The World Science Festival, cofounded by Brian Greene , professor of mathematics and physics, returns to New York City May 30 – June 3 offering a dynamic set of lectures and programs that bring cutting-edge science to a broader audience.

Stuart Firestein , a professor and chair of the biological sciences department, is a connoisseur of ignorance.

In Travis Irvine's application to Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism , he wrote that he wanted his career to include travel, filmmaking, comedy, politics and, oh yes, journalism.

Lillian Hellman—playwright, memoirist, accused liar, communist, muse to mystery writer Dashiell Hammett—never wanted biographies written about her.

In anticipation of the potential for experimental verification of the existence of the Higgs boson—a long-hypothesized particle thought responsible for endowing other elementary particles with mass—the World Leaders Forum will host a special program, co-sponsored by the Columbia Science Initiative , on April 18 at 4:00 p.m. in the Low Library rotunda.

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and Provost John H. Coatsworth have named Sean C. Solomon, a leading geophysicist whose research has combined studies of the deep earth with missions to the moon and the solar system's inner planets, to be director of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

In completing his critically acclaimed memoir, French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann eschewed chronological order.

As Leon Trotsky gave a speech in 1917 as commissar of foreign affairs for the new Bolshevik government, a Columbia journalist sat among the spectators.

Many strands of Eric Kandel 's life come together in his latest work, The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present .

Watch video of the World Leaders Forum event. (1:00:06) Click here to watch President Lee C. Bollinger's introduction.

Professor Susan Sturm 's path to the law wound through work she did long before she got to law school—in the Head Start program, at a school for disabled kids and in a foster home.

When Chris Claremont began writing the Uncanny X-Men in 1975, he didn't think the assignment would last very long.

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The United States faces few good choices in its dealings with Afghanistan and Pakistan, says a longtime expert in the region, and must take a “longer view” than what has been exhibited in a decade plus of conflict.