Three Columbia faculty-led research projects received funding from the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative that seeks to accelerate AI development and its use in scientific research.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones discussed the power of history at a Columbia panel last Friday, claiming that President Donald Trump’s administrative actions have attempted to control the nation’s historical memory.

The Department of Education declared Columbia, Barnard, and two affiliated institutions “delinquent” after they underreported 2024 and 2025 student outcomes data required under federal accountability rules.

The Columbia Elections Commission announced the results of the spring 2026 Columbia College Student Council and Engineering Student Council elections in a Monday email to students of both schools. Arvin Kim, CC ’27, and Margaret Chen, SEAS ’28, will serve as the next CCSC and ESC student body presidents, respectively.

As students moved through the ramps of Lerner Hall on April 6, volunteers stopped them with a pitch: to join the international bone marrow donor registry. The outreach took place during the University’s annual Bone Marrow Donor Recruitment Drive.

In fall 1919, Columbia launched a novel course compulsory for all first-year students. Former University secretary at the time, Frank Fackenthal, CC 1906, described it as a class designed to “inform the student of the more outstanding and influential factors of his physical and social environment.” More than a century later, that course, Contemporary Civilization, remains a defining feature of the undergraduate experience and a central component of the University’s Core Curriculum.

Graduating seniors have gathered at Low Plaza for University Commencement since 1926. That tradition was threatened on Feb. 9, mere months before its 100th anniversary, when the University announced that the ceremony would be relocated to Baker Athletics Complex in Inwood, Manhattan’s northernmost neighborhood.

A new weekly series from the Center for American Studies is giving students a space to unpack the week’s headlines in real time.