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

The 50-30 symposium, presented by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, focuses on war and peace. From left to right: ...

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

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 ...

This page highlights the astonishing amount of scientific discovery happening at Columbia, one of the world’s leading research universities.

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 ...

Columbia researchers have discovered a way of sizing up the ‘shadows’ of two supermassive black holes in the process of colliding. Three years ago, the first ever image of a black hole stunned the ...

Humans have been wondering whether we are alone in the universe since antiquity. We know from the geological record that life started relatively quickly, as soon our planet's environment was stable ...

A new paper argues that materials like wood, bacteria, and fungi belong to a newly identified class of matter, "hydration solids." For decades, the fields of physics and chemistry have maintained that ...

Astronomer David Kipping and his Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia find an exomoon signal in archival data, hinting at the possibility of more exomoon discoveries to come. Astronomers have reported a second ...

“Since the advent of search engines, we are reorganizing the way we remember things,” said Sparrow. “Our brains rely on the Internet for memory in much the same way they rely on the memory of a friend ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former U.S. Secretary of State, will join Columbia University as professor of practice at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and presidential fellow at ...