Columbia is proud to announce that Andres Bendesky, assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology; and Melissa Ness and Lorenzo Sironi, both assistant professors in the Department of Astronomy were named Sloan Research Fellows. Read More

Research led by Randy Bruno, a principal investigator at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, demonstrates that the brain’s primitive sensory region also participates in sophisticated learning. Read More

Wallace Broecker, a Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory geochemist who initiated key research into the history of earth’s climate and humans’ influence upon it, died February 18 in New York. He was 87. Read More

The Columbia-led discovery in mice aids efforts to map the circuitry of the brain’s learning center and stands to inform studies of psychiatric disorders in which this circuitry goes awry. Read More

In a scientific first, Columbia neuroengineers have created a system that translates thought into intelligible, recognizable speech, a critical step toward brain-computer interfaces that hold immense promise for those with limited or no ability to speak. Read More

A team of autonomous ocean robots deployed in January 2018 has carried out the first year-long observations under an Antarctic ice shelf. Scientists will use the data to understand how seawater interacts with the ice shelves and improve models of ice sheet behavior. Read More

A Columbia-led team has discovered a new method to manipulate the electrical conductivity of this game-changing material, the strongest substance ever, with applications ranging from nano-electronic devices to clean energy. Read More