October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Columbia University’s Fall 2024 Blood Drive Campaign is dedicated to increasing awareness of this disease and supporting cancer patients and others ...

Advancing Columbia’s academic mission depends on strategic and financial planning that provides sufficient resources for both current and future needs, ensuring that the University can support today’s ...

In French, when speaking in the past tense, one must constantly choose between the imparfait and the passé composé (cf. part I). In this exercise we will focus on cases where both tenses are used in a ...

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas--which was to try ...

My dad's job takes us to postwar West Germany for two and a half years. We lived in US Army housing and I went to the Army high school for 9th, 10th, and 11th grades.

I am a Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University. Previously, I completed my PhD in Mathematics at Northwestern University in Spring 2021 under the guidance of Ben Weinkove. My research ...

The primary effect of the Aral Sea desiccation has been the significant loss of water in the sea. The water level has dropped approximately 23 meters since the onset of its primary sources of water ...

Whether the war by means of which the rulers of Spain and our countrymen have brought and are attempting to bring under their domination the barbarian inhabitants, commonly known as Indians, of the ...

David Freedberg is best known for his work on psychological responses to art, and particularly for his studies on iconoclasm and censorship (see, inter alia, Iconoclasts and their Motives, 1984, and ...

Columbia’s Department of Classics is the center of an exceptionally strong array of faculty specializing in antiquity; to its core faculty in Greek and Latin languages and literature, it adds those in ...

olumbia University was founded in 1754 as King’s College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in ...

The split in the Orpheic world is predetermined: there is light and there is darkness; life (above) and death (below). "The power that causes the night to open", the force that enables Orpheus to ...