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In commemoration of Black History Month, Columbia faculty members share books that help illustrate the diverse African American and African Diaspora experience.Books often help illuminate struggles, loss, and triumphs. Indeed, they can…

Students applying to Columbia Business School will have access to a new scholarship fund in the 2022-23 academic year, thanks to a $10 million gift from Robert F. Smith ’94, founder, chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. The Robert…

Astronomers have reported a second, super-sized moon orbiting a Jupiter-sized planet beyond our solar system. If confirmed, the sighting could mean that exomoons are as common in the universe as exoplanets, and that big or small, such…

Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have developed a blood test to measure the pace of biological aging. Based on an analysis of chemical tags on the DNA contained in white blood cells called DNA methylation…

No sooner had the internet put mountains of knowledge at our fingertips than a new problem emerged: finding what we needed. David Blei, a professor of computer science and statistics at Columbia, has helped us find those nuggets of gold…

T-minus seven days and counting: In just under a week, Columbia Space Initiative (CSI) will board the International Space Station (ISS). Sort of.A CSI team of 20 Columbia undergraduates will fly an experiment they designed on SpaceX’s…

“We finally got to put some faces to names,” said astronomy graduate student Aaron Tran. “The dynamic is much different than a Zoom breakout, and the high schoolers seem enlivened to be with their friends.”The idea for the club—part…

Looking for innovative drug delivery systems? Maybe expansive cell growth bioreactors? How about revolutionary gas sensing technology? With just 10 minutes in the spotlight, 10 Columbia Engineering startups recently offered up an array of…

A new study from Columbia researchers, in collaboration with scientists at the University of Hong Kong, adds more evidence that the omicron variant can evade the immune protection conferred by vaccines and natural infection and suggests…

Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found marked decreases in orphanhood particularly double orphanhood, among adolescents in Rakai, Uganda, corresponding with the availability of antiretroviral therapy…