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Research & Discovery

The mile-wide crater of Costa Rica’s Poás Volcano hosts a steaming lake that occasionally explodes. Debris from past eruptions covers an area of 150 square miles around it.
Tapping Into the Breathing of a Volcanic Beast

In Costa Rica, Climate School scientists are installing geophysical instruments that can monitor the underground in real time.

A booklet of 15th-century liturgical music, known as an antiphonary, being examined with the Columbia Nano Initiative's Raman spectrometer. The manuscript's official name is UTS MS 114.
Using Nanotechnology to Uncover Details of a Medieval Manuscript

How Columbia conservators, Nano Initiative scientists, and a music scholar used state-of-the-art technology to examine a score.

Swirling hydrogen emissions and stars in an area of the night sky known as the cone nebula. The image was taken by the MDW Survey and shows a region included in a recent Columbia data release.
Columbia Releases New Data on Hydrogen Emissions Within the Orion Constellation

The data release kicks off an astronomy partnership with the Michele and David Mittelman Family Foundation.

Campus & Community

Ivy League champions!
Champions, Again! Women’s Basketball Defends Ivy League Title

The Columbia women's basketball team locked up its second straight Ivy League regular-season Championship with an 82-46 victory over Cornell on Saturday at Newman Arena. The Lions will host the Ivy League Tournament March 15-16 at Levien Gym.

a collage of women leaders at columbia
Celebrating the Brilliance and Boldness of Uptown Women

From visionaries like Harlem School of the Arts founder Dorothy Maynor, who created a safe space for artistic creativity to thrive, to suffragettes like Maud Malone who marched the streets of Harlem for equality, the pivotal contributions of trailblazing women have definitively shaped Uptown and beyond. 

barnard soccer players
5 Questions With Soccer Players Lauren Rodriguez and Alexandra “Ola” Weber

Navigating the male-dominated fields of athletics and economics is no easy task, yet two of the Barnard's women’s soccer players — Lauren Rodriguez (BC’25) and Alexandra “Ola” Weber (BC’24) — welcome the challenge with an open heart.

National & Global Affairs

Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, Brigitte Nacos, and Robert Shapiro.
Will History Repeat Itself With the 2024 Presidential Election?

A new book traces how the Tea Party laid the groundwork for the rise of Trump.

Dialogue Across Difference
What’s at Stake in These Polarized Times

Students, faculty, and staff gathered in person and online to explore how the often binary conversations around current events inform our understanding of democracy, the elements that prevent us from coming together for civil discourse, and where we go from here.    

IGP, Columbia University. Photo credit: Nir Arieli
Institute of Global Politics, Columbia University. Photo credit: Nir Arieli.
IGP Kicks Off Women’s History Month with the Launch of Its New Women’s Initiative

The event convened leading policymakers, scholars, and advocates to discuss a range of issues, from reproductive rights to gender equity in the workplace to technology-facilitated gender-based violence.