Winter 2018-19

Celebrating the "NY Indie Guy"

Things to do on and around campus

A new building makes a splash in Manhattanville

The British Astronomer Royal prognosticates about the future of our planet

Poets pay tribute to the poetry professor

Columbia researchers are developing what would be the first wearable diagnostic device for traumatic brain injury

The African elephant-nose fish recognizes unimportant internal stimuli and summarily blocks them out

A study by Columbia researchers concludes that the benefits of reduced flight times are outweighed by the effects on residents below

Astronomers report evidence of a moon around a Jupiter-like planet called Kepler-1625b

Columbia sociologists reveal why it has been so difficult to organize workers at places like Walmart

A new weapon against one of the world's most dangerous insects

Farmers in India could ameliorate water shortage and malnutrition by switching from rice to other grains

What if steel companies could recycle waste material and repurpose it for other industrial uses? 

Research briefs from alumni and faculty

At ninety-six, Arthur Ashkin '47CC is still actively working

Shop Columbia with these nine cool presents

From Farnoosh Torabi '03JRN, Aaron Freiwald '85CC, Preet Bharara '93LAW, and Kara Swisher '85JRN

Shivani Siroya ’06PH is fighting global poverty with tech company Tala

Columbians making headlines

Paul Grinberg '89BUS has dined at ninety-nine of the world’s hundred best eateries

A Q&A with opera expert Fred Plotkin '80JRN

By Sarah Smarsh ’05SOA

By Ursula K. Le Guin '52GSAS

By Deborah Eisenberg

By Valeria Luiselli '15GSAS

Neil deGrasse Tyson ’92GSAS discusses his latest book

New and noteworthy releases from alumni and faculty

The former US secretary of state visited campus this fall to honor the late Czech playwright and political dissident

Columbia’s new Institute for Ideas and Imagination comes to Reid Hall

The Columbia women’s cross-country team won its second straight Ivy League Heptagonal Championship title

The center has been renamed in honor of its founding director, a longtime Columbia professor and leading historian of Iran

A two-year study has resulted in a set of proposals for closing salary gaps, spurring academic advancement, and improving the overall work environment