In The Soldier’s House, Journalism Professor Helen Benedict tells the story of an Iraq War veteran who saves the lives of his ...

Dominique Townsend recounts how, as a high school senior, a 12th-century wooden statue of a Buddha in a museum helped set her ...

Phelps came to Columbia 55 years ago as a full professor. At that time, he was already a star in the profession, with ...

Notebook is a Columbia News series that highlights just some of the many fascinating students who study at our University. When Sarah Wang is not working on her senior thesis or being a teacher's ...

University President Lee C. Bollinger addressed the incoming Columbia College and Columbia Engineering classes of 2026 at the start of their undergraduate experiences. He also spoke to the new cohort ...

Fiction, nonfiction, memoir, history, essays, language, art history, architecture, climate—we’ve got you covered with this diverse list of books. We’ve all heard the story about waking up as a ...

Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critics have argued that such partnerships have many ...

Columbia University has announced that it will launch a new Columbia Global Center in Tel Aviv to build on its existing collaborations in Israel and facilitate further engagement and partnerships.

While the teaching of history at Columbia began in the mid-19th century, a separate Department of History was only formally established on November 16, 1896. Five history professors taught in the ...

Natalie Brito, a professor of psychology, researches how both the families we’re raised in and the societies we live in, shape us. Natalie Brito first came to Columbia as a postdoctoral researcher in ...

Antoine Compagnon explores this little-known aspect of the French author. Challenging contemporary critics who perceive self-hatred or even antisemitism in Proust’s work, Compagnon shows that many ...

Forty years later, a Columbia professor shares what he learned from a high-profile experiment in which he tried to teach a chimp human language. In 1973, Herbert Terrace set out to do what no ...