Mechanical Engineering head steps down effective July 1

The miniaturization of electronics continues to create unprecedented capabilities in computer and communications applications, enabling handheld wireless devices with tremendous computing performance operating on battery power. This same ...

Columbia Engineering researchers have developed a technique to isolate a single water molecule inside a buckyball, or C60, and to drive motion of the so-called "big" nonpolar ball through the encapsulated "small" polar H2O molecule, a controlling ...

Harish Krishnaswamy, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has generated a record amount of power output—by a power of five—using silicon-based nanoscale CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) technology ...

Apr. 18, 2013 — Daniel Attinger paused before handing over a photo of a crime scene. "Are you bothered by the sight of blood?" There was good reason for his question: The photo showed blood pooled and smeared on a floor. Blood drops ran down a ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Boston University have developed the first method to map evaporation globally using weather stations, which will help scientists evaluate water resource management, assess recent trends of evaporation ...

Kerry Healey, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts under Mitt Romney and an advocate for Afghan women's rights, will become president of Babson College in July. Richard Holton and Rae Langton, professors of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute ...

Update: This blog has been updated with a few (mostly typo!) fixes for those of you who weren't able to join us on Thursday or are just looking to brush up on what went down. Look forward to pages and pages of great content that came out of ...

As educators and leaders of a diverse learning community, we are deeply concerned when racism, sexism, homophobia and incivility—whether in words, actions or posts of any kind—target individuals or groups. Such behavior violates our Community ...

A special edition of Peking University News in commemorating the 115th anniversary of the university (PKU/Beida). Peking University, May 4, 2013: Below are nine official English introductions to Peking University (PKU/Beida), 1936-1997, in original ...