With Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin challenges familiar narratives.

The team's discoveries have changed their approach to finding new therapies. The study highlights risk factors in people as ...

The fact that humans who are not related by blood help each other repeatedly over time is demonstrably true—think of the ongoing mutual support that sustains your longest-running friendships. But the ...

Two Columbia faculty members—Martin Chalfie and Michael Harris—were elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in North America, founded by Benjamin Franklin for ...

Block parties are a New York City staple as spring rain gives way to sunny days. So what better way to celebrate the end of the academic year and the arrival of warm weather than a block party on ...

Cory Abate-Shen, Robert Sonneborn Professor of Medicine, and David Reichman, Centennial Professor of Chemistry, were elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Membership is a widely accepted ...

It's time again for your Columbia News Quiz. Test yourself with questions on athletics, a new research center, and Columbia's contribution to NYC policy. Let's see how much you remember from the month ...

Sun, fun, and festive vibes — a great way to celebrate the end of the semester and the arrival of sunny spring days! In addition to tasty treats, there were games, crafts, furry dog friends, ...

In Atrocity: A Literary History, Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, ventures from the Bible to Zadie Smith. He explores the literature of suffering, to show how, over ...

Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we think of now as atrocities have not always invited indignation or been seen to violate moral norms. Venturing from the Bible to Zadie ...

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, ...

Among the major questions in astrophysics is the origins of the heavy elements in our Universe that make up the periodic table. The lightest elements, hydrogen and helium, were formed mainly in the ...