Emma Buzbee

U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke, CC ’95, was playing bass guitar in campus bars and rowing on the Hudson the last time Texas had a Democratic senator. Now, O’Rourke’s campaign for the 2018 Texas Senate seat—which has drawn national attention because of O’Rourke’s charisma and unapologetically progressive positions—may put a Democrat back in office.

United Nations officials and Columbia faculty members discussed the progress made by women in traditionally male-dominated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, along with the pipeline challenges that still remain, at an event in Low Library on Wednesday morning.

In an effort to reduce the mispronunciation of students’ names in the classroom, the Office of the University Registrar has rolled out a new pilot program this semester allowing students to upload recordings of their names on CourseWorks.

Following a favorable ruling by the National Labor Relations Board, postdoctoral researchers at Columbia will now be able to form the first certified postdoctoral union at a private university, the NLRB announced on Tuesday.

Though percentages of minority faculty have increased by 3.6 percent across the University over the past 10 years, percentages of black and Latinx faculty have remained largely stagnant in that same time frame, newly-released data from the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion shows.

A former Business School professor has filed a lawsuit claiming that a senior professor harassed her and delayed her research when she rejected his advances. This harassment allegedly led to her wrongful termination, the plaintiff testified in court on Tuesday.

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s practice of blocking critics on Twitter is unconstitutional, siding with the Columbia’s Knight First Amendment Institute in its lawsuit against Trump and one of his aides.

Wing-Sum Law originally chose Columbia for the same reasons that many of her fellow engineering students did: a core curriculum that would allow her to balance her engineering classes with the humanities.

About 20 student activists marched into Butler Library calling to “decolonize Columbia,” carrying signs and chanting slogans denouncing white supremacy Wednesday afternoon.