News & Impact Stories at Columbia SPS
News at Columbia SPS
When the Chess Board Gets Wiped Clean: The Return on Education in the AI Era
As AI reshapes work, Columbia SPS faculty, alumni, and students discuss why the enduring return on education lies in adaptability, judgment, and lifelong learning.
The Trump Administration’s Destruction of American Scientific Innovation Marches On
Recent policies and funding cuts are undermining American scientific innovation and global competitiveness.
Building a Health Care Community: From the Columbia Medical Center to the Bioethics Program
After years in Alzheimer’s research at CUIMC, Didi Sanchez Noboa turned to the Bioethics program to answer the ethical questions shaping her work—emerging with the confidence to lead conversations in clinical ethics and health equity.
Trump’s Psychedelics Executive Order Could Accelerate New Treatments—Including for Children
Dr. Bob Klitzman, director of the Bioethics program, comments on how the Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics and how the effects can be more powerful and longer-lasting on a developing brain. (Scientific American)
From Potential to Practice: AI in Sustainability
Columbia’s Technology Management, Sustainability Management, and Sustainability Science programs recently co-hosted a panel on how AI is transforming the field of sustainability.
Leading Without a Playbook: Lessons from the Front Lines of Philanthropy
Cecily M. Carson joined Columbia’s M.S. in Nonprofit Management Leadership Series to share how relationship-building and informed decision-making shape effective philanthropic work.
The Con That Comes Prepared
How AI-enabled deception, open-source software dependencies, and social engineering are reshaping enterprise cybersecurity risk.
In Defense of Economic Risk Capital at Banks: Because Simply “Not Failing” is Not a Winning Strategy
In this thought leadership piece, Columbia ERM lecturer Raj Mittal argues for the renewed relevance of economic capital as a strategic tool—complementing stress testing to help banks balance resilience with long-term value creation.
What I Wish I Knew: Masahiro Takino from Applied Analytics
Watch: Masahiro Takino, recent Applied Analytics graduate gives incoming students advice on sharing your perspective with new friends. (YouTube)
Inside Columbia University’s AI for Good Hackathon: 150 Students, 40 Projects, and One Common Goal
When one Technology Management student decided to bring together technologists, founders, and communities around a shared vision, the result was a week-long hackathon proving that AI can be a force for good.
Bridging Data, People, and Strategy: Students Explore the Future of Work
Students in Columbia SPS’s Information & Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) program connected with industry leaders to discuss AI, digital transformation, and emerging career pathways.
Petrochemicals and Controlling the Poisoning of Our Planet
Petrochemicals are embedded in modern life, but their environmental and health costs are becoming impossible to ignore.