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 ...

During her first week leading the University, President Jennifer L. Mnookin welcomed nearly 200 local elected officials, community leaders, and neighbors to the Manhattanville campus for a breakfast ...

Last year, Jacob Trevino took the helm of the Columbia Nano Initiative’s (CNI) Shared Laboratories. These include a state-of-the-art nanofabrication cleanroom, a lab with specialized instruments to ...

Columbia University has committed to investing $30 million to enhance the diversity of its faculty through the recruitment of outstanding female and underrepresented minority scholars. The plan, ...

In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named “Nim Chimpsky” in a nod to the ...

In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous ...

Two of America’s preeminent First Amendment scholars, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey R. Stone, have brought together experts across a ...

For years, the history of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany was hidden and distorted by Cold War politics. Providing a much-needed corrective, Red Orchestra presents the dramatic story of a circle ...