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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Nobel Prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy. We all have the sense that the U.S. economy—and its government—tilts toward big business, but ...

In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.

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 commissioned into the ...

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 ...