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In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.

May 21 marked the conferral of 15,000+ degrees upon Columbia's newest graduates, who hail from all 50 states and 100+ ...

Columbia News is celebrating 11 scientific discoveries that took place this year, some of which were supported by vital federal research funding. As Columbia University continues to engage with the ...

From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.

In Love, Money, Duty, Rachel Adams explores care as a form of work, a feeling, an ethic, and an art. Combining readings of writers and artists—among them, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Roz Chast, Sally ...

College or graduate school may be over, but a lifetime of reading awaits. From James Shapiro's The Playbook, which is about the Federal Theatre Project, a Works Progress Administration program that, ...

Transportation is the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for about a third of all emissions. We could quickly lower those emissions by electrifying ...

A new study from the department of psychology reveals how we can adapt our negative memories to make them more positive. We have all experienced moments that we wish we could forget. However, research ...

There’s a hot new BEC in town that has nothing to do with bacon, egg, and cheese. You won’t find it at your local bodega, but in the coldest place in New York: the lab of Columbia physicist Sebastian ...

In some severe cases of COVID-19, the lungs undergo extreme damage, resulting in a range of life-threatening conditions like pneumonia, inflammation, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. The root ...