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April 20, 2026

BloombergNEF Announces 12 Climate Innovators as Winners of its 2026 Pioneers Award

Congratulations to XL Batteries, a startup founded by Dr. Colin Nuckolls developing grid-scale flow batteries for the alternative energy grid, on winning BloombergNEF's Pioneers award! BNEF’s annual Pioneers award recognizes game-changing technologies or innovations with the potential to accelerate the transition toward a net-zero economy. 

April 01, 2026

ChatGPT fed his students easy answers, so he built an app to argue with them

Prof. Dan Wang designed Caisey, an AI app that helps students debate case studies, and piloted the app last spring. Now thousands of students at Columbia and 15 other institutions use Caisey. Wang and a team of people adapt the tool for other instructors and classes, with faculty telling them what they want to teach, what they want their students to read and what they want them to discuss.