Making room for Columbia's Manhattanville campus expansion, the Empire State Development Corporation unanimously voted to invoke eminent domain on private commercial properties in the project area.

Many students are up in arms over a threat to a cherished academic tradition: Reading Week.

The fall 2009 academic calendar, now available online from the University Registrar, has only a single “Study Day” on Dec. 15, with final exams beginning on the 16th. This would leave students with less time for exam preparation than the current “Reading Week,” which lasts for three weekdays, pushing the Columbia College Student Council Policy Committee and the Engineering Student Council to seek out other options.

With youth activism at the forefront of the political arena and a generation of new voices promoting new agendas, Janelle Batta, BC ’11, has joined the movement with a proposal for gender-blind housin

Two brain tumors nearly killed Bronx resident Deborah Brown. Rendered unable to speak, walk, or interact with others, she had to relearn all basic tasks.

As President-elect Barack Obama, CC ‘83, makes his transition into the Oval Office, another Columbia luminary seems poised to join the ranks of the White House.

When an Iranian U.N. ambassador invited Richard Bulliet to travel as a guest to his country, he agreed, picturing tea time with a room full of professors.

Barnard students may soon see relief from the stress typically associated with the housing lottery.

Raising a 14-month-old in the heart of New York City presents a host of challenges, particularly when surrounded by dozens of college students.

When Maria Davis was diagnosed with AIDS in 1998—an illness that had already taken the lives of many in her Harlem neighborhood—she sought a remedy beyond the parameters of medical care at a venue