New chair Oliver Simons outlines his plans and discusses why the study of languages and literature is key today.

The B-list novels of Mary Shelley; I’m in the early stages of drafting a new book about Mary Shelley, so I have to read ...

A Columbia scientist’s lab revolutionized digital photography with a new kind of imaging now used in more than a billion ...

Elizabeth Leake, the new chair of the department, looks both behind and ahead.

In Three or More Is a Riot, he takes readers to the front lines of conflict to uncover the meaning of it all.

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

Clémence Boulouque shows how this theory was built on older Jewish ideas, which offered the possibility of emancipation to ...

Ketamine—an anesthetic also known for its illicit use as a recreational drug—has undergone a thorough reputational rehabilitation in recent years as the medical establishment has begun to recognize ...

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 ...

As the start of the 2024-2025 academic year approaches, Columbia’s Task Force on Antisemitism has released its second set of recommendations. Grounded in extensive meetings with students, the report ...