A fresh look at the evidence used to convict and justify the execution of Carlos DeLuna more than 20 years ago reveals that there is more to his story than meets the eye - Has Texas executed an innocent man since it began lethally injecting convicted murderers in 1982 after an 18-year hiatus in executions?

Nicholas B. Dirks , Columbia University's executive vice president for arts and sciences and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has announced the appointment of Deborah Cullen, a leading curator and specialist in modern and contemporary art, as the new director and chief curator of the University's Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery.

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

At an April 18 World Leaders Forum event , prominent Columbia physicists and two of the nation's top science journalists discussed the questions, “What if we find the Higgs particle?

It's fair to say Valeria Silva Merea's career began with a splash. Just four days before the Peruvian native boarded a plane bound for medical school in New York, she was in Beijing swimming in the 2008 Olympic Games.

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.

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.

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.

This year, approximately 13,423 degrees will be conferred on graduates from Columbia University's three undergraduate and 13 graduate schools, as well as affiliated institutions Barnard College and Teachers College.

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 .

Health care is arguably the nation's most contentious issue. Manmeet Kaur, a graduate student earning her M.B.A. on May 16, knew she was going to be entering a fraught field—but chose to pursue it anyway.

Two weeks after graduating from high school, Azar Boehm (GS'12) joined the Army. Despite getting good grades, the 18-year-old had been waitlisted by his dream school, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.