The School of International and Public Affairs announced on Thursday the creation of an Anti-Hate task force to address antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus, aiming to combat “the spread of any targeted hate, bigotry and harassment against any member of our community based on their real or perceived identity,” SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo wrote in an email to SIPA students.

The University Senate unanimously approved a new Master of Science program in health economics and policy for the Mailman School of Public Health during the October plenary meeting, with 64 votes in favor, zero opposed, and zero abstentions.

Premilla Nadasen, Barnard history professor and co-director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, was named a 2023 Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar, joining five other progressive academics working to advance racial and economic justice.

Sammy Roth, CC ’14, won a Gerald Loeb award, the most prestigious honor in business journalism, last Thursday for his work “Repowering the West.” His reporting focuses on the large boom from cities in the Western United States to shift to renewable energy sources and the tensions with local communities that often arose as a result.

The Business School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences launched a dual Master of Business Administration and Master of Science degree program this semester after identifying a need for future executives to have critical business and engineering skill sets.

Barnard updated its nondiscrimination policy on Sept. 6 to include caste as a protected category. The decision follows a similar update at Columbia, whose University Senate voted on April 28 to add caste as a protected category in its last meeting of the 2022-23 academic year.

Barnard awarded $25,000 to six grants for research and projects pertaining to reproductive health. The inaugural Reproductive Health Grant, awarded to 13 recipients total, was announced after the Supreme Court’s 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Charlie Wallace, CC ’23, described getting accepted to Columbia as “one of the best moments of [his] life.”