Research led by Robin Bell, a Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory polar scientist, examines the melting of ice surrounding Antarctica and identifies key gaps in scientists' understanding of how the continent is changing.

As director of Columbia’s newest research arm, the Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center, Alan West leads a team developing batteries that can store solar and wind-powered energy.

Climate scientist Jason Smerdon is coauthor of Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, a succinct, non-ideological reference for anyone who wants to understand what we know (and don’t) about climate.

Since its inception in 2006, the Amgen Scholars Program has made research opportunities at premier institutions possible for more than 3,900 undergraduate students representing 700 colleges and universities.

Rising temperatures influence wildfires in the American West, says research led by Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Center for Climate and Life Fellow.

The world-class consortium of scientists from labs across Columbia and the U.S. hopes their work can serve as a paradigm for mapping other brain structures, thus bringing us closer to a true, detailed understanding of the brain.

Michael Shadlen, a neuroscientist at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, studies decisions. He's discovered that when choosing which candidate to vote for, your brain secretly does math.