This may be Booker Johnson’s first semester at Columbia Law School, but he’s already jumped right into the action, both on ...

Yes, says Columbia Law School Professor Katharina Pistor, who shows in her book how the legal underpinnings of the system ...

Columbia University's Virginia Lam Abrams, senior vice president of public affairs, and Junior M. Benjamin, director of ...

Places for prayer and meditation exist in shared communal spaces like hospitals and airports all over the world. At a ...

New chair Oliver Simons outlines his plans and discusses why the study of languages and literature is key today.

A Columbia scientist’s lab revolutionized digital photography with a new kind of imaging now used in more than a billion ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers. In popular memory, the Second World War was an ...

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 ...

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 cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal’s brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it’s where most things happen—like perception, thinking, memory storage, ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new “chapter” of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts ...

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 ...