Phelps came to Columbia 55 years ago as a full professor. At that time, he was already a star in the profession, with ...

Dominique Townsend recounts how, as a high school senior, a 12th-century wooden statue of a Buddha in a museum helped set her ...

In anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s film version of The Odyssey, opening in theaters on July 17, Columbia News checked in ...

The director of the Columbia Nano Initiative’s Shared Labs discusses growing nanoscience at the University—and beyond.

Antoine Compagnon explores this little-known aspect of the French author. Challenging contemporary critics who perceive self-hatred or even antisemitism in Proust’s work, Compagnon shows that many ...

In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named “Nim Chimpsky” in a nod to the ...

Columbia University has announced that it will launch a new Columbia Global Center in Tel Aviv to build on its existing collaborations in Israel and facilitate further engagement and partnerships.

Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critics have argued that such partnerships have many ...

While the teaching of history at Columbia began in the mid-19th century, a separate Department of History was only formally established on November 16, 1896. Five history professors taught in the ...

Anne Nelson’s Red Orchestra warns about the fragility of all democracies, and how citizens need to be vigilant. Drawing on archives, memoirs, and interviews with survivors, Nelson presents the men and ...

Forty years later, a Columbia professor shares what he learned from a high-profile experiment in which he tried to teach a chimp human language. In 1973, Herbert Terrace set out to do what no ...

Whether you’re a seasoned Columbia faculty member or a fresh-eyed incoming freshman, you may have wondered as you stumbled into the humid night after catching a showing of Christopher Nolan’s ...