Columbia’s Rafael Yuste Wins Vannevar Bush Fellowship
The five-year, $3 million fellowship is the U.S. Department of Defense’s most prestigious single-investigator award and supports basic research with the potential for transformative impact.
New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet
David Kipping, an assistant professor in Columbia’s Department of Astronomy, uses Bayesian statistics to shed light on how extraterrestrial life might evolve in alien worlds.
It’s Not Just the Extreme Heat. It’s the Extreme Humidity
New Columbia-led research shows rising humidity and temperatures are colliding in places like the Gulf Coast, decades ahead of projections, and it’s likely to cause deaths.
A New Primer on Climate Change Science
Authored by Earth Institute professor John Mutter, Climate Change Science: A Primer for Sustainable Development, covers the basic physics of planetary climate, and how it is shifting.
Jeannette Wing Receives NSF Grant to Create COVID-19 Information Commons
Jeannette Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute at Columbia, will use the funding to create a website to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration across COVID research efforts.