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 ...

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 ...

Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the woman who coined the concept of intersectionality produces the foremost podcast on the subject matter, Intersectionality Matters! A mixture of one-on-one ...

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 ...

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

Brian A. Fallon, (VP&S ’85, MPH ’85) spent his early career working with patients whose medical symptoms were a mystery. The Columbia University Irving Medical Center psychiatrist became one of the ...