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Lalitha Vasudevan directs MASCLab, a hub for creating, curating, and supporting multimodal and digital scholarship.
Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.
From America's reliance on punishment to the art of the career pivot, these five Columbia-affiliated podcasts tackle urgent questions shaping culture, society, and identity today.
It's time again for your Columbia News Quiz. Test yourself with questions on Star Wars, Manhattanville Community Day, and the Columbia Space Initiative. Let's see how much you remember from the month ...
The nature of language is to shift and evolve. But every so often, a new usage creates a whole lot of consternation. These days, pronouns are throwing curveballs, and it matters, because pronoun ...
Astronomers, students, and space-loving New Yorkers gathered in Columbia’s Havemeyer Hall to view some of the highest-definition photos ever taken of the cosmos. The event — co-sponsored by Columbia, ...
More than 100 astronomers, astronomy students, and curiosity-filled lovers of the night skies gathered on Monday in Columbia’s Havemeyer Hall to celebrate the release of images from the Vera C. Rubin ...
A new book offers a framework for unifying the two spheres. Wyche examines the political implications of what he calls practices of ethical self-change. These include Pierre Hadot’s notion of ...
From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.
Congratulations to the Columbia Space Initiative (CSI) Rockets team on successfully launching a hybrid rocket powered by liquid oxygen! The successful launch capped off a yearlong effort by nearly 60 ...
Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and—because many have never been recorded—when they’re gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and co-director of ...