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 ...

Lydia Goehr, Fred and Fannie Mack Professor of Humanities, is a teacher beloved by fellow faculty and students alike, as her University awards confirm: among others, Lenfest Distinguished Columbia ...

It's time again for your Columbia News Quiz. Test yourself with questions on the outer recesses of space, Emmy awards, and Columbia Football. Let's see how much you remember from the month of ...

It was all hands on deck for Engineering Student Council's second annual cardboard boat contest. Thirty-five teams of Columbia Engineering students took up the challenge: build a boat designed to ...