Fall 2026

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Clifford Chanin ’77JRN, ’80SIPA keeps the events of that day in the public consciousness

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

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

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

Columbia researchers measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them

Columbia’s twenty-first president, Jennifer L. Mnookin, started her new job in July

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

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

The latest findings from Columbia researchers

Growth driven by data-center development comes with hidden economic risks, according to a new paper

Researchers have created a bacterium that thrives with nineteen amino acids instead of twenty

New research roughly doubles the total number of events ever identified

Grace Pak ’16TC sculpts the official America250 birthday cake

Columbians are making headlines

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

Natalia Winkelman ’15CC, a film critic and podcast writer and producer, pens several reviews per month for The New York Times and other outlets

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

By Ayad Akhtar ’02SOA

By Valeria Luiselli ’15GSAS 

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

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

The interdisciplinary program will be open to students starting in the 2026–27 academic year

The real-estate leader has been a trustee since 2016

The accomplished administrator will oversee a wide range of activities aimed at engaging alumni and raising philanthropic support

This past spring, the Columbia women’s golf team swung its way to victory for the first time since 2007

Manaktala comes to Columbia after three decades at MIT Press

The architect and multimedia artist is best known for his work with the San Francisco avant-garde collective Ant Farm

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