President-elect Nemat “Minouche” Shafik met with dozens of students at a reception in Lerner Hall on Wednesday afternoon, hours after being announced as Columbia’s 20th president. Many students reacted with optimism, acclamation, and hope for her tenure.

The announcement of Nemat “Minouche” Shafik as Columbia’s 20th president comes at a time of sweeping administrative turnover across the University, with at least a dozen top roles being filled in the past year.

The trial for Robert Hadden, a former Columbia gynecologist accused of sexually abusing patients for over a decade, on Tuesday entered its second day in Manhattan federal court.

Columbia Undergraduate Admissions extended the regular decision deadline for Columbia College and School of Engineering and Applied Science applicants in China affected by the current COVID-19 outbreak from Jan. 1 to Jan. 10 at 11:59 p.m. at applicants’ local time zone. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid Jessica Marinaccio wrote about the change in a Dec. 30 email to applicants and high school counselors.

East Campus was evacuated Tuesday night for about an hour as a result of an oven fire on the 10th floor. No injuries were reported.

Pakistan’s Consul General Ayesha Ali spoke to students on Tuesday in Hamilton Hall about the floods in Pakistan, calling for the University community’s awareness and support.

After a decade-long trend of shattering records, Columbia’s 11th annual Giving Day on Wednesday once again made history as the event’s most profitable success, receiving 19,229 gifts to raise a total of $29,999,683—a 7.47 percent increase from 2021.

The Columbia Revolutionary Marxist Students Organization protested in front of Lerner Hall last Friday during the Engineering and Tech career fair in response to the presence of several military, government, and defense agencies.

The Interschool Governing Board, which supports and funds over 30 student organizations, will remain paused by the student affairs committee of the University Senate as the board’s constitution and bylaws remain under review following the IGB’s advocacy to rename the tallest Teachers College building after Edmund W. Gordon last year.