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Spring/Summer 2026

Spring/Summer 2026 cover of Columbia Magazine with art by Manshen Lo
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Illustration by Chris W. Kim depicting school gun violence

What Will It Take to Prevent School Shootings?

In our desperation to protect children, we’re turning schools into fortresses. Columbia researchers are leading a nationwide investigation to see if these tactics actually work

Features

Aimee Ng, chief curator at the Frick Collection
Arts & Humanities

5 Alumni Museum Curators Shaping the Art World Today

Through visionary exhibitions and programming, Columbia graduates are steering the direction of some of New York’s most prestigious museums

Illustration of gavel over Low Library
Books

A Response to Authoritarian Attacks on Universities

In his latest book, University: A Reckoning, former Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger ’71LAW, ’02HON defends the role of higher education in America

A'Lelia Bundles
Arts & Humanities

How Writer A’Lelia Bundles, Descendant of Madam C. J. Walker, Found Her Subject

Through sweeping biographies of her foremothers, the author shares a dazzling American inheritance. Her own story belongs on the same high shelf

College Walk

Beverly Gage, Molly Jong-Fast, MaryLouise Patterson, and Michael Meeropol at a Columbia University panel on McCarthyism
On Campus

The New Red Scare

A recent panel featuring Molly Jong-Fast ’97BC, Michael Meeropol, and others looked at the McCarthy era and its lessons for today

Illustration of former Columbia University Press director Jennifer Crewe
On Campus

Jennifer Crewe Retires from Columbia University Press

Good words flowed at a farewell party for the publisher’s longtime associate provost and director

Images from Columbia University's Battle of the Bands
On Campus

Shake, Battle, and Roll

At Columbia’s Battle of the Bands, some 150 undergrads grooved to a mix of blues rock, R&B, indie, and folk rock from six student acts

The Dream of the Wood by Becky Moon
Arts & Humanities

The Tree Huggers of Columbia

Scholars and artists meditate on the arboreal at the “Being Treely” talk at the Lenfest Center for the Arts

Explorations

Children drinking water from a well in Bangladesh
Health & Medicine

What a Decades-long Study of Arsenic Poisoning Can Tell Us About Human Health

Columbia researchers have spent over twenty-five years investigating the impacts of contaminated aquifers in Bangladesh 

Artist rendering of genetically modified immune cells (blue) attacking cancer
Health & Medicine

A New Immunotherapy Breakthrough for Solid Tumors

Scientists led by Michel Sadelain have successfully treated cancerous growths of the kidney, pancreas, and ovaries in mice

The launch of the Columbia-led General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) mission on December 15.
Science & Technology

Could a Giant Helium Balloon in Antarctica Help Find Dark Matter?

A particle detector deployed by Columbia scientists is looking for traces of antideuterons in the atmosphere

Hand filling up glass from water tap
Health & Medicine

Fluoridated Water Is Safe for Pregnant Women, and Other Recent Discoveries

Six of the latest research breakthroughs from Columbia scientists

Network

Photo of Andrew Seaman
Alumni

How to Find a Job in the AI Era

LinkedIn News career expert Andrew Seaman ’11JRN specializes in actionable guidance for today’s job seekers

New York City Council speaker Julie Menin
Alumni

Julie Menin Appointed NYC Council Speaker, and Other Alumni News

Columbians making headlines. 

Composer Sara Barone
Arts & Humanities

Sara Barone Puts Music to Media

The composer for film, TV, and video games works on a variety of Hollywood projects

Hongxiang Huang holding a pangolin
Alumni

The Wildlife Conservationist Fighting the Pangolin Trade

Through Agent C Wildlife Initiative, Hongxiang Huang ’13SIPA is risking it all for the world’s most trafficked mammal

Books

Late-nineteenth-century dresses from the French couturiers Maison Lévilion (left) and House of Worth
Books

The Fashionable Legacy of the Gilded Age

Elizabeth L. Block ’04GSAS recently published Gilded Age Fashion, a book showcasing over fifty dresses and accessories from the late 1800s     

London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
Books

The Mysterious Death of Zac Brettler

In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe ’99CC investigates the murky circumstances surrounding an English teenager who washed up in the Thames

Under Water by Tara Menon
Books

Review: Under Water

Tara Menon ’11CC 

Upward Bound by Woody Brown
Books

Review: Upward Bound

MFA graduate Woody Brown ’24SOA draws from some of his own experiences as a non-verbal autistic man for his debut novel

Image of Spring Reading List books
Books

5 New Books to Read this Spring

All by Columbia alumni authors

Artwork of phone and sports
Books

The Alarming Consequences of Legal Sports Gambling

In his first book, Everybody Loses, journalist Danny Funt ’15JRN explores the astronomical rise of a high-risk vice

Bulletin

Jennifer L. Mnookin
On Campus

Jennifer L. Mnookin Named University President

The nationally recognized legal scholar will step into her new role on July 1

Barack Obama with fans
On Campus

Obama Presidency Oral History Archive is Now Available

A team of Columbia historians and social scientists recorded more than 450 interviews over several years

Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine
On Campus

Lavines Donate $10 Million to Basketball Teams

The gift is one of the largest in the history of the Columbia Athletics department

Students in a lecture hall
On Campus

Columbia Engineering Offering Interdisciplinary AI Master’s Degree

The Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence program will combine computer science and engineering courses with instruction in other domains

Backstory

John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Benjamin Franklin
Arts & Humanities

The Columbia-Educated Lawyer Who Helped Write the Declaration of Independence

Robert Livingston 1765KC may have missed the document’s official signing, but his anti-tyranny legal philosophy still resonates today

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