped make fantastically strange books the norm

Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb on the impacts of disinformation and the dearth of local reporting 

Since 1908, alumni have been tying the knot at St. Paul’s Chapel

At 95, the Columbia professor emerita of clinical psychiatry reflects on an ever-developing field

David Bakalar, the sculptor of Life Force on Columbia’s Revson Plaza, turned 100 this year

With the Women Film Pioneers Project, professor Jane Gaines highlights the women who helped shape the early film industry

More than forty years after his first trip above Amsterdam Avenue, the high-wire artist returns with an added challenge.

Columbia+, the University’s online learning platform, offers dozens of unusual non-credit classes …and some of them are free!

Columbia psychologists unmask the perceptual biases that shape our impressions of one another

Astronomers discover early galaxies shaped like curved, elongated disks 

A new tool reveals the triggers that drive age-related cellular deterioration, from diet to metal exposure

Researchers find long-term changes in brain structure and function in amateur players

Columbia engineers find that prints from each of your ten digits are not entirely distinct from each other

Research briefs from Columbia

Columbia researchers find sobering evidence that bottled water contains far more microplastic particles than previously estimated

Alumni making headlines

Celine Song's debut film has captured the attention of critics and received numerous accolades

In The Secret History of Bigfoot, journalist John O’Connor ’03SOA explores the mystery and legacy of the North American sasquatch

Cofounded by Ryan Greene ’21BUS, the company guides older adults through our ever-changing digital world

Only God Was Above Us reveals that the band continues to be inspired by New York City and by nostalgia for its members’ college days

A solo exhibition titled Through the Sky’s Back Door is on view at the California African American Museum from May – October 2024

If you’re looking for an urban adventure, consult these aficionados

Corinne Kendall ’08GSAS, one of America’s top vulture experts, is working to preserve an unfairly maligned bird of prey

The engineer joins the National Inventors Hall of Fame

By Crystal Hana Kim ’09CC, ’14SOA

In The Demon of Unrest, Erik Larson ’78JRN painstakingly reconstructs an unfortunate series of events

By Colm Tóibín

In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein ’16CC, ’22SOA draws on her own story, as well as interviews, academic studies, history, and pop culture

All by Columbia alumni authors

The former deputy mayor of New York City will provide strategic oversight in key administrative areas

The new initiative, called Project Start Right, will support local students in colleges across the country

The collection includes drafts; documents pertaining to exhibitions, lectures, and film projects; and over two thousand drawings 

The longtime engineering professor will oversee a multidisciplinary research institute that applies big-data solutions to real-world challenges

The University will join six other research institutions in an initiative titled Empire AI

The Garrett Isaac Neubauer Center for Cardiovascular Innovation aims to develop treatments for CHD

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

The expanding military alliance recently marked its 75th anniversary