Columbia University – Page 7

The Prophet of Urban Doom Says New York Still Has a Chance

The business professor who warned that the city might be caught in a ‘doom loop’ suddenly finds himself famous.

February 8, 2023

Barbara Stanley, Influential Suicide Researcher, Dies at 73

Her simple idea, for patients to write down a plan that would help them weather a suicidal crisis, rapidly spread in clinical settings.

January 29, 2023

Columbia Names Nemat Shafik as President, the First Woman to Lead the University

The economist, who runs the London School of Economics, takes over as higher education faces tumult — over free speech, costs and the likely end of affirmative action.

January 18, 2023

At Columbia’s $600 Million Business School, Time to Rethink Capitalism

On the developing Manhattanville campus, the architecture of Diller Scofidio + Renfro reinforces a social movement in business education to do good as well as make money.

January 6, 2023

These Engineers Want to Build Conscious Robots. Others Say It’s a Bad Idea.

The pursuit of robot consciousness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a slurry of difficult questions.