Columbia University's Virginia Lam Abrams, senior vice president of public affairs, and Junior M. Benjamin, director of ...

Places for prayer and meditation exist in shared communal spaces like hospitals and airports all over the world. At a ...

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.

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

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

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

The Vietnamese language provides singular insight into the dynamism of premodern Asia. As John Phan, associate professor of Vietnamese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures ...

A graduate of Columbia College took part in the dig, which found evidence that female leaders in ancient Peru had more authority than known. Early this past summer, at an archaeological site about 250 ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new “chapter” of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts ...