In her book, ‘The Rest Is Silence,’ Joanna Stalnaker offers an intimate portrait of Enlightenment philosophers as they faced ...

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 ...

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

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

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

When Sigmund Freud published his theory of the unconscious, in 1899, he popularized an idea that had fascinated generations of Jewish philosophers before him. In this book, Clémence Boulouque charts ...

In May of 2022, Professor Eleanor Johnson watched along with her students as the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade. At the same time, her class was studying the 1968 horror film Rosemary’s Baby and ...

A Columbia scientist’s lab revolutionized digital photography with a new kind of imaging now used in more than a billion smartphones. Did you know that the technology that powers more than a billion ...

Scream With Me by Eleanor Johnson, a professor of English and comparative literature, sheds light on how classic horror films demonstrate larger cultural attitudes about women’s rights, bodily ...

It was all hands on deck for Engineering Student Council's second annual cardboard boat contest. Thirty-five teams of Columbia Engineering students took up the challenge: build a boat designed to ...