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Science & Technology

How Do You Regulate an Industry You Don’t Understand?

Columbia researchers say we can govern AI even as we’re still learning how it works 

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Books

Witches, Vampires, Werewolves — and Dogs

With his new book, John Wirenius ’90LAW brings the eccentric demonologist Montague Summers back to life

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Arts & Humanities

12 Famous Columbians Played by Hollywood Stars

Alumni and faculty have been portrayed by Academy Award winners, an EGOT, comedy stars …and even other Columbians

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Books

A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies

Professor Eleanor Johnson discusses classic horror, monsters, and the feminist lessons they can teach us

Columbians in the news

Professor Michael Woodford wins 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

NSF AI Institute in Dynamic Systems, co-led by Columbia Engineering professor Hod Lipson, awarded $20 million grant 

Columbia research scientist Natalie Fardian-Melamed wins regional award at the 2026 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, and Brenda Rubenstein '13GSAS, Samuel H. Sternberg '07CC named finalists 

Thomas Reardon '08GS, '16GSAS elected to Columbia University Board of Trustees

Remarkably Bright Creatures, directed and executive produced by Olivia Newman '12SOA, wins Primetime Emmy award for outstanding movie, and composer Sara Barone '17CC wins for outstanding music composition for The Beast in Me

Vivian Crockett '24GSAS co-curates New Museum triennial exhibition

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Science & Technology

Chatbots Have Entered the Classroom. What Happens Next?

Columbia faculty are finding innovative ways to incorporate AI into coursework without compromising academic rigor

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Arts & Humanities

The Final Fate of the Voting Rights Act

Recent Supreme Court rulings have hollowed out the landmark 1965 legislation, which sought to prevent racial discrimination in voting

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Lucia Aniello Hacks the System

The executive producer, writer, and director shares her unusual path to the top

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Alumni

Abram Hewitt and the Disputed Election of 1876

How the campaign manager for Democratic nominee Samuel J. Tilden helped keep a contested presidential race in check

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Health & Medicine

Scientists Reveal Malaria’s Method of Attack

A major new discovery by Columbia scientists is raising hopes that more-effective drugs could be developed

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Science & Technology

Can a Spacesuit Designed for Mars Protect Us from the Next Pandemic?

NASA veteran Lawrence Kuznetz ’64SEAS, ’65SEAS builds apparel to shield humans from earthly and extraterrestrial ills

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Alumni

Tech Worker by Day, NFL Cheerleader by Night

Jade Bucci ’25CC, a former Columbia computer-science major, leaps into her first season with the New England Patriots

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Arts & Humanities

How a College Reunion Led to a Revived Columbia Seminar

When alumni from the Class of 1966 reconnected with a beloved political-science professor, a virtual classroom was born

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Science & Technology

A Spoonful of Humor Helps the Neuroscience Go Down

Rai Sen is the founder of the Lab, an improv troupe that uses comedy to communicate science to the public

Books

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Books

Could this Rare Disease Help Cure Alzheimer’s?

In The Vanishing Family, journalist Robert Kolker ’91CC follows three generations of a family plagued by frontotemporal dementia

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Review: The Radiance

By Ayad Akhtar ’02SOA

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6 New Books for Fall 2026

From Emma Cline ’13SOA, Phillip Lopate ’64CC, and other Columbia authors

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Review: Beginning Middle End

By Valeria Luiselli ’15GSAS 

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