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Columbia researchers, some sporting martian headbands, gathered to celebrate the launch of the new Vera Rubin Observatory.
Columbia’s student rocketry team launched a hybrid rocket powered by liquid oxygen, a first for a student-led group.
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 ...
Congratulations to the Columbia Space Initiative (CSI) Rockets team on successfully launching a hybrid rocket powered by liquid oxygen! The successful launch capped off a yearlong effort by nearly 60 ...
Like Paris in the 1920s, New York in the 1960s was a center of artistic innovation. As James Hoberman, adjunct professor of film and media studies at School of the Arts, shows in his book, Everything ...
Before he taught the art of the story, Wally Suphap (CC’01, LAW’04, SOA’23) had to live out the twists and turns of a narrative arc in his own life and career. Born in Bangkok, raised in L.A., and ...
Columbia News is celebrating 11 scientific discoveries that took place this year, some of which were supported by vital federal research funding. As Columbia University continues to engage with the ...
The Columbia course “Foundations of Science" is all about understanding the building blocks of the universe — energy, matter, cells, and genes in the context of astronomy, biology, chemistry, and ...
In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues. Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, ...
Fifty years ago, the United States lost a war to a country that few Americans could find on a map; in the intervening decades, however, more has been written on the Vietnam War than most of America’s ...
May 30, 2025. We salute our newly commissioned graduates! Congratulations to Elena Casas (SEAS'25), William Culver (SEAS'25), Milana Rodriguez (CC'25), and Daniel Sanchez (SEAS'25), all just ...
June 6, 2025. Last weekend, our beloved Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, and Columbia General Studies alumni returned to campus to reconnect, reminisce, and reflect during Columbia Reunion 2025 ...